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Israel at 65: Success still plagued by uncertainty

JERUSALEM: In 65 years, Israel has surpassed the dreams of its founders, emerging as the Middle East’s strongest military force, a global high-tech powerhouse and

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British university attacks BBC over covert North Korea trip

LONDON: A leading British university criticised the BBC on Sunday for arranging an academic trip to North Korea to make an undercover documentary, saying it had put students who were

Despite tension, NKorea lets in tourists, athletes

PYONGYANG, North Korea: Despite North Korea’s warnings that the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula is so high it cannot guarantee the safety of foreign residents, it literally trotted

U.S. says agrees with China on peaceful North Korea solution

BEIJING: The United States said on Saturday that Chinahad agreed to help rid North Korea of its nuclear capability by peaceful means, but Beijing made no specific commitment in public

Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad resigns

RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad resigned on Saturday, leaving the Palestinians without one of their most moderate and well-respected voices just as the U.S. is launching a

Russia bans 18 Americans after similar US move

MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday named 18 Americans banned from entering the country in response to Washington imposing sanctions on 18 Russians for alleged human rights violations. The list released by

Mubarak appears in Egypt court; retrial adjourned

CAIRO: An upbeat and alert-looking Hosni Mubarak waved to his supporters after he was wheeled into a Cairo courtroom on Saturday for the first session of his retrial on charges

Lion Air plane crashes into sea in Bali; 22 hurt

BALI, Indonesia: A Lion Air plane carrying more than 100 passengers and crew overshot a runway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday and crashed into the sea, injuring nearly two dozen people, officials

Looking for logic in North Korea’s threats

SEOUL, South Korea: To the outside world, the talk often appears to border on the lunatic, with the poor, hungry and electricity-starved nation threatening to lay waste to America’s cities

U.S. tells N.Korea new missile launch would be “huge mistake”

SEOUL: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned North Korea on Friday it would be a “huge mistake” to launch a medium-range missile and said the United States would never