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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Congratulations to Robert Mugabe, winner of the Confucius Peace Prize. It’s an honor not everyone would want to accept. But given the origin of the prize, and some of its previous winners, it couldn’t have gone to a better candidate China created the award in 2010 as a reaction to jailed dissident…
The ethnic and economic tensions that prompted Côte d’Ivoire’s deadly civil war five years ago are flaring up again as the West African nation prepares to hold its first presidential election Sunday since the violence that left 3,000 dead and displaced 500,000 others. President Alassane Ouattara is all but expected to win a second term after…
The ethnic and economic tensions that prompted Ivory Coast’s deadly civil war five years ago are flaring up again as the West African nation prepares to hold its first presidential election Sunday since the violence that left 3,000 dead and displaced 500,000 others. President Alassane Ouattara is all but expected to win a second term after…
Hurriyat Conference Chairman and Muttahda Majlis-e-Amal Ameer Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday, October 9 warned Kashmiris to beware of the expansionist plan of the Ahmadis in Kashmir and foil their nefarious designs. He was delivering the Friday khutba at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid where he said that Ahmadis won’t be allowed to spread tentacles in Kashmir. What…
The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), at its 552nd meeting held on 19 October 2015, was briefed by the Commission on the situation in Libya. Council also listened to statements made by the representative of Libya, as well as by the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in its capacity as an African…
ERIC RISBERG/AP Dizzy Gillespie would have been 98 years old today. His puffed out cheeks and bent trumpet were staples of his his jazz career. His trumpet was bent, his on-stage antics were quirky and unpredictable, but Dizzy Gillespie’s impact on jazz was straight-laced and undeniable. One of the fathers of the bebop movement, Gillespie grew…
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold. Blog is now live Auto-refresh: 19:49 Abbas: Israel ‘made Palestinian lives unbearable’ PA President Mahmoud Abbas says that the ongoing Israeli occupation of the West Bank has made the lives of the Palestinian people unbearable, Israel Radio reports. Speaking at a press conference with the…
The reaction of the United States and its allies to Russian air strikes on the strongholds of several jihadist groups in Syria should not be brushed aside as simply hypocritical. Make no mistake, they are indeed irked. Taking into consideration the illegal air strikes that the US-led coalition has been carrying out in Syria for over…
Russia’s recent entry into the Syrian war theatre, with all guns blazing, has spurred speculation that it may mark the beginning of the end of the decades-old US hegemony over the Middle East region. Of course, there are those who dispute the very idea of a Pax Americana in view of Washington’s failure to install democracy,…
The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia highlights the crucial role of Tunisia’s civil society in the country’s transition from decades of dictatorship. The prize is a huge boost to social forces which have been the spark and the engine of Tunisia’s revolution and the ongoing struggle for freedom and dignity.…
Last year, Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai and India’s, Kailash Satyarthi were honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for their work as advocates and providers of education for the poor, especially girls. Behind the award was the thinking that if children and youth are educated, they have a stake in society and won’t drift easily into extremism or…
