Dr Kevin McCarthy, referring to the killing of Jewish settlers, Eiran and Naama Henkin, in the occupied West Bank on October 1, rightly states that there is nothing heroic about murdering parents in front of their children.

Boycotts, divestments, and sanctions are needed until all Palestinians are allowed to live freely in a truly independent state alongside Israel, writes Daoud Kuttab.

If Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu forms a new hard-right government, it will be a triumph for the politics of fear over socio-economics. 

In the past, Japan has acquiesced to terrorist demands. But recent threats by Islamic State jihadists have exposed Japan’s lack of options, writes Yuriko Koike

Henry Kissinger once complained that when he wanted to talk to Europe, he never knew who to phone.

AS 2014 begins, there is no more important question in world diplomacy than this: Has Iran changed?

The letter headlined “Rogue Nations” (Jul 26) is completely wrong to state that “Iran has not gone to war against another nation”.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is preparing to submit his bid for UN recognition of Palestine as an independent state today in defiance of a US-led bid to stop him. He said he would deliver the application to UN chief Ban Ki-moon as planned.

WITH his leather jackets and messy, bleached hair, Julian Assange could be the edgy one in a fashionable indie band. In more ways than one, the WikiLeaks founder is the poster boy for today’s unthinking, whistleblowing brand of newsmaking, which is what currently passes for investigative reporting.

PRESIDENT Obama hopes the Middle East peace talks set to begin later this week could reach agreement within a year.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today he was “angry” and “repulsed” at the reception given to the freed Lockerbie bomber in Libya – but still declined to say if he agreed with the decision to release him.

ISRAEL has reacted angrily to a ruling

At least four Israelis and two attackers were killed when gunmen opened fire at a Likud Party office and at passengers in a nearby bus terminal in a northern Israeli town in an election day attack.

ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his new foreign minister and fierce rival had their first dispute within hours of Binyamin Netanyahu's appointment.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his new foreign minister and fierce rival had their first dispute within hours of Binyamin Netanyahu’s appointment.