Palestine to open embassy in Brazil
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has laid the cornerstone for an embassy in Brazil - what will be the first such Palestinian delegation in the western hemisphere. A ceremony was held on...
View ArticleIraqi commander assassinated
Assailants have killed Iraq's highest-ranking soldier in an attack in the country's capital. An armed group pulled up next to the car of Ihsan Sadek, a lieutenant-colonel, in eastern Baghdad on...
View ArticlePlight of 'persecuted' Christians
Concerned about the welfare of Christian communities around the world, Pope Benedict has expressed his hope for an end to conflicts. In his traditional Christmas Day message from the Vatican, the Pope...
View ArticleReviewing 2010
In this special edition of Frost over the World, we look at the headlines and the headline makers of 2010. Has a website ever had the impact of WikiLeaks which has blown the cover of secrecy on some...
View ArticleBrazil swears in Rousseff
Dilma Rousseff has been sworn in as Brazil's first female president, succeeding her hugely popular predecessor and mentor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Rousseff, 63, who served as Lula's former cabinet...
View ArticleClashes follow Egypt church bombing
Clashes have flared in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria, following a car bombing blamed outside a Coptic Christian church that killed at least 21 people. Police and Christian men faced off...
View ArticleNew year sees hope for south Sudan
For people in the south of Sudan this could be their last New Year's Eve as Sudanese. If the south decides to separate from the north in the week-long referendum vote starting in eight days time, they...
View ArticleNigeria detains Boko Haram suspects
Nigerian police have arrested 92 suspected members of the Boko Haram group after sectarian attacks this week in the northeast the country. A police spokesman said on Friday that Boko Haram, which is...
View ArticleChina to block internet calling
China is due to crack down on what it calls illegal internet telephone service providers, according to a circular from the Chinese government. The move announced on Friday could potentially harm...
View ArticleSeveral killed in 'missile strike'
Pakistani intelligence officials say a US missile strike has killed at least four alleged militants near the town of Ghulam Khan in the North Waziristan tribal agency. "It was an American drone...
View ArticleUS students drown in sea of debt
American university students are beginning the new year with a mountain of debt. There is now $850bn owed in outstanding tuition costs and paying back the money is an ongoing challenge. Two in every...
View ArticleArmy deployed in Guatemala drug war
Authorities in Guatemala say they have seized hundreds of weapons and made several arrests in a crackdown against suspected drug gangs. The province of Alta Verapaz, in Guatemala's indigenous...
View ArticleBringing home S Sudan's dead
More than two decades of civil war in Sudan not only divided a country but fractured countless Sudanese families. An estimated two million people were killed in the conflict and many of them never...
View ArticleChinese cellar dwellers fight for home
For a literal example of lying low you might want to visit Beijing where high rent prices have forced people to go underground. Residents have been converting Cold War-era air raid shelters into cheap...
View ArticleHungary in the hot seat
Hungary has assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the EU, on the same day that controversial new media laws come into effect in the country, raising questions about its suitability for the...
View ArticleGuns and dominoes in Iraq
Source: Al Jazeera Email Article Print Article Share Article Send Feedback Featured on Al Jazeera Al Jazeera: the Arabs' vox populi! The effect of the 'New Arab media' on Arab politics has been...
View ArticleProfile: Boko Haram
The group behind a number of high-profile violence in Nigeria is known by several different names, including al-Sunnah wal Jamma, or Followers of Muhammad's Teachings, and Boko Haram, which means...
View ArticleProfile: John Garang
John Garang, a figurehead for the southern struggle, was a charismatic military leader who spent more than 20 years at the head of the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He was appointed Sudan's first...
View ArticleIran 'will try opposition leaders'
Iran's chief prosecutor has insisted that opposition leaders who ran in the disputed 2009 presidential election will be put on trial over anti-government protests that sparked widespread unrest in the...
View ArticleZimbabweans face South African boot
Zimbabweans who fled to South Africa to escape turmoil in their home country in 2008 have now had their amnesty status withdrawn by the South African government. Around 100,000 have filed for...
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