|  No one can disarm Hezbollah
| Depending on whom you are listening to, what happened last week in Beirut was described as a "Hezbollah coup". That is what the March 14 Coalition said and so did the Saudi TV channel Al Arabiya. | At the tim...
Britain expels Kiwi band Opshop over visas
| Opshop Your Views | What's the greatest New Zealand song? | There was nothing rock'n'roll about Opshop being booted out of Britain. | On Saturday, the Kiwi band had to cancel their Edinburgh show, the first o...
Pope asks Israel: Help keep Catholics in Holy Land
| VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict appealed to Israel on Monday to help stem a sharp decline in the country's minority Christian population, saying Catholics had grown particularly vulnerable to Middle Ea...
World leaders offer condolences to quake victims
(Xinhua) | Updated: 2008-05-13 01:18 | BEIJING -- Foreign countries and organizations on Monday offered condolences and sympathy to China after a major earthquake hit the country's southwestern Sichuan province...
Russian expert tags Falun Gong as international cult
(Xinhua) | Updated: 2008-05-13 00:12 | BEIJING -- Russian expert in sect studies Professor Alexander Dvorkin has tagged Falun Gong as an international cult at a forum in Beijing and said all healthy and r...
Up to 8,500 die in killer earthquake: Xinhua
(chinadaily.com.cn) | Updated: 2008-05-13 00:16 | The deadly earthquake that rocked Southwestern China and felt all across China and beyond, could possibly have left more than 8,500 people dead, and the de...
Economic census to lay ground for macro plans
(Xinhua) | Updated: 2008-05-13 00:08 | BEIJING -- Vice Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday the second national economic census was essential to promote the strategic and structural adjustment of the economy, high...
First US aid plane lands in Myanmar
May 13, 2008 6:43 AM | The first US military aid flight to Myanmar landed in Yangon but emergency supplies remained at a trickle for 1.5 million people facing hunger and disease in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy...
Lebanon army to intervene
May 13, 2008 8:02 AM | Lebanon's army said it will use force to stop fighting in the country between pro- and anti-government forces that has recalled the 1975-90 civil war. "Army units will ...
Another D-Day for Pakistan over militants
| By Syed Saleem Shahzad | KARACHI - With the Taliban believed to have launched all of their fighters into Afghanistan and with tribal militants led by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud faced off agains...
Why Israel is the world's happiest country
| By Spengler | Envy surrounds no country on Earth like the state of Israel, and with good reason: by objective measures, Israel is the happiest nation on Earth at the 60th anniversary of its founding. It is on...
Hezbollah's street fight just a first step
| By Mona Alami | BEIRUT - At least 38 people were killed and 30 injured in the recent gun battles pitting opposition Shi'ite Amal and Hezbollah fighters against members of the Sunni Future Movement, which is p...
Reality challenge for India's TV ratings
| By Raja M | MUMBAI - In an overdue face-off, India's television advertising industry and the government are wrestling over the credibility of TV viewer ratings, the powerful indicators of program popularity t...
The problem with dictators and disasters
| By Sreeram Chaulia | NEW YORK - As the full extent of the devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis dawns, it is clear that Myanmar's military junta has earned one more black mark in its egregious record of rule....
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