Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
A top Iranian general said government troops are “ready to sacrifice our lives” rather than back down in the face of protests over June’s disputed presidential election.
Gen. Sayyed Hassan Firouzabadi, chief of Iran’s Joint Armed Forces, said Iranian soldiers were willing to die as they did in the brutal eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, [...]
At least four people were killed and 32 wounded as six Baghdad-area churches were bombed within 24 hours, officials told CNN.
The first bombing took place Saturday night at St. Joseph’s church in western Baghdad, according to an Interior Ministry official. Two bombs placed inside the church exploded at about 10 p.m. No one was in [...]
Palestinians reject any deal between Israel and the United States that would allow even limited Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, a top Palestinian negotiator said on Sunday.
“There are no middle-ground solutions for the settlement issue: either settlement activity stops or it doesn’t stop,” Saeb Erekat told Voice of Palestine radio.
Erekat said [...]
Iran is preparing a new package of “political, security and international” issues to put to the West, its foreign minister said Saturday.
“The package can be a good basis for talks with the West. The package will contain Iran’s stances on political, security and international issues,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told a news conference.
French President [...]
Israel is ready to withdraw from areas of the Golan Heights, but it will not give up large parts of the occupied territory in any peace deal with Syria, a top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
National Security Adviser Uzi Arad also said in an interview with Haaretz newspaper published on Friday [...]
Riot police fired in the air to disperse pro-reform demonstrators in central Tehran on Thursday, nearly four weeks after a disputed election triggered mass protests across Iran, a witness said.
Police detained several people among hundreds of protesters who turned up near Tehran University in defiance of a ban on gatherings for the anniversary of [...]
Egyptian security forces arrested 26 suspected al-Qaeda loyalists on charges of plotting attacks on foreign ships passing through the Suez Canal, the interior ministry said on Thursday, in the latest of a series of clampdowns and evictions on suspected Islamists.
The suspects, 25 Egyptians and a Palestinian, were in contact with the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Army [...]
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations have deplored post-election violence in Iran, and said the Islamic Republic had until September to negotiate with the West over its nuclear programme.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, said Tehran could face tougher action if it did not talk to the international community over its atomic ambitions by the next G20 gathering.
“We [...]
The governor of Tehran has warned that Iranian security forces will “trample” any protests to mark the 10th anniversary of a student uprising in the Islamic republic.
Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the defeated opposition presidential candidate, have called for demonstrations in the capital and other cities on Thursday.
Leaflets have been distributed in Tehran urging people [...]
At least 33 people have been killed in two suspected suicide attacks in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, police have said.
The second bomber reportedly detonated his explosives as people gathered to help victims of the first blast on Thursday.
More than 70 people were reportedly wounded.
Khaled Omar, a police colonel in the town, told the AFP news [...]
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