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The Queen stripped Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe of his honorary knighthood on Wednesday.Acting on the advice of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, the Queen’s move is meant to show displeasure over alleged human rights abuses by the...
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The center is based in the Baltic nation of Estonia, which was hit last year by an unprecedented wave of cyber attacks that crippled government and corporate computer networks.
The attacks followed a dispute over the relocation of a Soviet war memorial...
Palestinians are set to mark the 60th anniversary of al-Nakba, or “the Catastrophe” - the founding of Israel - with a series of marches and protests.
More than 700,000 Palestinians fled their homes or were expelled in 1948, during the war...
Since the success of Super Size Me, in which the comedian Morgan Spurlock deliberately fattened himself up on health-endangering amounts of fast food, he appears to have regarded his physical well-being as something to be menaced in the name of...
Iran’s foreign minister deputy for Africa Mohammad Reza Bagheri says Iran welcomes opening political ties with Egypt.
Iran’s policy emphasizes on expansion of ties with all particularly Islamic countries, he noted.
Egypt is a big and important...
Never having been as optimistic about Israel’s future as most Israelis once were, I am not as pessimistic about it as many Israelis (let alone anti-Israelis) now are. The optimism always had in it a good deal of wishful thinking; the pessimism has...
Human Rights Watch has called for an investigation into claims that ethnic Albanians in Kosovo abducted and killed Serbs and may have sold their organs.
The claims, relating to 1999, had been set out in a book by former UN war crimes prosecutor Carla...
Imagine what a pacemaker does to your heart: Its electrical impulses regulate a heartbeat that’s out of whack. Now picture a pacemaker-type device that jolts the brain and regulates mood circuits, potentially easing deep depression no other...
The latest US report on terrorism continues to refer to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as a terrorist group, noting that the terror organization enjoys financial and propaganda support in Europe.
The State Department’s...
t is now clear that the victory of the Left in Italy’s 2006 general election was no more than a brief pause in the remorseless shift to the Right that has characterised the country’s politics since Silvio Berlusconi’s first election success in...
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