OBAMA DELICATELY WADES INTO MIDEAST TALKS
By JULIE PACE Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, right, and Yitzhak Molcho, left, chief negotiator on the Israeli negotiating team with the Palestinians, arrive at the State Department in Washington,…
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EGYPT ARRESTS MORE ISLAMISTS AS EU OFFICIAL VISITS
By AYA BATRAWY In this image released by the Egyptian Presidency, Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, left, meets with interim prime minister, Mohamed ElBaradei in Cairo, Egypt, Monday,…
ISRAEL TO VOTE ON FREEING PALESTINIAN PRISONERS
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and KARIN LAUB In this Friday, July 26, 2013, photo, Issa Masoud, 75, father of Omar, 40, who was arrested in May 1993 for killing an Israeli…
ISRAEL: CONFLICT OVER RECOGNITION, NOT TERRITORY
By ARON HELLER FILE – In this Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 file photo, former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni attends a news conference at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem.…
SYRIAN ENVOY: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CAN’T BE TOLERATED
By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN Bashar Ja’afari, Syria’s U.N. ambassador, gestures as he speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at United Nations headquarters. Bashar Ja’afari says the use…
NKOREA CHARGES US MAN OF PLOT TO OVERTHROW REGIME
North Korean soldiers tour the park surrounding Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed,…
US URGES CHINA COLLABORATION ON CYBER INTRUSIONS
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN A Chinese soldier stands guard at the main entrance door of the Bayi Building where Gen. Martin Dempsey, U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are…
DIPLOMAT: EU DROPS SANCTIONS AGAINST MYANMAR
By JUERGEN BAETZ Germany’s foreign minister Guido Westerwelle, left, talks with Sweden’s foreign minister Carl Bildt, center, and European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva…