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U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, talk before a dinner at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Visiting Biden condemns new Israel settlement plan
| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned Israeli plans to build 1,600 more homes on occupied land where Palestinians seek statehood, ann... (photo: AP / Baz Ratner, Pool) The Star
Israel   Palestine   Peace   Photos   US  
Palestinian Said Eid stands next to his house, not seen, as construction continues on a new housing development in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa in east Jerusalem, background, Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Israel approves new settler homes as Biden talks peace
| By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | Gavin Rabinowitz | Agence France Presse | OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel on Tuesday approved the ... (photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner) Daily Star Lebanon
France   Israel   Palestine   Photos   US  
Israel's Labor Party leader Ehud Barak gestures, during a meeting of the party's central committee in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Prime Minister designate Benjamin Netanyahu reached a preliminary agreement Tuesday that would bring the centrist Labor Party into his coalition, an important step toward moderating the emerging government. Labor Party activists gathered Tuesday afternoon to vote on the deal, which calls on the government to pursue peace negotiations with the Palestinian Barak: Israel will hold all of Lebanon responsible for any Hizbullah attack
| By Patrick Galey | Daily Star staff | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: Israel will not launch an assault on southern Lebanon but will retaliate indisc... (photo: AP / Dan Balilty) Daily Star Lebanon
Defence   Hezbollah   Israel   Lebanon   Photos  
Iraqi election officials examine a ballot after the polls closed in the country's provincial elections in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. Iraq delays announcement of initial election results as ballot counting continues
| By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | Rory Mulholland | Agence France Presse | BAGHDAD: Iraq awaited initial results Tuesday from p... (photo: AP / Ahmed al-Husseini)) Daily Star Lebanon
Elections   Iraq   Photos   Politics   Society  
Turkish survivors warm themselves around a fire after they spent the night in tents in Yalnizcam village in the eastern province of Elazig, Turkey, Tuesday, March 9, 2010,one day after a strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey eaarly Monday, killing at least 57 people and knocking down houses in at least six small villages, the government said. Survivors struggle to pick up pieces after Turkey temblor
| By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | Mahmut Bozarslan | Agence France Presse | OKCULAR, Turkey: Survivors of a killer earthquake i... (photo: AP / Burhan Ozbilici) Daily Star Lebanon
Disaster   Earthquake   Emergency   Photos   Turkey  
Barack Obama shoots on the White House basketball court .jpg Greek PM not looking for aid in meeting with Obama
WASHINGTON: Ahead of a meeting with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is stressing that his country's financial woes are a problem... (photo: Public Domain / TCY) The Times Of India
America   Obama   Photos   Politics   US  
India's ruling Congress party supporters celebrate the passing of Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Women's Bill passed in RS as Congress refuses to be cowed down
NEW DELHI: After a day of high drama that saw the Rajya Sabha swarm with more than a hundred marshals in blue dresses called in to bundle out seven MPs blocking proceedin... (photo: AP / Ajit Solanki) The Times Of India
India   Photos   Politics   Society   Woman  
An Electoral worker empties a ballot box to begin counting the results at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Some Iraq Results Coming Wednesday
| BAGHDAD — Iraq’s electoral commission said Tuesday that it would announce partial results of parliamentary elections on Wednesday, providing an incomplete p... (photo: AP / Karim Kadim) The New York Times
Election   Iraq   Parliament   Photos   Vote  
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, listens to Iran's Defense Minister Gen. Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari, right, looks on during a military parade in Tehran in Sept. 2007. Jafari, on Friday Nov. 23, 2007, warned that if the nation's enemies continued plotting against it, they would launch what he called "a tidal wave of resistance" Iran can deter attacks on nuclear sites: minister
DOHA - Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar warned Tuesday that Tehran has 'great means of deterrence' to face any possible attack over its nuclear programme... (photo: AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian, FILE) Khaleej Times
Defence   Iran   Nuclear   Photos   US  
President Hosni Mubarak attends a joint press cEgyptian onference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (tmg1) What will it Take for Change to Come to Egypt?
