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Salon.com - 29 minutes ago
The key House Subcommittee Chair calls state secrets privilege "the greatest threat to liberty in this country."
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Strategy Page - 1 hour 34 minutes ago
November 10, 2009: For the last five years, satellite photos have shown continuing constructing of an underground bunker complex north of Damascus, Syria, This is believed to be the control center for the national air defense system.
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Strategy Page - 1 hour 34 minutes ago
November 10, 2009: Turkey has displayed the first of 200 Chinese B611 ballistic missiles, that it is building under license. The B611 is a two ton missiles with a half ton warhead and a range of 280 kilometers. The missile is carried, and launched, in an 8x8 cross country truck.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - 2 hours 3 minutes ago
DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Pharmaceutical Market: Israel" report to their offering.
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INO News - 2 hours 12 minutes ago
(RTTNews) - Ending a five-month cabinet deadlock following the June parliamentary elections, the Lebanon's prime minister-designate Saad Hariri annunced Monday night the formation of a new national unity cabinet.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 15 minutes ago
The Lebanese press on Tuesday welcomed Prime Minister Saad Hariri's new unity government but doubted he would be able to tackle the deep rifts between his camp and the rival Hezbollah-led opposition.
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Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - 2 hours 27 minutes ago
Asian Cup qualifying fixtures (times GMT).
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Tue Nov 10, 2:26 am ET
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- More than five months after holding parliamentary elections, Lebanon formed a new cabinet on Monday. The agreement ended a long period of gridlock that illustrated once again the myriad dysfunctions of the country's bitterly divided political class.
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The Record and Herald News - Tue Nov 10, 2:05 am ET
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran accused three detained Americans of spying Monday, signaling that Tehran intends to put them on trial. It drew a sharp U.S. response that the charges are baseless because the hikers strayed across the border from Iraq.
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Online Journal - Tue Nov 10, 12:56 am ET
The George W. Bush administration was the target of much criticism from human rights groups for, among other things, its policy of extraordinary rendition, in which detainees have been transferred for interrogation in other countries that are known for their use of torture.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Tue Nov 10, 12:27 am ET
WASHINGTON -- Three Americans who were arrested by Iranian border guards in late July after crossing into Iran from neighboring Iraq have been charged with espionage, a top Iranian prosecutor said yesterday.
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Washington Post - Tue Nov 10, 12:00 am ET
Three Americans who were arrested by Iranian border guards in late July after crossing into Iran from neighboring Iraq have been charged with espionage, a top Iranian prosecutor said Monday.
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9 News Denver - Mon Nov 9, 11:53 pm ET
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A senior Iranian prosecutor accused three Americans detained on the border with Iraq, including a man from Boulder, of espionage on Monday, the first signal that Tehran intends to put them on trial.
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Los Angeles Times - Mon Nov 9, 10:20 pm ET
The deadlock-ending accord divides power between U.S.-backed Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Hezbollah, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization. After a months-long deadlock, Lebanon's rival political camps agreed to a unity government that includes both American-backed Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim political party and militia that the United States considers ...
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New York Review of Books - Mon Nov 9, 6:04 pm ET
By Robert Malley The idea of Israeli-Palestinian partition, of a two-state solution, has a singular pedigree. It has been proposed for at least eight decades. Jews first accepted it as Palestinians recoiled; by the time Palestinians warmed to the notion in the late 1980s, Israelis had turned their backs. Still, its proponents manage to portray it as fresh, new, and capable of leading to peace ...