Reading between the lines;
Thinking outside the box...
Benedict XVI says he is hoping for the success of a conference under way in Rome that is considering the theme "God Today: With or Without Him Everything Changes."
"Cordiality" and "mutual understanding" -- and not "crisis" or "breakdown" -- was how a joint Israel-Holy See statement described the most recent round of talks between the two sides.
A communiqué released after Thursday's meeting of The Bilateral Permanent Working Commission between the Holy See and the State of Israel noted that the meeting "took place in an atmosphere of cordiality and mutual understanding."
Germany is poised to borrow around 100 euros billion more next year, a newspaper reported on Thursday, signaling that Europe's largest economy is on course to break the EU's deficit rules -- and the extent of the financial headache facing the new center-right government coalition.
Organizers of an informal "referendum" on independence from Spain for the rich region of Catalonia hope for a big turnout on Sunday to help push their separatist campaign onto the mainstream political agenda.
More than 700,000 people in 170 towns and villages across Catalonia will be allowed to participate in the "referendum," which will ask citizens whether Catalonia should become an independent state within the European Union.
Is Europe becoming too accustomed to genteel decline? Today's European leaders talk about things changing, but in ways designed to appeal, all too often, to the side of Europe that is old, tired and anxious.
Russian President Medvedev has proposed a pan-European security treaty to countries throughout Europe that appears to undermine NATO at a time while he's pursuing his nation's own military initiatives which would be in violation of his plan.
Medvedev submitted the "Draft Treaty on European Security" for "all states of the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian space from Vancouver to Vladivostok." Its release was timed to coincide with the recent NATO-Russia Council meeting.
Medvedev submitted the "Draft Treaty on European Security" for "all states of the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian space from Vancouver to Vladivostok." Its release was timed to coincide with the recent NATO-Russia Council meeting.
Torah, yes. Talmud, no!...
The Israeli justice minister said biblical law should play a greater role in Israeli life, prompting calls for his ouster, officials said.
Ya'akov Ne'eman told rabbis and rabbinical judges attending a gathering on Jewish monetary law, "The law of the Torah is Israel's law," Israeli newspapers reported.
Ya'akov Ne'eman told rabbis and rabbinical judges attending a gathering on Jewish monetary law, "The law of the Torah is Israel's law," Israeli newspapers reported.
"Israel should regain the heritage of our fathers, the primary and ultimate words of the Torah, which contain a complete solution to all the questions we deal with. Soon, in the near future, amen."
From this Jewish settlement in the West Bank, calls are mounting for Israeli soldiers to cross a sacred line and defy orders to enforce a slowdown of Israeli construction on lands claimed by the Palestinians.
Anxious to preserve the army's role as the country's great unifier, Israeli authorities have jailed defiant soldiers, issued stern warnings to rebellious rabbis and recommended expelling one seminary from a program combining religious study and military service.
The Palestinian Authority has been negotiating an understanding with the Obama administration regarding a Palestinian threat to unilaterally ask the UN to recognize a Palestinian state outside of negotiations with Israel.
Tomorrow will mark 6 months since the prime minister's foreign policy speech at Bar-Ilan University. It's now time for another historic speech.
In the near future, he needs to convene the right audience, find a fitting site and deliver the speech of a lifetime.
We don't want peace, he should say, going down in history as the first Israeli leader to tell the truth, the whole truth.
The former head of Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, Asad Durrani said in an interview with Press TV that Blackwater, a notorious US security firm, is carrying out operations in the country.
His comments came after the CIA revealed that Blackwater, which currently works under the name Xe Services, has been involved in drone attacks in Pakistan.
The surprise announcement this week that India would create a new state has sparked what advocates of the status quo have long feared: a host of other regions clamoring for statehood.
Iran and Syria signed a defense cooperation pact in Damascus on Friday, and pledged to work in coordination to counter the regional threat they see posed by the "Zionist regime."
Is Siemens helping Iran? German customs officials intercepted a Siemens shipment of compressors on its way to Iran, Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
A Western drive to impose a new set of tougher sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program may prove to lose momentum due to strong opposition from Russia and China.
The White House expressed unhappiness on Saturday over Iran's announcement that it was ready to exchange uranium for nuclear fuel.
The Queen is to hand over a substantial part of her public duties to Prince William to help him prepare for the day when he becomes King, according to a confidential document obtained by The Mail on Sunday.
Secret papers reveal that plans to ease the strain on the 83-year-old monarch and her 88-year-old husband, Prince Philip, are at an advanced stage.
(But: PALACE DENIES CLAIMS)
What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history.
Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy.
Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy.
What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place.
This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and laissez-faire intellectuals then proceeded to sell us all out.
According to an obscure report in the European Union Times, "Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued an order to his Northern Command's (USNORTHCOM) top leader to 'begin immediately' increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the US before the end of winter.
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has seen some stuff that will blow your mind. Or, at least that's the tagline to "Conspiracy Theory," his new show on US cable station TruTV.
In episode 2, the one-time wrestler and movie star goes after one of America's greatest sacred cows: the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
It is, as far as this reporter can tell, the first time a syndicated program on US cable has given a serious look at arguments made by members of the 9/11 truth movement.
The Fed's monetary intervention has created a bifurcated market. Stocks rise on an ocean of central bank liquidity while the real economy continues to languish in a small "d" depression. The disparity between financial markets and the underlying "productive" economy has never been greater.
As economic indicators have improved, concern about the financial crisis has abated. But the next big problem could be approaching.
Greece's public deficit is skyrocketing and the country may become insolvent. The effect on Europe's common currency could be dire.
(And: SHOULD THE EU INTERVENE?)
(German press: "NO ONE SHOULD RULE OUT A GREEK BANKRUPTCY")
Thousands of Army recruits in training have to line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays — for mass inoculations of hundreds at a time against swine flu.
The scale of data and explosion of sources is changing the way we behave and think, say experts. It may even be changing the structure of our brains.
Millions of high school and college biology textbooks teach that research scientist Stanley Miller, in the 1950's, showed how life could have arisen by chance. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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