Hizbullah proved last week that it is the strongest force in Lebanon and could have seized power if it had wanted to, Israel's military intelligence chief said in remarks published on Thursday. "Hizbullah did not intend to take control ...
In Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli, the scene of deadly sectarian clashes between pro- and anti-government forces, battle lines are being drawn as tensions simmer unresolved. "Our standard is our faith and we do not fear their armies. It
Leaders of Lebanon's opposition and pro-government parties will head to Doha on Friday to hold talks aimed at defusing a long-running feud between rival political factions, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani said Thursday. During
This could be the campaign of loudmouth preacher problems, and not only for Barack Obama. While The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is poster pastor for the type, Republican John McCain's right-wing ecclesiastical stable has a record of ranting, too.
House Democrats on Thursday approved a non-binding plan seeking an exit from Iraq by December of next year. The 149-141 vote came after Republicans withheld support for the funding measure in protest of Democratic tactics. Some 132 Republicans voted "present."
Barack Obama accused President Bush of "a false political attack"Thursday after Mr. Bush warned in Israel against appeasing terrorists -early salvos in a general election campaign that's already blazing evenas the Democratic front-runner tries to sew up his party's nomination.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich continues to push an expansion of state-subsidized health insurance, despite a new audit that found at least $1.5 billion in unpaid bills and the system is plagued by mismanagement. CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports with
Local Councillor Sarah Bevan (Peasedown) was invited to London this week to tell BBC Panorama's Jeremy Vine all about the successful initiative by the Lib Dems to ban bottled water in B&NES Council offices and meetings.
David Cameron has launched a Foundation to examine the issue of homelessness and produce research into its causes, effects and wider impact on society.
Ever since Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War, the residents of this strategic plateau have been caught in the middle of a dispute that has gone unresolved for more than 40 years. Today,
A political prisoner Alyaksandr Kazulin answered questions of Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" during a meeting with his family on May 3-5 in Vitsebsk colony. However the interview was shortened for publication in the newspaper. A daughter of the political prisoner
The leader of the movement "For Freedom" Alyaksandr Milinkevich was detained when leaving Salihorsk where the politician held a meeting with local dwellers.
The blocking of the parliament's work was called one of the greatest provocation in Verkhovna Rada by the deputy head of the PRU parliamentary faction Sergey Levochkin, according to reg press service of the Party of Regions.He thinks that BYuT
Ambitions of leaders of 'democratic camp' are guilty in the existing political crisis, said the head of the Internal Affairs Ministry, leader of the party 'People's Self-Defense' Yuriy Lutsenko to 'Ostrov' in Kiev.'It is about personal ambitions. It's a painful
Viktor Yushchenko has lost the status of the leadfer of the country's democratic forces, having come down to the position of a leader of 'Our Ukraine'. Such opinion was expressed to 'Ostrov' by the minister of internal affairs, leader of
Rinat Akhmetov is a 'serious political and economic factor' that the President Viktor Yushchenko cannot help taking into consideration. That was how the minister of internal affairs, Leader of 'Peoples' Self-Defense' party, Yuriy Lutsenko commented to 'Ostrov'.Mr. Lutsenko expressed assurance
California's Supreme Court has ruled that the "right to form a family relationship" is not limited to heterosexual Californians. The court voted 4-3 in favor of lifting the ban, which was approved by voters in 2000 but has since been
While the nomination battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continues to divide Democrats at the national level, the Party of the People is rockin’ the House of Representatives and Republicans aren’t down with it. The recent victory of Terry
