For Israel, the risk that Syria President Bashar Assad would undermine calm of northern border less threatening than prospect of him toppled; Israel blames Assad and Iran for border infiltration on Nakba Day.
AP May 11: In this image made from Libyan TV, Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi holds a meeting with tribal leaders from eastern Libya.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The shock arrest of the head of the International Monetary Fund may force the world's power brokers into a frantic search to find his replacement.
Wall Street Journal - 2 hours ago
DAMASCUS—The Syrian government, stuck in a stalemate with protesters, also is facing the longer-term challenge of keeping the country's already creaky economy from collapsing.
TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday that the government will submit a plan on Tuesday for dealing with the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Swiss voters rejected proposals to ban assisted suicide and so-called "suicide tourism" yesterday in a referendum which permits British citizens and other foreign nationals to continue visiting the country to obtain help in ending ...
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - At least 27 people were found dead in a Guatemalan village near the border with Mexico Sunday morning in one of the worst mass killings in the country in a generation, local police said.
Aljazeera.net - 8 hours ago
Nabil Elaraby confirmed as organisation's leader after last minute diplomacy left him as the only candidate in the race. Egypt's foreign minister has been confirmed as the Arab League's next chief, after last minute diplomacy left him as the only ...
Sydney Morning Herald - 26 minutes ago
A man randomly attacks and beheads a British woman in a supermarket on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Xinhua - 1 hour ago
TUNIS, May 15 (Xinhua) -- NATO planes on Sunday morning bombed barracks and radar installations in the Libyan town of Boukamache, some 17 km from the Tunisian border, the official TAP press agency reported.
The Associated Press - 4 hours ago
SYDNEY (AP) - A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
Lee Kuan Yew, chairman of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp. Photographer: Munshi Ahmed/Bloomberg The political party that has ruled Singapore since independence in 1965 is seeking to overhaul its ...
CNN - 43 minutes ago
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- A growing internet photo trend is to blame for the death of a 20-year-old Australian man, police in Queensland said Sunday, warning other fans of the dangers surrounding "planking.
By TRENTON DANIEL AP © 2011 The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti's new president wants a business leader to serve as his prime minister, a government official said Sunday.
In a dangerous region, John Kerry emerges as America's unofficial peacemaker. Next stop: Secretary of State? Sen. John Kerry was at home in Washington when he first got word that Osama bin Laden was dead.
BBC News - 2 hours ago
Bereaved relatives and survivors of bombings in Dublin and Monaghan in the 1970s have written an open letter to the Queen ahead of her Ireland visit.
TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came under new pressure Sunday, as an influential cleric charged that he has been “bewitched” by a controversial senior aide and key lawmakers renewed their impeachment threat.
Times of India - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON: Two weeks after Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, the US government is divided over the future of its ties with Pakistan, with some officials advocating "strong reprisals" if Islamabad refuses to cooperate in the war on terror, ...
Sydney Morning Herald - 1 hour ago
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she will continue to talk about jobs and opportunity, despite two new polls showing a dive in her popularity and Labor's stocks.
CAIRO - Muslims and Coptic Christians clashed with bullets, rocks and Molotov cocktails here for the second time in seven days on Saturday night, sending at least 55 people to the hospital, officials with Egypt's Interior ...
