A year after the Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people, injured 1,900 and brought down the Spanish government, it is fitting that the Spanish capital should gather together world leaders, policy-makers
Syrian President Bashar Assad has announced full withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon, to be carried out in stages in accordance with the Taif agreement and UN Resolution 1559. His announcement
In its annual report issued in January, the US State Department expressed great concern over what it called the rising trend of anti-Semitism in the world. The report specifically mentioned the increasing
The continuing signs of ferment in evidence in the streets of Beirut are being heralded in the US as signs that “another Middle East domino is falling.” The Bush administration has been quick to latch
The sad story of domestic helper Blondie Colot Jumawan, a 29-year-old from Zamboanga del Sur who worked for a Saudi family in Dammam, made headlines in several newspapers around the world. She
LONDON, 11 March 2005 — For Weeks a Western chorus has been celebrating a new dawn of Middle Eastern freedom, allegedly triggered by the Iraq war. Tony Blair hailed a “ripple of change”, encouraged
I read Ken Livingstone’s article on these pages in which he explained his position on Israel and anti-Semitism with great care, and agreed with it. I have always respected his unequivocal stance against
It is tempting to view the inauguration of Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez as further proof of a shift to the “left’’ in South America. After all, Vazquez comes from the Broad Front-Progressive
