|
| How You Speak - By Huda Biuk |
|
|
You’re sitting in a traditional Libyan gathering, sipping red tea and served an array of date-filled and sugar-powdered sweets. The conversations in the room overlap and though it is hard to focus on one in specific, the overall sound has a unique order t |
|
|
|
|
| Palestinian Hunger Strike Deal Reached |
|
|
About 2,000 prisoners who were on hunger strike have agreed on a deal with Israel to end their fast in return for an easing of their conditions. The deal was reached through Egyptian mediation, the Palestinian militant groups and a prisoners' support grou |
|
|
|
|
| UN Peacekeepers Wounded in DR Congo |
|
|
Eleven UN peacekeepers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were wounded Monday, two of them critically, after villagers opened fire on the troops, a UN spokesman in Kinshasa, Monodje Mounoubai has said. |
|
|
|
|
| 23 Soldiers Killed in Syrian Clashes |
|
|
At least 23 Syrian soldiers died in fierce clashes between regime forces and armed rebels in central Syria on Monday, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported. Dozens more were wounded as three troop carriers were destroyed in the clashes. |
|
|
|
|
| A New Column in the Tripoli Post: The Bifocal - By Huda Biuk |
|
|
The Tripoli Post is happy to introduce a new Opinion column that will explore the cultural, societal, and sometimes political aspects that make up Libyan society today. From a perspective of a full-blooded Libyan who is experiencing what it means to live |
|
|
|
|
| 49 Dismembered Bodies Dumped on Mexico Highway |
|
|
Forty-nine headless, dismembered bodies were found in Mexico Sunday along a stretch of highway. They were stuffed into plastic bags and dumped on a highway on the edge of the town of San Juan on a road that connects the northern city of Monterrey. |
|
|
|
|
| Saluting our 'Ladies with the Lamp' - By Prashant Bhatt |
|
|
12th May is the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, who is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern Nursing. Another is from former Yugoslavia but Tripoli is home to her, a place where she lived and worked for 33 years. Still nursing is one |
|
|
|
|
| No Breakthrough in Greece Coalition as Crisis Deepens |
|
|
The Greek political party leaders emerged late Sunday from emergency cabinet talks with no breakthrough in sight, particularly after the moderate Democratic Left party's rejection to join pro-bailout parties in a coalition without the more radical far lef |
|
|
|
|
| JPMorgan Chase Top Executives Set to 'Resign” |
|
|
Three high-ranking executives at JPMorgan Chase & Co. - the biggest in the United States by assets - are expected to resign this week following $2bn of losses at the bank's London trading desk. They are not only reportedly involved with a failed hedging |
|
|
|
|
| HRW Urges NATO to Investigate Civilian Deaths in Libya in 2011 |
|
|
Leading human rights organisation Human Rights Watch, HRW, has urged NATO to investigate fully dozens of civilian casualtis from air strikes in Libya during last year's campaign that eventually helped the Libyan people to oust Muammar Gaddafi from power a |
|
|
|
|
|
|
