Barack Obama announced that he is ordering the Interior Department to conduct annual lease sales in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve—as the oil industry gears up for a new thrust of expansion in the Last Frontier.
An Israeli security firm that recently made headlines when WikiLeaks revealed its numerous intrigues in Latin America has now been named as recruiting mercenaries in West Africa to fight for Moammar Qaddafi’s regime.
WikiLeaks cables reveal embarrassing details of an Israeli military contractor's secret operations in Latin America—sparking a government "hate campaign" against journalists who reported the shenanigans in Panama.
In an open letter, young Jewish descendants of the Arab and Islamic world living in Israel write to their peers in the Middle East and North Africa, expressing solidarity with the regional revolutions.
The annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Tunisian island of Djerba for the Lag B’Omer holy day has been officially canceled for the first time ever due to security concerns this year.
Violence erupted on Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, leaving at least 12 dead and scores wounded, as Palestinians commemorated the Nakba (“catastrophe”) of the Jewish state’s founding in 1948.
At least two were killed and some 70 injured as presumed Salafists attacked Coptic protesters outside the state television building in Cairo with sticks, firearms and Molotov cocktails.
Nine indigenous Mixe residents at the politically divided Oaxaca municipality of Santiago Choápam were killed and some 20 wounded when they were ambushed on a mountain road on their way to a election rally.
South Sudan is witnessing a sharp rise in armed conflict—with less than three months to go before the formal independence of the fledgling nation. Heavy fighting has killed some 1,000 and displaced an estimated 100,000 since southerners voted overwhelmingly for… Read moreWar continues on borders of South Sudan
Thousands of Egyptians filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a Friday rally for national unity and solidarity with the Palestinians. The “Unity Rally” was called following deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the deadly double suicide blast at a paramilitary base in the northwest, calling it revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Lobsang Sangay, newly elected prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, met with three activists on indefinite hunger strike in New Delhi to protest a Chinese crackdown at the Kirti monastery in Sichuan province.
