Islamic Fundamentalists in North America
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt and its Wahhabi fundamentalist allies – who use the term “Salafi,” indicating Islamic virtue, to hide More...
Failure to launch: Singapore start-ups struggle to woo investors
Report by A. Ananthalakshmi, SINGAPORE | Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:11pm EST (Reuters) – Singapore’s decade-long push to become a hotbed for entrepreneurs is stuck at stage one. Thumbdrive design sketches More...
Analysis: Next Bank of England chief Carney is more bark than bite
Analysis by Louise Egan, OTTAWA | Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:21pm EST (Reuters) – Musings on unorthodox monetary policies are giving incoming Bank of England Governor Mark Carney a “radical” image before More...
U.S., rebels urge gloomy Moscow to help oust Assad
Report by Oliver Holmes, BEIRUT | Thu Dec 13, 2012 6:14pm EST (Reuters) – Syria’s rebel leadership and the United States seized on Russian pessimism over President Bashar al-Assad’s future to More...
Venezuela’s Chavez in delicate state after surgery
Report by Andrew Cawthorne and Brian Ellsworth | CARACAS | Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:58pm EST (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in delicate condition after his latest surgery for cancer, the government More...
Why Did U.S. Security Fail in Benghazi?
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz On the night of September 11, 2012, the American consulate in Benghazi, a revolutionary focus in liberated Libya, was attacked by terrorists. U.S. Ambassador John Christopher More...
Criminalizing The Defamation of Islam
Column by Amil Imani Nothing prompts the hundreds of ordinarily feuding and fighting sects of Islam to come together like the slightest disrespect shown to the founder of their religion or their religious sanctity. More...
Analysis: False records issue is key to Standard Chartered case
A New York state case against Standard Chartered Plc is more about whether the British bank carried out an old-fashioned cover-up using allegedly false records and less about the role the bank played in the alleged More...
Annan arrives in Damascus, Syria tests missiles
Report by Oliver Holmes (Reuters) – Kofi Annan is due to hold talks on Monday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who said U.S. political support for “terrorists” was hindering the peace envoy’s More...
Russia rights groups fear crackdown as law changes
Report by Nastassia Astrasheuskaya and Timothy Heritage (Reuters) – Russia’s lower house of parliament gave preliminary approval on Friday to a law that would brand many rights and campaign groups “foreign More...
