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07.03.2015 12:39
Saudi Arabia, growing increasingly nervous
about its neighbor across the Persian Gulf,
may be hedging its bets and crafting a nuclear
back-up plan if a diplomatic deal with Iran
fails to halt the Islamic Republic's alleged
march toward a weapon.
The latest sign is a curious visit on Wednesday
by...
07.03.2015 12:28
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private
server for her email account when
she was secretary of state will
expose her to a number of
questions with potentially
incriminating answers about the
mixture of public and private
business.
She will no doubt claim that she
considered the State Department
system...
07.03.2015 12:26
In the confrontation of Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
President Barack Obama, we are
seeing the consequences of the
long game Obama initiated right
in his inauguration six years ago:
"To those who cling to power
through corruption and deceit
and the silencing of dissent," he
declared,...
07.03.2015 12:18
Mahmoud Ramadam, a supporter of the
deposed leader and convicted of murder, was
hanged, the interior ministry says.
The charges related to an incident when
youths were thrown from a building in the city
of Alexandria.
Mass trials and a crackdown on Islamists and
the Muslim Brotherhood followed Mr...
06.03.2015 16:40
Christopher Barry, 53, was stabbed in the
chest at his home in The Broadway,
Edmonton on 14 December.
He had argued with a group of youths trying
to get into a party at a flat in the block where
he lived. He was followed into the building
and attacked, the Old Bailey heard.
The boy, who cannot be...
05.03.2015 15:28
Benjamin Netanyahu's
speech in front of U.S. Congress was never
intended to reach an audience in Iran, but it
certainly did.
While Iranian media outlets did not show it
live, many people said they would seek out
what the Israeli Prime Minister had to say
because the negotiations with world...
05.03.2015 15:08
A group of
Afghan men marched
through the capital,
Kabul, on Thursday to
draw attention to
women's rights by
donning head-to-toe
burqas that for many
people worldwide have
come to symbolise the
suppression of women.
The hardline Taliban
forced women to wear
burqas in public during
their rule in...
05.03.2015 14:55
Israel is embarking
on a five-year mission to stake its claim on a
crowded new frontier, the $250 billion a year
commercial space market.
Using the expertise of a defense industry that
created technology such as the "Iron Dome"
missile interceptor, Israel plans to move
beyond its current focus on...
05.03.2015 14:50
The notion that Israelis and
Palestinians can share the Holy
Land living in separate,
independent nations has been a
seductive goal for eight
decades. The vision has driven
on-and-off peace talks for 21
years. The latest round
foundered in April 2014, giving
way to a growing sentiment
that the...
05.03.2015 14:47
Japan’s salarymen
are famous for their long-hours culture.
There’s even a word — karoshi — for death by
overwork. Why hasn’t that translated into
higher wages?
Headline unemployment is at an enviably low
3.6 percent and corporate profits are strong.
The trouble is that substantial...