A NEW Nigerian opposition party showed its strength in the heart of the capital yesterday, attracting thousands of opponents to a plan to change the constitution to keep President Olusegun […]

RUSSIA yesterday rejected a request from the United States for its engineers to halt work on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power station. Russia’s state atomic energy agency is contracted to help […]

QUEEN Elizabeth visited two venerable British institutions yesterday -— the BBC and Chatham House — who, like her, are celebrating life at 80. The monarch, who turns 80 today, met […]

EVEN if Iraqi leaders finally break the deadlock over a new government, they will have their work cut out stabilising Baghdad trouble spots like Adhamiya, where sectarian tensions fuelled fierce […]

GAZA – A STRUGGLE between the governing Hamas group and President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah for control of Palestinian security forces intensified on Thursday with the appointment of a top militant […]

By Mohammed Assadi RAMALLAH – Hamas vowed to keep fighting Israel as the militant group’s government began work on Thursday, ignoring Western isolation that has brought the Palestinian Authority to […]

By Ibrahim Mshelizza MAIDUGURI- Nigeria captured fugitive former Liberian President Charles Taylor on the border with Cameroon on Wednesday and deported him to Liberia, easing its embarrassment at his escape […]

By Paul Simao JOHANNESBURG – A South African judge on Wednesday refused to dismiss a rape case against former Deputy President Jacob Zuma, a fresh blow for the onetime presidential […]

By Dean Yates JERUSALEM – Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began building a coalition on Wednesday after winning Israel’s election on plans to impose final borders with the Palestinians by […]

 By Dean Yates JERUSALEM- Israelis voted on Tuesday in an election seen as a referendum on uprooting settlements from swathes of the West Bank and enlarging others, imposing Israel’s final […]