Showing posts with label arab world news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arab world news. Show all posts
Gaddafi forces attack key port of Misrata
Several Grad rockets hit the port 12 kilometres east of the city and an International Organisation for Migration (IOM) ship that had come to rescue refugees stood offshore as a precaution, an AFP journalist said.
The attack came after a lull in fighting as rebels in Misrata said they pushed forces loyal to Gaddafi out of the city, although the Libyan strongman remained defiant despite NATO bombing h
Indonesian leader unworried by radical Islam rise
Speaking to US public television, Yudhoyono said that the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation offered proof that Islam was compatible with democracy and that radical groups had small membership.
"I can see to a certain degree there is an escalation of radicalism in many countries. Probably we could see also that kind of thing that happens in Indonesia," Yudhoyono told "The Charlie
Forgotten victims of Pakistan’s Taliban war
Shadi Khan was once a proud soldier fighting the Taliban, but today he quivers in pain, socks bagged around metal pins after a bomb blew off his legs on Pakistan’s deadliest battlefield.His unit had arrested 10 Taliban operatives and killed another eight, and was heading back to base camp in South Waziristan when the bomb exploded. That was August 2010. He is still in hospital.
“It was as if I had been shot. It was a huge pain. Both my legs were
Singapore's March CPI up 5% on-year, 0.1% on-month
The inflation rate was in line with economist forecasts.
Compared with the month before, consumer prices was almost flat, rising just 0.1 per cent, according to the Department of Statistics (DOS).
DOS said the higher costs of housing, clothing and footwear, as well as "recreation and others" was partially offset by the lower cost of transport.
On a month-on-month basis, housing costs rose 0.6 per cent, due to higher accommodation costs.
Prices of clothing and footwear were up 2.5
Japan PM faces pressure over local poll results
A candidate for the opposition Liberal Democratic Party won Sunday's lower house by-election in central Aichi prefecture, beating four rivals after Kan's Democratic Party of Japan failed to even contest the seat, media reported.
Candidates backed by the DPJ
As Syria death toll rises, US ponders moves
The White House has little leverage on Syria, which it classifies as a state sponsor of terrorism, compared to Egypt, which as a recipient of US aid gave Obama a stronger foundation to push for regime change, analysts told AFP.
Even as activists say the death toll from Friday's protests in Syria could top 100, Obama and other world leaders haven't called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down -- as they did with prior uprisings.
"This is not Egypt, this is not Tunisia, you
Arabic second-most common Australian tongue
The Australia Early Development Index, a government-backed study of more than 260,000 children in their first year of school, found that 18 percent spoke a language other than English.
Despite no Arabic nation making the top 15 countries of birth for Australia's children, some 5,565 spoke the language at
Fed Reserve planning end to ultra-low interest rates
Amid concern that sustained unrest in oil producing nations might spark entrenched inflation, minutes from the Fed's March meeting show members discussed ending long-standing policies, including ultra-low interest rates.
The Fed has kept interest rates near zero since December 2008 and bought up more than a trillion dollars in assets to help stimulate the economy.
Critics argue the bank may not be able to unravel low rates and massive stimulus spending quickly enough if inflation picks up too rapidly.
David Cameron
Did David Cameron intend to link Northern Ireland to Libya? In an attempt to reassure the Muslim world that military action against Libya is inspired by a simple desire to save lives, the prime minister harked back to a landmark declaration by the British government on Northern Ireland.
This is what Cameron said in Downing Street on Thursday at a press conference with the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan:
Let me be clear to anyone watching in the Islamic or the Arab world. Britain has no selfish or strategic or
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