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25 pro-Palestinian activists from Germany stopped upon arrival in Israel
Passengers from Lufthansa flight expected to be denied entry to Israel, after 65 other 'fly-in' activists were transferred to detention facilities and 4 were deported; police estimate that bulk of events related to 'fly-in' have ended.
50 'flytilla' activists enter West Bank
Hundreds of the pro-Palestinian activists who tried to fly to Israel in recent days were blocked in Europe and dozens were arrested at Ben-Gurion Airport, but it turns out that some of them have managed to evade the police and reach the Palestinian Authority territories.
Erdogan: Israel must apologize to normalize relations
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday it was "unthinkable" to normalize ties with Israel unless the Jewish state apologized for the killing of nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists aboard a Turkish ship bound for Gaza last year.
Who's behind the 'flytilla'?
Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists who arrived on flights to Israel on Friday and denied entry by authorities were sent by several organizations based in Europe and the United States. The campaign to bring international activists to Israel's airport, dubbed "Welcome to Palestine," was orchestrated months in advance and took meticulous planning.
New US ambassador to Israel sworn in
New United States Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on Friday was sworn in by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a ceremony attended by hundreds of guests at the State Department building in Washington.
Romania backtracking over Palestinian statehood vote
Romania said Friday it had yet to decide on its vote on a unilateral Palestinian bid for statehood in September, two days after telling Israeli's Benjamin Netanyahu it opposed any unilateral solution. "We are analyzing the forms and implications of the planned Palestinian bid," the foreign ministry said.
The U.N. Security Council is sending 7,000 peace keeping troops to southern Sudan.
Diplomatic kerfuffle between Washington and Damascus
In Washington, the State Department said Friday that Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Eric Boswell had called Syrian Ambassador Imad Mustapha in to the State Department on Wednesday "to express a number of our concerns with the reported actions of certain Syrian embassy staff in the United States."
US rejects Syrian charge that envoy incited protests
The United States on Friday rejected a charge by Syria that the US ambassador to Damascus had sought to incite protests in the tense city of Hama, saying the American envoy was welcomed with flowers and olive branches by peaceful civilians seeking political change.
Karachi soldiers told to shoot violent demonstrators on sight
Karachi in Pakistan is now a "war zone," according to Amnesty International. Pakistani authorities have ordered 1,000 extra troops into Karachi to shoot on sight armed men who have been involved in sectarian violence. Amnesty International has said the order effectively declares the city a war zone, and is a recipe for disaster.
China, the Philippines seek solution to South China Sea dispute
The Philippines' Foreign Secretary Alberto del Rosario on Friday ended his visit to China aimed at seeking diplomatic ways for the two nations to resolve the South China Sea dispute.
Libya's Gadhafi threatens 'martyr' attacks in Europe
Muammar Gadhafi threatened on Friday to send hundreds of Libyans to launch attacks in Europe in revenge for the NATO-led military campaign against him. "Hundreds of Libyans will martyr in Europe. I told you it is eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. But we will give them a chance to come to their senses," the Libyan leader said in an audio speech carried on Libyan television.
Report: Stable cooling system in place for Japan reactors
Tokyo Electric Power Co has met a government-set target of setting up a cooling system for the crippled nuclear reactors at Fukushima within four months of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, a senior official was quoted as saying on Saturday.
War and drought compounding Somalia exodus
The cluster of crowded camps scattered around the town now shelter almost 100,000, but officials say the deadly cocktail of daily bloodshed and a ruinous regional drought will force even more to arrive in the coming months.
"This is the worst humanitarian disaster we are facing in the world," UNHCR head Antonio Guterres said during a trip to the area on Wednesday. "We have one-fourth of the population of Somalia displaced."
IMF agrees to give Greece 3 billion euros
The International Monetary Fund approved on Friday just over 3 billion euros ($4.2 billion) to Greece, the latest installment of a rescue package aimed at helping the country pull back from an impending debt default.
Exclusive: South Sudan says can live off credit if north blocks
South Sudan can survive on credit, using its oil as collateral, if the north goes ahead with its threat to block pipelines after the south secedes on Saturday or if war between them breaks out again, officials told Reuters.
TV adverts for commercial abortion clinics given go ahead
England - Private clinics which carry out abortions will be allowed to advertise on television and radio for the first time, under new rules.
2012: 'Gay marriage' could be on the ballot in 5 states
The successful push to legalize "gay marriage" in New York did far more than change state law -- it also served to motivate activists on both sides of the issue in other states in a move that could impact the 2012 presidential election as well as federal courts.
Dutch on multiculturalism: Enough!
Policies supporting ethnic minorities are to be a thing of the past in the Netherlands. In the future, every migrant will have to take responsibility for his or her own integration, Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner has said in a letter to the parliament, everybody should embrace Dutch values.
Diocese of Orange may make bid for Crystal Cathedral
The Crystal Cathedral would provide an instant, 3,000-seat architectural landmark at roughly half the $100 million that was estimated for construction of a new site in Santa Ana.
House: No gay weddings by military chaplains
According to the Associated Press, when the House passed a $649 billion defense spending bill today, it blocked any of those dollars to be used to train military chaplains on how to deal with the ending DADT policy:
In U.S., 3 in 10 Say They Take the Bible Literally
Three in 10 Americans interpret the Bible literally, saying it is the actual word of God. That is similar to what Gallup has measured over the last two decades, but down from the 1970s and 1980s. A 49% plurality of Americans say the Bible is the inspired word of God but that it should not be taken literally, consistently the most common view in Gallup's nearly 40-year history of this question. Another 17% consider the Bible an ancient book of stories recorded by man.
