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Senior Hamas officials said Monday that the Islamic militant group is still wrangling with Israel over the names of 50 prisoners it wants released in exchange for a captive Israeli soldier, signaling significant gaps in the way of an anticipated deal.
Washington, 2 December (WashingtonTV)—Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Tehran will itself enrich uranium up to 20 percent purity for its nuclear reactors.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel cannot do a “damn thing” to stop his country’s nuclear program. Ahmadinejad made the statement Wednesday in a televised speech, Reuters reported.
An American convicted of spying for Israel is reportedly proposing that Israel kill Hamas prisoners rather than swap them for a captive Israeli soldier.
by Rory McCarthy in Kobar From the tree-ringed campus of Birzeit University, a narrow road leads deep inside the rocky valleys of the West Bank to the small, unexceptional Palestinian village of Kobar. It is home to a few thousand people, dotted with a handful of schools and mosques. read more
"Positive Peace" is to identify which structures and institutions create and maintain peace. The GPI is a first step in this direction; the index is calculated on the basis of 23 indicators measuring conflicts, societal security and militarization. 2009 GPI was calculated before Iran's election, and Iran ranks as 99 out of 140 countries.
10 a.m.: 3 Mo’ Divas; Crossroads Theatre, 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. Also Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A classified report recommends that the European Union take steps to strengthen the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon's new government has endorsed Hezbollah's right to keep its weapons. The decision came Wednesday in a statement that lays out the government's goals for the next four years.
The Nation -- Is he lying to us? When President Obama talks about withdrawing US forces from Afghanistan in July, 2011, does he mean it? Or is that a clever ruse in order to blunt criticism from the left, and from congressional Democrats, of his decision to escalate the war?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected on Wednesday as "illegal" a U.N. nuclear watchdog resolution over the country's disputed nuclear activities, state television reported.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will enrich its uranium to a higher level in direct contravention to an international call to halt the process.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said there isn't a "damn thing" Israel can do to stop its nuclear program, Reuters reported.
Security and press freedom can coexist, with the free flow of information recognized as the best weapon against terrorism, international media experts argued in a...
Saudi Arabia's escalating war against rebels in neighboring Yemen elevates what had been a local insurrection against Sanaa into a conflict with regional dimensions that could ignite bigger fires in a part of the world that is already staring into the abyss.
Just plain nuts: That's the only possible characterization for last night's presidential declaration of surrender in advance of a renewed campaign in Afghanistan. President Obama will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan -- but he'll "begin the...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran warned on Tuesday that it will prosecute five British sailors if it is proven they had “bad intentions” when their 60-foot racing yacht entered its waters, in what Britain says was an innocent case of a vessel accidentally going astray in the Gulf.
As Iran appears to be lurching into confrontation with the United States once more, Tehran says it plans to launch a new communications satellite with no foreign help after Russia and Italy refused to send it into space.
Jerusalem - Violent confrontations broke out in the West Bank Wednesday, as Israeli settlers opposed to a 10-month construction halt in settlements, tried to prevent Defence Ministry officials from enforcing the freeze. A spokesman for the settlers s...
Iran policy expert Farideh Farhi will talk about the current political crisis in that country and its impact on U.S. policy at a special Cape Ann Forum lecture set for Sunday, Dec. 6, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Gloucester City Hall.
