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Egypt had the world's attention in 2005. That year witnessed the country's first ever contested presidential election in September, followed, two months later, by a landmark parliamentary election, in which the banned Muslim Brotherhood group
A media watchdog urged Egyptian President Mubarak to fulfill a 2-year-old pledge to amend a law which lays down jail terms for journalists convicted of libel. "... during this period journalists were sentenced to prison, harassed, and assaulted
In a meeting with visiting US congressman Rob Simmons, Mr Chen called the National Unification Council – and National Unification Guidelines adopted at the same time – an "absurd product of an absurd era" and said they should be abolished.
China issued a warning that Taiwan should stay the course toward eventual unification with the mainland Thursday, a day after Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian called for the abolition of the National Unification Council.
On Jan. 24, Li Datong's status went into a deep chill. Mr. Li, a Tiananmen protest veteran and a rare crusading editor still allowed to work, learned that "Freezing Point," his weekly magazine, had been closed. The proximate reason: art
A Chinese man jailed over the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has been released from jail but is severely mentally ill. Yu Dongyue was sentenced to 20 years in jail for throwing paint at a portrait of China's former leader Mao Zedong.
"Scooter" Libby's lawyers argued that Special Counsel Fitzgerald was improperly appointed by the Justice Department instead of the President to investigate the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. That means his work and
...it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Definitions. For purposes of this order: (a) “Privatization” means the disposition or transfer of an infrastructure asset, such as by sale or by long-term lease, from a State or local government to a pr
The National Rifle Association urged a judge to overturn San Francisco's voter-approved handgun ban, arguing the city can't ban the guns because state law allows them.
China's currency rose Friday to its highest closing level against the U.S. dollar since a revaluation last July, after the biggest one-day drop in the opening dollar/yuan parity rate this year.
The X Prize Foundation is seeking public comment on draft rules for a lunar lander contest. “Our goals are completely parallel,” Murphy said of the foundation and NASA. “We want NASA to make things possible, and the space industry want to make things
The blast seemed a lot like a gamma-ray burst, the most distant and powerful type of explosion known to astronomers. But the explosion was about 25 times closer and lasted 100 times longer than a typical gamma-ray burst.
[How does this work during a curfew?] Religious leaders summoned Iraq's Shiites and Sunnis to joint prayer services amid an extraordinary daytime curfew aimed at halting a wave of sectarian violence that has killed nearly 130 people since the bom
[What? Do I look like a physicist!] A quantum computer has solved a computational problem without running a program. Scientists gleaned the answer to an algorithm by combining quantum computation and quantum interrogation in an optical-based quantum
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has turned to the masterminds behind her husband's 1992 presidential victory—James Carville and Paul Begal—to raise money needed to keep her in the Senate and possibly help finance a White House run of her own.
Dubai Ports World will delay taking over management of the US ports "while it engages in further consultations with the Bush administration, congressional leadership and port authorities to address concerns over future security arrangements.
This afternoon Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, told Tony Snow that the president is now considering delaying the deal and pointed out that the sale of the company is not yet a done deal in the United Kingdom either.
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in New York ordered the Defense Department to release uncensored transcripts of detainee hearings, which contain the names of detainees in custody and those who have been held and later released. Previously released
Tom Dillon, 19, a pre-pharmacy major at the University of Connecticut, is carrying $52,000 in student loans. And he's just getting started. When he gets his pharmacy doctorate in four years, he expects his debt to exceed $150,000. Dillon's be
Federal agents seized tons of fossilized dinosaur eggs, pine cones and other artifacts at the nation's largest gem show after determining the items had been smuggled out of Argentina. Authorities said 3 small watermelon-sized eggs and 14,400 poun
But this is going to be worse, I think. This may be the start of when it all goes really wrong and the thing that we all fear - the sectarian war that will destroy my country and my children's future - may be about to begin.
The attack on the al-Askariya shrine marks the first time that Iraqi sectarian violence has targeted one of the country's central religious symbols. The Shia Muslim shrine has existed in the middle of the ancient city of Samarra, one of the large
Nabil Amen wrote it off as mistaken identity the first time U.S. border agents handcuffed him as he returned home from Canada. When he had border-crossing troubles a third time, he decided to never leave the United States again.
The American Civil Liberties Union released newly obtained documents Thursday showing that senior Defense Department officials approved aggressive interrogation techniques that FBI agents deemed abusive, ineffective and unlawful.
Driver was accused of beating a detainee known as Habibullah, who the Army says died of his injuries. 2 detainees, men known as Dilawar and Habibullah, died within days of each other in Bagram. Both cases were ruled homicides and were beaten to death
To people in Silicon Valley and around the country concerned about the outsourcing of jobs to India, President Bush offered something to make the practice more palatable. Pizza. It's just one of the US products that India's is developing an a
A deal that allows an Arab-owned company in Dubai to manage 6 major US ports was scrutinized for security risks by an obscure intelligence agency that existed for only 4 months. Many of the functions were transferred to Negroponte's office from t
Lockheed Martin is now testing Cormorant, a stealthy autonomous spy jet that starts and ends its mission 150 feet under water.
Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said, “Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters. They’ve already done this on a smaller scale,..."
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's most powerful Sunni Muslim party quit talks to form a new government Thursday after reprisal attacks for the bombing of an important Shiite mosque. (Can you smell that smell?)
