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West blind to war horror
Professor William Harris sips his cup of tea in a small cafe in southern Turkey and recounts meeting Yasser Arafat, the former leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
Professor William Harris sips his cup of tea in a small cafe in southern Turkey and recounts meeting Yasser Arafat, the former leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
After feverishly trying to derail the international community's nuclear deal with Iran in recent weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now has little choice but to accept an agreement that he has derided as deeply flawed.
China and Japan appeared to be a step closer to a military confrontation that could drag in the United States.
The United States and Iran secretly engaged in a series of high-level, face-to-face talks over the past year.
New Zealand has welcomed the agreement reached in Geneva yesterday aimed at capping Iran's nuclear programme.
An al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group has claimed responsibility for twin suicide attacks on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut.
The director of Brad Pitt's new movie has offered his apologies after filming Nazi war scenes in an English village on Remembrance Day, provoking outrage.
At least 30 journalists currently are reported missing while covering Syria's civil war. The widespread abduction of journalists is unprecedented.
Dutch museums are trying to trace the owners of a unexpectedly high number of art pieces that were confiscated by the Nazis over 70 years ago.
Former Labour MP Chris Carter says he was lucky to escape possible death after a suicide car bomb exploded metres away from his Afghanistan home.
Shouting "murderer" and "executioner," hundreds of people jeered as the coffin of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke arrived Tuesday for a funeral Mass celebrated by a splinter Catholic group opposed to the Vatican's outreach to Jews.
Claims among dubious Pakistanis that Malala Yusufzai is now Western puppet ignore her ongoing heroism.
The destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile is well under way, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, has won a Nobel Peace Prize.
A look at how the past days' parallel tracks - pushing for approval of a military attack while pausing to give diplomacy a chance - unfolded.
In an intriguing tour, Pamela Wade gains insight into the horror inflicted on Europe during World War II.
America's threat of military action against Syria's regime receded into the distance yesterday as Washington and its allies decided to test a Russian proposal.
Syria says it's ready to state where its chemical weapons are and to halt their production, but the US says it'll have to do more than sign up to a treaty.
Syria says it has accepted Russia's proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling.
Prime Minister John Key says a UN-backed suggestion to destroy all of Syria's chemical weapons as a way of diverting an increasingly violent situation is an "interesting proposal".
Facing the most perilous passage of his presidency, Barack Obama is to redouble his efforts to persuade the American public to back strikes against Syria.
American air strikes against the Syrian Government would not allow rebels to topple Bashar al-Assad .