Ivorians set for 'healing' poll
Voters in Ivory Coast are due to cast their ballots in a long-delayed presidential election, which aims to heal the country's deep ethnic divisions.
Tanzania's Kikwete eyes poll win
Tanzanians are to vote in a presidential election that is expected to hand incumbent Jakaya Kikwete his second term in office.
Brazil to choose next president
Brazilians are set to elect a president to replace Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with the governing party's Dilma Rousseff favoured to defeat rival Jose Serra.
Saudi Arabia to Build Five Dams to Protect Jeddah from Flooding
The go-ahead has been given for five new dams to protect Jeddah from flooding, the Jeddah Urban Development
Brazil finds massive oil field
A newly discovered oil-field off the coast of Brazil could contain up to 15 billion barrels, the government says.
London faces new housing crisis
Large swaths of London will become "largely unaffordable" to housing benefit recipients from next year, says an authoritative new study from Cambridge University.
‘Bosnian Croats’ call for autonomy impossible but still dangerous’
Experts say calls made by a nationalist party of Bosnian Croats last week for an autonomous territory in one of the most over-governed countries in the world, Bosnia and Herzegovina, are unattainable and a threat to the already feeble unity of the country.
Qatar's global spree shows no signs of slowing
The photos showed the Emir of Qatar reviewing the Grenadier Guards at Windsor Castle, but in truth he was in Britain to review his assets. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani has a UK portfolio worth many billions.
Arizona Immigration Law Divides Latinos, Too
Lawyers for the Justice Department and for the State of Arizona will square off in federal court this week over the immigration law.
Germany never applied multicultural policies, says Kenan Kolat
“Germany never applied multicultural policies, so to claim that the multicultural approach has failed is total nonsense,” Kenan Kolat, the chairman of the Turkish Society in Germany (Türkische Gemeinde in Deutschland [TGD]), told Sunday’s Zaman in an interview.
UK troops face abuse claims in Iraq
A specialist team appointed by the government to investigate claims of abuse by British troops in Iraq has received 90 complaints involving 128 Iraqi civilians. The files, relating to allegations between March 2003 and July 2009, have been sent to Geoff White, a former head of Staffordshire CID, who heads the Iraq historic allegations team.
Lives as black as coal right in the heart of Ankara
Near the Ankara district of Kızılcahamam, the lives of seven families composed of 60 people from Diyarbakır, Mardin and Şanlıurfa have literally been darkened by charcoal.
Although spoken by vast numbers worldwide, the English language is doomed to die out, says a celebrated linguist
Turkey lifts its ban on YouTube
Turkey lifts its ban on YouTube, two years after it blocked access to the website because of videos deemed insulting to the country's founder.
Christians' freedom to express beliefs is at risk, warn bishops
Senior bishops have warned that the freedom of Christians to express their beliefs is being eroded following the introduction of equality laws.
German far right threat growing
A populist party fighting the building of a Turkish cultural centre has found willing allies among Austrian extremists
Yemen, the new crucible of global terrorism
The axis of terror got bigger yesterday. After the presence of explosives in two packages bound for the US was confirmed – and a suspected 24 more discovered – their place of origin entered the big league as a crucible of deadly and disruptive terrorism. As Magnus Ranstorp, one of the world's leading experts on the issue, told The Independent on Sunday: "Yemen has become the new Afghanistan."
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