Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to review the State Department's fiscal 2016 budget request. Kerry has implored skeptical senators not to criticize nuclear negotiations with Iran ...
The European Union's foreign policy chief has said a nuclear deal with Iran was "at hand," urging different sides to show political will ahead of a new round of talks scheduled in Geneva next week. Federica Mogherini, whose predecessor Catherine Ashton chairs the talks in Geneva, said February ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry told wary lawmakers on Tuesday that it was premature to criticize nuclear negotiations with Iran before any deal can be reached to keep Tehran from developing atomic weapons./ "The president has made clear — I can't state this more firmly — the ...
South African soldiers form an honor guard before President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation address in parliament Cape Town, South Africa on June 17, 2014./ Once the small talk had subsided, the 2012 meeting between intelligence agents from Iran and South Africa in an Iranian guesthouse ...
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini speaks during a press conference in Madrid, Spain, on February 16, 2015 (AFP Photo/Javier Soriano)/ London (AFP) - The European Union's foreign policy chief on Tuesday said an Iran nuclear deal was "at hand" and urged different sides to show political ...
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday it would soon become clear if Iran is serious about ending suspicions over its nuclear ambitions, as world powers appeared to inch towards a historic deal with Tehran./ But under heated questioning from lawmakers, America's top diplomat insisted the ...
In this Monday, Feb. 23, 2015 file photo Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks past a window overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem. According to files after allegedly being leaked and widely published Tuesday Feb. 24, 2015, documenting the concerns of past South African authorities' ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 23, 2015, in Jerusalem (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)/ Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he would do "everything I can" to prevent a nuclear deal between world powers and Iran, a week ahead of travelling to ...
Secretary of State John Kerry goes before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, to outline the budget requests for America's diplomacy operations. Saying “Iran will not get a nuclear weapon," Kerry defended the Obama administration’s nuclear ...
In this Sept. 27, 2012, file photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel shows an illustration as he describes his concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions during his address to the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)/ File ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday turned down an invitation to meet privately with Senate Democrats next week during his visit to Washington, saying the session "could compound the misperception of partisanship" surrounding his trip. Angering the White House ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif leaves following a bilateral meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva on February 23./ Negotiators in talks on Iran's nuclear program have reported some progress but said a lot of work remains to secure a deal. Two days of talks ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic congressman Steve Cohen says he is skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress. The Tennessee congressman calls the speech "high theater" in Netanyahu's re-election campaign and a political tool wielded by House Speaker John Boehner to ...
The United States made some progress in talks with Iran on its nuclear program and managed to "sharpen up some of the tough issues", a senior U.S. official said on Monday, but both sides said much remained to be done. Negotiators from Iran and six major powers agreed to resume talks next Monday ...
US Secretary of State John Kerry, pictured, met twice in Geneva with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday and Monday (AFP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini)/ Washington (AFP) - With the clock ticking down to a third, perhaps final deadline for a deal to rein in Iran's nuclear program, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior U.S. Senate Democrats invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to a closed-door meeting with Democratic senators during his upcoming visit to Washington, warning that making U.S.-Israeli relations a partisan political issue could have "lasting ...
Geoff Dyer in Washington and John Reed in Jerusalem/ has cast doubt on some of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s past warnings about Tehran’s nuclear programme. The Mossad assessment of Iran’s nuclear activities from October 2012, part of a large cache of documents leaked to that Mr ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior U.S. Senate Democrats invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to a closed-door meeting with Democratic senators during his upcoming visit to Washington, amid tensions over his plans to address the U.S. Congress on Iran's nuclear program. ...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Abir Sultan)/ JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's Mossad spy agency in October 2012 had a less alarmist view of Iran's nuclear program than an assessment delivered by Prime Minister ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Battling Benjamin Netanyahu's accusations that he is soft on national security, the Israeli prime minister's main election rival said on Tuesday he would boost efforts to focus voters on his own military and strategic credentials. Isaac Herzog, who heads the center-left ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference on February 23, 2015, in Jerusalem (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)/ London (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that Iran was a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his secret services, according to ...
