UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will say on Tuesday the United States will "do what we must" to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against threatening attacks whose co... [Full Article]
Israel's defense minister called for a unilateral pullout from much of the West Bank in published comments Monday, saying Israel must take "practical steps" if peace efforts with the Palestinians remain stalled. (Source: Associated Pre... [Full Article]
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature moved closer to approving its new Red List of Ecosystems, which measures an ecosystem's risk of collapse, this week at the World Conservation Congress in South Korea. (Source: LiveScience.co... [Full Article]
Syria's most prominent defector says he opposes any foreign military intervention in the country's civil war and that he's confident of the opposition's ability to topple President Bashar Assad's regime on its own. (Source: A... [Full Article]
Iraq's acquiescence in possibly allowing Iranian weapons deliveries to the Syrian regime demonstrates Washington's limited influence in postwar Iraq, its inability to halt Syria's 18-month conflict and its continued struggle against Te... [Full Article]
Director Mira Nair views her new film, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," as a chance to fulfill what she sees as her life's purpose: telling the stories of people whose lives straddle two worlds, like her own. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Two endangered tiger cubs and their mother have been caught on film in Thailand near the site of a proposed hydroelectric dam. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
Japan will officially propose to South Korea later Tuesday that the two sides ask the International Court of Justice to settle a long-running island dispute, the government said. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Monday said his country opposed the expected suspension of Syria's membership in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]