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May Musharraf Escape Treason?
Pakistani politicians are faltering in their resolve to prosecute General Pervez Musharraf for high treason. Under Article 6 of the Pakistan constitution, "any person who abrogates or subverts or...
View ArticleGOP Will Find a Way to Blame President Obama on Ukraine Jet Downing
The monstrous downing of a Malaysian jet liner apparently by Russian backed separatists in the Ukraine did something that few thought could happen. It has gotten GOP leaders momentarily to agree with...
View ArticleSustainable Development: An Agenda for India
Over the next 18 months, the world is set to witness three major international events that could be potentially game-changing in efforts aimed at addressing global warming. The first would be the UN...
View ArticleDavid Cameron: Russia To Blame Over Malaysia Airlines Crash If Rebels...
LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday that if it were proven that Ukrainian separatists were behind the downing of a Malaysian jet carrying 298 passengers,...
View ArticlePro-Palestinian Protesters And French Police Clash Amid Gaza Conflict
PARIS (AP) — Police clashed on Saturday with thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters who defied a ban on a Paris demonstration over the Israeli offensive in Gaza. More than 30 people were arrested and...
View ArticleU.S. Intel Points To Russian-Rebel Missile Connection In Malaysia Airlines...
New U.S. intelligence assessments indicate that Moscow likely provided pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine with sophisticated antiaircraft systems in recent days, matching evidence put forward by...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines Crash Site May Have Been Compromised By Rebels
HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — International monitors moved gingerly Saturday through fields reeking of the decomposing corpses that fell from a Malaysian airliner shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine,...
View ArticleTomb Painting Of Egyptian Priest, Perseneb, Discovered Near Great Pyramid Of...
The tomb of Perseneb, a man described by inscriptions as a "priest" and a "steward," was first excavated in 1996, but it wasn't until 2012 that scientists noticed a painting preserved on a wall in the...
View ArticleIsrael Expands Gaza Ground Offensive With No Sign Of Truce
* Palestinians say 345 killed in fighting; 7 Israelis dead * Israel says half of Hamas's rockets used or destroyed * U.N.'s Ban to meet Abbas in Qatar, tour region in truce bid (Adds military says...
View ArticleGaza Attack: At Least 40 Palestinians Killed By Israeli Shelling On Sunday,...
GAZA/JERUSALEM, July 20 (Reuters) - At least 40 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled toward a...
View ArticleUkraine: Rebels Took All Bodies From Plane Crash
HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and then had them loaded onto refrigerated train cars bound for...
View ArticleJohn Kerry To Go To Cairo To Push Israel, Hamas Ceasefire
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is heading back to the Middle East as the Obama administration attempts to bolster regional efforts to reach a ceasefire and sharpens its criticism of...
View ArticleUN: Iran Turns Nuclear Material Into More Harmless Forms
VIENNA (AP) — The United Nations says Iran has turned all enriched uranium closest to the level needed to make nuclear arms into more harmless forms. Tehran had committed to the move under an agreement...
View ArticleMH17 and the Long Term Costs of Russia's Ukraine Incursion
Policymakers, especially policymakers who have never seen action, are often seduced by covert operations. They see them as the perfect policy instrument: cheap, deniable, effective. Yes, there can be...
View ArticleThe Disgustingly Predictable Death Game of Hamas
The saddest part is the predictability of it all. The death stench is a deja vu of a deja vu that made you physically ill the first time around. At some point, children always pay the price with their...
View ArticleU.S.-Africa Leaders' Summit: Let's Ensure It's on the Positive Side of History
If you are an Africa-hand, activist or development partner, you are either directly or indirectly involved with the upcoming Washington, D.C. August 4-6, 2014, U.S.-Africa Leaders' Summit....
View ArticleU.S. Presses Case Against Russia On Downed Jet
By Anton Zverev and Matt Spetalnick HRABOVE, Ukraine/WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the...
View ArticleThe Explosive, Inside Story of How John Kerry Built an Israel-Palestine Peace...
At around noon on March 20 last year, Air Force One landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport for Barack Obama’s first presidential visit to Israel.
View ArticleIsrael's U.N. Ambassador Says No Israeli Soldier Was Kidnapped In Gaza
UNITED NATIONS, July 20 (Reuters) - Israel's U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor said on Sunday there was no kidnapped Israeli soldier, dismissing a televised announcement in the Gaza Strip from Hamas's armed...
View ArticleMideast Conflict: Palestinian Death Toll In Gaza Fighting Tops 500
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N. chief and the U.S. secretary of state headed to Cairo on Monday to try to end two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting that has killed at least 508 Palestinians and 20...
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