The nonchalance with which the West has been observing the slow decomposition of the Palestinian social fabric in Gaza in its eighth year of Israeli blockade amounts to a level of criminal complicity in the face of international law. The ongoing Israeli blockade - recently in full cooperation with Egypt - of the tiny coastal strip has been defined as the collective punishment of approximately 1.6 million civilians. Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states that "No persons may...
The army has a long record of intervening in politics but military chiefs have stayed aloof from this crisis, insisting that politicians must sort out the dispute. Unidentified gunmen attacked anti-government protesters in Bangkok on Thursday, killing two people as Thailand’s rival political...
As people in Turkey start looking for answers after one of the country's worst mining tragedies, attention has quickly turned to mining safety standards in the western town of Soma. The issue of mining safety was on the political agenda before Tuesday's disaster. Just a couple weeks ago,...
SOMA, Turkey — Anger and grief boiled over into a violent protest Wednesday in the western Turkish town of Soma, where officials said at least 245 miners died in a coal mine explosion and fire. Nearly 450 other miners were rescued, the mining company said, but the fate of an unknown number of others...
Prime MinisterRecep Tayyip Erdogan has declared three days of national mourning in Turkey after a huge explosion ripped through a coal mine in Soma yesterday. A few hours ago PresidentErdogan confirmed in a press conference that 363 miners have been found alive and 238 dead bodies have been...
Protesters hold anti-China placards while marching in an anti-China protest on a street in Hanoi May 11, 2014. HANOI/MANILA (Reuters) - Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to factories and rampaged in industrial zones in the south of the country after protests against Chinese oil drilling in a part of...
