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After several months of closed-door negotiations and shuttle diplomacy, the United States succeeded Wednesday in getting a new Security Council resolution – the fourth in a series – imposing a fresh set of sanctions penalising Iran for its nuclear programme. But the most powerful political body at the United Nations refused to give the United States what it needed most …

  Shock and outrage has swept the globe after Israeli soldiers stormed a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza. International powers have closed ranks in condemning the deadly raid. Statement from the Turkish foreign ministry The interception on the convoy is unacceptable … Israel will have to bear the consequences of its actions. We strongly condemn it and await an immediate …

Israel boards Gaza aid ship Israeli forces have taken over the Irish aid-ship Rachel Corrie bound for Gaza. THE challenge for 20-year-old Ahmed Luqman Talib was to follow the trail of blood. Blacking out several times as his captors forced him to drag himself up a flight of stairs, pushing and kicking him along the way, the Gold Coast student …

Israel's latest crime — the massacre on board the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish ship that was bringing aid to the besieged people of the Gaza Strip — is likely to go unpunished. By next week, few, if any, will be talking about the deaths of the aid workers on Monday in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea — with …

by: Thalif Deen  |  Inter Press Service United Nations – After a 12-hour emergency session that lasted until early Tuesday, the 15-member U.N. Security Council was unanimous in its condemnation of Israel for the killing of at least 10 civilians who were part of a flotilla of six ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. The condemnation came in a presidential …