By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 5, 5:41 pm ET
BEIRUT An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the...
Jerry Okungu
ON November 30, East Africans will celebrate the 10th anniversary since the second EAC treaty was signed in Arusha, Tanzania in 1999.
I say the second treaty because the first one...
President Museveni is ready to take over the African Union chairmanship from Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi, but Kampala is worried that the Libyan leader might embarrass his estranged Ugandan colleague...
Jerusalem -- The Israeli Navy detained a ship loaded with weapons that was traveling about 100 miles west of the country's coast and headed to Syria, Israeli officials said Wednesday.
The ship...
A 59-year-old Brazilian man has surprised his family by turning up at his own funeral, local media report. Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, a bricklayer, had identified him as the victim of a...
Article's topics: Islamic Jihad, Gaza Strip, Palestinians, Hamas
Tens of thousands of Islamic Jihad loyalists held a rally in Gaza on Friday to commemorate the group's slain founder...
CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap
Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr was snatched from a street in Milan
An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans - all but one of them CIA agents - and two...
BIG NIGHT FOR THE GOP!
The Republican Party sprang back to life with wins for governor from Chris Christie in New Jersey and Bob McDonnell in Virginia, according to CNN projections.
......And...
Five British soldiers shot dead
Five British soldiers have been shot dead in Helmand Province, in an attack the UK military says was carried out by a "rogue" Afghan policeman. Three of...
US judge in mixed-race row quits
Keith Bardwell said he was happy to marry couples of the same race
A white US justice of the peace who refused to sign a marriage licence for a...
Iranian authorities have hanged a member of a Sunni militant separatist group on charges of kidnapping, the semiofficial Fars news agency said Tuesday.
Fars quoted provincial police chief Gen...
Taliban Decline US Offer Of 6 Provinces for 8 Bases
By Aamir Latif
IOL Correspondent
The emboldened Taliban movement in Afghanistan turned down an American offer of power-sharing in exchange...
Health Care - 44,000 Americans Die!
Written by Jim Kirwan
Auscom | pnhp
Yes that number is correct, and most of those that die are children that get no medical care in this nation, every...