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Police starts crackdown on `Malaysian Spring` ahead of polls


Ahead of Sunday`s General Elections, Malaysian police on Saturday identified a group trying to organ...

Kerry seeks speedy fix for Turkish-Israeli ties


US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Turkey to speedily restore full diplomatic relations with Isr...

Russia starts spring draft


The Russian armed forces are expecting to call up 153,200 conscripts for military service in the ann...

China: 49 killed in different accidents amid festival rush


Four road accidents in past two days have claimed at least 49 lives in China, amid country`s Spring ...

Chinese bloggers launch hitchhiking programme


Six Chinese bloggers have launched a "ride-share" hitchhiking programme to ease the burden of holida...

`Protest against Delhi gang-rape India`s Arab Spring`


The popular protest across the India against the brutal gang-rape case of a 23-year-old medical stud...

Gulf cannot `tolerate` unrest: Saudi official


A senior Saudi official says Gulf Arab states must quash any Arab Spring-inspired unrest or risk thr...

Obama exploiting Arab Spring in campaign: Assange


Assange and his supporters claim that the Swedish sex case is part of a US plot to make him stand tr...

`Freedom gained during Arab Spring uprising under threat`


Democratic governance declined throughout the world in 2011, showing that gains made in the Middle E...

Bahraini activist sentenced to prison; HR groups condemns


Human rights groups have condemned the three-year jail sentence handed down to a prominent Bahraini ...

Is it the beginning of the end in Syria?


There is little doubt that Syria has descended into civil war.

Bashir says no Arab Spring in Sudan


Bashir has dismissed opposition calls for an Arab Spring style uprising in the African country, sayi...

‘There is no Arab Spring in Sudan’


Tourism Minister Hassabo Abdel-Rahman described the protests as "normal." He was speaking during a v...

‘Qaeda tapping Arab Spring nations for training’


Middle East is once again turning a hub for terrorist activities as British would-be jihadists are h...

Mubarak gets uniform, prisoner number in jail


Hosni Mubarak began his life sentence in a prison hospital with a freshly assigned prisoner number a...

Mubarak refuses food, medicine in prison


Former Egyptian prez has declined food and medicine since being taken to a prison after a court sent...

‘We don`t seek to export democracy in Mideast’


As a country where the Arab Spring began, Tunisia is not keen to "export" it to the region but canno...

`Conflicts uprooted 3.5 million people in 2011`


Internally displaced people are identified as those who have been forced to flee within the borders ...

Gandhi inspired Arab Spring: Yemeni Nobel laureate


Yemenese Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman said that Mahatma Gandhi has been an inspiration f...

Yemen`s Saleh lists new condition for leaving


Ali Abdullah Saleh said 10 of his rivals among the country`s top military commanders, politicians an...

UN extends political mission in Libya


The UN Security Council on Monday voted unanimously to extend its political mission in Libya.

Hillary warns of Arab Spring backsliding


Hillary called on Tunisians, particularly the young, to demand that their new leaders stay on the pa...

Bahrain King promises expanded Parliament powers


Bahrain`s main Shi’ite groups have withdrawn from Parliament and boycotted reform talks.

Tunisia marks year after Ben Ali ouster


Tunisia marked the flight into exile a year ago of the north African country`s despot Zine El Abidi...

Britain will work with newly-elected Islamic govts


British Foreign Secretary William Hague today pledged to support governments elected in the wake o...

Mideast govts fail to see scale of change: Amnesty


Reform movements showed no sign of flagging despite bloodshed on the streets and arrests last year, ...

UN chief to focus on sustaining Arab Spring


UN chief, Ban Ki-moon said one of his top priorities is to help Arab countries sustain their moves t...

Saudi`s Prince Alwaleed buys stake in Twitter


Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an investor in some of the world`s top companies, on Mo...

Want to run for Yemen Prez but can`t: Nobel winner


Karman, 32, is first ever Arab woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and is a leading figure in Yemen`s A...

Catalysts for peace: 3 women receive Nobel Prize


The peace prize committee recognized the three women for championing women`s rights in regions where...

`Arab Spring will lead to long, cold Arab Winter`


Israeli security experts say that Egypt and Tunisia will be Islamist states, while Iraq and Yemen, c...

Islamists and secularists in Tunisia stand-off


Thousands of Tunisian Islamists and secularists staged parallel protests outside the interim Parliam...

Emerging Arab Islamists look to `Turkish model`


Islamists from Egypt to Morocco are reaping the rewards of new democratic freedoms brought by the Ar...

UAE sentences activists to jail for insulting lead


The UAE has seen none of the public protests that have swept Arab countries over the last 10 months.

Moroccans hold Arab Spring-inspired election


A moderate Islamist party and a pro-palace coalition are expected to do well in the voting.

Google quits plans to make cheap renewable energy


Google Inc has abandoned an ambitious project to make renewable energy cheaper than coal, the latest...

Kuwait emir slams opposition, says PM will not go


Kuwait`s emir denounced as a black day the storming of Parliament last Wednesday.

Tunisia coalition government to be formed in days


Tunisia became the birth-place of the "Arab Spring" uprisings when it ousted its president this year...

Islamists claim win in Tunisia`s Arab Spring vote


The Ennahda party said its workers had tallied the figures from results posted at polling stations a...

Enthusiasm builds for Tunisia`s 1st free elections


Tunisia`s revolution set off a series of similar uprisings across Middle East that are now being cal...

Iran calls Wall Street protests `American Spring`


The Occupy Wall Street movement is peacefully protesting the power of the financial and political se...

UN summit acclaims Arab Spring leaders


Libya and Egypt brought the Arab Spring to the annual UN summit on Saturday hailing the changes in t...

9/11 paved way for Arab Spring: Al Qaeda chief


In the messages, the al Qaeda leadership urged Arabs to replace toppled regimes with Islamic rule. ...

Al Qaeda now `increasingly irrelevant`: Britain


The Arab Spring popular uprisings have shown al Qaeda is increasingly irrelevant, William Hague said...

Bahrain tensions grow amid stronger protest calls


Mourners gathered in a Shiite village in another part of Bahrain for a 14-year-old boy they claim w...

West cannot `confiscate` Arab Spring: Iran leader


Iran has tried to walk two paths since the pro-democracy rebellions began in February.

Turkey has `lost confidence in Syrian regime`


Turkey has warned Syria that it could become the Arab Spring`s next casualty.

Egypt: 140 hurt in clashes, rulers promise reforms


Thousands of demonstrators fought opponents with stones on their march to the Defence Ministry.

Won’t talk with rebels, rules Muammar Gaddafi


Libyan leader`s ruling casts doubt on a flurry of Western efforts to negotiate an end to a conflict.

Thousands rally in Morocco over reform plan


Thousands of supporters and opponents of constitutional changes offered by Morocco`s King protested.