Monthly Archives: October 2011
Tunisia to vote amid dwindling hope
TUNIS, Tunisia – Nine months after a popular uprising that ended decades of authoritarian rule, Tunisians are set to vote for new leaders who will write the rules of the country’s new
Turkey steps up quake rescue efforts
Rescue teams are striving to reach many people believed to be trapped under rubble following an earthquake in eastern Turkey that killed more than 200 people and injured more than 1,000 people.
Gaddafi ‘being tracked by satellite’
Libya’s National Transitional Council says that Muammar Gaddafi, the country’s toppled leader, is in the southern desert region of the country, and that it is only a matter of time before he
Anti-Wall Street protesters to block clean-up
Anti-Wall Street protesters are preparing to block efforts to clean up the Lower Manhattan park that they have occupied since September 17.
Hamas hails Palestinian prisoners deal
Khaled Meshaal, the leader of Hamas, has said that more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons will be released in exchange for the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Hamas reached a
US opposes Israeli plan to legalise outposts
The US has said it opposes “any effort to legalise” illegal settlement outposts on Palestinian land, after the Israeli government set up a panel to explore ways to do so. Binyamin Netanyahu,
Palestine state … of mind
After more than 60 years of dispossession, 40 years of occupation and 20 years of failed peace processes, the Palestinians went to the United Nations to demand justice. GUESTS ON THIS MONTH’S
UN raises Syria death toll to 2,900
The United Nations has raised its tally of people killed during seven months of unrest in Syria to more than 2,900 – an increase of 200 people since the beginning of September.
Syrian security forces ‘fire on mourners’
Syrian security forces have opened fire at the funeral of a Kurdish opposition leader in the northern town of Qamishli, killing two people and wounding several others, activists said.
