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In a hopeful sign prior to today's opening of Middle East peace talks in Washington, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview that his country might cede Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem to the Palestinians to make a deal work. The status o

Amid the catastrophes, the country's religious minorities are under assault -- and one group has allegedly been denied official assistance

Russian women are habitually beaten with legal impunity--in a country with no support system for victims of domestic violence. So it was horrible but hardly surprising when my friend's husband got drunk and killed her.

The world's attention may have wandered from Iran, but recent reports from the country reveal a government that is as willing as ever to suppress dissent and a judiciary that still plans to kill a woman saved from a stoning sentence last month.

By making a public spectacle of negotiations, leaders have made Israelis and Palestinians less likely to reach any agreement. President Obama should have pushed them to conduct back-channel, off-the-record talks instead.

One of the 6 million homeless Pakistanis stands near what used to be her home in rural Punjab province. A month after heavy rains first burst riverbanks in the far northwest, floods have inundated...

Those Mac-vs.-PC commercials might be history, but Justin Long has parlayed his cool-geek image into bigger things--including the lead in the romantic comedy Going the Distance alongside sometime...

Gear to keep baby unradiated

In a way, the Iraq war made Barack Obama President of the United States. The two people he bested to win the White House in 2008--Hillary Clinton and John McCain--both had more national-security...

The author's Waiting to Exhale sequel, Getting to Happy, is out Sept. 7. Terry McMillan will now take your questions

There's a reason Russians oppose the extradition of arms dealer Viktor Bout--the man known as "the merchant of death"--to the United States: he knows their secrets.

 Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, has published his memoirs to great fanfare and enormous controversy. Not only has Blair shed new light on his relationship with his U.S. allies, he has also written with unflinching honesty about his own pa

In a hopeful sign prior to today's opening of Middle East peace talks in Washington, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview that his country might cede Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem to the Palestinians to make a deal work. The status o

After seven years, $1 trillion spent, and more than 4,400 soldiers lost, the U.S. has declared an end to combat operations in Iraq. The despot who tyrannized the country for decades has been deposed and executed, and the Iraqi people now have the right to

The floods in Pakistan have finally begun to recede, after leaving at least 1,639 people dead and six million homeless, and damaging 14 percent of the nation's farmland. The international community has raised nearly $1 billion in aid, but aid experts say