MUSCAT, 22 October 2004 — Leading Omani women have hailed the appointment of Dr. Sharifah bint Khalfan Al- Yahayai, a university professor, as minister of social development, the third woman to hold
AMMAN, 22 October 2004 — The Jordanian authorities yesterday sent to trial before the State Security Court 20 Egyptians and Bengalis whom Amman said were arrested earlier this month while trying to
BEIRUT, 22 October 2004 — President Emile Lahoud yesterday appointed staunch pro-Syrian politician Omar Karami to form the next government, replacing billionaire Rafik Hariri. Lahoud, a close ally
JERUSALEM, 22 October 2004 — Israel’s justice minister said yesterday far-right rabbis who urged soldiers to disobey orders to evacuate Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip risked provoking civil war
BAGHDAD, 22 October 2004 — A military judge jailed a US Army sergeant, described in court as a typical all-American boy, for eight years yesterday for sexually and physically abusing Iraqi prisoners.
KUWAIT CITY, 22 October 2004 — Kuwaiti Islamist deputies plan to question Information Minister Mohammad Abolhassan for allegedly failing to protect morality and control music concerts, a senior Islamist
VIENNA, 22 October 2004 — Iran will consider a proposal by the European Union to receive nuclear technology if it abandons its uranium enrichment program but has not yet agreed to any deal, an Iranian
TUNIS, 22 October 2004 — Tunisia’s main opposition party has pulled its 89 candidates from upcoming parliamentary elections saying yesterday the government had blocked them from getting their message
KABUL, 22 October 2004 — With more than half the ballots in Afghanistan’s presidential election counted and outright triumph virtually assured for incumbent Hamid Karzai, attention turned yesterday
PARIS, 22 October 2004 — Turkey’s prime minister said yesterday he hoped French skepticism about his country’s European Union bid would be overcome and called on President Jacques Chirac for backing.
JEDDAH, 22 October 2004 — Rauf Siddiqui, home minister of Pakistan’s Sindh province, has vowed to fight terrorism. “Terrorists cannot be eliminated overnight. Every member of society should play his... Full Story
NEW DELHI, 22 October 2004 — US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca held talks yesterday with an Indian team headed by S. Jaishankar, joint secretary (America) in the External
ISLAMABAD, 22 October 2004 — A parliamentary committee for law, justice and human rights proposed amendments to the Pakistan Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code that would mean death sentence
