Human Rights are universal, yet it is patently obvious that their implementation is very selective. Israel claims to be a democracy but more closely resembles apartheid, argues Moammar Mashni.
ABC's Afghanistan correspondent Sally Sara is returning to Oz to work as a rural affairs reporter. But first she bids farewell to Afghanistan, a country where she lives in a compound yet still encounters its famous hospitality.
Crikey media wrap: Long queues snaked through Cairo and other Egyptian cities yesterday as its citizens voted in elections for the first time since the disposal of dictator Hosni Mubarak.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen yesterday signed an agreement to relinquish power to a government of national unity that will prepare for early elections, in return for which he has been promised immunity from prosecution.
Uncertainty continues to grip Egypt this morning, with demonstrators massed in Tahrir Square apparently unappeased by the regime's response to the weekend's violence.
Crikey media wrap: Promises that the military junta would bring forward national elections was not enough to calm the 100,000 protesters in Tahrir Square and across Egypt.
Egyptians head to the polls in a week.But a loss of faith in this first vote could tarnish the rest of the reform process.
With reports of up to 13 dead in Cairo over the weekend, alongside the controversial role the army played in the sectarian clashes last month, the army’s reputation as protectors of the people is eroding, writes Dr Benjamin MacQueen.
Iit was inevitable that Australia, in the absence of tough-minded governments, would eventually come to host a US military base, writes Bruce Haigh, a political and strategic analyst and retired diplomat
The Free Syrian Army, a group consisting mainly of Syrian army deserters and numbering between 1000-25,000 people (depending who you ask) is growing in power and numbers against President Bashar al-Assad.
