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UN worried by Temple Mount clashes

UN worried by Temple Mount clashes

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 [...]

Gordon Brown visits Afghanistan amid Iraq inquiry row

Gordon Brown visits Afghanistan amid Iraq inquiry row

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 [...]

Turkey: Why ‘Armenian genocide’ resolution may hurt US interests

Turkey: Why ‘Armenian genocide’ resolution may hurt US interests

Those watching the mounting US-Turkey tensions over a congressional committee’s resolution recognizing the Armenian ‘genocide’ could be forgiven for feeling a sense of déjà vu.
A committee passed a similar resolution in 2007, leading Turkey to recall its ambassador to Washington – something it did again after the resolution passed yesterday – and warn of a [...]

Gordon Brown admits Iraq regrets at inquiry

Gordon Brown admits Iraq regrets at inquiry

Gordon Brown insisted today that the decision to go to war in Iraq had been the right one and taken “for the right reasons” but said that he regretted some failures in planning for the aftermath of the invasion.
Beginning a day’s testimony to the Chilcot inquiry, the Prime Minister said that as Chancellor he had [...]

Ukraine election: Tymoshenko will challenge result say supporters

Ukraine election: Tymoshenko will challenge result say supporters

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 [...]

U.S. wants sanctions in weeks; embassies stoned

U.S. wants sanctions in weeks; embassies stoned

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 [...]

U.S. defense chief downplays possibility of Iran nuclear deal

U.S. defense chief downplays possibility of Iran nuclear deal

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. [...]

‘Iran will be judged by actions’

‘Iran will be judged by actions’

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 [...]

U.S. arms sales to Taiwan stifle US-China military engagement

U.S. arms sales to Taiwan stifle US-China military engagement

Twelve months of friendly American diplomatic overtures and weeks of private warnings were not enough. Since Washington announced last week a $6.4 billion weapons sale to Taiwan, an island Beijing regards as a renegade province, China has vented its anger just as fiercely as ever.
Deflating United States hopes that this time it would be different, [...]

Iran slams US missile deployment plan in Gulf

Iran slams US missile deployment plan  in Gulf

TEHRAN — Parliament speaker Ali Larijani Tuesday slammed plans by the US to beef up defences in the Gulf against potential Iranian missile attacks, insisting the Islamic republic is no threat to its neighbours.
“America’s new puppet show for protecting and implementing security in the region is nothing but a new political trick to pave the [...]

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