Despite clashes between Shiite militants and Iraqi forces that continued a mere few blocks away, members of the Iraqi Parliament posed a peaceful protest against the violence in the streets of Sadr City, on Sunday, reports the New York Times.Members
The Dalai Lama said he would take up China's offer to meet with one of his envoys, in talks that would hopefully decrease resentment concerning Chinese rule in Tibet, according to the Press Association.The Chinese have called for the talks
The ongoing skirmish between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have party leaders worried that the flock of Democratic faithful will fail to come together for the November election. Central to these concerns are the racial tensions that have
Republican presidential nominee John McCain steered into uncharted waters at a news conference on Sunday when he took umbrage at the sermons of controversial pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright.The Arizona senator claimed that it was "beyond belief" that someone would compare
On the RealClearPolitics.com webpage today an article by Karl Rove from Newsweek is very interesting reading. He has six fairly specific and common sense recommendations to the Senator. Briefly, these are: 1. Update your stump speech, it is getting stale
Controversial pastor and longtime Barack Obama associate Reverend Jeremiah Wright struck a defiant pose at a recent press appearance, claiming that recent criticism of his sermons represents an attack on the black church as a whole. The reverend informed his
Beirut- A French delegate to a Socialist International meeting in Beirut, Lebanon described his captivity in a windowless cell by armed men who "spoke on behalf of Hezbollah."
By: Ghassan Charbel Beirut - Turkey looks at the region and becomes anxious. Its Iraqi neighbor wallows in the midst of a bloody storm; occupation, terrorism, resistance and sectarian conflict.
Beirut- The Washington post said in an article that gun prices have shot up in Lebanon after fears of war. It said Abu Omar, a money changer and father of 11 who lives in Beirut, has bought at least 10
Beirut- Parliament majority leader MP Saad Hariri visited Druze spiritual leader , Sheikh Naim Hassan at his headquarters accompanied by Deputy House Speaker Farid Makari, MPs Mohammad Qabbani and Mohammad Hajjar and his counsel Mohammad Sammak
Beirut - The Lebanese Forces strongly condemned the kidnapping of the member of the French Socialist Party MP Karim Pakzad by the armed elements of Hezbollah on the road to Lebanon's International airport
Beirut- The leader of the Free Shiite Movement Sheikh Mohammad al-Hajj Hassan strongly condemned the abduction of the French Socialist Party MP Karim Pakzad on the road of Beirut International airport.
DFL leaders in the House and Senate are working with Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty to solve a projected state budget deficit of $935 million before adjournment on May 19th.
In a speech at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., the Rev. Jeremiah Wright discusses his sermons, the black church and race in America, and he takes questions from the Washington press corps.
Officials with Waste Management Inc. say they will remove thousands of tons of tainted dirt from a spot in the Minnesota River floodplain and put it into a nearby landfill.
The U.S. fence along the Mexican border is less a wall than a stuttering set of blockades: half barrier, half gaps. Americans are split pretty much the same way: half in favor, half against, passionate on both sides when it
