Amid news from Baghdad that al-Qaeda has infiltrated Syria and has been carrying out terrorist attacks including the attack on the Syrian television station last month, the United Nations monitoring mission's head says that a cease-fire must take place before monitors will be allowed back into that country.
TOKYO — A parliamentary report in Japan concludes the meltdowns last year at the Fukushima nuclear power plant were clearly a man-made disaster, and that the facility was vulnerable to earthquakes.
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2012 – Pakistan’s decision to reopen ground supply routes on its border with Afghanistan will allow the Defense Department to save tens of millions of dollars transporting material in and out of Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon spokesman said here today.
JERUSALEM – A former Israeli leader was laid to rest Monday in a state funeral. Israelis paid their last respects to former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir as his flag-draped coffin lay in state in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.