Archive for December 2012
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Thousands of Palestinians attended a rare Hamas rally in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, celebrating the group's "victory" over Israel in Gaza. The rally is the first time that the West
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Syrian rebels are gaining ground and might win, Russia's Middle East envoy said on Thursday, in the starkest such admission from a major ally of President Bashar al-Assad in 20 months of conflict. "One must
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Children - most of them girls - now make up 27 percent of all human trafficking cases, marking an alarming increase in recent years, a UN agency said Wednesday. Girls under 18 made up two
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Sirens wailed in China's city of Nanjing Thursday, 75 years after Japanese troops embarked on mass killing and rape, as a modern-day territorial row between the pair saw Tokyo scrambling fighter jets. The two countries
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Nine years after his arrest in Macedonia and abduction to Afghanistan - where he was interrogated and tortured - Khaled el-Masri on Thursday won a demand for damages before Europe's top human rights court. In
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The British government agreed to pay more than 2 million pounds ($3.2 million) on Thursday to the family of a leading opponent of the late Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi who says Britain was involved in
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Iraq's government and autonomous Kurdistan on Thursday agreed to defuse a tense standoff between their troops by gradually withdrawing them from disputed territories along their internal border. Baghdad's Arab-led central government and Kurdistan, embroiled in
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The Ukrainian parliament Thursday voted to reinstate its prime minister after dozens of opposition and pro-government lawmakers brawled for a second day in the chamber notorious for its fisticuffs. Newly-elected world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko
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Inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog were in Tehran on Thursday for talks on Iran's disputed nuclear programme, but there was no sign they would gain access to the Parchin military complex as requested. The
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A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car near a Nato base in southern Afghanistan on Thursday soon after a visit by US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, killing two people and wounding 16, Afghan and Nato
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