As Crisis in Dubai Unfolds, Quick Answers Are Unlikely
As Dubai prepares for weeks of arduous negotiations with creditors over restructuring Dubai World s debt, outsiders still do not know what to make of the situation.
Finding a Market for Crafts Made by the Trash Collectors of Cairo
Two sisters living on the Upper East Side have been selling handicrafts made by women from an impoverished community of garbage collectors in Cairo for the past 15 years.
In Welcoming Iranian President, Chavez Blasts Israel
President Hugo Ch vez of Venezuela described Israel as the murderous arm of the Yankee empire.
Baghdad Garden Becomes Graveyard, Full of Grieving
On the first day of Id al-Adha, literally the Great Feast, thousands of mourners throng among the headstones on the banks of the River Tigris to pay respects to the dead.
Britain Says Iran Has Freed Five Detained Sailors
The sailors had been held after their racing yacht apparently drifted into Iranian waters.
Iraqi Lawmakers Hunt for Election Compromise
Iraqi leaders worked to avoid delays to January elections, warning that disagreements could still unravel any deal.
New Chief Takes Charge at the U.N. Nuclear Agency
Yukiya Amano of Japan becomes director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency at a time of confrontations with Iran and North Korea.
Top Leaders Fail to Attend Meeting in Iran s Parliament
In a sign of a growing divide among Iranian leaders, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani skipped a meeting aimed at creating political unity.
Ill Nigerian Leader Treated by Saudis
President Umaru Yar Adua is being treated in Saudi Arabia for a heart infection.
Bomb Hits Iranian Bus in Syria, 6 Killed (Fox News)
Syria’s interior minister says there has been a blast in Damascus and witnesses say it targeted Iranian pilgrims on a bus, killing at least six people.
Syrian official: blast in Damascus (AP via Yahoo! Asia News)
Syria’s interior minister says there has been a blast in Damascus and witnesses say it has targeted Iranian pilgrims causing an unconfirmed number of casualties.
Iraqi Filmmakers Defy Militants With Screenings at Bomb Sites
Iraqi feature films are being screened at the sites of four of the most devastating bombings in Baghdad, in an attempt to help combat a continuing climate of fear.
Iranian Militiamen Try to Cow Opposition Figure
A demonstration by hard-liners came as another opposition leader s Nobel Prize was confiscated.
Syria blast was ‘not terrorist act’: minister (AFP via Yahoo! News)
An explosion that wrecked an Iranian bus in Damascus on Thursday and killed three people was not a terrorist act but a tyre exploding as it was being repaired, Interior Minister Saeed Sammur said.
Politicus: Obama Vow, Iran’s Stance and the Options
Discussion of the possible use of American military means to stop Iran from producing an atomic weapon is surrounded by deep tension and awkwardness.
