No English, Gambia decides

      Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan (front R) welcomes Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh upon arrival at the Abuja International Conference Center, venue of Nigeria’s centenary celebration, on February 27, 2014. (Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde)   THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published — Monday 10 March 2014 Last update 10 March 2014 5:01 am […]

Joint Arab push to crush terror urged

      Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal attends the opening of an Arab foreign ministers emergency meeting to discuss the Syrian crisis and President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Sunday. (Reuters)   CAIRO: ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 10 March 2014 […]

Western leaders cannot face a ‘looming’ war. So I guess they’ll patch something up – and let Russia gobble part of Ukraine – The Russkies are not going to be shaking in their boots at sanctions

BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT     Share 182 85  4   For some reason, our last century’s two world wars started rather far from home. I bet that most people in January 1914 couldn’t find Sarajevo on a map. But then again, how many of us – really, I […]