CAIRO-Egypt's wide-open presidential election, which was in its second day of voting Thursday, is showing how deeply polarized the nation has become, with backers of rival Islamists and former regime figures each vowing they cannot let the other rule. The impact of their rivalry goes beyond the key question of who gets to rule Egypt for the next four years. An Islamist president will mean a more religious government, while a figure from Hosni Mubarak's ousted regime occupying the land's highest...
AMMAN (Reuters) - The main Syrian National Council opposition group said it had accepted the resignation of its president, setting the stage for a showdown between the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and its political rivals over who will be the new leader. The internal conflicts have come to a head...
AFP - Tough talks aimed at helping resolve the decade-old crisis over Iran's nuclear programme enter an unscheduled second day on Thursday with world powers and Tehran seemingly wildly at odds. On Wednesday at the meeting in Baghdad the P5+1 powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United...
Several governments in the Asia-Pacific region responded to the Arab Spring protests with a clampdown on dissent, Amnesty International said. Leaders from China to Thailand employed a range of methods to silence critics, the group said in its annual report. But activists were increasingly able to...
The United NationsSecurity Council is suffering a failure of leadership and looks "tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose," the human rights organization Amnesty International said in a report issued on Thursday. Analyzing the international community’s...
Egypt is set to resume its first free presidential election after voting passed off calmly on the first day apart from a stone-throwing attack on candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was premier for a few days before Hosni Mubarak fell. The race broadly pits religious conservative candidates...
EUROPEAN Union leaders have pledged support for Greece, vowing to keep the debt-wracked country in the eurozone as officials prepared behind the scenes for a possible doomsday scenario of exit. After an EU summit dominated by fears of a "Grexit" that went into the early hours of the...
