01 Oct
Events of Interest and Analyses, A Foreign Perspective
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Syrian forces shell rebels in east Damascus
Meanwhile, reports from northern Syria that an army bombardment has killed 12 people, including five children.
Last Modified: 01 Oct 2012 12:21 GMT
Middle East
Bahrain court upholds verdict in medics trialNine medics arrested during last year’s pro-democracy uprising lose their final appeal and could now face jail time.
Last Modified: 01 Oct 2012 11:33 GMT
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Deadly bombing in eastern Afghanistan
Suicide bomber wearing police uniform kills 14 in Khost, including at least four police and three foreign soldiers.
Last Modified: 01 Oct 2012 11:33 GMT
Iraq sees deadliest month in over two years
September was the deadliest month in more than two years as 365 people died in nationwide attacks, officials say.
Last Modified: 01 Oct 2012 11:25 GMT
Middle East
Roma targeted in French city
Advocates mobilise support for Europe’s stateless people blamed for a series of local burglaries.
Advocates for Roma in France are calling for international protests to support the ethnic minority, two days after a group of residents in the southern city of Marseille expelled about 50 Roma from their camp and burned the site…….
Scorecard: Obama’s presidency
Al Jazeera staff 01 Oct 2012 10:06 GMT
Al Jazeera fact checks to what extent the US president has lived up to his 2008 campaign promises.
Chavez rattled by heart-throb rival
Venezuela goes to the polls a week today, and a charismatic young leader is poised to end the President’s 14-year rule
The crowds are bigger, his speeches slicker, and Venezuela’s young opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, is on a roll in a final, frenzied push to end President Hugo Chavez’s socialist rule. With just one week left before the Opec nation’s presidential election, the 40-year-old state governor is whipping up crowds like never before, creeping up in the polls and becoming increasingly aggressive in his attacks on Chavez’s policies……………….
Eric Hobsbawm brought to life lost voices and placed reality centre stage
Hobsbawm was not only one of Marxism’s finest scholars, he was an Enlightenment giant whose passing leaves us all poorer
Eric Hobsbawm, who has died aged 95 Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
In the foothills of Hampstead Heath, where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels used to take their afternoon strolls, stands the home of Eric and Marlene Hobsbawm. To enter the Nassington Road drawing room for a conversation with Hobsbawm was to be transported back to the great ideological struggles of the extreme 20th century. Here was where ideas mattered, history had a purpose, and politics was important. And one could have no more generous, humane, rigorous, and involved a guide than the late Eric Hobsbawm………
