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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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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