Villar: Why pay when they're running with me?
| DAVAO CITY—Why pay them when their friends are with us? | That, in effect, was what the Nacionalista Party (NP) standard-bearer, Sen. Manny Villar, said Tuesday as he denied television reports quoti...
Yemen offers talks with separatists as unrest flares
| DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen, under international pressure to quiet domestic unrest and focus its sights on al Qaeda, has offered to hold talks with southern separatists and hear their grievances, state ...
Lebanese women wed to foreigners fight for rights
| Mothers unable to pass on nationality to children | By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | Rita Daou | Agence France Presse | BEIRUT: Samira Soueidan thought she ...
Iraqi refugee saved from deportation at last minute
| By Dalila Mahdawi | Daily Star staff | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: An attempt on Monday by General Security to forcibly deport an Iraqi refugee was called off at the very last...
US mediation may just be a con game
| By Rami G. Khouri | Commentary by | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | Watching the policy of the United States in the Middle East as I do these days from Boston, and seeing the deep and per...
Nigerian Christian villagers flee threats of fresh attacks by Mulims
| Frightened Christians streamed out of villages in central Nigeria yesterday after threats of new attacks from Muslims responsible for a weekend massacre in which at least 500 people were killed. | U...
Yemen offers talks with separatists as unrest flares
DUBAI - Yemen, under international pressure to quiet domestic unrest and focus its sights on al Qaeda, has offered to hold talks with southern separatists and hear their grievances, state media said o...
Russia urges Sweden to extradite Chechen "bandits"
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Sweden on Tuesday to extradite two men it says are Chechen separatists and accuses of involvement in killings and kidnappings. | Sweden ref...
Rights Officials Call for Justice in Nigeria Massacre
| JOS, Nigeria — Human-rights advocates condemned the brutal ethnic violence that left hundreds dead in a region of Nigeria fraught with tensions between Christians and Muslims, and called on th...
Brides and wounded: The saga of Afghan cab
| FEATURE | 03/10/2010 | KABUL — In the 30 years since Ghulam Ali bought his yellow-and-white taxi and drove it home from Saudi Arabia, all of Afghan life — from expectant brides to dying war wounded ...
Military tags Villar as NPA bet, ‘revolutionary’ taxes payor
| 03/10/2010 | DAVAO CITY — Even as a military report directly tagged Nacionalista Party (NP) standard bearer Manuel Villar Jr. as being the New People’s Army’s presidential bet, as well as that of hi...
Kevin Rudd and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's plan to stop people smuggling
| PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will formalise an agreement to combat people smuggling today. | Dr Yudhoyono will make history as the first Indonesian hea...
Celebrating extraordinary Muslim women
Washington, DC - On 10 March, three Muslim women will be honoured alongside philanthropist Melinda French Gates and human rights activists Panmelo Castro from Brazil and Rebecca Lolosoli from Kenya, b...
Olympics and World Cup soccer must take up cause of right to housing - UN expert
| 9 March 2010 – The Olympic Games and the football World Cup must champion the right to adequate housing, with such 'mega-events' often driving people out of their homes, according to a new United Na...
Iran calls political opponents enemies of Islam
| (AP) - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A traditional Islamic concept about protecting the faith and its followers has become a judicial weapon for Iran's rulers: charging opponents as so-called enemie...
