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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor (rear) awaiting verdict on April 26, 2012. UN Photo/SCSL/AP Pool/Peter DeJong Convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor told the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) today that he ...
Voice of America
ULPANA, Beit El, Occupied West Bank - The European Union this week continued the international condemnation of Israel's policy of building settlements in largely Palestinian areas. The enclaves are a stumbling block to restarting peace talks between ...
Financial Times
By Heba Saleh in Cairo Egypt's revolutionary activists have spent much of the past year joking about the verbal gaffes of Ahmed Shafiq, a former air force commander who served as prime minister in the final days of Hosni Mubarak's rule.
Wall Street Journal
By Andrea Thomas Of DOW JONES NESWIRES BERLIN (Dow Jones)--German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday dismissed Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen amid growing unrest in her center-right coalition following her party's crashing defeat in crucial ...
Financial Times
By David Pilling Too many dragons, too much noise.” That is how one Chinese scholar explained constant friction in the South China Sea, where Beijing's territorial claims are rubbing up against competing claims from several south-east Asian nations.
Sydney Morning Herald
A man shot in the face by Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik has told a court how he wrote his parents' telephone number on the floor in his own blood, as his wounds left him unable to speak. Glenn Waldenstrom, 20, was one of five witnesses who ...
Reuters
| KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Wednesday brushed aside Western concerns about his government's treatment of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko as misguided and unwarranted, indicating that Kiev was unlikely to change its ...
Fox News
RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad replaced almost half of his West Bank-based Cabinet on Wednesday, a clear sign that efforts to end the Palestinian political split are stuck. A unity deal reached in February was to have ...
