September 3, 2010
Worries about spying by the U.S. and Israel spurred plans to sharply limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai's police chief said in comments that suggest a tough line in talks with the smart phone maker. The UAE says it will block BlackBerry e-mail, messaging and Web services...
September 3, 2010
Pakistani officials say suspected U.S. missiles have killed five people in a tribal region near the Afghan border. Two intelligence officials say three missiles hit a house in a village near Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan, on Friday evening. They say the identity of the slain is...
September 1, 2010
In his steadfast confidence in the rightness of our course, and his ferocity in the manner of pursuing it, Obama echoed his predecessor's approach Tuesday night. I approach President Obama's address to the nation Tuesday night as one whose interest in war is principally an interest in ethics. I a...
August 30, 2010
New revelations about the owner of the Ground Zero mosque building could mean a split between him and the project's influential imam, making it unlikely to ever get built. Sharif El-Gamal, 37, the owner of the building at the center of the storm over the construction of a "ground zero mosque," is...
August 29, 2010
Seven U.S. troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, while officials found the bodies Sunday of five kidnapped campaign aides working for a female candidate in the western province of Herat. Two servicemen died in bombings Sunday in southern Afgh...
August 28, 2010
The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy. The Democratic comptroller's spokesman, Scott Sieber, said Liu supp...