Analysis: Inside and out, divisions keep Syria in stalemate Reuters Russia and China have vetoed a Libya-style UN Security Council resolution condemning Assad. Homs looks increasingly like a forlorn Sarajevo, Syria like a Balkan riddle, destined to work out bloody internal differences while the confrontation among ... |
News of the world in photos: Deadly train crash in Argentina Seattle Post Intelligencer Anti-American demonstrations continued for a second day Wednesday in Afghanistan over what the US has said was the inadvertent burning of Muslim holy books at a NATO military base. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) Protesters run as smoke raises from a burning ... |
![]() www.worldbulletin.net | Turkey, China ink deals including currency swap deal www.worldbulletin.net Turkey and China signed several agreements including financial cooperation between Treasury Undersecretariat and China Development Bank, a memorandum of understanding between Turkish public broadcaster-TRT and Chinese Central Television-CCTV as well as ... |
Is 13% to Niger Delta cause of Northern underdevelopment? (2) Vanguard The Guardian,Vanguard,ThisDay,Independent Daily, Ait, Channels, Silverbird television stations, to mention but a few, are owned by people from Niger Delta, particularly Delta and Edo states that were hitherto part of South West Nigeria under Awolowo's ... |
![]() Arab Times Kuwait English Daily | Troops mass near flashpoint city of Homs Arab Times Kuwait English Daily China's influential People's Daily warned that any Western support for the rebels would trigger a “large-scale civil war.” But, despite a weekend appeal by a visiting Chinese envoy for all sides to stop the violence, monitors said forces of embattled ... |
![]() UPI.com | Kaleidoscope of illusions UPI.com In Cairo, a new Parliament dominated by fundamentalists of the Muslim Brotherhood, with 47 percent of the seats, appeared shaken while trying to project a moderate image for their Western interlocutors. Salafists, or Muslim extremists who rooted for ... Commentary: Kaleidoscope of illusions |
![]() The Daily Star | China envoy meets Assad, backs Syria election plan The Daily Star "We hope that the referendum on the constitution and the parliamentary elections take place in a continuous way," Zhai said, according to Syrian state television monitored in Beirut. "China supports the path of reform taking place in Syria and the ... Syria Crisis: Security Forces Open Fire On Funeral CHINA URGES END TO BLOODSHED, BACKS AL PROPOSALS Rebel positions shelled despite plea from UN |
![]() The Daily Star | China to send envoy to Syria for talks SBS The proposed charter drops Article 8, which declared the ruling Baath Party as the "leader of the state and society," allowing for a multi-party system, state television said. The president, who must be a Muslim man, can serve a maximum of two ... Syria opposition strongholds under offensive Islamic al-Azhar calls for bold Arab action on Syria Death and Defiance in Damascus |
![]() Arutz Sheva | Muslim Leader Calls for Boycott of Russia and China Arutz Sheva Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi calls to boycott Russian and Chinese products because of their veto at the UN Security Council. By Elad Benari A senior Muslim leader has called to boycott Russian and Chinese products as a response to the two countries' veto ... |
![]() CTV.ca | Anger after Russia, China block UN action on Syria Reuters State television showed live footage of Assad Sunday praying with Muslim clerics and listening to Koranic verses in a Damascus mosque to mark the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad. Residents of Homs's battered Baba Amro district, speaking by telephone, ... Russia, China Block UN on Syria Syria uprising: live |