Palestinians Hold to Plan for New Talks
By ETHAN BRONNER
Palestinian leaders meeting with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. condemned a decision by Israel on new housing, but still spoke of participating in peace talks.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will discuss military cooperation and Iran’s nuclear program, officials said.
Palestinian leaders meeting with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. condemned a decision by Israel on new housing, but still spoke of participating in peace talks.
For the first time, the complete, original manuscript of the theory of relativity, profoundly human and surprisingly moving to examine, has been put on display in Jerusalem.
The incomplete results will offer an incomplete picture of the vote but will provide the broad outlines of the country’s political landscape.
Mr. Tantawi was leader of Al Azhar, the oldest and most prestigious center of learning in the Sunni Muslim world.
Israel has allowed a United Nations bomb disposal unit into the Gaza Strip to defuse unexploded munitions left over from last year’s fighting.
The removal of a Palestinian family has touched two nerves: the fate of East Jerusalem and the grievances of refugees from the 1948 war.
Israel, widely believed to have nuclear weapons and possessing no oil, said on Tuesday that it intended to develop civilian nuclear plants for energy.
The Israeli government tests the Obama administration’s policy of restraint.
Tehran is playing its hand as if its untapped oil reserves give it a trump card. But the longer the nuclear stalemate drags on, the more that strategy is in doubt.
Christopher de Bellaigue investigates the bewildering historical entanglements in which Turkey is ensnared.
In a pivotal test of Iraq's democracy, Iraqis went to the polls in large numbers despite a wave of bombings across the country.
The village of Halaichiya has the distinction of never having seen an American, much less a soldier.