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Apparently Ehud Barak, Israel's defense minister and former prime minister, is having some sleepless nights. Should Israel preemptively strike Iran?

This border proposal would likely fail to receive Palestinian approval since they would have to cede the holy city of Jerusalem to the Israeli side of the border.

Pfizer remained profitable despite a reported drop in quarterly earnings, beating analysts' dire predictions of lost revenue to generic versions of its best-selling drug Lipitor through its non-pharmaceutical units and cost cutting.

Actor Jon Voight offered his support to Mitt Romney for the 2012 GOP presidential bid in front of a crowd of hundreds at a Pensacola, Fla. seafood restaurant Saturday. Rallying alongside Romney and Sen. John McCain, the academy award winning actor claimed Newt Gingrich falls short of Romney in many ways, in hopes that Romney will win the Fla. primary.

More than a year after a wave of popular uprisings swept across the Arab world, the White House spent Monday responding to the chaos the Arab Spring has unleashed in Syria and Egypt.

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Recently, Ron Paul was asked a hypothetical question concerning Israel’s security. Would he, as president, provide Israel with military assistance if they were attacked with nuclear weapons from Iran?

Fighting sanctions with sanctions in a test of strength with the West over its nuclear ambitions, Iran warned on Friday it may halt oil exports to Europe next week in a move calculated to hurt ailing European economies.

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich blamed Palestinian leadership for the conflict in Israel, claiming that Palestinians refuse to have a two-state solution while Israel does.

Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum faced off last night in the final GOP debate in Florida before the Jan. 31 primary. Here, find out what statements from the primary debate were true and which got the facts wrong, from Santorum on Latin America to Mitt Romney's involvement in Freddie Mac.

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility Inc posted a fourth quarter loss on weak revenue on Thursday in what could be its last report before a planned takeover by Google Inc.

The Republican presidential candidates are gathered in Jacksonville, Fla., tonight for their last debate before the Florida primary on Tuesday. The International Business Times will be live-blogging throughout the evening.

Iran is unlikely to move toward building a nuclear weapon this year because it does not yet have the capability to produce enough weapon-grade uranium, a draft report by the Institute for Science and International Security said Wednesday.

The epic global shifts of 2011 transformed the political, economic, and social landscape from Shanghai to Sao Paolo, Washington to Cairo. No leader is safe from the vagaries of social unrest; no economy (not even China's) is unaffected by contagion from an over-leveraged, under-managed euro zone. No country is immune from the threat of asymmetric attacks - anything from a terrorist bomb to cybe...

Are Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney the same? Vice President Joe Biden thinks so, and a side-by-side comparison of their positions shows more similarities than differences.

Already dubbed as “the gay capital of the Middle East,” Tel Aviv, situated on the Mediterranean coast, is also said to have a large community of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people.

Newt Gingrich's resurgent presidential campaign owes much to the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam, who have in the last few weeks given a combined $10 million to the pro-Gingrich Super PAC Restore Our Future. With two separate infusions of $5 million, the Adelson have played an outsize role in shaping the outcome of the Republican presidential primary, raising questions about who Sheldon Adelson is and why he is motivated to back Gingrich so aggressively.

These five films have been nominated for Best Foreign Language film for the 2012 Academy Awards.

A total of 15,000 to 16,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis in Rostov-on-Don between August 1942 to February 1943.

Egypt's ruling military council said that it will lift a 30-year-long state of emergency on Wednesday, the one-year anniversary of the start of the revolution that led to the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak's regime.

The Oscar nominations list for 2012 was full of snubs but also big shockers like Tree of Life and Extremely Loud in the Best Picture category.