Month: October 2011

Five Arab Spring activists have won the European Parliament’s Sakharov prize for freedom of thought. The laureates include Mohamed Bouazizi of Tunisia, whose death in January helped to kickstart the Arab Spring. He set...

The United Nations Security Council has voted to end international military operations in Libya next Monday. In March the council voted to authorise “all necessary measures” to protect civilians, after then-leader...

The New York Times Once one of Syria’s closest allies, Turkey is hosting an armed opposition group waging an insurgency against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, providing shelter to the commander and dozens of...

Marrakech – Morocco will hold, as of December 2011, the presidency of the Arab Anti-Corruption and Integrity Network (ACINET), the president of the body, Yemeni Belqis Abou Osba, whose country holds the current presidency,...

Rome – The kidnappers of the three westerners, abducted in the night between Saturday and Sunday near Tindouf, Algeria, had accomplices in the ranks of the ‘polisario’, said Thursday the Italian daily “La...