Riyadh (dpa) – Farming in Saudi Arabia has long been considered an ecological nightmare due to the country's high temperatures and arid climate, in which cowsheds are air-conditioned and non-renewable water sources used to irrigate wheat (...)
Misrata, Libya (dpa) – Libyan militiamen carry automatic weapons, patrol roads and dress like heroes in action moves.
But they are less violent than they look, and hardly serve as an warning for Syria.
When diplomats talk about military (...)
Cairo (dpa) – It has been a year since Egyptians sent their modern-day pharaoh Hosni Mubarak packing. But since then, revolutionary activists have gone from ecstasy through disappointment to anger. Now they are calling for a general strike.
Many (...)
Cairo/Istanbul (dpa) – Teargas hangs over central Cairo and dozens injured in long-running political demonstrations crowd the hospitals – but Egyptian judicial authorities seem more preoccupied with prosecuting foreign organizations accused of (...)
Tripoli (dpa) – It is unusually cold in this section of Tripoli's main hospital – cold even for a morgue.
Two men who keep track of the morgue's bodies being brought in and taken out are sitting in a small office at the entrance, wearing thick (...)
Istanbul (dpa) – Syria's Christians, who make up more than 6 percent of the population, are fearful they will be caught up in the 10-month power struggle between the Alawite-dominated government of President Bashar al-Assad and the largely Sunni (...)
CAIRO - A certain disillusionment already has set in among the revolutionaries who began calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak one month ago on Al Tahrir Square.
As revolutions go, they got their wish relatively quickly when Mubarak left (...)