Israel Subsidies Untouched by US Budget Crisis

Israel is suing a group of poor Bedouin Palestinians in the Negev desert for over $500,000, the claimed costs of demolishing their village each time they rebuild it. Israeli authorities have destroyed, and the Bedouin have rebuilt, the homes in al-Araqib more than 20...

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Kandahar Mayor Killed in Suicide Attack

The plot thickened in Afghanistan on Wednesday as a meeting with tribal elders ended in death for the mayor of the southern city of Kandahar. US citizen Ghulam Haidar Hamidi, an accountant in Virginia for 30 years before moving back to Afghanistan to take the...

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