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JERUSALEM : Israel has given the green light for the building of 112 new homes in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank despite a partial moratorium on such construction, a minister said on Monday.
The expansion was revealed hours before the arrival of US Vice President Joe Biden and a [...]
By Glenn Greenwald
Joseph Stack deliberately flew an airplane into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, in order to advance the political grievances he outlined in a perfectly cogent suicide-manifesto. Stack’s worldview contained elements of the tea party’s anti-government anger along with substantial populist complaints generally associated [...]
British soldiers from 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh (left) and Afghan forces, part of the 15,000 troops preparing major assaults on Taliban strongholds in Helmand under Operation Moshtarak. Photograph: Major Paul Smyth/Rifles/MoD/PA
Three British soldiers have been killed in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan in the last 24 hours, taking the [...]
A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel Chossudovsky, who’s from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, [...]
THE discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in the northwestern Pakistan town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country.
Barack Obama has banned the Bush-era term “war on [...]
