Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said “a lack of leadership” by his conservative successor, Angela Merkel, was to blame for problems plaguing the grand coalition.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday it is a mistake for the country to turn off its nuclear power plants over the next 14 years even though her coalition government is committed to the plan.
A leading anti-Zionist Jewish rabbi here Saturday lashed out at Germany for supporting the Zionist regime, branding it a 'shame'. "Germany has become the biggest ally of the Zionist regime after World War II and thus has become a partner in the warmongering policies of the Zionist regime." He termed 'Zionism as the great catastrophe for the Jewish religion'.
Here is the statement published by the principal Christian patriarchs and leaders of the Holy Land on the status of Jerusalem. The statement was published following the end of the Israeli-Lebanon war this summer, and highlights the need for a more concerted effort to build a lasting peace in the Middle East, beginning with Jerusalem.
High oil prices have brought the Saudi kingdom a windfall of cash. But they can't solve its deep-rooted problems, including its royal feuding.
North Korea said on Saturday that US joint war games with South Korea, coming in the wake of new UN sanctions over Pyongyang’s nuclear test, were pushing the region to the edge of war. “The US is ceaselessly staging DPRK-targeted war exercises in the sky, on the ground and in the sea of the Korean Peninsula and its vicinity. This is a grave provocation driving the situation on the peninsula to the brink of war and a dangerous play with fire aimed at igniting a war."
Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced any military operation against Iran in a meeting last week with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Putin told Olmert in the Moscow meeting that foiling Iran's nuclear program could end in disaster for the world.
RUSSIA would oppose any effort to use the UN Security Council to promote a change of regime in Iran, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
There is no shortage of books and articles making the point that 9-11 gave neoconservatives the chance to put into practice a long-cherished ambition, namely restoring the imperial presidency weakened by Watergate and thereby returning to the kind of muscular foreign policy that the trauma of Vietnam had long precluded. Greg Grandin's book attempts to provide a "missing link" to complete the narrative.
In all the major flashpoints of the world – Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and North Korea – Washington is in paralysis where it is not deep in a regressive coma. There is little it can do to force the changes it wants, and whatever it can do is only likely to backfire.
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