Seventeen months after President Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq by Sept. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat brigades would remain until the end of 2011.
Published: 08/04/10, 10:04 AM / Last Update: 08/04/10, 10:10 AM
The plan to build a mosque adjacent to the ruins of the Twin Towers passed a crucial hurdle Tuesday when New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 9-0 not to declare the building now occupying the site protected, making way for it to be demolished and a mosque and Islamic center to be built in its place.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A source in the office of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirmed that the Iranian president's motorcade had come under an attack on Wednesday.
He said a home-made explosive device had exploded, but that the president, who was traveling from an airport in the western city of Hamadan to give a speech in a sports arena, was fine. One person had been arrested, the source said.
Published 11:43 04.08.10 Latest update 11:43 04.08.10 The Sunni Muslim rebel group Jundollah said it was behind the attacks, telling Al Arabiyeh television in an email that it had carried out the two bombings in retaliation for Iran's execution of the group's leader, Abdolmalek Rigi, in June.
Published: 08/04/10, 11:59 AM / Last Update: 08/04/10, 11:58 AM Arab sources reported Wednesday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad escaped an assassination attempt in the city Hamadan and that several people were wounded. The Iranian conservative Khabaronline.ir website said that the attacker was arrested.
08/03/2010 16:56 Lebanese and Syrian leaders responded sharply in the aftermath of the cross-border fire incident between Israeli and Lebanese troops on Tuesday.
Syrian President Bashar Assad told Lebanese President Michel Suleiman that Syria would stand behind Lebanon and provide any necessary support after the cross-border fire incident on Tuesday, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported.
The IDF fire "proves once again that Israel is constantly working to destabilize security in Lebanon and the region," SANA quoted Assad as saying.
The border tensions brewing for weeks on the Lebanese-Israel border boiled over Tuesday, Aug. 3 into a heavy exchange of cross-border fire. Lt. Col. Dov Harari, 45, from Netanya, batallion commander of the eastern Lebanese sector was killed in a surprise Lebanese cross-border attack. He was killed by what Maj. Gen. Gady Eisencott, OC Northern Command, later called one of two, well-planned, unprovoked "sniper ambushes" set by the Lebanese army - one against a group of Israeli officers standing behind the border fence and the second an RPG attack on an Israeli tank. Israeli major Ezra Lakiya, from Kfar Arif, was seriously injured. Doctors are fighting for his life. Lebanon reported three soldiers and one civilian killed in Israel's heavy retaliation for the attack. Israel has complained to the UN.
19:36 03.08.10 Netanyahu blames Lebanon for 'violent provocation against Israel' after Israeli officer, 4 Lebanese killed in rare border skirmish.
The United States is "extremely concerned" about violence on the border between Israel and Lebanon, and urges both sides to exercise "maximum restraint," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on Tuesday.
9:00PM BST 02 Aug 2010 The solar fireworks at the weekend were recorded by several satellites, including Nasa’s new Solar Dynamics Observatory which watched its shock wave rippling outwards.
Astronomers from all over the world witnessed the huge flare above a giant sunspot the size of the Earth, which they linked to an even larger eruption across the surface of Sun.
Universe's youngest star The explosion, called a coronal mass ejection, was aimed directly towards Earth, which then sent a “solar tsunami” racing 93 million miles across space.
