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By Nadim Ladki DOHA (Reuters) - Lebanon's rival leaders held tense talks in Qatar on Saturday to try to end a political conflict that has pushed their country to the brink of a new civil war but face major hurdles. Government and opposition leaders left the conference room at a Doha hotel...
Published: Saturday, 17 May, 2008 @ 1:40 PM in Beirut (GMT+2) Doha - Arab-sponsored inter-Lebanese dialogue opened in Qatar Saturday in a bid to end the long-running political crisis that drove the country to the brink of a new civil war after pro- and anti-government supporters fought bloody...
President Bush sits with Saudi King Abdullah at the King's Al Janadriyah Ranch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, May 16, 2008. President Bush is pivoting to the Arab side of the Mideast peace dispute, and he may well get a less glowing reception than he did in The militant group Hezbollah overran...
JOHANNESBURG , 16 May 2008 (IRIN) - Handicap International, a non-governmental organisation working to improve the conditions and quality of life of disabled people in the developing world and in post-conflict zones, defines cluster submunition as explosive ordnance that, to perform its task,...
Posted: Saturday, May 17, 2008, 6:13 (BST) At an upmarket jeweller's in east Beirut's Ashrafieh district, wealthy Lebanese Christians shop for gold and diamonds, far removed from the upheaval that has sidelined their once-dominant community. Unlike the rest of the Arab World, Christians have...
NY Times:The global food crisis has arrived at Safia Ali’s hut.She cannot afford rice or wheat or powdered milk anymore.At the same time, a drought has decimated her family’s herd of goats, turning their sole livelihood into a pile of bleached bones and papery skin.The result is that Ms. Safia, a...
By Amy Reynolds, Courier & Press correspondent The Blue & the Gray Connor Prairie in Fishers, Ind., just north of Indianapolis, will provide quality family fun this weekend with its "Civil War Days" from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Radical abolitionist a zealot, not a terrorist, in Kansas City opera William Littler KANSAS CITY, MO. hatham, Ont., and Kansas City, Mo., seldom if ever mentioned in the same breath, became unwitting partners in history this month, thanks to the fiery figure of John Brown. For as commemoration...
LEWISBURG- -- Hundreds of people are in Lewisburg to re-enact the battle. The focus of this year's event is what African Americans went through during the Civil War. Actors are portraying 19th Century figures including Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglas. They will recreate when...
GABI SAHNER's reviews books about Africa that are heart-rending, yet worthwhile. But how about the parts of Africa that have been riddled by civil war and bedevilled by disasters, both natural and man made? Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan 354 pages, published by Little, Brown and Company...
