The consumption of alcohol does not mean that these women were asking to be raped, and they are not the responsible for the crime of which they were victims.

On Friday, the day the Olympic Games open in Beijing, the provincial government of Małopolskie will display Tibetan flags. The Chinese have sent a sharp protest.

The Financial Times, August 4, 2008 By Jon Boone in Herat She could not hope for better treatment. But her chances of survival were not good. Dosed with drugs and swaddled in bandages, she had only a small portion of her face visible in the emerg

A recent deadly attack demonstrates the threat posed by former mujahedeen leader and one-time American favourite, Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, who has since become a Taliban commander and turned his expertise against NATO forces.

US State Depart. has withdrawn prestigious Fulbright grant from 7 Palestinian students from Gaza because Israel will not give these students exit visas to leave the country. Please email Rice to ask her to insist that Israel issue the visas so that...

Countries do not operate in a vacuum - as Marx famously observed, everything is connected - and problems such as the soaring price of oil, the food crisis and global warming are linked to the rapid industrialisation of China and India, argues Ross Gittins

Israel and Hamas agreed in principle Tuesday to a truce, officials on both sides said, agreeing after months of Egyptian mediation to stop attacking one another in and around the Gaza Strip.

Now they'll really want to bomb Iran: "They get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper," says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

U.S. officials usually follow Israel's policy of "nuclear ambiguity," which neither confirms nor denies Israel's nuclear capacity. This is official deception and it has allowed Israel to ignore the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, as well as conventions

Indonesia's health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, has been playing politics with bird flu for over a year. In May she stopped cooperating with the WHO and clamped down on news of a disease that has killed four out of every five Indonesians it has infected