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September 1, 2012
9:14 pm

Ali Khamenei speaking to the NAM summit in Tehran in August (photo credit: AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Iran’s nuclear denials have a Japanese ring

Tehran could be modeling its atomic ambitions after Tokyo, which has full nuclear capability without the weapons

By Brian Murphy

September 1, 2012
8:42 pm

US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, left, and IDF Chief of General Staff Benny Gantz saluting during Dempsey's visit to Israel in January. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

In tackling Iran, Israel increasingly feels ‘it has no one to rely on but itself,’ official says

Despite new White House pledge of commitment to Israel’s security, Jerusalem complains US refusing ‘to set red lines’ on thwarting Tehran’s drive to the bomb

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 1, 2012
7:33 pm

A woman throws her waste in a street in Cairo. A government modernization effort flopped. A swine flu panic prompted the mass slaughter of the pigs that recycled Cairo’s organic garbage; the city’s metal trash bins were easy prey for thieves, especially during the global scrap metal boom. (photo credit: AP)

A test looms for Egypt’s new leader: Garbage

A government modernization effort flopped and a waste disposal crisis threatens the Arab world’s largest city

By Sarah El Deeb

September 1, 2012
7:13 pm

Shuafat, in northern Jerusalem, as viewed from the air. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews throw stones at Arab house in northern Jerusalem

Three lightly injured in clashes; police arrest three Israelis, including two minors

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 1, 2012
5:55 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (photo credit: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

All sides must work to end Syrian violence, says Russian FM

18 unidentified corpses with signs of torture found after summarily executed near Damascus

By Ilan Ben Zion and AP

September 1, 2012
5:10 pm

Iran's Revolutionary Guard on parade (photo credit: YouTube image capture)

Iran to hold massive air defense drill in October

Maneuver, including army, air force, and Revolutionary Guards, to coincide with timetable of a much-speculated possible Israeli strike

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 1, 2012
4:29 pm

Tzachi Hanegbi in 2010. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Former minister says US not committed to stopping Iran

In light of this week’s IAEA report, Tzachi Hanegbi says Israel has more legitimacy to attack alone

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 1, 2012
4:11 pm

A Syrian refugee plays with her child in front of her family's tent in the Zaatari Syrian Refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan. (photo credit: Mohammad Hannon/AP)

Amman, UN call for $700 million to handle Syrian refugees

Victims of civil war flood into Jordan by the thousands; 180,000 have arrived already

September 1, 2012
2:41 pm

The Bushehr nuclear facility in Iran (photo credit: AP/Mehr News Agency/Majid Asgaripour/File)

Iran: Bushehr reactor reaches full capacity

Tehran’s deputy nuclear chief says sole reactor at nuclear power plant has reached 1,000 megawatts, just one year after it went into operation at minimum capacity

September 1, 2012
2:10 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and president of the Presidium of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam, listen to their national anthems during an official welcoming ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Saturday. (photo credit: AP)

Iran, North Korea sign technology agreement

Scientific cooperation pact signed in Tehran in the presence of Ahmadinejad and Pyongyang’s number two; Khamenei says both states have ‘common enemies’

September 1, 2012
1:21 pm

Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky talks to the media after losing a case against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as he leaves the High Court in London, in 2012. (photo credit: AP)

10 things we learned during the billionaires’ battle

An office is no place to meet; an oligarch is most vulnerable when shopping; a million dollars? — That’s nothing!

By DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIA HUI

September 1, 2012
1:06 pm

In this Jan. 26, 2000 file photo Russian tycoons Boris Berezovsky, left, and Roman Abramovich, then both lawmakers, walk after the session of the State Duma, parliament's lower house, in Moscow, Russia. (photo credit: AP)

Russian oligarch Abramovich wins multibillion-dollar London court battle

Fellow tycoon Berezovsky loses huge case against Chelsea owner over oil wealth

September 1, 2012
12:53 pm

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (photo credit: Charles Dharapak/AP)

First since ’52: No talk of war in GOP speech

Romney accepts his party’s nomination without mentioning war, reflecting weak public support for Afghanistan involvement and fatigue over a decade of terrorism fears

By MATT APUZZO

September 1, 2012
12:11 pm

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, purports to show the funeral of Ahmed Ismail Zaqzuq, killed in fighting with pro-government forces in Damascus. (photo credit: AP)

Syrian forces pound rebels in Aleppo from ground and air

Damascus still struggling to clear city of opposition fighters after five weeks of battle

September 1, 2012
11:41 am

The village of Ghajar (photo credit: Hamad Almakt/Flash90)

$600,000 drugs deal thwarted on Lebanese border

Ghajar resident caught throwing money over fence, receiving package containing heroin and possibly cocaine in return

By Yifa Yaakov

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