Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change. That prospect seems lost for the near future or for at least as long as it will take...

In one case, a person on the list was able to buy more than 50 pounds of explosives. The new statistics, compiled in a report from the Government Accountability Office that is scheduled for public release next week, draw attention to an odd divergence...

Some observers see Iran’s courageous protests against a stolen election as a replay of the 1979 revolution that ended the tyranny of the Shah - or of the “velvet revolutions” that ended communism in Eastern Europe. Others fear a repeat...

- Up to 21,000 independent child migrants from outside South Africa are living in the country, according to a discussion document by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The report published in February 2009 - Child Migrants with and without Parents:...

Canada decried on Saturday a “rising tide of protectionism” in the United States, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the “Buy American” provisions in an economic stimulus package will not interfere with U.S. trade...

Expropriation—the confiscation of privately-owned assets by the government—was the dominant political risk of the 1970s, but has since become confined to a small number of developing countries. But the instability created by the financial crisis...

Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon, who is very close to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, ruled out the creation of any “Palestinian entity” at a conference at the Knesset entitled “Alternatives to the Two-State...

he latest European Union (EU)-Russia summit has not radically increased mutual trust mainly due to the EU Eastern Partnership project involving six post-Soviet countries and disputes on Russia’s gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine, political...

Prison is a way of life here, and always has been. The old territorial prison started it all in 1868 at the end of Main Street, anchoring a community and an economy with its massive tan stone walls and turrets. Generations later, more than 5,000 inmates...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama finds himself in a political box — at home and abroad — on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, and he has prepared a major address on national security in hopes of working out of the tight spot. Obama was taking...