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By Robert Weller It’s not likely that a lopsided U.S. House of Representatives vote repudiating his findings on violent acts committed in Gaza by Israel will send Justice Richard Goldstone running for cover. This life-time supporter of Israel, himself an...

Nov. 3, 2009, guided by the intelligence from Israeli Intelligence Agency--the Mossad, Israeli navy intercepted the Antigua-flagged 8,622 tonne ship Francop in the Mediterranean Sea, 100 miles from Israel and found on board 300 tons of Iranian ammunition including anti-tank...

We just marked the Iran hostage crisis 30 years later as in Iran the thirty year anniversary of the storming of the US Embassy and the capture of 54 hostages brought the standard death to America crowd burning American flags....

A judge ordered Friday to refer former French president Jacques Chirac to trial on suspicion of involvement in the granting of fake jobs to political allies in the municipality of Paris when he was mayor from 1977 to 1995 The...

On the political stage, a short period of five months might as well be an eternity. As the world turns on its axis, events least expected can and often do happen, and spin out of control; and carefully laid out...

Stunned Muslims were trying to understand Friday why a normally soft-spoken Army officer who served on his local mosque's charity committee allegedly fatally shot 13 people at the sprawling Fort Hood military base in Texas. Officials at the copper-domed Muslim...

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Tuesday performed funeral prayers along with a large number of princes, officials and citizens for Princess Haya bint Abdul Aziz, who died on Monday. The funeral prayers were held at Imam...

It was impossible even to speculate [that this was going on]," said Moshe Avitan, who lost his sight in a terror attack earlier this year. "We are in a state of shock, from the mere thought of it. The family...

Palestinians reacted with concern over the Sunday comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton supported Israel's position calling for the resumption of negotiations without stopping settlement. presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP that "the U.S. administration backtracked...

Another PLO official said Abbas will give a speech later on Thursday explaining his decision not to run. (Reuters)