Monthly Archives: October 2009

Al-Qaeda is using Somalia to train, regroup and plan further attacks, the Somali prime minister said Wednesday, warning it was also beginning to threaten regional stability.

Israeli control over eastern Jerusalem is a "fiction” while the Palestinian Authority has a presence in many areas, a Jerusalem official charged. Municipal council member Yakir Shegev,

Turkey's new ambassador to Israel has appealed for Jerusalem's "understanding" in his first statement to the media since taking the position earlier in the week.

Weeks after defeating Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosni to become director-general of the UN's premier cultural body, UNESCO, Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova is to attend a UNESCO memorial ceremony for the assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in Paris on November 4.

Iran said it would not send all its uranium abroad but accepted the broad framework of a United Nations-brokered deal but wants "very important changes" in the plan, a state TV channel reported on Tuesday.

In case you weren't sure, human gender is "changeable over time and contexts," sex slaves must not be "stigmatized" for their work, and it's important to recognize the role of "transgender and intersex individuals as stakeholders" in counterterrorism policy.

Islamic State in Iraq group claims deadly Baghdad blasts. A group linked to al-Qaeda said it carried out the twin suicide bombings that killed 155 people in Baghdad on Sunday and revived doubts about security in the run-up to Iraq's elections in January.

Muslim women in Indonesia's West Aceh district will be banned from wearing "tight" trousers or jeans under new regulations, an official said Tuesday.

An Israeli ambulance driver who tried to help an Arab woman in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood Sunday found that his kindness was repaid with rocks,

Jews have a right to worship freely on the Temple Mount, says Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, head of the Yeshivat Hesder in Petach Tikvah.