BAGHDAD, 8 June 2004 — Interim government Prime Minister Iyad Allawi announced a deal yesterday to disband Iraq’s powerful militias, in what was seen as a major step toward avoiding a civil war among... Full Story
SANAA, 8 June 2004 — The defense team representing 14 suspects charged with terror acts in Yemen withdrew from the case yesterday, saying the defendants are being denied a fair trial. Four senior
AMMAN, 8 June 2004 — Arab reform efforts will fail if they are imposed from outside and fail to address the Middle East conflict, Jordan’s King Abdallah II warned in an AFP interview yesterday. The
JERUSALEM , 8 June 2004 — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s brittle coalition survived no-confidence votes in Parliament yesterday, a sign that his government is in no immediate danger of collapse,
WASHINGTON, 8 June 2004 — Virginia Congressman Jim Moran is fighting for his political life, despite the fact that the Democratic Party has come out in full support behind him. The 7-term congressman
DAMASCUS, 8 June 2004 — Syria’s ruling Baath Party has decided to ban all unofficial political parties and groups which have so far been tolerated, lawyer and human rights activist Anwar Al-Bunni told
GENEVA, 8 June 2004 — United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday called on the international community to do more to help impoverished Palestinian refugees both in the Palestinian Territories
NAIROBI, 8 June 2004 — “The worst is still to come” for the people of Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, where millions have been displaced by 15 months of rebellion, the UN World Food Program (WFP)
KABUL, 8 June 2004 — The US-led coalition’s actions in Afghanistan are endangering aid workers in the country, a senior officer with a medical aid group which lost five staff to suspected Taleban said
NEW DELHI, 8 June 2004 — The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government yesterday pledged itself to preserving, protecting and promoting secular values and enforcing the law without fear or
SRINAGAR, 8 June 2004 — The Prevention of Terrorism Act haunts ordinary Kashmiris, although the stage is set for revoking the notorious law. POTA’s very first victim was a Kashmiri. Ghulam Mohammad
KARACHI, 8 June 2004 — The chief minister in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province resigned yesterday after a month of bloodshed in Karachi claimed 51 lives and sparked three days of rioting. Sindh
DHAKA, 8 June 2004 — Mahi B. Chowdhury who resigned from the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to form a new party, Bikalpa Dhara, last year has returned to Parliament from Munshiganj-1 constituency.
KUWAIT CITY, 8 June 2004 — Syrian troops will not withdraw from neighboring Lebanon before a final Mideast peace settlement is reached and Israel is no longer a threat, President Bashar Assad said
