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JERUSALEM ~ Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu alluded to an eventual nuclear-armed Iran on Tuesday as the biggest threat to – Read More...

THE HAGUE ~ The new US administration of Barack Obama has discreetly abandoned the expression “war on terror” adopted by – Read More...

WASHINGTON ~ North Korea’s expected rocket launch is set to confront US President Barack Obama with his first major foreign – Read More...

WASHINGTON ~ A UN panel has urged the release of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi, saying the junta violated not – Read More...

LONDON ~ Almost 2,400 people were executed last year, including more than 1,700 in China alone, but the world moved – Read More...

WASHINGTON ~ President Barack Obama’s administration has dropped outright US hostility toward the world’s first permanent war crimes court, but – Read More...

SINGAPORE ~ Singapore moved this week to tighten laws against outdoor protests eight months before the city-state hosts a summit – Read More...

WASHINGTON ~ In the wake of the first major scandal of his term, US President Barack Obama remains as popular – Read More...

BAGHDAD ~ The end of war and occupation is in sight, six years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, but – Read More...

WASHINGTON ~ A leaked Red Cross report on CIA “torture” of detainees offers fresh ammunition to demands that officials from – Read More...