Israel nabs boat smuggling weapons on Dead Sea
JERUSALEM: The Israeli military and police on Monday captured a boat on the Dead Sea which was trying to smuggle weapons from Jordan, and detained two Palestinians on board, officials…
UN hosts emergency meeting on Somalia famine
ROME: The World Bank promised to provide more than $500 million to help drought victims in East Africa as a UN agency hosted an emergency meeting Monday aimed at fighting…
UN flotilla report delayed again, says Israel
JERUSALEM: A UN report into Israel's deadly 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, which was to have been published later this week, has been delayed once again, an Israeli…
S. Sudan warns Khartoum against ‘economic warfare’
JUBA: South Sudan urged the Khartoum government on Monday not to start "economic wars" over currency and oil transit fees, saying that the current charges that it has imposed amount…
Egypt’s Praetorian Guard problem
By Troy Carter Because the pro-democracy activists who triggered the January 25 protests did not expect that it would lead to the ouster of Mubarak, they did not feel the need…
In Palestine, our season is fast approaching
By Diana Buttu The images were electrifying as hundreds of thousands of Tunisians and Egyptians took to the streets to overthrow their dictators after decades of repression. With protests soon following…
AN ISRAELI VIEW: Why the Quartet fears the UN track
By Yossi Alpher The Quartet failed to find a formula for restarting the peace process because it is either unable or unwilling to recognize that both the Israeli and the Palestinian…
Defaulting to big government
By Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC: Leading United States Congressmen are determined to provoke a showdown with the Obama administration over the federal government’s debt ceiling. Ordinarily, you might expect House Republicans…
Israeli orchestra to play Wagner in Germany
An Israeli orchestra is set to perform a work by Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner, in a taboo-breaking concert in Germany. The Israel Chamber Orchestra's concert in Wagner's hometown…
Amy Winehouse among musical talents gone too soon
Amy Winehouse released only two albums in her life, one of which sold more than a million copies, won five Grammys and sparked a retro soul movement that hasn't yet…
