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Cairo match ends peacefully

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home

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No violent incidents as Egypt celebrates football victory over Algeria. ...

Rivalries persist over Cairo match

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home

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Tensions rise as Algeria and Egypt prepare for crucial World Cup qualifying game....

Algerian Soccer Team Attacked With Bricks In Bloody Cairo Assault (VIDEO)

Posted 11.13.2009 | Sports


A bus carrying the Algerian national soccer team was attacked after leaving the airport in Cairo, Goal.com reports. According to the web site, bricks ...

No Toilets or Air For "Forgotten Prisoners"

Betwa Sharma | Posted 10.29.2009 | World


Betwa Sharma

Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.

A Changing Threat: Al-Qaeda Eight Years Later

Peter Henne | Posted 11.10.2009 | World


Peter Henne

Al Qaeda's greatest weapon is not its bombs but its voice, and the threat it will hijack discourse in the Muslim world, which requires a concerted US outreach campaign to counteract.

The Complement Between Islam and Science

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 10.16.2009 | World


Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Every Ramadan, Sheikh Mohammed gathers intellectuals from across the Arab world to personally listen to their success stories and to benefit from their wisdom.

The Arabs Need a Nelson Mandela, Who Knows When to Go

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 08.20.2009 | World


Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

We desperately need a visionary leader in the Arab world, monarch or republican, who steps aside and oversees in his lifetime a peaceful democratic transfer of power.

Death toll in China riots rises to 192

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 08.15.2009 | Home


Chinese authorities on Wednesday announced a higher death toll from ethnic riots in a predominantly Muslim western city, after the government warned its overseas workers in Algeria of possible attacks from Islamists.

Chinese companies and workers in Algeria were warned to be on alert after an Islamist Web site called for retaliation to Beijing's crackdown to quell the unrest in Urumqi.

The unrest began July 5 with a protest by Muslim Uighurs that spiraled into violence against Han Chinese. In subsequent days, roaming groups of Han Chinese men launched revenge attacks. The turmoil represents the worst ethnic violence China has seen in decades.

On Wednesday, the Communist Party in Xinjiang province, of which Urumqi is the capital, said the death toll from the ethnic violence had risen to 192 from 184 reported earlier, according to the Xinhua News Agency. The number of people injured also rose to 1,721 from 1,680.

Xinhua said 881 people remained hospitalized, with 66 in critical condition. A total of 331 shops and 627 vehicle were burned down in the unrest.

Robert Lady: I Was Just Following Orders

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 07.31.2009 | World


ROME — A former CIA agent on trial for the alleged kidnapping of a Muslim cleric and terror suspect in Milan acknowledged in an interview publis...

Rai Star Cheb Mami Arrested For Attempted Forced Abortion

Huffington Post | Posted 07.31.2009 | World


Algerian pop star Cheb Mami was arrested in France Monday due to allegations that he attempted to force a woman with whom he had previous relations to...

Algeria Al-Qaeda-Linked Militants Kill 21 Police

AP | ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU | Posted 07.19.2009 | World


ALGIERS, Algeria — Al-Qaida-linked militants ambushed a convoy of Algerian police escorting Chinese construction workers near a highway building...

Obama's First 100 Days: A Start On Guantanamo, But Not Enough

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.04.2009 | World


Andy Worthington

Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.

The New Terror in the Middle East: Swine

Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.01.2009 | World


Jamal Dajani

A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt calls swine flu "more serious than a hydrogen bomb" during a symposium on the health scare. Egypt's pa...

Rima Maktabi: Al Arabiya's Stunning, Substantive, War-Tried Anchor

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.20.2009 | Media


Magda Abu-Fadil

Fearless, dedicated, yet emotional about conflicts ripping into her country, Rima Maktabi knows when to suppress tears and get on with her job as a professional journalist.

CNN Reporter Turned Princess Starts Jordanian J-School

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.13.2009 | Media


Magda Abu-Fadil

Princess Rym's advice to young journalists today is: "Be persistent. Don't take no for an answer. Remember why you're doing this. It's not about you, it's about the story."

Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 05.11.2009 | World


Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Turning East - Turning West: Brewing Revolutions and Breakaway Provinces Facts: Up to 100,000 protesters h...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Favored To Win Reelection Today

AFP | Posted 05.10.2009 | World


Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika cast his ballot Thursday as millions in the oil-rich north African country voted in polls in which Bouteflika ...

Britain's Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.04.2009 | World


Andy Worthington

There are many unnerving similarities between the Bush administration's policies and those implemented in the U.K., which have caused barely a ripple of protest.

Do You Know Which Countries Hold America's National Debt?

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics


Mark Nickolas

While Treasury doesn't breakdown the oil producing states which hold American debt (together they are in third place), that group includes quite a few pariah nations.

Wall Street, Somalia, and Jack Sparrow

John Feffer | Posted 03.06.2009 | World


John Feffer

Why are more than a dozen of the world's navies converging on Somalia to battle pirates there instead of sailing into New York to capture the Wall Street pirates?

CIA Chief In Algeria Accused Of Rapes

Abcnews.go.com | Posted 02.28.2009 | World


The CIA's station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Musli...

We are like a city on a hill

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

This election will show the public's choice, its mandate for the type of leader it wants to deal with complex issues, like why people use terrorism as a tactic to dialogue with those in power.

Two 50 Year Olds Are Released From Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


Andy Worthington

Like at least 120 other prisoners seized in Pakistan, their long imprisonment never had anything to do with al-Qaeda or the war in Afghanistan.

Clearing Out Guantanamo: Two More Algerians Transferred

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics


Andy Worthington

As part of its alleged "desire not to hold detainees any longer than necessary," the Pentagon announced on Tuesday that two Guantánamo prisoners had ...

Guantanamo: Repatriation as Russian Roulette

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics


Andy Worthington

In the disturbing game of Russian roulette that confronts Algerians repatriated after facing allegations of impropriety (however groundless), they could face torture, show trials and further imprisonment.