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WASHINGTON - The United States slapped sanctions on 21 Iranian government firms

Treasury undersecretary Stuart Levey

US Treasury Department targets Iranian aid operations, banking, mining companies.

Tuesday, boosting pressure over the Islamic republic's nuclear program and alleged support…

Every morning the two girls wake up before dawn, row their wooden skiff out into Gaza's heavily-

'Girls like us have to work as fishermen despite the dangers'

Madeleine, 16, sister Reem, 13, brave gunfire to make ends meet for family in…

IN 1871,THE English anthropologist and social Darwinist E.B.Tylor formulated the generally accepted and classical

The terms are compelling, but…

IT HAPPENED IN the Masjid of Madinah, the Mosque of the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu alayhe wa…

Sporting a long blue dress and white headscarf, Umm Omar barely blinks as she whips out a pistol in

First Published 2010-08-03





First female insurgents & counter-insurgents, now armed housewives

Growing number of Iraqi…

JERUSALEM - The Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now has documented 492 violations of a partial

First Published 2010-08-03





The question of settlements is still unsettled

Peace Now: Israeli government trying to ignore…

O humankind! Worship your Lord,who created you and those before you, so that you may become God-fearing.

By Moeen Ahmad

(Worship none but) the One who (alone) has made the…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he was ready for face-to-face talks with his US

First Published 2010-08-02





'See whose solutions are better'

Iranian President calls on US counterpart to debate him on…

The following article by Michael Vannoy Adams is a presentation delivered at the congress of the International

Association for Analytical Psychology in Cape Town, August 15, 2007.

Among all archetypes, the journey is perhaps the most universal. Of course, there are always variations on themes. There is the external journey, and there is the internal journey. There are personal journeys, and there are…

BAMAKO, France — An Arab community in Mali has lodged a law suit against the French and Mauritanian armies

, accusing them of kidnapping two civilians after a raid against an Al-Qaeda base, an official said Friday.

"We have filed a complaint against the Mauritanian and French armies for the kidnapping and sequestration of two civilians, just after an attack on a camp in the northwest of Mali," Sidy Mohamed Ould Mohamed, a local councillor for Timbuktu and…

JAFFA, Israel - An Israeli soldier accused of killing two women waving white flags during the

A story of white-phosphors and white…

The United National Antiwar Conference, attended by 850 people from July 23 to 25, 2010 in Albany, New York,

Palestine is back at the heart of the antiwar movement.

By Andrew Pollack – New York

marked a sea change in the attitude of the antiwar movement…

SANAA - Water scarcity, rapid population growth and internal conflicts are some of the main

First Published 2010-08-01





Highly vulnerable

'Alarming state of food insecurity' at national and local levels in poverty-hit Yemen.

factors causing an “alarming state of…

GENEVA - A UN panel of experts called Friday on Israel to fall in line with international

First Published 2010-07-30





Israeli soldiers detain foreign peace activists

Israel urged to halt targeted killings, torture, army impunity, blockade of Gaza Strip.

norms on…

AL HADIDIYA, West Bank - The road to al-Hadidiya village in the northeastern West Bank district of Tubas is

First Published 2010-07-30





No food, no medicine, no attention

West Bank Bedouins worse off than Gazans, but no…

Dear friends,

Please find attached the text of the Open Letter we have sent to the OECD regarding their decision to hold their

annual Tourism Conference in Jerusalem. We oppose this decision and the Open Letter discusses this and urges a change of venue for the Conference.

In solidarity with us, please assist us in widening the advocacy in the following ways:

Send our letter to the OECD with the endorsement of your…

Gaza's ubiquitous donkey carts are facing stiff competition after an influx of South Asia's iconic tuk-

First Published 2010-07-29





'It's much faster than a donkey'

Palestinian transport seeks to adapt to life under Israeli…

The arrest by Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, of an Israeli Jew accused of killing at least four

Despite being illegal, Kach operates openly in the settlements

By Jonathan Cook - Nazareth

Palestinians has thrown a rare light on the secret…