Yemen won't go after radical US-born cleric
Yemen says it will not hunt down a radical U.S.-born cleric who has reportedly been added to the CIA's list of targets to be killed or captured.
Bomb blast near Iran jail wounds up to 19
Attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a jail in southwest Iran on Saturday in an apparent bid to help prisoners break out, wounding three guards and up to 19 others, media reported.
Iraq al-Qaida group says it's behind embassy hits
Statement calls attacks a "new strike into the heart of the security plan" in Baghdad.
Cairo film festival judges walk out over Israeli-made movie
French-sponsored event to be held without a jury or awards.
Islamic Movement Approved in Israel, Barred by Jordan
While Israel allowed the radical Islamic Movement to operate openly and even allows its members to sit in the Knesset, Jordan has apparently decided that the extremist group is a threat it is unwilling to tolerate.
Gaza Smugglers Import New Cars
Gaza businessmen are now importing new cars - but the price tag comes with a hefty commission for the tunnel smugglers who bring them in through the rocky and sometimes dangerous underground network.
The Eurozone and Greece
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s diplomatic/economic victory in blocking and undermining an automatic bailout for the Greek troubled economy; clearly it is good news for the shaky and unstable eurozone in a short term. Greece for decades has overspent and has a very corrupt political/economic system.
What's Not Happening to American Muslims
It can't have come as a surprise that one of the now entrenched myths about America—namely, its ongoing victimization of Muslims—should have been voiced again by a leading citizen of our myth-producing capital, Hollywood. The citizen was Tom Hanks, and the occasion his March interview in Time Magazine in which he declared that our battle with Japan in World War II was one of "racism and terror." And that, he noted, should remind us of our current wars.
MoD apologise over Catterick Garrison firing range 'mosques'
The Ministry of Defence apologised today after a Muslim group complained that structures used on an Army firing range resembled mosques.
Iran will not beg to avoid sanctions
Iran's president said on Thursday he would not plead with opponents of Tehran's nuclear program in order to avoid sanctions as Russia and the United States said new measures might be necessary