Official Urges Global Powers To Be 'More Determined' To Halt Iranian Nukes/ Israeli political scientist Yaakov Amidror served as national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu until 2013. (file photo)/ A former Israeli national security adviser says global powers ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, waits with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif before a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 14, 2015./ Washington and Tehran's top diplomats met for a second day Monday for talks on Iran's nuclear program as the end-of-March deadline for ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's opposition leader says the upcoming speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the U.S. Congress on Iran is "spin" ahead of March elections. Issac Herzog said "no Israeli leader will ever accept a nuclear Iran" but the way Netanyahu voices his concerns is for "his ...
US Secretary of State John Kerry, center, arrives at the hotel prior to a bilateral meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for a new round of Nuclear Talks, in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)/ US Secretary of State John Kerry ...
GENEVA (AP) — The United States and Iran are working on a two-phase deal that clamps down on Tehran's nuclear program for at least a decade before providing it leeway over the remainder of the agreement to slowly ramp up activities that could be used to make weapons./ Officials from some of the ...
US Secretary of State John Kerry, center, arrives at the hotel prior to a bilateral meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for a new round of Nuclear Talks, in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. (Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi/Associated Press)/ GENEVA — The United ...
High-level nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran resumed in Geneva on Monday as both sides work through technical and political differences to come up with an initial deal by a March 31 deadline./ U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad ...
Over Iran/ * Israeli PM to address U.S. Congress about Iran on March 3 * Ties between White House and Israel at 20-year low, experts say * Obama determined to push for deal with Iran on nuclear program JERUSALEM, Feb 19 (Reuters) - For someone who was educated in the United States, speaks fluent ...
The United States made some progress in talks with Iran on its nuclear programme and managed to "sharpen up some of the tough issues", a senior U.S. official said on Monday, but both sides said much remained to be done. Negotiators from Iran and six major powers agreed to resume talks next ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — A leaked 2012 cable purportedly sent by Israel's Mossad spy agency appears to take a less alarmist view of Iran's nuclear program than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented at the U.N. weeks earlier. In the U.N. speech, Netanyahu said Iran was proceeding rapidly and could ...
gallery_thumbs_close|article-gallery-6096935|article-gallery-6096935|0/ gallery_overlay_close|article-gallery-6096935|article-gallery-6096935|0/ GENEVA — Edging toward a historic compromise, the U.S. and Iran reported progress Monday on a deal that would clamp down on Tehran’s nuclear activities ...
The US has told Israel it must be fully "transparent" over an air strike that reportedly killed at least 35 people at a central Gaza school packed with displaced people on Thursday morning. Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the ...
Israeli missiles hit classrooms on upper floors of the building in the overnight strike/ In a classroom-turned-bedroom at a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian children clamber through rubble and blood-stained mattresses. Just hours earlier, at least 35 people were ...
West of Maryland, was arrested in the 7200 block of Fairchild Drive in Groveton. Police say he was served a warrant for violation of conditions of release and charged with resisting arrest./ The former point guard played for Eleanor Roosevelt High School in , Maryland before starring at St. ...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, is launched, Cape Canaveral/ (Reuters) -Boeing's new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew neared final approach to the ...
The strike took place on the Nuseirat refugee camp, seen here on Monday/ An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed more than 20 people, local residents say. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed ...
Crowds gathered outside the Damascus Gate before marching through the Muslim Quarter/ Tens of thousands of Israelis, many from nationalist groups, have taken part in the annual Jerusalem Day flag march to mark the capture of the east of the city in the 1967 war. Crowds waving Israeli flags and ...
warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory. Putin also reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to use nuclear weapons if it sees a threat to its sovereignty. The ...
Dean Sweetland is one of a dozen residents tackling recent bushfires around Kibbutz Malkiya/ Three rusty water-trucks stand at the edge of Kibbutz Malkiya, on Israel’s border with Lebanon; little bigger than a family car, they look like something out of an old cartoon. A collection of industrial ...
electric aircraft from company Archer Aviation, is seen at the Salinas Municipal Airport in Salinas/ (Reuters) - Archer Aviation said on Wednesday the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted the company a certificate to begin commercial operations, making it the second electric ...
A symbol of safety and security for parents and students is being charged with heinous acts that completely contradict that notion. Kiara Lee, a 26-year-old crossing guard, is accused of distributing electronic cigarettes and substances containing marijuana to students at Penn Wood Middle School ...