The post-electoral unrest in Iran takes on a new international angle. From the Times of London: "Britain reacted angrily yesterday to the arrest of at least eight Iranians working for the ... Read More

That's the question in Honduras, apparently, after President Manuel Zelaya tried to call what the country's highest court said was an illegal constitutional referendum to allow his reelection (got Hugo ... Read More

Nearly as quickly as TMZ reported the news of Michael Jackson's death, I noticed the story popping up to high prominence on Arab news sites -- and staying there as ... Read More

Al-Arabiya reports that retaliation is swift from the Islamic Republic for four of the Iranian soccer players who showed support for Mir Hossein Mousavi and the opposition protesters by wearing ... Read More

The upheaval continues in Iran, with the daughter and four other kin of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, who ran unsuccessfully for a third term against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, ... Read More

The former cruise-ship crooner, aka Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who famously swore off sex for the duration of his 2006 campaign, may yet be brought down by that oh-so-Italian ... Read More

The Yomiuri Shimbun ran a story today citing Japanese defense sources as saying North Korea's next long-range missile test will be pointed toward Hawaii and -- oh, that rascally Kim ... Read More

Long story short: After polls closed on Friday, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister and reformist candidate, declared he had won the Iranian presidential election after a campaign filled with ... Read More

Some of the highlights from the Israeli prime minister's speech tonight: "In my vision of peace, in this small land of ours, two peoples live freely, side-by-side, in amity and mutual ... Read More

To understand what this declaration in relation to the H1-N1 "swine flu" means, let's defer to Dr Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, in Geneva today: "The virus is ... Read More

Most shopping malls install cameras to catch thieves. In Saudi Arabia, the religious police want to install security cameras in malls to catch women and men mingling. Or exchanging pleasantries. ... Read More

American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, detained along the China-North Korea border March 17 for allegedly breaching the border, were sentenced to 12 years of "reform through labor" -- ... Read More

Considering the distance from shore and the depth of the ocean at the point where the Air France flight is believed to have gone down, it seems like a miracle ... Read More

Perhaps that might be a bit of an, er, Achilles' heel for most political campaigns. From the Jerusalem Post: "The imprisoned global terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - better known as the ... Read More

Statement from the State Department: "On this the 20th anniversary of the violent suppression of demonstrations in Tiananmen Square by Chinese authorities, we should remember the tragic loss of hundreds of ... Read More