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US President Barack Obama and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu have admitted their differences on the Middle East peace issues.

Syrian security forces have again killed at least 34 protesters during a rally when activists tried to draw the country's Kurdish minority in the movement for political change.

Fifteen people have been killed as a NATO tanker carrying oil for forces in Afghanistan has exploded in northwest Pakistan on Saturday.

Spaniards continue to protest against unemployment for the seventh day across the country defying a ban on demonstrations before the elections.

On Saturday, 21 May 2011, the IAEA provided the following information on the status of nuclear safety in Japan:

As part of the Partnership to Advance Clean Energy announced by President Obama and Prime Minister Singh of India last November, the Department of Energy has committed $25 million over the next five years to support the U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC).

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told President Barack Obama on Friday his vision of how to achieve Middle East peace was unrealistic, exposing a deep divide that could doom any U.S. bid to revive peace talks.

There seems to be a broad-based strengthening in the labor market with the growth of payrolls in 42 U.S. states and a decline in unemployment rate in 39 states in April.

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will formally announce his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday in Iowa, an aide said.

So far, it's been mum's the word on whether she will run for president, but Sarah Palin knows one thing for certain: there's fire in her belly.

The U.S. State Department declined to confirm a report that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke angrily with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday.

One of the top labor leaders in the U.S. has accused House Speaker John Boehner of “blackmailing”America for his refusal to vote to lift the debt ceiling in the absence of significant spending cuts.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Obama reached two conclusions during their meeting at the White House Friday: They share visions for peace; and they differ in how they think it is best attained.

Israel opposition leader Tzipi Livni blasted Netanyahu for “harming the relationship” between the US and Israel by challenging Obama in Washington today.

Former president George W. Bush is earning big bucks making speeches, with a fee of between $100,000 and $150,000 per appearance.

Police in Pakistan said they have thwarted a terrorist attack by arresting a potential suicide bomber and two of his associates in the city of Karachi.

Despite both President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conceding differences on a future state for Palestinians, they expressed their mutual support toward peace in the Middle East, saying that disagreements arise between friends.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have left his prison cell after posting $1-million bail, but he might not have a place to live in the outside world.

The revelation of parking ticket perks for 'Gold Card Desk' members that surprised the public appears that it is not much of a revelation to City Controller Wendy Greuel

By now, it is no secret that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was more than peeved with President Barack Obama’s May 18 proposal for Israel to retreat to pre-1967 lines. And while some have commended the move, others have condemned it.

The country’s economic growth rate in the current fiscal year has decreased from 5.8 percent to 2.6 percent, Egypt’s Finance Minister Samir Radwan told local media on Thursday.

Prominent Republicans have strongly criticized President Barack Obama’s proposal to redraw the map of Israel to pre-1967 borders, on the eve of talks between the US and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

European officials largely endorsed US President Barack Obama’s call for a reshaping of the Israel-Palestine map by reverting to the borders in place before the Six Day War of 1967.

Michael R. Long, chairman of the New York Conservative Party, is a deterrent to the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York.

Harold Camping's theory that May 21, 2011 is the Judgment Day is based more on calculations rather than divine revelation.

In advance of his White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday, President Barack Obama laid bare his peace plan proposal between Israel and Palestine.

France believes the fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was a conspiracy alleging him of rape, which needs further explanation.

An unmanned U.S. drone missile strike in the Taliban-controlled North Waziristan province of Pakistan has killed at least six suspected militants on Friday, according to local officials.

Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah called for an early presidential elections, without mention anything about the GCC, Gulf Cooperation Council deal which had promised to end his three-decade rule.