Venezuela will set up a formal inquiry into suspicions that the late President Hugo Chavez\’s cancer was the result of poisoning by his enemies abroad, the government said.
Senior Iranian clerics have scolded President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for consoling Hugo Chavez\’s mother with a hug – a physical contact considered a sin under Iran\’s strict Islamic codes.
U.S. intelligence leaders said for the first time on Tuesday that cyber attacks and cyber espionage have supplanted terrorism as the top security threat facing the United States.
Syrian President Bashar Assad is likely to run for re-election next year and win, with Syria remaining in military and political deadlock until then, said the deputy leader of Lebanon\’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group.
When President Obama visits Israel next week, Gavriel Yaakov wants him to jump-start the peace process.
During President Obama’s visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) next week, he will visit the West Bank towns of Ramallah, where he will meet PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, and Bethlehem, to see the Church of the Nativity. A new report by the World Bank says he will see an economy that is in steady decline and losing its competetiveness.
If ever there were a gathering of Women of the Wall that was going to spark a wider conflict, Tuesday’s would have been the one.
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