Month: February 2007

Kirkuk, 26 February, 2007— Sheikh Muhssin al-Zaidi, 45, is sad to be leaving Kirkuk, the northern city he has lived in since the early 1980s. He disagrees with the ‘Arabisation’ policy of former president Saddam […]

Washington, 26 February, 2007— The United States considers Pakistan a vital ally in the struggle against terrorism and will look to its government for continued support as al-Qaida and the Taliban gear up to target […]

Washington, 25 February, 2007— By refusing to suspend its nuclear enrichment and reprocessing activities, Iran is continuing to isolate itself from the international community, according to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Responding to Iranian President […]

Kabul, 26 February, 2007— Afghan President Hamid Karzai is under pressure to sign a controversial amnesty bill approved by the country’s national assembly last week. The bill provides sweeping immunity for those guilty of war […]

I was a toddler in the first grade; wait a minute, not quite, because I had been ferried into first grade on the strength of the fact that I was fast friends with my maternal […]

Arusha, 23 February, 2007— A United Nations tribunal on Monday sentenced a former Rwandan youth leader and businessman, Joseph Nzabirinda, to seven years in prison on charges of aiding and abetting murder during the Rwandan […]

Nairobi, 22 February, 2007— Somalia has welcomed a resolution by the United Nations Security Council authorising a six-month deployment of African Union (AU) peacekeepers to the Horn of Africa country, which has had no functioning […]

Dakar, 22 February, 2007— Sam Hinga Norman, the leader of the local civil defence militia that helped defeat the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) during the 1991 to 2001 civil war but who was later […]