JERUSALEM - Israel’s deputy prime minister on Saturday said Israel should assassinate Hamas’ leadership, ignore the moderate Palestinian president and walk away from international peace efforts, the latest in a string of hard-line positions voiced by the newest member of the Cabinet.
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Sly and smiling, Beijing excels in making canny moves that can maim India.
“Hide your strength and bide your time” is an old Chinese strategy. This involves lulling their opponent into disarming, while they acquire overwhelming strength. Then they suddenly pounce upon their foe. For decades, China worked behind the veil of being a Third World [...]

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HANOI — President Bush failed this morning to win South Korea’s commitment to intercept North Korean vessels as part of the U.S.-led effort to stop Pyongyang’s atomic weapons program and prevent the spread of its nuclear technology.
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — The top U.S. general in the Middle East said Friday that if the world did not find a way to stem the rise of Islamic militancy, it would face a third world war.
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AMERICA IS FINISHED as a great power. Not because it no longer possesses the resources, but because it has lost the will. That was brought home to me on both ends of a recent trip through London’s Heathrow airport en route to Phoenix.
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The latest report on Iran from the International Atomic Energy Agency, circulated to diplomats in Vienna on Tuesday, shows Iran has again failed to comply with the demands of the international community, as expressed by the U.N. Security Council.
The IAEA report documented that Iran was continuing to enrich uranium on a large-scale in defiance of [...]

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His arrest, based on information gathered by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, amounts to a clear message from Ottawa to Russia and other spying nations: We’re watching you and we know what you’re doing.
Similar scenes have played out in many cities of late. In Prague this September, authorities kicked out an alleged Russian spy for [...]

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Cairo - Egypt has taken another step toward becoming a nuclear power, drafting a strategy for energy and other projects. Officials said Egypt has submitted a plan to develop civilian nuclear facilities in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. They said the plan would facilitate the procurement of the first nuclear reactors.
“The government completed [...]

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China continues its planning to invade Taiwan and now has more than 900 missile targeted on the island, Taiwanese officials said last week.
“Despite China’s impressive economic rise, it has become more authoritarian, posing a grave threat to our sovereignty and abusing human rights like never before,” Taiwanese President Chen Shuibian said.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao is poised to unveil an ambitious expansion of nuclear power cooperation with Pakistan when he visits next week, testing China’s balance between Pakistan and its wary neighbour, India.
On the first trip to Pakistan by a Chinese president in a decade, Hu is likely to announce that China will help the South [...]

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Just as Poland and Lithuania are sending a message to Russia on the EU, Georgia is doing the same with the WTO.
It has been a week that the Kremlin probably would prefer to forget.
First, Poland held up a new partnership agreement between Russia and the European Union as Lithuania sent strong signals that it supported [...]

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