After spending five “hellish” years in the notorious American detention center of Guantanamo, a young Moroccan plans to turn a new leaf. “I’m delighted to be back with my family and friends,” a visibly relieved Mohamed Benmoujane remarked. “I will go back to school which I quit years ago to …

Former world chess champion and Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov spoke today to a group of journalists at the Democracy and Security Conference in Prague. Kasparov is the leader of the opposition umbrella group Other Russia.

Osama bin Laden is alive and well and issuing orders to his commanders, says the new military leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera, Mansour Dadullah, whose brother led military operations for the Taliban until his death in May, said he has received a letter of …

Liderii PNL şi PNŢCD au semnat un acord de colaborare. Liberalii au continuat astăzi discuţiile cu ţărăniştii pentru formarea unui pol de centru-dreapta. Ieri, s-a încheiat un acord cu Alianţa Populară, condusă de Emil Constantinescu.

While it may take year before a state prison is in place in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the country must take urgent steps to deal with the shortcomings in its current detention system, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling said Friday (June 1st).

The youngest candidate and the one with the briefest party membership, Zoran Milanovic, is the new president of Croatia’s main opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP). He triumphed in the second round of voting at the extraordinary party convention on Saturday (June 2nd), winning 828 votes. His rival in the runoff, …

In a move aimed at creating a friendlier investment climate and making the economy more competitive, the Albanian government approved a fiscal package last week that includes implementing a 10% flat tax — the lowest level in Southeast Europe. Corporate taxes will also be slashed to 10%.

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AFP) — Top Democratic presidential hopefuls traded their sharpest barbs yet of the 2008 White House race, as differences over Iraq burst into the open during their second televised debate.

TEHRAN (AFP) — Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday warned that Iran was prepared “to pay a price” and “resist” to realise the aims of its contested nuclear programme amid an intensifying standoff with the West.

LONDON (AFP) — Israel has plunged the Palestinians into unprecedented levels of poverty and despair through 40 years of occupation, yet failed to ensure its own security, Amnesty International said Monday.