Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Kremlin in Moscow, December 13, 2010. Fatah official Nabil Sha’ath tells Al-Hayat newspaper that Dmitry Medvedev will affirm Soviet Union’s 1988 recognition of a Palestinian state during West Bank visit. Israeli officials fear that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will announce on Tuesday during a visit to Jericho that Russia recognizes a Palestinian... 

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev cancelled an official visit to Israel this month due to a strike by Foreign Ministry staff. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits the Palestinian territories on a “historic” trip Tuesday as part of his Middle East tour. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas welcomes him in Jericho in the West Bank, where the two are expected to hold a joint press... 

The Fall of Labor Could Clear a Path for Attacking Iran. The splitting of the Labor Party, with Defense Minister Ehud Barak forming a new, more hawkish bloc and the less enthusiastic members likely moving into the opposition will remove from the Netanyahu government any pretense of being a “broad coalition” and will cement its right-far-right reputation at home and abroad. The fall of Labor can... 

Former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. A startling power shift in restive Tunisia inched forward Saturday as the country’s parliament speaker assumed the interim presidency and the country’s former longtime leader took refuge with his family in Saudi Arabia. In a change of government driven by days of angry street protests, Tunisian state TV reported that Fouad Mebazaa was sworn... 

Rabbi Dov Lior Rabbi Dov Lior says Jewish Law prohibits sterile couples from conceiving using non-Jew’s sperm, as it causes adverse traits. On subject of single mothers he says, ‘Child cannot be 100% normal’. Rabbi Dov Lior, a senior authority on Jewish law in the Religious Zionism movement, asserted recently that a Jewish woman should never get pregnant using sperm donated by a non-Jewish... 

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (Left) talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday, January 13, 2011. The P-5+1 talks with Iran will resume January 21-22. For those not tuned into the obscure jargon of the diplomatic world, these are the talks between the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (the United States, Britain, France, China and... 

French president Nicolas Sarkozy Calls for the end of the US Dollar while US president Barack Obama calls France “biggest ally”. There’s little doubt that the world’s superpowers are now fighting a new war. It’s not a cold one, or a hot one. No tanks, bombs or poison gas. At least not yet. But open hostility between Europe, Brazil, China, India and the United States blanket the headlines... 

Erdogan calls monument to Armenia-Turkey friendship “monstrous” During his visit to Kars, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called a monument dedicated to the Armenian-Turkish friendship monstrous and subject to demolition. Former Mayor of Kars Naif Alibeyoglu and the famous sculpture of the monument Mehmed Askol responded to the Turkish Premier’s statement. In an interview with Turkish... 

Turkey has indicated consent to Greek plans to fence part of its border, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan voicing understanding of gravity of the illegal immigration problem that Athens has been facing. Yet, the plan continues to spark the concern of humanitarian agencies, who say the fence could prevent asylum seekers from reaching safety. Greece said last week it planned a fence along its... 

Photographs on the internet appear to show China's stealth fighter. The US said at the weekend it would respond to the rapidly-increasing military capabilities of China by building up its own strength in the region. Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, was speaking as he arrived in Beijing on Sunday for four days of talks aimed at renewing ties between the US and Chinese armed forces. However... 

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson. One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday targeting the high-capacity ammunition the gunman used. McCarthy ran for Congress after her husband was gunned down and her son seriously injured... 

Lucrative contracts threatened as agent languishes in Wandsworth prison. Britain is embroiled in a damaging diplomatic row with Mongolia over the arrest of its most senior spy which is threatening to derail relations between the two countries and freeze British companies out of contracts worth millions of pounds. Bat Khurts, who was the head of Mongolia’s counter-terrorism agency, has languished... 

A Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the top US Federal Judge for the State of Arizona was assassinated barely 72-hours after he made a critical ruling against the Obama administrations plan to begin the confiscation of their citizen’s private retirement and banking accounts in order to stave off their nations imminent economic collapse, and after... 

China will eventually have a military powerful enough to compete with the United States, state media said ahead of the visit of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates. The claim in a newspaper editorial on Friday followed reports that China had completed a prototype of a stealth fighter and after a top US military official said Beijing was stepping up efforts to deploy a “carrier-killer” missile... 

President Obama challenged congressional Republicans to embrace the “shared responsibility” of governance even as the White House appears ready to use unilateral executive powers to battle Capitol Hill. With Republicans taking over the House and increasing their number in the Senate, Obama faces the possibility of having his agenda stalled with limited room to maneuver — making for...