JERUSALEM, Jan. 30 -- Israel's inconclusive 33-day war with Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon undermined the military deterrence Israelis consider indispensable to their survival, a government-appointed panel concluded Wednesday in its final report.

JERUSALEM, Jan. 30 -- Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the government's decision to reduce fuel and electricity deliveries to the Gaza Strip as a form of "economic warfare" against the armed Hamas group in control there.

Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside, a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who was waiting for the Army to decide whether to court-martial her for endangering another soldier and turning a gun on herself last year in Iraq, attempted to kill herself Monday evening. In so doing, the...

MUMBAI - A breakdown in an international undersea cable network has badly disrupted internet links to India and Egypt. Egypt's Telecommunications Ministry said a communications cable in the Mediterranean was cut, disrupting 70...

"Maybe some people think that the U.S. is applying pressure to stop the return of relations between Egypt and Iran but President Mubarak has said that he does not accept any pressure from the U.S. and that his positions are based on Egypt's interests."

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks with Iran's parliament speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel Wednesday, the first such high-level meeting since the two nations froze ties almost 30 years ago. via Tehran Times

"There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt which has impacted internet connectivity in India"

A breakdown in an international undersea cable network badly disrupted Internet links to India and Egypt on Wednesday. via Reuters

Increasing production and higher oil prices mean Iraq could see an influx of extra reconstruction money, a report says.

The head of Iran's judiciary issues a order that no executions be carried out in public without his permission.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and his Hamas rivals hold separate talks in Cairo over Gaza's border breach.