Al-Qaeda plans attacks from new power base in Yemen (Times Online)
As the birthplace of Osama Bin Laden s father and the poorest country in the Arabic world, Yemen has always been a breeding ground for anti-western sentiment.
A year after warships arrive, piracy still rife (Mail and Guardian)
A helicopter fired warning shots toward a suspected pirate skiff, where six Somali men sat among assault rifles, grappling hooks and an aluminum ladder.
Bush’s legacy is a failed state (Gulf Daily News)
Afghanistan and Iraq have monopolised the headlines but Somalia is arguably an even greater victim of George W Bush’s ill-conceived and lamentably executed War on Terror.
A(H1N1) vaccine by March/April 2010 (The Star)
Here s that update on flu vaccines in Malaysia you ve been waiting for.
School offers a haven in a world of woe (The Kansas City Star)
This time, the anxious face belonged to the father of an Iraqi student. Jeanette Quinn recalled how the man stood outside her fifth-grade classroom at Kansas City s Longfellow Elementary School, where he was leaving his son for the first time.
Al-Qaida has changed its face and operates from a different base (MalaysiaNews.net)
al-Qaida was how, under pressure in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it had largely been unravelled and its operational abilities degraded. Now, after the attempted downing of a US jet bound for Detroit, the…
