Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the construction of 455 housing units in the West Bank, his office said Monday.
Israel approves construction of more settlements
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Bus crash in mountainous Kashmir kills 20, injures 26
At least 20 people were killed and 26 others injured, 21 of them seriously, Monday afternoon in a road accident in the mountainous Doda district of Indian administered Kashmir. The move comes as Israel and the United States have been increasingly at odds over the settlement issue.
British hostage’s body identified in Iraq
A body delivered to British authorities in Iraq is that of British hostage Alec MacLachlan, the prime minister’s office said Thursday. The State Department also will revoke visas for a number of members and supporters of the de facto government.
Suicide bomber strikes Baghdad police station; 9 killed
Nine police officers were killed and 11 wounded in a suicide bombing north of Baghdad on Saturday, local officials told CNN. The senator’s funeral is scheduled for Saturday at Boston’s Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston’s Mission Hill section. Dozens of Kennedy’s fellow senators are scheduled to attend as well as three former presidents — Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W
U.S. reporter wounded in Afghanistan
A CBS News reporter was seriously injured Friday in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan that also killed a U.S.
Sen. Ted Kennedy to be laid to rest Saturday
Sen. Ted Kennedy will be buried Saturday at Arlington National Cemetery after a private funeral Mass.
State Dept.: Policy against new Israeli settlements stands
The State Department is sticking with a strict no-new-settlements policy toward Israel, its spokesman said Thursday, but he held out the possibility that Israelis and Palestinians might eventually take a different path. “The position that the secretary has stated remains our position,” spokesman P.J. Crowley said at his daily briefing
Four former presidents to attend funeral of Ted Kennedy
All four living former presidents are expected to join President Obama at Saturday’s funeral Mass for Sen. Ted Kennedy, family and law enforcement sources indicated Thursday
GM and German Government Still Wrangling Over Opel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s race to save automaker Opel — and the jobs of its 25,000 employees in Germany — is beginning to look like a high-speed pileup that could cost her at the polls. To get talks with Opel owners General Motors back on track, Merkel is reportedly ready to abandon her previous plan to force GM to sell a controlling stake in its European business to a consortium of Canadian-Austrian car-parts maker Magna International and Russia’s Sberbank
Commentary: Ted Kennedy was a true believer
In one of the funniest scenes in the film "The Big Lebowski," the hot-headed Vietnam veteran Walter Sobchak, played by John Goodman, explains to the Dude, played by Jeff Bridges, how much he hates nihilists because they don’t believe in anything, they have no "ethos." PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNN) — In one of the funniest scenes in the film “The Big Lebowski,” the hot-headed Vietnam veteran Walter Sobchak, played by John Goodman, explains to the Dude, played by Jeff Bridges, how much he hates nihilists because they don’t believe in anything, they have no “ethos.” Unfortunately, many Americans share these sentiments about our politicians. Too often, the political system seems biased toward elected officials who only care about re-election