Wrapping up three years of close cooperation, the two leaders met for probably the final time Monday and pledged to leave behind a productive peace process for their successors when they leave office.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said threats of more sanctions would not deter Iran from pursuing its peaceful nuclear plans, which the West says are aimed at producing atomic bombs.
The 30-year era of deregulation came to a sudden and surprising end on Sept. 16.
With turbulence hitting financial markets as a global credit crisis claims heavyweight victims, the Federal reserve held a key interest rate at 2 percent.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged Thursday to step down immediately after his party chooses a successor this month, shooting down speculation he would try to linger in office.
For years, Iraq's flag has been a symbol of national division rather than unity.
An American teacher has been charged in Bahrain with insulting the Prophet Muhammad for displaying pictures of Islam's founder to university students, a spokesman for the tiny Gulf nation's general prosecutor said Friday.
The heart of many homes is the kitchen and that is where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hosted Condoleezza Rice for a Ramadan meal this week, a symbolic gesture to try to end decades of enmity.
Iraq has approved a $3 billion deal with China to develop the al-Ahdab oil field.
Foreign and Afghan forces killed five children in two separate incidents Monday, further inflaming tensions in the country over the killings of civilians by troops from the U.S. and other countries.
Egypt and the Palestinians are falling back an hour far �earlier than usual, trying to reduce daylight hours for Muslims fasting until sunset in sweltering summer temperatures.
Abie Nathan, the peace activist who made a dramatic solo flight to Egypt in a rattletrap single-engine plane and later founded the groundbreaking "Voice of Peace" radio station, has died at 81.
Iraq and the United States have agreed that a planned security pact will require all U.S. troops to leave by the end of 2011, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday, while Washington said no final deal had been reached.
Israel will be targeted by thousands of rockets if it attacks Iran, a senior official in the Tehran-backed group Hezbollah said on Sunday.
An Iranian shipping firm is seeking to use diplomacy to secure the release of sailors from pirates who seized a bulk carrier this week, an Iranian executive said on Saturday.
A draft agreement between the United States and Iraq contains no fixed dates for U.S. forces to withdraw, but Iraq would like combat troops out by the end of 2011, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said on Thursday.
Iraq wants an agreement authorizing the continued presence of U.S. troops on its soil to expire in three years, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said on Friday.
Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in Iran and are planning to kill specific Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, a U.S. military intelligence source said.
Iraq and the U.S. are near an agreement on all American combat troops leaving Iraq by October 2010, with the last soldiers out three years after that, two Iraqi officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. U.S. officials, however, insisted no dates had been agreed.
The U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about three years later, two Iraqi officials said Thursday.
Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday taunted Republican presidential rival John McCain for first mocking the idea of keeping tires inflated for energy conservation and then agreeing the practice works.
The Republican presidential candidate is seeking to bolster his appeal to voters on economic issues by speaking to some of those hardest hit in the recent downturn: auto workers.
To what extent can the Democratic candidate reassure primary and caucus voters that he is ready to be their president?� The answer may determine the outcome of the general election.
The Bush administration is considering withdrawing additional troops from Iraq beginning in September, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions, citing administration and military officials.
U.S. forces may be close to unlocking the mystery of who is behind a deadly innovation in Iraqi insurgents' weapons now being used to target U.S. and Iraqi combat outposts.
AP reports: People in the crowd waved American flags and held signs reading, "Welcome Home" and "God Bless Our Troops." Fire trucks with aerial ladders hoisted three huge American flags along the route. Two St.
CHICAGO – Outraged pastors and community activists on Friday descended upon the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office and called for an independent investigation after reports that bodies have been piling up for weeks. At least one activist openly called for the facility's …
Mitt Romney accuses Newt Gingrich of calling Spanish a "ghetto language." Close, but not quite. Gingrich denies doing so and said he merely promoted the use of English, "period." That's even more of a stretch. The last Republican presidential debate before the GOP Florida primar …
Updated at 10:30 pm ET Republican rivals Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney clashed early and often Thursday night over issues ranging from immigration and personal wealth to the various charges that have been fired in television ads and on the campaign trail as they conducted their …
Jim, It's probably Bush's fault Michael Jackson died too. Maybe Al Franken can bring him back to life. Stop being such a whiner. By the way, when the hell did you ever meet Jesus? Admit it, you're just pissed you voted for Obama.
— labman17
hey knumbnuts, you do not have the right or authority to tell someone to leave America. Why don't you go? you're probably one genome short of being an alien yourself.
Thanks Jim, never even thought of that!
You're nuts if you think I hate any Americans, I said some I agree with some I don't and some are just hate filled and don't care about anything except expounding on hate and it looks like you have a dose.
— navy6502
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