Politics

VIENNA
Mon Jun 29, 2015 6:17am EDT
A final deal to resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute could heighten domestic political tensions with two major elections looming in the Islamic Republic, analysts and officials said.

29 June 2015 – It will cost $2.3 billion to send to school the 34 million children and adolescents of conflict–affected countries who are currently not attending educational institutions, which is 10 times the amount being received from humanitarian aid now, the United Nations Educational, Scient

ISTANBUL
Mon Jun 29, 2015 4:05am EDT
Turkey is prepared for any security threats along its borders, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted as saying late on Sunday, highlighting Ankara's growing anxiety about developments in the frontier town of Kobani in Syria.

BERLIN
Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:33am EDT
"If you break it, you own it," former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell warned President George W. Bush before his invasion of Iraq.

Whether it will ever be fair to blame Angela Merkel for "breaking" Greece is debatable.

The six world powers seeking to negotiate an historic agreement with Iran to curb its nuclear program plan to carry on negotiating beyond a Tuesday deadline, a senior U.S. official

said on Sunday.

ROME
Sun Jun 28, 2015 9:35am EDT
An historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is "getting closer every day," a senior Orthodox prelate said in an interview published on Sunday.

Sun Jun 28, 2015 2:19am EDT
TAIPEI

The number of people injured in a fire at a Taiwan water amusement park rose to 516 on Sunday, government officials said, with more than 180 still in intensive care.