Israel has approved the construction of 277 new housing units in a Jewish settlement located deep in the occupied West Bank. Israel’s Defense Ministry said Monday that Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved the new housing in the Ariel settlement. It said Israel would reserve at least 100 of those units for Israelis evacuated from Gaza […]
Israel Approves 277 Apartment Units In West Bank
Obama Launches Midwest Bus Tour
U.S. President Barack Obama is launching a three-state midwestern bus tour aimed at answering criticism that he has not done enough to improve the ailing economy. The president begins the tour in St. Paul, Minnesota, Monday. He holds a town hall meeting in the town of Cannon Falls, south of St. Paul, expected to focus […]
China Pledges $55 Million in Famine Aid for Horn of Africa
The Chinese government has pledged $55 million in food aid for Horn of Africa nations dealing with severe drought and famine. The official Xinhua news agency said Monday that Premier Wen Jiabao made the offer during talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in Beijing. The pledge is in addition to nearly $8 million in […]
Buffett Asks US to Stop ‘Coddling’ Rich on Taxes
The second-richest person in the United States, investor Warren Buffett, has repeated his plea for the government to collect more taxes from the country’s “super-rich” as one way to cut the government budget deficit and debt. Writing in Monday’s New York Times , Buffett said the wealthiest Americans have been “coddled long enough by a […]
Libyan Interior Minister, Relatives Fly to Cairo in Apparent Defection
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s interior minister has flown to the Egyptian capital with nine family members in the latest apparent defection from the Libyan government. Egyptian airport officials say Libyan Interior Minister Nassr al-Mabrouk Abdullah and his relatives arrived in Cairo early Monday on a private jet from the Tunisian resort island of Djerba. They […]
Libyan Interior Minister, Relatives Fly to Cairo in Apparent Defection
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s interior minister has flown to the Egyptian capital with nine family members in the latest apparent defection from the Libyan government. Egyptian airport officials say Libyan Interior Minister Nassr al-Mabrouk Abdullah and his relatives arrived in Cairo early Monday on a private jet from the Tunisian resort island of Djerba. They […]
Palestinian President Visits Bosnia
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has arrived for his first official visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina, hoping to win support for a Palestinian effort to join the United Nations in September. Mr. Abbas arrived for his three-day meeting Sunday and will meet with Bosnia’s three-member presidency and foreign minister on Monday. Bosnia-Herzegovina is one of 10 non-permanent current […]
Syria Presses Crackdown in Latakia
A Syrian military crackdown against anti-government dissent is in its third day in the coastal city of Latakia while troops are carrying out new raids in the central province of Homs. Tank fire has been reported in several neighborhoods of Latakia and witnesses say residents are trying to flee the city. Syrian rights activists say […]
Iraq Attacks Kill 60
Bombings and attacks hit more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday, killing at least 60 people and wounding hundreds of others. Iraqi officials say suicide bombings and other explosions devastated targets from the northern city of Kirkuk, to the capital, Baghdad, to the southern city of Kut. Authorities say the worst violence was in Kut, […]
Militants Attack Government Center in Afghanistan
Police say militants have attacked a government center in eastern Afghanistan, triggering a gunbattle that killed one police officer and wounded three civilians. The attack took place early Monday in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni province. Four militants were also killed as security forces repelled the assault on district government offices. The fighting comes the […]