Passengers from Lufthansa flight expected to be denied entry to Israel, after 65 other 'fly-in' activists were transferred to detention facilities and 4 were deported; police estimate that bulk of events related to 'fly-in' have ended.
50 'flytilla' activists enter West Bank
Hundreds of the pro-Palestinian activists who tried to fly to Israel in recent days were blocked in Europe and dozens were arrested at Ben-Gurion Airport, but it turns out that some of them have managed to evade the police and reach the Palestinian Authority territories.
Erdogan: Israel must apologize to normalize relations
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday it was "unthinkable" to normalize ties with Israel unless the Jewish state apologized for the killing of nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists aboard a Turkish ship bound for Gaza last year.
Who's behind the 'flytilla'?
Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists who arrived on flights to Israel on Friday and denied entry by authorities were sent by several organizations based in Europe and the United States. The campaign to bring international activists to Israel's airport, dubbed "Welcome to Palestine," was orchestrated months in advance and took meticulous planning.
New US ambassador to Israel sworn in
New United States Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on Friday was sworn in by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a ceremony attended by hundreds of guests at the State Department building in Washington.
Romania backtracking over Palestinian statehood vote
Romania said Friday it had yet to decide on its vote on a unilateral Palestinian bid for statehood in September, two days after telling Israeli's Benjamin Netanyahu it opposed any unilateral solution. "We are analyzing the forms and implications of the planned Palestinian bid," the foreign ministry said.
The U.N. Security Council is sending 7,000 peace keeping troops to southern Sudan.
Diplomatic kerfuffle between Washington and Damascus
In Washington, the State Department said Friday that Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Eric Boswell had called Syrian Ambassador Imad Mustapha in to the State Department on Wednesday "to express a number of our concerns with the reported actions of certain Syrian embassy staff in the United States."
US rejects Syrian charge that envoy incited protests
The United States on Friday rejected a charge by Syria that the US ambassador to Damascus had sought to incite protests in the tense city of Hama, saying the American envoy was welcomed with flowers and olive branches by peaceful civilians seeking political change.
Karachi soldiers told to shoot violent demonstrators on sight
Karachi in Pakistan is now a "war zone," according to Amnesty International. Pakistani authorities have ordered 1,000 extra troops into Karachi to shoot on sight armed men who have been involved in sectarian violence. Amnesty International has said the order effectively declares the city a war zone, and is a recipe for disaster.
China, the Philippines seek solution to South China Sea dispute
The Philippines' Foreign Secretary Alberto del Rosario on Friday ended his visit to China aimed at seeking diplomatic ways for the two nations to resolve the South China Sea dispute.
Libya's Gadhafi threatens 'martyr' attacks in Europe
Muammar Gadhafi threatened on Friday to send hundreds of Libyans to launch attacks in Europe in revenge for the NATO-led military campaign against him. "Hundreds of Libyans will martyr in Europe. I told you it is eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. But we will give them a chance to come to their senses," the Libyan leader said in an audio speech carried on Libyan television.
Report: Stable cooling system in place for Japan reactors
Tokyo Electric Power Co has met a government-set target of setting up a cooling system for the crippled nuclear reactors at Fukushima within four months of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, a senior official was quoted as saying on Saturday.
War and drought compounding Somalia exodus
The cluster of crowded camps scattered around the town now shelter almost 100,000, but officials say the deadly cocktail of daily bloodshed and a ruinous regional drought will force even more to arrive in the coming months.
"This is the worst humanitarian disaster we are facing in the world," UNHCR head Antonio Guterres said during a trip to the area on Wednesday. "We have one-fourth of the population of Somalia displaced."
IMF agrees to give Greece 3 billion euros
The International Monetary Fund approved on Friday just over 3 billion euros ($4.2 billion) to Greece, the latest installment of a rescue package aimed at helping the country pull back from an impending debt default.
Exclusive: South Sudan says can live off credit if north blocks
South Sudan can survive on credit, using its oil as collateral, if the north goes ahead with its threat to block pipelines after the south secedes on Saturday or if war between them breaks out again, officials told Reuters.
TV adverts for commercial abortion clinics given go ahead
England - Private clinics which carry out abortions will be allowed to advertise on television and radio for the first time, under new rules.
2012: 'Gay marriage' could be on the ballot in 5 states
The successful push to legalize "gay marriage" in New York did far more than change state law -- it also served to motivate activists on both sides of the issue in other states in a move that could impact the 2012 presidential election as well as federal courts.
Dutch on multiculturalism: Enough!
Policies supporting ethnic minorities are to be a thing of the past in the Netherlands. In the future, every migrant will have to take responsibility for his or her own integration, Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner has said in a letter to the parliament, everybody should embrace Dutch values.
Diocese of Orange may make bid for Crystal Cathedral
The Crystal Cathedral would provide an instant, 3,000-seat architectural landmark at roughly half the $100 million that was estimated for construction of a new site in Santa Ana.
House: No gay weddings by military chaplains
According to the Associated Press, when the House passed a $649 billion defense spending bill today, it blocked any of those dollars to be used to train military chaplains on how to deal with the ending DADT policy:
In U.S., 3 in 10 Say They Take the Bible Literally
Three in 10 Americans interpret the Bible literally, saying it is the actual word of God. That is similar to what Gallup has measured over the last two decades, but down from the 1970s and 1980s. A 49% plurality of Americans say the Bible is the inspired word of God but that it should not be taken literally, consistently the most common view in Gallup's nearly 40-year history of this question. Another 17% consider the Bible an ancient book of stories recorded by man.