| |   Desert city vows culture buff
Remember that first day in Abu Dhabi? Walking the streets, expecting the proverbial Arab hospitality or grand bazaars, finally discovering a world long dreamt of. | Here is a culture aficionado who found all th...
Calif gun dealer charged with illegal arms sales
| The Associated Press Share | thefresnobee_994:/2010/09/03/2065067/calif-gun-dealer-charged-with.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name | tool goes here Comments (0) | Similar stories: | Officer identified in ...
Probe Circles Globe to Find Dirty Money
By CARRICK MOLLENKAMP | A black-market financial investigation spreading from Iran to Sudan, London and Cuba began in a cluttered fifth-floor cubicle in an old-school district attorney's office in Manhattan fea...
Africa in pictures: 28 August-3 September 2010
On Tuesday, young boys from Senegal’s Koranic schools play by the roadside where they beg for daily alms in the capital, Dakar. Last week, the government said it was stepping up a campaign to stop begging in ...
Search for PC Yvonne Fletcher's killer casts old shadows over Libya's new era
| Renewed efforts to name the killer of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher threaten to reignite tensions with Colonel Gaddafi PC Yvonne Fletcher, who was gunned down outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984. Her k...
German foreign minister guarded on Libyan billion-dollar demand
| Valletta, Malta - In a guarded response, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Friday Libya's demand for an annual 5 billion euros (6.4 billion dollars))from the European Union to curb illegal migrat...
Gaddafi keeps people guessing 41 years on (News Feature)
| Tripoli - When the Libyan head of state, Muammar al-Gaddafi takes his place behind the podium anything is possible. | Either he will only say a few cheerful words - like recently at the Arab summit in Tripoli...
TV review: Real Crime: Yvonne Fletcher and Digging for Britain
| As a snapshot of 1984, Real Crime was great – but its supposed revelations were hardly new Yvonne Fletcher, who in 1984 was shot outside the Libyan embassy in London. Photograph: PA | There was something de...
Lawyer asks Thai PM not to send Russian to US
| BANGKOK — The lawyer for accused Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout filed a last ditch appeal Monday to Thailand's prime minister in an effort to stop his client's extradition to the United States. | B...
Libya: Step Ahead for Women on Nationality Rights
| (Beirut) - Libya's new nationality law granting women married to foreign spouses the right to pass their own nationality to their children is a significant move forward for women's rights, Human Rights Watch ...
Vatican criticises Kadhafi's Islamic Europe call
| ROME — A Vatican official criticised Tuesday Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's reported call for Islam to become the religion of all of Europe, labelling it disrespectful to the Pope and Catholic Italy. | "To ...
Secretary Clinton On Libya's National Day
On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Libya as you mark your National Day on September 1. | ...
Monocolumn: Gaddafi's Roman Adventure
| Monocolumn is Monocle’s daily bulletin of news and opinion. Catch up with previous editions here. | Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi’s visit to Rome this week has not been without controversy. The Libyan le...
Two Jewish women to be allowed to visit old homes in Libya
| Tripoli - Two Jewish women currently living in Italy will be allowed to visit their families' old homes in Libya, the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported Thursday. | The news came on the same week of Libyan lead...
Viktor Bout & Thaksin in the Sky With Sirichoke?
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 4:32 pm | Column: Richard S. Ehrlich | Viktor Bout & Thaksin in the Sky With Sirichoke? | By | BANGKOK, Thailand -- Suspected Russian weapons smuggler Viktor Bout, who is fighting ag...
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