The White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced on Friday that the United States will move for “unilateral” sanctions against Libya. He said that these would involve cutting off the limited military cooperation with Libya and freezing the assets of Gaddafi and his four children that are held in the US. Carney also confirmed US embassy operations have been suspended following the evacuation... 

It is curtains for Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. After 18 days of obduracy, President Hosni Mubarak has resigned. The country’s new vice-president Omar Suleiman announced this, in a brief statement, on Friday. Suleiman said that Mubarak has demitted the office of the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Supreme Council of the armed forces will “run the state.” As the news of his resignation... 

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has signed a decree forming a committee that will oversee constitutional amendments that were discussed during recent talks with opposition members, as the spirited public demonstration enters the third week. Despite Mubarak’s assurance to the youth in Egypt that they will have the right to freedom of speech and that no one should worry about being arrested for speaking... 

President Obama is finally on a one-day visit to Indonesia, after two earlier trips, thwarted because of the controversies surrounding his health reform bill and the second due to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, earlier this year. However, it seems that this 24-hour trip is likely to be cut short by a few hours reportedly due to the after-effects of the volcanic eruptions the country is facing. Indonesia... 

The White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has had an unbelievable amount of confrontations with so many different reporters. But, when Monday came along and the meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were about to take place, it really was a totally different story. Gibbs actually came to the defense of reporters when Indian official tried to limit access to the... 

The president of the U.S., Barack Obama is getting pounded by claims that are said to be false. These claims are being written off as bogus, but could Obama’s trip to India really cost hundreds of millions of dollars? These rumors go into a slew of many more including Obama needing to be guarded by 34 U.S. Warships, that he’ll rent 870 rooms in just one hotel, and last but not least is... 

The U.S. military aid that is going to the Lebanon army has been suspended by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. With this aid being suspended there are now growing concerns about the possible weapons supplied by Americans which could cause a threat to Israel. It appears that the $100 million aid was put on hold out of fear because of a militant group known as Hezbollah. Rep.Howard... 

Tensions have been heightened on the Korean peninsula after North Korea fired dozens of artillery rounds into the sea off its West Coast on Monday. The report came from a South Korean military official. YTN cable news channel, is reporting that the rounds were fired soon after a South Korean naval exercise was completed off the west coast at around 5 PM. Tensions have been rising on the Korean peninsula... 

It might be the first time in history that a lot of the Arabs feel that if Iran was nuclear-armed it might be a very good thing for the Middle East. The Zogby International polls show that at least seven out of ten with the Arabs feels that the US actually poses as a very big threat to Iran. One expert from the University of Maryland Middle East, Shibley Telhami, said that this poll is revealing a... 

South Korea has been gaining a lot of attention from the U.N Security Council and the U.S., after the fateful incident of the recent submarine accident. This time, the U.N. Security Council has put additional pressure on the North Korean authorities to let the investigating bodies have a closer angle at the whole picture. This would obviously mean, long military maneuvers and underwater exercises,...