Turkey asks US, Iraq to hand over Kurdish rebels: Turkey has asked Iraq, the United States and Iraq’s Kurdish administration to hand over nearly 250 Kurdish rebels operating from rear bases in Iraq, the Hurriyet daily reported yesterday.
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran U.S. charges Iran of supporting militants rocketing Green Zone: U.S. military in Iraq have accused Iran Saturday of supporting the militant groups who fired Katyusha rockets at Baghdad's Green Zone during the recent visit made by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to Iraq.
Netanyahu: Iran is the ultimate terrorist threat today: Prime Minister tells U.S. television that 'irrational regimes' like Iran can't be given nuclear capability, says it is a mistake to think it can be contained.
Netanyahu: Only US military threats can stop Iran from making nukes: Diplomacy and sanctions won't stop Iran from building a nuclear warhead, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Envoys: Turkey, Brazil brokering Iran nuclear deal: Turkey and Brazil are trying to revive a stalled atomic fuel deal with Iran in an attempt to help the Islamic Republic avoid new UN sanctions over its nuclear program
Israel says won't let Libya aid ship reach Gaza: Israel will not allow an aid ship sent by a Libyan group to reach Gaza, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday, just over a month after Israeli commandos killed nine activists in a raid at sea.
Libyan aid ship bound for Gaza to be rerouted to Egypt, Israeli sources say : The developments follow intensive Israeli efforts in recent days. Nonetheless, Al Jazeera television reported last night that the ship, the Al-Amal, had not changed course and was expected to dock in the Gaza Strip within the next day or two. The ship's captain also denied any plan to proceed to El-Arish.
Presbyterians: End Israel aid over settlements: Presbyterian leaders strongly backed a proposal Friday that included a call to end U.S. aid to Israel unless the country stops settlement expansions in disputed Palestinian territories.
Ireland seeks to block Israel access to data on EU citizens: Ireland is seeking to stop a European Union initiative that would enable Israel to receive sensitive information about European citizens, due to concerns about the use that Israel would make of this information, the Irish minister for justice said over the weekend.
Octavia Nasr's firing and what The Liberal Media allows: CNN - ended the 20-year career of Octavia Nasr, its Atlanta-based Senior Middle East News Editor, because of a now-deleted tweet she wrote on Sunday upon learning of the death of one of the Shiite world's most beloved religious figures:
Canada fears BP spill impact on tuna fishery: Bluefin tuna spawns in the Gulf of Mexico before migrating to Canada, meaning the environmental disaster in the Gulf caused by the blow out of a BP oil well could affect stocks north of the U.S.-Canada border.
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