JERUSALEM- Israel on Tuesday starts celebrating the anniversary of what it calls Jerusalem's unification , its 1967 conquest of the city's Arab sector which has since become a major hurdle in peace...
LONDON, Katherine Haddon- Gordon Brown dreamed of being British prime minister for decades but only managed to keep the job for three years, fatally flawed by an awkward personal style which made him...
JERUSALEM, Patrick Moser- Newly launched, US-brokered peace efforts hit a snag on Monday as Israel vowed settlement building would continue in east Jerusalem, infuriating the Palestinians who...
BEIRUT- The second round of Lebanon's municipal elections took place on Sunday in Beirut and the Bekaa region, respectively dominated by Prime Minister Saad Hariri and the Shiite party Hezbollah....
JERUSALEM, Gavin Rabinowitz- Cracks quickly appeared in a newly relaunched peace process on Sunday just hours after the start of US-mediated indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks, as Washington warned...
GAZA CITY- Ismail Haniya, the head of the Islamist Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, has written twice to US President Barack Obama but has not received a reply, a Hamas spokesman said on Sunday....
PARIS, Roland Lloyd Parry- Wandering around a Paris craft shop one day in 1989, Shigeru Ban came across a Chinese bamboo hat. Picking it up, the Japanese architect was intrigued by its design.
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LONDON, Robin Millard- Britain's opposition leaders Saturday held their first face-to-face talks on thrashing out a pact to enter government and end the political deadlock left by the general...
BEIRUT- A military prosecutor has requested the death penalty for an army officer accused of spying for Israel, a judicial official said on Saturday.
Ghazwan Eid Shahin is the third Lebanese army...
WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the US Senate blocked a Democratic attempt Friday to confirm his nominee to be ambassador to Syria, amid an election-year feud over policy...
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