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Shaun Walker 29 January 2010   Russia’s controversial ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been provoking interest, amusement and outrage in Brussels over the past few months with a...

Hayri Abaza, Soner Cagaptay, and Kayvan Chinichian Islamophobia is rising in the West because so many of us confuse Islam with Islamism. This confusion also inadvertently helps organizations like al-Qaeda.  ...

Prof. Scott Lucas  This article from Nick Baumann at Mother Jones is filled with political-insider information, but I think it is a significant marker of how the closure of the Guantanamo...

Mark Snowiss   The 20th anniversary of the 1989 East European revolutions has re-opened contentious debate over who won the Cold War and what caused Soviet communism to disintegrate so...

The future of nuclear power and the role of nuclear technological development is the theme of a conference which opened yesterday at the IAEA´s headquarters in Vienna.   As the...

Kurt Achin North Korea says it has manufactured more material useable in nuclear weapons.  The announcement is widely seen as a tactic to pressure the United States into bilateral talks,...

Lisa Schlein  The World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund say better nutrition and access to immunization can save millions of children from dying of pneumonia. The two agencies...

Robert Morgenthau The issues I will discuss with all of you are the blossoming relationship between what might seem unlikely bedfellows…. the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Bolivarian Republic...

Robert Raffaele  As NATO troops engage Taliban insurgents throughout Afghanistan, the top commander's recommendation for additional troops has earned a key endorsement. NATO defense ministers meeting in Slovakia, expressed "broad...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has secured the Czech Republic's support for U.S. missile defense plans after winning the backing of fellow NATO allies Poland and Romania.   Biden met Friday with...

Mordchai Shualy Iran's and North Korea's nuclear programs -- not to mention the risk of loose nukes in Russia or Pakistan -- are worrying enough. But a number of other...

The UN human rights council has endorsed the Goldstone report on Israel's war on Gaza, which accuses the military of using disproportionate force as well as laying charges of war...

The British government has denied that a programme for tackling religious extremism is used by its security agencies to spy on Muslim communities. In a statement released on Saturday, the...

Robert Berger Israel comdemns the United Nations Human Rights Council's approval of the Goldstone Report which accuses Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas of war crimes during the Gaza...

The U.S. government sounded out Japan in early April about pulling out all of the approximately 40 F-16 fighters from Misawa Air Base  in Aomori Prefecture, possibly beginning later this year, sources...