| |   Chicago summit to ensure Nato looks confidently to future: Obama
| Manama: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) summit this week-end in Chicago will ensure the 63-year-old alliance is focused squarely on the future, US President Barack Obama said. | "We can cha...
Libyans want Nato to account for civilian losses
| Tripoli: Mohammad Al Gherari lost five family members, including a young niece and nephew, when Nato accidentally struck their compound in the Libyan capital as they slept. | Nearly a year later, his gr...
Meeting to focus on alliance's future
| Manama: The Nato summit which starts on Sunday in Chicago will ensure the 63-year-old alliance is focused squarely on the future, US President Barack Obama said. | "We can chart the next phase of the tra...
China may build aircraft carriers: Pentagon
Tweet WASHINGTON: China may have started work on it first domestically built aircraft carrier and is likely to produce a number of carriers over the next decade as part of an aggressive effort to modernize its ...
Turkey's EU dream
Turkey is one again in the loop. | Taking a leaf out of rapprochement, the European Union's Commissioner for Enlargement, Stefan Fuele, is visiting Ankara in an attempt to ensure that the Muslim country's desir...
Sitting on a volcano of public discontent
| Less than a year after the start of the Arab uprisings, Algeria appears insulated from political upheavals experienced by other countries of North Africa, such as Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco. Algeria ex...
Syrian peace plan being blown apart
| The two suicide car bombs in Damascus on May 10 were an alarming development. Before last December, suicide bombs were unheard of in Syria. Now there have been 10 such attacks, becoming increasingly deadly &m...
Ordeal of remembrance
| To meet deadline, an obligation that political commentators, no less than news reporters, are enjoined by editors against toying with, I have to write this column today -- which just happens to be May 15, the...
Eritrean President Discusses Path to Development
Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki calls the country’s development drive over two decades of independence “a success story.” | | “We have achieved a lot, and our cultu...
UPDATE 1-Oil funds pare bullish bets to lowest since '10-CFTC
| * Managed money cuts positions to lowest since Nov 2010 | * Net length falls as longs liquidate, shorts hold tight | * Decline deepens one-week speculative retreat on record | * | NEW YORK, May 18 (Reuters) -...
French leader sticks to Afghan pullout timetable [video]
| WASHINGTON — French President Francois Hollande said Friday he would carry out his pledge to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan by year's end, two years earlier than the U.S. ally once planned. He ...
State Department’s new Middle East fund in trouble on Capitol Hill
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE | The biggest single new initiative in the State Department's $51.6 billion budget proposal for next year was a Middle East Incentive Fund -- $770 million in mostl...
Al-Qaeda calls for uprising against the US backed corrupt regime in Saudi Arabia
| In a video posting al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri called on the Saudi people to start an uprising against the US backed Al-Saud family: | "Muslim brothers in the land of the holy mosques! A year has passed ...
French leader sticks to Afghan pullout timetable
| WASHINGTON — French President Francois Hollande said Friday he would carry out his pledge to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan by year’s end, two years earlier than the U.S. ally once planne...
UPDATE 1-Oil funds pare bullish bets to lowest since 2010-CFTC
| * Managed money cuts positions to lowest since Nov 2010 | * Net length falls as longs liquidate, shorts hold tight | * Decline deepens one-week speculative retreat on record | NEW YORK, May 18 (Reuters) - Hed...
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