Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday said that Syria's leader is acting like a murderer and should be sent to the International Criminal Court. With diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria faltering, the French leader urged humanitarian corridors to allow refugees out and aid in to the country. "We must obtain humanitarian corridors, and for that we must unblock the Russian veto and Chinese veto" at the...
03:46 PM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: After Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, the West's war eyes are now firmly fixed on Iran and Syria. International reportage on the Syrian crisis has drastically changed its character over the last fortnight or so. The entire discourse on the urgency to "stop the brewing humanitarian crisis' has changed tracks. The new discourse as outlined by the West and its lackeys in West Asia and North Africa now is...
07:43 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Damascus: Military forces in Syria have launched a fresh offensive on several towns in the northwestern province of Idlib. This came even as the world leaders attacked Syria's referendum as the Constitution that could keep President Bashar al-Assad in power until 2018, was voted in. The European Union imposed new sanctions against the country amidst ongoing clashes. Opposition groups said at least 125 people were killed on Monday. The UN...
08:36 AM, Feb 28, 2012
Damascus: The counting of votes for the Syrian referendum on a new Constitution amidst the escalating violence has begun and the results are expected on Monday. At more than 14,000 polling stations all over Syria, 14 million eligible voters were out to approve or disapprove President Bashar Assad's draft Constitution proposals. It is claimed that if the proposal is approved, Syria will transform into a multiparty democracy, with direct elections...
07:28 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Cairo: Islamists appear to have taken a strong majority of seats in the first round of Egypt's first parliamentary vote since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a trend that if confirmed would give religious parties a popular mandate in the struggle to win control from the ruling military and ultimately reshape a key US ally. Final results, expected on Friday, will be the clearest indication in decades of Egyptians' true political views...
08:47 AM, Dec 02, 2011
United Nations: UN chief Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the transition of power in Yemen, saying all sides should now honour their commitments to immediately bring to an end all violence and refrain from further provocations. The political settlement agreement, signed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, was an "important step for the people of Yemen in moving their country forward towards a better future," Ban's spokesperson said in a statement. In...
08:55 AM, Nov 24, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's Health Ministry says 20 people have been killed since Sunday in clashes between police and protesters demanding the country's military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government. The ministry on Monday also said that some 1,750 people have been wounded in the clashes since they began on Saturday. The ministry did not specify whether the dead and wounded were protesters, or whether the figures included policemen and...
02:54 PM, Nov 21, 2011
Cairo: Egyptian soldiers and police set fire to protest tents in Cairo's Tahrir Square and fired tear gas and rubber bullets in a major assault on Sunday to drive out thousands demanding that the military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government. At least 11 protesters were killed and hundreds were injured. It was the second day of clashes marking a sharp escalation of tensions on Egypt's streets a...
08:57 AM, Nov 21, 2011
When it comes to the mobile operating systems, Microsoft does not have any glorious tales to tell, but the company intends to change it with the latest version of Windows Phone 7.5, also known as Mango. Microsoft has also tied up, amongst other leading phone manufacturers, with Nokia - the struggling Finnish mobile phone giant that is banking its future on Microsoft software. Windows Phone Mango has released to rave...
11:16 AM, Nov 16, 2011
London: Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western military action against his country could cause an 'earthquake' that could create 'another Afghanistan' and burn the whole of the Middle East. His warning came hours after UN chief Ban Ki-moon asked Syria to 'immediately' end attacks on civilians, saying the violence is 'unacceptable.' Western countries "are going to ratchet up the pressure, definitely," Assad told the UK's Sunday Telegraph...
03:37 PM, Oct 30, 2011
Beirut: Western powers risk causing an earthquake across the Middle East if they intervene in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad said, after protesters called for foreign protection from a crackdown in which 3,000 people have been killed. Assad's warning came ahead of Syrian government talks on Sunday with the Arab League aimed at starting a dialogue between the government and opposition and ending violence which has escalated across Syria in recent...
07:50 AM, Oct 30, 2011
Beirut: At least 31 people were killed across Syria in the latest wave of violence, notably clashes between gunmen believed to be army deserters and troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, a Syrian activist group said on Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday's death toll included 17 members of the army and security forces as well as 14 civilians, many of them in the opposition hotbed of...
03:39 AM, Oct 11, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he would leave power in the coming days, the closest the veteran leader has come to announcing he plans to step down after nine months of mass protests against his 33-year rule. "I reject power and I will continue to reject it, and I will be leaving power in the coming days," Saleh said in a speech on state television. Saleh...
07:59 PM, Oct 08, 2011
Tripoli: Muammar Gaddafi urged his supporters from hiding to fight on as Libya's new interim rulers met world leaders on Thursday to discuss reshaping a nation torn by 42 years of one-man rule and six months of civil war. "Let it be a long battle. We will fight from place to place, from town to town, from valley to valley, from mountain to mountain," Gaddafi said in a message relayed...
07:07 AM, Sep 02, 2011
Washington: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is on the run, his capital all but fallen to rebels, his hometown under siege. Now comes another difficult task for the rebels and the civilian government they are trying to install: capturing Gaddafi before the fugitive dictator is able to mount a revenge assault from hiding or inspire an insurgency that could drag on for years. Gaddafi's wife and three of his children fled...
06:01 PM, Aug 30, 2011
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