French President Francois Hollande made a stopover in Lebanon Sunday, in his first venture into the Middle East since his election earlier this year, as he warned all those looking to “destabilise” Lebanon that “France will oppose them with all its might”.
As the US electorate prepares to go to the polls Tuesday, American statistics position incumbent President Barack Obama neck-and-neck with his Republican rival Mitt Romney, with the latest Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll positioning the Democrat on 47% with Romney close at his heels with 46%.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton embarked on a tour of Morocco and Algeria Monday as she professed herself “encouraged” by democratic progress in the two North African states and committed the EU’s continued “strong support to the reform progress”.
Channel 2 investigative report shows spat between former prime minister Olmert, defense minister Barak as they struggled to cope with growing Iranian, Syrian nuclear activity.
After severe blow to Syrian President Assad's military, troops launch air strike on Idlib, killing 20 rebel fighters; Russian FM Lavrov admits country still supplying arms to Syria under Soviet-era commitments.
Ukraine's nationalist party Svoboda has broken through as a radical force in politics with its success in the weekend's elections, with enough seats to shake-up the new parliament.
The number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in the US in 2011 declined y 13% over the number registered the previous year, found the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s annual audit, in the most promising statistics for twenty years.
Israel’s chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, accompanied by his delegation, surprised the children at Odessa, Ukraine’s “Good family” Orphanage and Children’s home with a special visit.
European Union leaders this week issued cautious condemnation of the recent elections in Ukraine, after the polls became mired in controversy with widespread reports of biased media reporting and “abuse of administrative resources”.
