The newly elected French Socialist president, François Hollande, is warning Germany that Mediterranean ideas of "growth," not Germanic "austerity," should be the new European creed.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Iraqi Catholics fleeing physical danger in their homeland often find themselves unprepared for the moral threats awaiting their families in the United States, said the head of Chaldean [also known as Assyrian and Syriac] Catholics in the Western U.
The mass executions of members of the Kurdish, Azeri and Sunni Arab minorities in Iran -- usually on false charges of espionage, the spreading of blogs, porn, or merely posting photos online -- attest to the immense tension faced by the country's religious-military regime at this time.
The fighting between Syria's President PaAssad and dissidents seeking to overthrow his government made a disturbing turn in at least two different areas of the country.
(Reuters) -- Iraq has summoned Ankara's ambassador in Baghdad to protest the behavior of two Turkish diplomats, the latest episode in a drawn-out public row between the neighbors.
The newly elected French Socialist president, François Hollande, is warning Germany that Mediterranean ideas of "growth," not Germanic "austerity," should be the new European creed.
The mass executions of members of the Kurdish, Azeri and Sunni Arab minorities in Iran -- usually on false charges of espionage, the spreading of blogs, porn, or merely posting photos online -- attest to the immense tension faced by the country's religious-military regime at this time.
(AFP) -- Babylon's Hanging Gardens were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but heritage appears to be no match for Iraq's booming oil industry in a dispute over a new pipeline.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Iraqi Catholics fleeing physical danger in their homeland often find themselves unprepared for the moral threats awaiting their families in the United States, said the head of Chaldean [also known as Assyrian and Syriac] Catholics in the Western U.
(AFP) -- Four Turkish soldiers were killed and one was injured in two separate clashes with Kurdish rebels on Thursday in the southeast of the country, the Anatolia news agency reported.