The United Nations Security Council expressed concern overnight Friday after Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian rioters, Israel Radoio reported.
Israel has crossed every red line and made prospects for peace even dimmer in clashing with Muslim worshipers on the Temple Mount, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in a statement released Friday evening.
Abbas said Israeli security [...]
The heavily criticized Snatch Land Rover is to be replaced with 200 new patrol vehicles in Afghanistan to protect troops from booby-traps, it was revealed as Gordon Brown paid a surprise visit to the war-torn country.
News of a £118 million investment in new vehicles and equipment for came after former commanders accused the Prime Minister [...]
At least 16 people have been killed in storms that have lashed parts of Spain, Portugal and France.
Winds of up to 140km/h (87mph) caused chaos as they moved from Portugal up through the Bay of Biscay.
Twelve people have died in France and three in Spain as well as a 10-year-old boy in Portugal.
The storm is [...]
CONCEPCION, Chile, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Chilean rescuers used shovels and sledgehammers on Sunday to find survivors of a huge earthquake in Chile that unleashed a Pacific tsunami and triggered looting by desperate and hungry residents.
Saturday’s quake, one of the most powerful in a century, killed more than 300 people and devastated homes and highways, [...]
KABUL, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — The dreadful attack in Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, which left over a dozen civilians including a few Indian nationals dead, has exposed multiple factors above all the security lapse.
In the shocking incident for which Taliban outfit claimed responsibility, 15 civilians including nine Indians were killed and 32 others sustained [...]
Reporting from Bogota, Colombia – The death toll is expected to rise from a devastating earthquake that struck Chile early Saturday morning and President Michelle Bachelet declared parts of her country catastrophe zones.
Interior Minister Edmundo Perez Yoma told reporters at a midday news conference that the magnitude 8.8 quake with an epicenter 60 miles offshore [...]
Yulia Tymoshenko, left, and Viktor YanukovychUkraine’s prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, was today under pressure to concede defeat in the country’s presidential election after international observers hailed Sunday’s poll as fair and “truly competitive”.
Observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said there were no indications of serious fraud and described the vote [...]
TEHRAN (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Tuesday that the United States wanted a U.N. Security Council resolution “within weeks” to tackle Iran’s nuclear programme as Iran said it had begun making higher-grade nuclear fuel.
The Islamic Republic, which denies its programme has military aims, defied the international community by announcing on Sunday that it would [...]
Robert Gates
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says if Iran is serious about accepting the international offer that could end the dispute over its nuclear program, it should do so soon, and through official channels. Gates was speaking to reporters in Ankara, in response to a statement by Iran’s foreign minister at a conference in Germany. [...]
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle
Iran will be judged by actions, not words, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told Deutschlandfunk radio on Friday morning, in an interview communicated by the Reuters news agency.
“For the past two years, Iran has repeatedly bluffed and played tricks … it has played for time,” he said, stressing that “we in [...]
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