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The Palestinian Authority religious affairs minster is warning of war if Jerusalem is not "returned" to "its owners".
Benjamin Netanyahu has reassured his right-wing Likud bloc in Israel’s ruling coalition that he will not bow to territorial concessions in direct peace talks with the Palestinians.
There are reports that Israel will receive an arms package as compensation from the United States in the event that it reaches a peace agreement with the Palestinians that entails significant concessions.
Iran will target Israel's Dimona reactor in a retaliatory attack if the Islamic regime is hit by an Israeli or US air strike, a Iranian official told the Arabic-language newspaper Asharq al-Awsat on Monday.
Four Israelis -- including a pregnant woman -- were killed in a shooting near Hebron in the West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli medical sources and the army said.
Twenty-one American troops have been killed in Afghanistan since Friday in one of the bloodiest periods of the summer.
Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi called on Europe to convert to Islam during a trip to Italy on Monday.
Two Yemeni men arriving in Amsterdam on a flight from Chicago were arrested Monday on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack after peculiar items turned up in their luggage.
A proposed $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, one of the largest-ever U.S. weapons sales, marks the consolidation of America as the kingdom's main arms supplier after years of strain following 9/11.
The U.S. has broadened financial sanctions against North Korea, freezing the American assets of four North Korean citizens and eight firms in part to punish it for the sinking of a South Korean warship.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is reportedly calling for the reopening of six-party international nuclear talks.
It is being reported that North Korea's ambassador to Cuba says that, if attacked, his country would respond with nuclear weapons.
Vladimir Putin has hinted that he will seek re-election as Russian president - raising the prospect that he could remain the country's head of state until the age of 71.
While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China.
Closer contacts between retired Taiwanese generals and Chinese government authorities have sparked concerns in Washington.
With growing instances of affluent Chinese parents flouting the one-child policy norm, the Beijing government has warned people that the second child will not be given citizenship if parents failed to register them before November 1.
A top British codebreaker found mysteriously dead last week in his flat had worked with the NSA and British intelligence to intercept email messages that helped convict would-be bombers in the U.K., according to a news report.
A whole host of statistics that have been released recently show that the middle class in America is shrinking rapidly.
The FDIC listed 829 U.S. banks with a total of $403 billion in assets as "problem" banks during the second quarter of 2010. That was up significantly from 775 problem banks in the first quarter of 2010.
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul says that he plans to introduce legislation next year to force an audit of U.S. holdings of gold.
Japan has launched a fresh monetary and fiscal boost to shore up its faltering recovery and stem the slide into deflation.
Do U.S. home prices have even further to fall?
The city of Miami is so broke that it's forcing employees to take pay cuts, even though they're under contract.
Several school systems in Alabama have had to take out private loans just to make it through the year.
It has gotten even more difficult for law school graduates in America to find jobs.
According to the Pew Economic Policy Group, the recent financial crisis has cost the American people $3.4 trillion in lost real estate, $7.4 trillion in lost stock wealth, and 5.5 million jobs.
Are more Americans than ever living in fear because the American Dream is evaporating right before their very eyes?
Less than two years ago, Democrats received 70 percent of the donations from Wall Street; since June, when the financial regulation bill was nearing passage, Republicans were receiving 68 percent of the donations, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group.
A new Gallup poll released Monday shows Republicans with a record 10-point edge over Democrats on the "generic ballot" test — the question of whether voters prefer a Democratic or Republican congressional candidate. It’s the largest GOP polling edge at this stage in the 68 years of the generic ballot poll.
With a number of polls showing a sustained level of opposition to the Democrats’ health care reform efforts more than five months after passage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Obama administration has “a lot of reeducation to do” heading into the midterms.
Would Barack Obama's Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on "rainwater runoff" from homes and small businesses?
The words "homeland security" are found 41 times in the text of the bill S. 510, also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act. Unprecedented powers over food are set to be handed over to Homeland Security if the bill is not stopped.
One of the gun dealers at Austin's Gun Show has been sentenced to 6 months at a federal work camp for selling a weapon to an undocumented immigrant.
An investigation has found that foreign diplomats are abusing their immunity from prosecution to keep domestic workers as slaves in Britain.
Hurricane Earl may prompt evacuations along the U.S. Atlantic coast even if it does not make landfall, since it may come close enough to trigger storm surge flooding and high winds, officials said Tuesday.
Unusually cold temperatures in part of Bolivia's tropical region hit freshwater species hard this year, killing an estimated 6 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins.
Aircraft have had to be diverted and more than 21,000 people evacuated after an Indonesian volcano erupted for the second day in a row.
The worst floods in Pakistan's history already have swept through the nation's most important breadbasket provinces, destroying cotton and corn crops, vegetables and orchards, and leaving many people in need of emergency food.
North America as a whole has experienced uncharacteristically good weather for the last 18 consecutive years, which, combined with improvements in agriculture, has resulted in near-record harvests. So what happens when the good weather stops?
Massive swarms of crop-destroying locusts have invaded some 40 villages in eastern Guinea-Bissau and are heading north towards neighbouring Senegal.
Does a "social justice" mental framework focusing on multiculturalism, an absence of competition, and a general loathing for America and distrust of traditional American values now dominate in American public schools?
The State Department included a Justice Department lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law in a United Nations human rights report to show how U.S. rule of law can be an example to the world, a State Department spokesman said Monday.
A former pastor confessed to taking out million dollar life insurance policies on a blind man, then ordering him killed.
Barack Obama's top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.
Glenn Beck says that most Americans do not recognize Barack Obama's Christianity.
A few weeks before organizing a massive rally on the Mall that had the feel of a religious revival, Glenn Beck sought the blessing of some of the country's most prominent conservative Christian leaders.
It is being reported that Prince Harry is now "hooked on yoga".
After a suspected arson and reports of gunshots at an Islamic center in Tennessee over the weekend, nearby mosques have hired security guards, installed surveillance cameras and requested the presence of federal agents at prayer services.
Lastly, a new poll has found that 71 percent of New Yorkers want the developers of an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero to voluntarily move the project.
