Unfortunately, the response to voter registration in Jeddah was pathetic. According to available figures, only 32 percent of eligible voters bothered to register. Only on the last day was there a rush
In the Middle East hardly anything is what it seems, and never more so than in the case of the Israeli premier’s seeming new willingness to work toward a Palestinian state in the face of vehement opposition
The European Union is not looking particularly united at the moment. In a single week, the two major euro zone players have torn up already broken rules that are supposed to underpin the value of one
This is a tale of one war, two anniversaries, three different demonstrations — and inconsistencies, contradictions and civilian deaths that are too numerous to count. On April 18 2003, tens of
BEIJING, 22 March 2005 — The country had been battered and conquered for centuries, until it finally pulled itself together, politically, militarily and economically. Flexing its newly developed muscles,
Iran is offering to send George Bush truckloads of pistachio nuts if he will dismantle America’s huge nuclear arsenal — a cheeky response to the president’s grudging readiness to try diplomacy to end
