LONDON - Agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday seized two Internet servers in Britain that host the Web sites of the global news network Indymedia. Two days later, there was still no clarification of why the computers were confiscated...
CAIRO - Bomb blasts at two holiday resorts in Egypt's Sinai peninsula have sent shivers through the tourism industry, but tour operators expect the country's biggest foreign currency earner to suffer only minor damage. "The attack was very contained and seemed to...
Inter Press Service/Pajhwok News KABUL - Voter turnout was heavy in Afghanistan's first direct presidential election in recent history, but irregularities in the voting process prompted calls for the results to be nullified. Due to a heavy turnout, and despite rain...
SANA'A, Yemen - The Yemeni government, which has condemned the abduction of journalists and aid workers in Iraq, itself stands accused now of "abducting" journalists and trying to silence them. Abdel-Karim al-Khiwani, chief editor of the daily al-Shoura, was...
NORTHERN GAZA STRIP - The rapidly mounting civilian death toll as a result of Israel's massive offensive in the north of the Gaza Strip is deepening hatred and may lead to continuing cycles of bloodshed, Palestinian politicians and human rights activists in Gaza say....
Banking is difficult during the National Holiday in China. For seven days, everybody is on vacation – everybody. Cooks and old bearded cardboard collectors still do their routines, but their relatives are coming through from afar and filling the apartment up...
It's not an if, it's a when. Pentagon officials have indicated that they plan to send as many as 15,000 more troops to Iraq during the first four months of 2005, and President Bush continues to insist that "we will stay the course" until Iraq is stabilized....
Now we know the truth. Neither the Bush administration nor the Israeli government has any intention whatsoever of allowing the Palestinians to establish their own state. That means, of course, that both have been lying, not only to the Palestinians but to the American...
The 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act (H.R. 10) is yet another attempt to address the tH.R.eat of terrorism by giving more money and power to the federal bureaucracy. Most of the reforms contained in this bill will not make America safer, though they definitely...
TABA, Egypt - The leader of an Israeli rescue team points to the rubble of what was the lobby of Hilton hotel. "Look, you can see clearly where the car exploded." Commander Shalom Bar-Arieh of the search and rescue school of the Israeli army's central...
