As Obama Endorses ’67 Borders, Netanyahu Objects

As Obama Endorses ’67 Borders, Netanyahu Objects


As Obama Endorses ’67 Borders, Netanyahu Objects

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:55 PM PDT

It is the first time an American president has explicitly endorsed those borders as the baseline for negotiations over a Palestinian state.


'No struggle' from murder victim

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:14 AM PDT

A woman who was attacked and mutilated in her Dorset home would not have put up any real struggle, jurors hear.


Two escape after plane flips over

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:44 PM PDT

A man and woman escape serious injury when their plane flips over during an emergency landing in Leicestershire.


China Gives Pakistan 50 Fighter Jets

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:36 PM PDT

China has agreed to immediately provide 50 JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan, a major outcome of a visit by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to Beijing this week, Pakistani officials said Thursday.


Gergen: A review, but not much new

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:43 PM PDT

In the president's speech on Thursday, there were two surprises that could shape its impact for a long time to come.


F.B.I. Is Looking at Unabomber in ’82 Tylenol Case

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:50 PM PDT

The F.B.I. is examining whether Theodore J. Kaczynski laced bottles of Tylenol with cyanide, killing seven people.


Saudi Arabia's growing assertiveness

Posted: 19 May 2011 04:55 AM PDT

As U.S. President Barack Obama seeks to reinvigorate his administration's policy in the Middle East, he will have to contend with several issues where U.S. influence is less than overwhelming.


Bahrain wants to expand military bases

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:25 PM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain floated the idea of expanding military bases within a bloc of Sunni-led Gulf Arab allies that helped it quash Shi'ite protests in March, while U.S. President Barack Obama criticized Manama over its crackdown.


Israel Rejects 1967 Border Plan

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:21 PM PDT

Israel's prime minister has rejected a key aspect of President Barack Obama's Middle East policy speech, saying that a return to his country's 1967 borders would spell disaster for the Jewish state.


ECB's Greek Warning Deepens European Rift

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:47 AM PDT

The European Central Bank warned it may pull the plug on funding for Greek banks in the event of any restructuring of Greece's government debt.


Commercial Aviation Warned It's Still a Target

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:47 PM PDT

Items retrieved from bin Laden's compound indicate terrorists continue to target commercial aviation, a situation that necessitates continued strict safety measures, Napolitano told a travel-industry conference.


Bin Laden Tape Praises Arab Protests

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:06 PM PDT

In a recording made shortly before his death and released Thursday, Osama bin Laden praised the mass protests that have toppled and shaken longtime rulers across the Arab world while trying to cast a role for al Qaeda in the region's future.


Strauss-Kahn Is Indicted

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:12 PM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been indicted in connection with an alleged sexual assault on a New York hotel maid, prosecutors said as his bail hearing got underway on Thursday.


Badger cull 'may not happen'

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:00 PM PDT

A badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis in cattle may not happen, the farming minister tells BBC South West.


Grand Jury Indicts Former I.M.F. Chief

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:23 PM PDT

The charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, related to an alleged sexual assault of a hotel housekeeper, came as his lawyers tried once again to get him free on bail.


Trump’s For-Profit School Said to Be Under Investigation

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:59 AM PDT

New York's attorney general is responding to complaints from past students at the school who said they were misled into paying as much as $35,000 a course.


VIDEO: Obama: Syria must stop 'murder'

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:44 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama says a "new chapter in American diplomacy" has been turned after the Arab Spring uprisings.


Nigerian bomb blast injures police, soldiers

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:57 AM PDT

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - An Islamic sect responsible for almost daily killings in remote northeastern Nigeria is thought to be behind a bombing Thursday that injured policemen and soldiers, police said.


NY court grants bail to former IMF chief

Posted: 19 May 2011 01:09 PM PDT

Ex-IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who has been charged with trying to rape a hotel maid, is granted bail in New York.


Bigger than Oprah

Posted: 19 May 2011 09:12 AM PDT

Music and fashion experts on why Lady Gaga is the most powerful celebrity in the world.


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