U.S. screenwriter accuses Mel Gibson of hating Jews, denying Holocaust
A Hollywood screenwriter has accused actor and director Mel Gibson of hating Jews and denying the holocaust after a planned film about the 2nd century BC Jewish revolt was scrapped, a Hollywood blog...
View ArticleKofi Annan says Syria has not fully complied with ceasefire peace plan
United Nations-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan told the Security Council on Thursday that Syria has not fully complied with the terms of his peace plan and urged the 15-nation body to demand the...
View ArticleIraq to aid Libya in destroying chemical weapons
Iraq has accepted a request from Libya to provide assistance in disposing of Tripolis chemical weapons, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement released on Thursday. The Iraqi...
View ArticleSarkozy, Obama call on Iran to hold serious nuclear talks at Istanbul meeting
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and U.S. President Barack Obama urged Iran on Thursday to take upcoming nuclear talks seriously and suspend sensitive atomic activities. They called on Iran to seize...
View ArticleInternational concerns mount over adamant North Korea rocket launch
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged North Korea against going ahead with a planned rocket launch as the North showed no signs of abandoning what the U.S. and its allies consider an...
View ArticleEgypts parliament bars Mubarak-era officials from presidency bid
Egypts parliament approved an amendment on Thursday to a law that would ban members of ousted president Hosni Mubaraks regime from standing for public office. The legislation will ban a move which...
View ArticleEgypts IMF deal imminent but Brotherhood says no agreement reached
The Egyptian government has swung the ball back in the Muslim Brotherhoods court in the tennis match that is Egypts wrangling over an International Monetary Fund financing package. Finance Minister...
View ArticlePakistan parliament backs recommendations on U.S. ties
Pakistans parliament on Thursday unanimously approved recommendations from its national security committee on ties with the United States, including a demand to end drone strikes. Action on the...
View ArticleMadonna happy that Banda is Malawis new president
Madonna says shes happy that Malawis former vice president is now leading the country. Joy Banda became president Saturday and is the countrys first women leader. Former president Bingu wa Mutharika...
View ArticleAs Iran talks near, leaders try to divine supreme leaders intent
When U.S. officials join talks this weekend about Irans nuclear program, they will be armed with profiles developed by intelligence agencies offering insight into what makes foreign leaders tick. One...
View ArticleSyrias Foreign Minister accuses Turkey of plotting attack on camps in letter to
In a letter addressed to the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Syrias Foreign Minister Walid Muallem wrote that the latest attacks on the Syrian-Turkish borders were part of the plot conducted by the...
View ArticleG8 bloc urges resolutions to Syria, Iran, North Korea
At a critical time in international diplomacy, the worlds leading industrialized democracies on Thursday demanded that Syria comply with all portions of a U.N.-backed plan to end more than a year of...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia determined to bring down oil prices: Naimi
Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is determined to bring down high oil prices and is working with fellow OPEC members to accomplish that, Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on Friday. Brent crude has risen...
View ArticleIran sees nuke talks leaning their way
Irans envoys are heading for nuclear talks with confidence that the chips are falling their way. It could be dismissed as just political theatrics for the world powers that Iran will face in Istanbul...
View ArticleBollywood actor detained at U.S. airport, again
Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan was detained at a New York airport for over two hours by immigration officials after arriving on a private plan from India to address students of Ivy League college,...
View ArticleDefying ban, Egyptian Christians visit Jerusalem
After the death of their spiritual leader, more than 2,000 Egyptian Copts have poured into the Holy Land for the Easter holidays, defying a ban he imposed on visiting Jerusalem and other...
View ArticleProtests and reported clashes to test U.N. ceasefire in Syria
Syrias opposition has called for major protests on Friday, as skirmishes between troops and rebels tested a shaky ceasefire to end a 13-month crackdown on dissent that has killed thousands. After the...
View ArticleModerate Islamist runs on middle ground in Egypt
It was a simple gesture: About a decade ago, Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh, a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, took a pen as a present to Egypts most famous novelist and Nobel laureate on his 92nd...
View ArticleTerrorist state must not take root in Mali: Sarkozy
A terrorist state must not be allowed to take root in Africas Sahel region, where rebels and Islamists have seized the northern half of Mali, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday. Everything...
View ArticleBlack widow sentenced to death in Japan
A Japanese black widow that killed three men after dating them for their money was sentenced to death on Friday in a case known by the name of the female spider that eats its partner after mating....
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