Abdelhaleem Ashqar, a Palestinian was sentenced last week to 11 years in prison because he refused to testify against an organization he says is defending the rights of his people. Ashqar was
Venezuela's mercurial president, Hugo Chavez, has encountered his first electoral setback since coming to power in a landslide in 1999, a mandate which was handsomely renewed in 2006. Though he
Almost immediately after the hollow show in Annapolis, a ray of hope has appeared from an unexpected source — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. In an interview published on Nov. 29 in the Israeli
The White House’s criticism of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki is muted nowadays. And no wonder. Last Monday President Bush and Iraq’s leader agreed a cozy “declaration of principles”. This permits
