Palash Ghosh

The French government has officially started enforcing a ban on the wearing of veils. The new law has enraged some Muslim groups who claim they are being “stigmatized,” while supporters of the ban say it is needed to better integrate foreign immigrants into the broader society.

Apr 14, 2011

British Prime Minister David Cameron's first speech on immigration.

Apr 14, 2011

Controversy has erupted in British political circles over a speech on immigration that Prime Minister David Cameron delivered today.

Apr 14, 2011

Opposition forces in Yemen have spurned a peace initiative by the Gulf States to resolve the country’s political crisis and have now set a two-week deadline for embattled President Ali Abdullah to resign his office.

Apr 14, 2011

The attorney general of Israel may charge the country’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with corruption.

Apr 13, 2011

The U.S. military is becoming concerned about the expanding reach of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (Laskhar), one of the largest and most well-funded militant groups in Pakistan.

Apr 13, 2011

Anti-government protests have erupted in the northwestern city of Aleppo, as students have demonstrated against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad.

Apr 13, 2011

However, one the most bizarre and unlikely “partners in crime” with Gaddafi was probably Nick Griffin, the British ultra-nationalist who is now the head of the British National Party (BNP),

Apr 13, 2011

The international “contact group” that is meeting in Qatar to discuss the crisis in Libya has agreed to establish a temporary “trust fund” that will be used to move financial assistance to rebel groups seeking to topple Moammar Gaddafi.

Apr 13, 2011

The British Foreign Secretary William Hague has proposed the establishment of an international fund to assist opposition groups in Libya seeking to topple Moammar Gaddafi.

Apr 13, 2011

A clash in Yemeni capitol of Sanaa between pro-government forces and those loyal to an opposition figure who defected has led to the deaths of at least five people.

Apr 13, 2011

Government officials from around the world have gathered in Doha, Qatar for a summit on finding a resolution to the crisis in Libya after weeks of deadly fighting and fears of a military deadlock.

Apr 13, 2011

The daughter of the leading Bahraini human rights activist has gone on a hunger strike to protest the detention of family members, including her father, by the state security forces over their anti-government protest activities.

Apr 12, 2011

Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak is in intensive care in a hospital after reportedly suffering a heart attack, according to state-run media.

Apr 12, 2011

Palestinians are ready to govern their own independent state, according to a study by the United Nations.

Apr 12, 2011

The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operated the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, may be subject to up to 2-trillion yen ($23.6-billion) in compensation claims by local communities, according to a study by JP Morgan.

Apr 12, 2011

Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been taken to a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, according to state security sources.

Apr 12, 2011

Armenians have spread across the world and a great many now live in the Unites States, particularly southern California.

Apr 12, 2011

Joseph “Big Joey” Massino, the only mafia boss ever to become a government informant, is set to testify in the murder and racketeering trial of Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano.

Apr 12, 2011

The French and British Foreign ministers are both urging NATO officials to increase their activity in Libya in order destroy weaponry used by Moammar Gaddafi’s forces and to better protect civilians from Gaddafi’s violent incursions.

Apr 12, 2011

Moussa Koussa, the former Libyan foreign minister who defected to Britain almost two weeks ago, has flown to Qatar, according to the UK Foreign Office.

Apr 12, 2011

Amnesty International said it has new evidence of atrocities committed by soldiers loyal to Moammar Gaddafi, including the execution of rebel prisoners near the town of Ajdabiya.

Apr 12, 2011

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) have detained three political activists who have demanded the implementation of democratic and economic reforms.

Apr 11, 2011

Libyan defector, former foreign minister Moussa Koussa has warned British officials that civil war could turn his country into “a new Somalia.”

Apr 11, 2011

An odd disagreement has erupted between British Prime Minister David Cameron and Oxford University and black enrollment at the prestigious university.

Apr 11, 2011

The Muslim Brotherhood organization, which is officially banned in Syria, said it supports the anti-governments demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad.

Apr 11, 2011

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated that soldiers loyal to Moammar Gaddafi are targeting and killing civilians during the government’s siege of the port city of Misrata, in direct defiance of international laws.

Apr 11, 2011

Yuri Gagarin was the first man in outer space, when he orbited the earth in the first manned space flight exactly fifty years ago.

Apr 11, 2011

A prominent Egyptian blogger, Maikel Nabil, has been sentence to three years in prison after being convicted of “insulting the military and publishing false news,” according to his attorney.

Apr 11, 2011