Pro-Palestinians protesters take cover from Israeli forces shooting near the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Sunday, June 5, 2011. Israeli troops fired at Palestinian demonstrators in Syria who rushed to the frontier fence in what Israel called a challenge to its sovereignty. Syrian state-run media said 23 were killed. “Anyone who tries to cross the border will be... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli and Palestinian activists are to stage a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to welcome the establishment of a Palestinian state. The rally is expected to be held in Tel Aviv on Saturday under the slogan “Netanyahu said no and we say yes to the Palestinian state,” and “Netanyahu is leading us to disaster,”... 

The former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a new published report that he had not seen “a shred of evidence” that Iran was “building nuclear-weapons facilities and using enriched materials.” Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient who spent 12 years at the IAEA, told investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, “I don’t believe Iran is a... 

The objective of the war in Libya is not just oil, whose reserves (estimated at 60 billion barrels) are the most important in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world. Not so little also, natural gas, whose reserves are estimated at about 1.5 trillion cubic metres. In the crosshairs of “volunteers” of operation “unified protector” are also the sovereign... 

Iran is waging war on open Internet. Looking to limit the cyber-infiltration of Western ideas, Iran’s telecommunications chief claimed that, in two years time, all Iranians would be forced to use a state-censored, fully-internal Internet. About 60% of the nation’s homes and businesses are expected to be on it much sooner than that, he added. Iran sees the move toward heightened online... 

Egypt permanently reopened its border crossing into Gaza on Saturday, opening the door for Palestinians to the outside world and raising fears among Israelis of an increase in militant attacks. Hundreds were expected Saturday to pass through the Rafah border, which had been blockaded by Egypt and Israel after Hamas, an Islamic militant group, took control of Gaza in June 2007. The closure of the border... 

Pro-Western media are completing the “artillery preparation” against Syria. In the West they have already built an image of Assad as a tyrant hated by the people and who is inferior to Gaddafi only in terms of the degree of his undemocratic attitude. Now Western journalists are arguing how many “peaceful demonstrators” he has killed – one hundred, five hundred or two... 

Pakistanis gather by the rubble of a government building targeted in a bombing in the Pakistani town of Hangu, Friday, May 27, 2011. At least eight people have been killed and 14 others left injured in a bomb explosion in a busy marketplace in northwestern Pakistan. Mohammed Saeed, a doctor at the region’s hospital, said they have received four bodies. He said four others had died in the hospital... 

Protesters perform Friday Prayers in Cairo's Liberation Square on May 27, 2011. Thousands of Egyptians have gathered in Cairo’s landmark Liberation Square to stage what they call a “second revolution” in the North African country. The rally has been organized by the Coalition of the Revolution Youth that includes several movements behind the revolution that ousted former President... 

Two new finds are at Saqqara, an older but lesser known pyramid site than Giza. Scientists at the University of Alabama also found 3,000 ancient settlements using a new technique of infra-red imaging. The astonishing results have been confirmed by archaeologists with picks and shovels, who have located two of the pyramids found from space. “I could see the data as it was emerging, but for me... 

Lack of post-crisis prosecutions of fraudulent bankers is dangerous, says investigative journalist Matt Taibbi. The fact that those responsible for the recent economic crisis have not been held accountable is setting a very dangerous trend, believes investigative journalist Matt Taibbi, author and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. “The number one thing that came out of this whole period... 

Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for Israel’s 1967 borders to be taken as the starting point for talks on a future Palestinian state. In a landmark speech to the State Department on Thursday, Obama said the peace negotiations should result in “a viable Palestine, and a secure Israel.” “The borders... 

An Israeli navy vessel entering the southern Israeli port of Ashdod. Israeli naval forces have fired warning shots at a Malaysian ship carrying aid to Gaza as it approached the shore, forcing it to withdraw to Egyptian waters, according to organisers and the Israeli military. Israeli naval forces fired warning shots at a Malaysian aid ship as it approached the Gaza Strip on Monday, forcing the vessel... 

'Tortured': Adam Foster, 30, claims he was forced to confess in Dubai. An American who claims he was tortured by police in Dubai after they found police handcuffs in his suitcase could be jailed for seven years, it emerged today. Adam Foster, 30, was returning home from the United Arab Emirates in February when officers pulled him up at an airport. They found police handcuffs in his luggage... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Rebranding Israel Campaign. The U.S. is not going to fully engage. Only bad things can come out of Netanyahu’s visit to America. And I mean bad things for all of us, everywhere. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, a master of Zionist double-speak and deception, is about to undertake the most important assignment of his life. Because of its continuing occupation...