Ambassador and three staff killed during attack in eastern Libya city over film deemed insulting by Muslims. The US ambassador to Libya and three other American staffers died on Tuesday night in an attack on the US consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, US officials have said. An armed mob attacked and set fire to the consulate building during a protest against an amateur film deemed offensive
A nine-month investigation suggests that the late Palestinian leader may have been poisoned with polonium. Read more It was a scene that riveted the world for weeks: The ailing Yasser Arafat, first besieged by Israeli tanks in his Ramallah compound, then shuttled to Paris, where he spent his final days undergoing a barrage of medical tests in a French military hospital. Eight years after his death
Relatives seek answers about “kidnapped” family members, as China moves to grant more legal rights to detainees. China is set to pass a landmark criminal procedure law to provide more rights to detainees, including rendering all evidence collected under torture unusable, granting suspects immediate access to a lawyer, and obliging authorities to tell families within 24 hours of a relative’s detent
Network closes bureau after authorities refused to renew correspondent’s press credentials and visa. Al Jazeera English has closed its bureau in Beijing after the Chinese authorities refused to renew its correspondent’s press credentials and visa, or allow a replacement journalist. The channel expressed its disappointment at the situation and said it would continue to request a presence in China.
Days before France’s presidential vote, French website publishes documents it says suggests campaign funding violations. The government of the late Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign with an estimated $66m, a French news website has reported. The Paris-based investigative website Mediapart on Saturday published what it said was doc
Syrians have taken to the streets every Friday for a year, calling for reforms and an end to Assad’s rule [Reuters] Journalist Nir Rosen recently spent two months in Syria. As well as meeting members of various communities across the country – supporters of the country’s rulers and of the opposition alike – he spent time with armed resistance groups in Homs, Idlib, Deraa, and Damascus suburbs. He
Journalist who recently travelled the country draws on his experiences to consider Syria’s fate. At least 17 people were reportedly killed during shelling at Homs' Bab Amr market on February 21, raising fears that the country is sliding towards civil war [EPA] Journalist Nir Rosen recently spent two months in Syria. As well as meeting members of various communities across the country – supporters
Journalist who recently spent time with fighters says there is no central leadership to the armed resistance. Journalist Nir Rosen recently spent two months in Syria with unique access. As well as meeting members of various communities across the country – supporters of the country’s rulers and of the opposition alike – he spent time with armed resistance groups in Homs, Idlib, Deraa, and Damascus
The opposition says hundreds of people have been killed or injured following the military assault on Homs [AFP] The Syrian city of Homs has been under attack for nearly a week, as government forces allied to President Bashar al-Assad try to regain control of opposition-held areas. The city, in the centre of the country, has emerged as the capital of the uprising and its Revolutionary Council runs
Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. New York, NY – In the context of the US invasion of the Gulf in 1991, British academic Fred Halliday announced his new right-wing affiliations in the British newspaper the New Statesman by declaring: “If I have to choose between imperialism and fascism, I choose imperialism.” It never occu
Palestinian inmates join Khader Adnan who has gone 56 days without food in protest against “unlawful detention”. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have joined a fellow inmate on a hunger strike, after human rights groups reported the original protester’s life was in danger. Khader Adnan, widely believed to be a leader of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, has been refusing food
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