New Zealand was under a tsunami warning on Wednesday after a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck off the west coast of its South Island, according to the U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
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Politically Incorrect
For a man reputed to be Israel’s biggest loudmouth, Avigdor Lieberman speaks softly. His flat, Russian-accented baritone rarely rises above a murmur. He’s not a shouter
Israeli Prisons: Are Palestinian Children Abused?
Walid Abu Obeida, a 13-year-old Palestinian farm boy from the West Bank village of Ya’abad, had never spoken to an Israeli until he rounded a corner at dusk carrying his shopping bags and found two Israeli soldiers waiting with their rifles aimed at him. “They accused me of throwing stones at them,” recounts Walid, a skinny kid with dark eyes.
Economy hits marriage choices in India
Once, they were a prized catch. Men who had everything an Indian woman wanted: a job, a house and a life of comfort in faraway lands. They had studied hard and landed top jobs in the West.
Israeli Leader Avigdor Lieberman Criticizes U.S. on Iran
For a man who has a reputation for being blunt and confrontational, Avigdor Lieberman has kept uncharacteristically silent since taking over in March as Israel’s Foreign Minister. His boss, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had reportedly asked him to muzzle his hawkish views for fear of riling the Obama Administration
Asian Economies Rebounding in Spite of the West
Before the current recession, some economists speculated that Asia’s economies had become so vibrant, and trade among them so important, that the region could shake off its traditional dependence on the U.S.
A Suicide Bomb in Somalia Brings Radical Islamist Takeover Closer
Weeks of heavy fighting in Somalia took an even deadlier turn Thursday when a suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into the front of a hotel in the west of the country, killing Somalia’s national security minister, a former ambassador and at least 20 others. Somalia’s extremist Islamist militia, al Shabaab, said it carried out the attack
Russia-Belarus Relations Sour over Milk Ban
It had been a while since Russia pulled out the “sanitary regulations” card to ban imports over a spat with one of its neighbors. But on June 6, after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko publicly voiced his fury at Russia’s raising of energy prices, Russia imposed a ban on dairy products from Belarus, sparking a so-called milk war that has seen tensions between the former allies escalate daily
Why the U.S. Should Start Talking to Hamas
Halfway through my interview with Khaled Mashaal, about an hour after Barack Obama’s Cairo speech, I realized that the leader of Hamas was calling the Israeli people, and their leaders, Israelis. That seemed new. The usual term of art used by Islamic militants is “Zionists” or worse.
Kidnapped Briton feared killed by al Qaeda
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says there’s "strong reason to believe" a British citizen has been killed by an al Qaeda cell in the west African nation of Mali.