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S.Africa graft inquiry adjourned before Zuma testifies
Aug 05, 2013 (AFP)
A South African public inquiry into a suspect multi-billion dollar government arms deal was adjourned on Monday shortly before President Jacob Zuma was expected...
Turkey court sentences ex-army chief to life in mass coup trial
Aug 05, 2013 (AFP)
A Turkish court on Monday sentenced a former army chief to life in prison in a high-profile trial of 275 people accused of plotting against the Islamic-rooted g...
Kevin Rudd: a volatile but popular politician
Aug 04, 2013 (AFP)
Kevin Rudd, a charismatic but hot-tempered politician with a sense of the popular mood, has capped an extraordinary political comeback by making a bid for his s...
Sri Lanka steps up security as protest toll rises
Aug 04, 2013 (AFP)
Police poured into a village near Sri Lanka's capital ahead of the funeral Sunday of a teenager shot dead by troops during a protest against contaminated water,...
Egypt army chief met Islamists over crisis: spokesman
Aug 04, 2013 (AFP)
Egyt's army chief met overnight with Islamist leaders to try to resolve the bloody crisis pitting supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi against the inter...
Turkish court to deliver verdict in mass coup trial
Aug 03, 2013 (AFP)
A Turkish court will on Monday deliver its verdict in the trial of 275 people including a former army chief accused of plotting to overthrow the country's Islam...
Egypt army chief calls on US to pressure Islamists
Aug 03, 2013 (AFP)
Egypt's army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has lashed out at the United States, urging Washington to do more to pressure the Muslim Brotherhood to end its ...
Outside View: Muslim Brotherhood crackdown
Aug 01, 2013 (UPI)
Egypt appears to have turned the clock back to the Mubarak era. The military is the kingmaker while Muslim Brotherhood leaders are imprisoned and the organizati...
Brazilian infrastructure problems multiply amid labor unrest
Aug 01, 2013 (UPI)
Labor unrest and popular protests threaten to derail Brazilian plans to have the country's infrastructure ready for the soccer World Cup next year and the summe...
Egypt's military risks trouble by reviving hated secret police
Jul 31, 2013 (UPI)
Egypt's military-led interim government, grappling with widening protests over the army's ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and a swelling al-Qaida-lin...
U.N. raps Chile for using anti-terrorism laws in indigenous protests
Jul 31, 2013 (UPI)
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is under fire for allowing the country's counter-terrorism legislation to be used against indigenous protesters fighting for ...
Cambodia's opposition cries foul over election result
Jul 30, 2013 (UPI)
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party rejected Sunday's national election result in which the government retained power, the Phnom Penh Post reported. D...
Pakistan elects businessman Mamnoon Hussain president
Jul 30, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistan on Tuesday elected businessman Mamnoon Hussain as 12th president of the nuclear-armed state, replacing the unpopular Asif Ali Zardari whose five-year t...
Arab Spring will take time to flower: analysts
Jul 28, 2013 (AFP)
Disappointment over the lack of democratic progress in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya is understandable, but the so-called Arab Spring of 2011 will take time to matur...
U.S. ties becoming an election issue for Merkel
Jul 26, 2013 (UPI)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's dealings with the Obama administration on key trans-Atlantic issues, including electronic surveillance, look set to become an ...
Egypt: U.S. treads softly as crisis deepens
Jul 25, 2013 (UPI)
Egypt's Old Guard, many linked to former President Hosni Mubarak, is reappearing in Cairo's corridors of power following the July 3 military coup that toppled h...
Egypt army issues violence ultimatum: army-linked website
Jul 25, 2013 (AFP)
Egypt's military has set a 48-hour deadline after which it will deal decisively with "violence and terrorism", said a Thursday statement on a military-linked we...
Brazil's Dilma Rousseff damaged by protests, trade slump
Jul 25, 2013 (UPI)
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has seen a dip in approval ratings blamed by opponents on wasteful state spending and by business on trade policies. The Braz...
Egypt army calls for rallies, Islamists warn of war
Jul 24, 2013 (AFP)
Egypt's army chief called Wednesday for rallies to back a crackdown on "terrorism and violence", in comments Islamists denounced as a call to "civil war" ahead ...
BJP functionary hacked to death in Tamil Nadu
Jul 23, 2013 (UPI)
Police in India's Tamil Nadu state are hunting the killers of a senior Hindu nationalist who was hacked to death at his home. V. Ramesh, general secretary of th...
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