Not so long ago, when an American president wanted help in the Arab world, he would call Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, who was routinely known as America's close... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser) Khaleej Times
Egypt   Mubarak   Photos   President   World  
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gestures to stress a point as she delivers her speech during the awarding ceremonies of the Bagong Bayani and Galing Pook Awards Friday (December 4) at Malacanang's Rizal Hall. 'Emperor' as AFP chief raises fears of poll fraud
| MANILA, Philippines—Members of both sides of the political spectrum are antsy over President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's appointment of the 'Emperor' as Armed Forces of t... (photo: OPS/NIB / Marcelino Pascua) Inquirer
Arroyo   Fears   Fraud   Manila   Photos  
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks with visiting Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, left, during their meeting in the Moscow Kremlin on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Russia urges Sweden to extradite Chechen "bandits"
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Sweden on Tuesday to extradite two men it says are Chechen separatists and accuses of involvement in killings... (photo: AP / Alexander Natruskin, Pool) The Star
Chechnya   Human Rights   Photos   Russia   Sweden  
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, where she welcomed Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon. Clinton says elections key to Haiti stability
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged quake-stricken Haiti on Tuesday to hold legislative elections "as soon as appropriate," saying new polls... (photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite) The Star
Earthquake   Elections   Haiti   Photos   US  
President Barack Obama speaks about financial reform, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, at the White House in Washington. Economic insecurity is troubling Obama
Economic insecurity is troubling Obama | The Obama administration and Democrats in general are in trouble because they are not urgently and effectively addressing the iss... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak) Deccan Chronicle
Democrats   Economy   Insecurity   Photos   US  
The message 'CUT Co2' lights up on the face of the Le Meridien hotel in New Delhi, calling for urgent action to fight climate change, at New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 19, 2007. Greenpeace is demanding that India implement energy efficiency measures as the first and most cost effective way to reduce Carbon Dioxide (Co2) emission China and India endorse Copenhagen climate deal
| NEW DELHI (Reuters) - China and India joined almost all other major greenhouse gas emitters on Tuesday in signing up to the climate accord struck in Copenhagen, boostin... (photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi) The Star
China   Climate Change   India   Photos   UN  
Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos concedes defeat in a brief speech at his campaign headquarters in Nicosia, Cyprus, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008. Papadopoulos was eliminated Sunday from Cyprus' presidential runoff in a major surprise after a cliffhanger election that saw three candidates neck-and-neck until the last minute. Communist party leader Demetris Christofias, 61, and 59-year-old former Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides of the right-wing DISY party will now vie for the five-year presidency in next Sunday's runoff Ex-president's body stolen for ransom, Cyprus says
| NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus said on Tuesday ransom was the motive of thieves who stole the body of former President Tassos Papadopoulos, found in a shallow grave on Mond... (photo: AP Photo / Petros Karadjias) The Star
Cyprus   News   Nicosia   Photos   President  
 In this image released by the Iraqi government, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to reporters during a visit to a military base in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Aug. 17, 2007. (dn1) First Iraq election results to be released Wednesday
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Preliminary results from Iraq's parliamentary election will be released on Wednesday, an electoral commission official said on Tuesday. Iraqi's Prim... (photo: AP/Iraqi Government) The Star
Baghdad   Elections   Iraq   Photos   Politics  
** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, JULY 3 ** Trisha Leu, 17, who has lost 60 pounds since undergoing gastric band surgery in March, weeds the garden in the front yard of her Wheeling, Ill., home, Wednesday, June 28, 2006. The American Medical Association is considering a proposal to label children in the highest weight category as "obese" instead of the current term, "overweight." Trisha dislikes the term obese because she thinks "it sounds mean. It doesn't sound good." (AP Photo/Stacie Freudenberg) ANALYSIS - U.S. politicians may unite in obesity battle
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One way to achieve bipartisanship in Washington may be to tackle an issue everyone can agree on -- the childhood obesity epidemic. People line up... (photo: AP / Stacie Freudenberg) The Star
Epidemic   Health   Obesity   Photos   US  
Su Wei, chief negotiator of China on climate change, makes a point during his press conference at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. China and India Join Climate Accord
| WASHINGTON — China and India formally agreed to join the international climate change agreement reached last December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies ... (photo: AP / Heribert Proepper) The New York Times
China   Climate Change   India   Photos   UN  
Whale shark Maldives Ban Fishing of Sharks
| PARIS — The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts to protect the fish ... (photo: GFDL) The New York Times
Conservation   Maldives   Photos   UN   Wildlife