Ankara follows through on threat to impose independent sanctions on Jerusalem following its refusal to apologize for deadly Marmara raid: Top-level diplomatic staff expelled, key military contracts suspended. Turkish FM: Time for Israel to pay the price
For Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the U.S. is a “parasite” because its rising debt weighs on the global economy. For his government, the same debt is the safest possible investment.
Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.
MOSCOW — Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov confirmed in Washington that Russia would supply Syria with P-800 Yakhont cruise missiles, Russian news agencies reported Friday.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Israel has “eight days” to launch a military strike against Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant on the Persian Gulf may not be fully operational for months, a Russian agency said. Russia’s state atomic agency is overseeing the Iranian plant. (Behrouz Mehri / AFP/Getty Images / April 3, 2007)
Officials say fuel will be loaded into the Bushehr facility on Aug. 21. Though the move isn’t connected to Tehran’s secret atomic program, U.S. officials worry that it sends mixed signals.
VIENNA — Iran has activated equipment to enrich uranium more efficiently in a move that defies the U.N. Security Council, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday.
Hamas criticises the Arab states’ statement on peace talks (Photo: Reuters)
Sometimes the progress of events in the Middle East is so depressingly predictable. Yesterday’s story: Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian authority, is preparing to enter direct talks once again with Israel over a settlement; the encouraging development was given further impetus by the tentative endorsement of talks by Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo.
In the past two months Barak has attempted to defuse some of the tensions between Jerusalem and Ankara, which peaked with the Gaza flotilla incident at the end of May.
A small but intriguing news nugget emerged from the world of international shipping this week, one saying something much larger about the effort to economically isolate Iran because of its nuclear program.
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