Beginning of Story Content Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded cities around Syria on Friday in what activists described as the largest outpouring yet against the regime of President Bashar Assad and a powerful message of the opposition's resolve. At least 14 people were killed in various clashes, activists said, though one human rights campaigner estimated the death toll at 24. The wildfire rage — flaring in dozens of places at the same time — further strained the...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Indictments by a U.N.-backed court seeking the killers of statesman Rafik al-Hariri, which Lebanese officials say accuse Hezbollah members, will widen the country's political rift and increase sectarian tension. The long-awaited indictments will embolden the opposition led by...
Lifting of former IMF chief's house arrest in New York has left France stunned and revived his hopes of a return to politics Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaving the New York state supreme court with his wife Anne Sinclair after a judge has agreed to free him. Photograph: David Karp/AP...
Ramallah, West Bank (CNN) -- When you pass through a country's borders, what does it mean to have immigration issue that authoritative stamp in your passport? For Palestinian artist, Khaled Jarrar, it means a great deal because his country does not exist as a nation state. Jarrar lives in the West...
RABAT - Moroccans voted Friday in a referendum on curbing the near absolute powers of King Mohammed VI, who has offered reforms in the wake of protests inspired by pro-democracy uprisings around the Arabworld. Faced with demonstrations modelled on the Arab Spring protests that ousted long-serving...
The sex assault case against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn appears to be in trouble amid reported concerns over the alleged victim's credibility. Law enforcement officials have told US media the accuser has repeatedly lied since the alleged attack on 14 May. The Guinean-born maid also...
WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors are pursuing criminal investigations in the cases of two people who died in CIA custody, the Justice Department announced Thursday. One of the cases involves anIraqiman who died at Abu Ghraibprison outside Baghdad in 2003, and the other involves the death of an...
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday warned on the 90th birthday of the ruling Communist Party that it still faced "growing pains" and that rampant corruption could lead to a loss in public confidence. Hu made the comments in a keynote address at a ceremony in the Great Hall of the People -- the...
BEIJING — Chinese President Hu Jintao is marking the Communist Party's 90th anniversary by recalling the policies that are making China affluent and powerful and laying out a case...
