Thomas Rose

Shortly after the last polls closed across India Monday concluding the longest and biggest democratic election ever held, India’s six largest national polling outfits all released preliminary exit polls pointing to a huge win for India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata

Danny Yatom, the retired director of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency laughed off a much-hyped story in the ‘new’ Newsweek magazine claiming that Israeli spies trailed Al Gore, America’s former Vice President during a Jerusalem visit in 1998.  Yatom responded Saturday

America’s organized Jewish community is in turmoil following last week’s rejection of a membership bid from the anti-Israel left wing lobbying group ‘J Street’ to join the umbrella President’s Conference of Major American Jewish Organizations.  The President’s Conference – created

The US State Department announced plans to assist an umbrella organization of groups fighting to oust Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad, called the Syrian Opposition Counsel with up to $27 million in ‘non-lethal’ aid, as well as an upgrade in

With just two phases to go in India’s nine-phase, five-week marathon national election, time may well have run out for India’s ruling Congress Party to hold onto power and prevent the expected landslide victory by India’s conservative Bharatiya Janata Party

The day after Mumbai book-makers stopped taking bets on India’s Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi winning that country’s ongoing national elections because his chances are thought so low, elitist and big media opponents of India’s surging conservative Bharatiya Janata Party leader

Ukraine announced Thursday that a Russian military attaché to Kiev had been detained by authorities and given 24 hours to leave the country. The Russian official’s name has not yet been released nor are his immediate whereabouts public. He is

Wednesday’s BBC World newscasts were dominated by coverage of Tuesday night’s delayed Oklahoma execution of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett. The execution was the top story for at least four consecutive hours on BBC World, the British broadcasters’ international television service,

Despite recent and repeated assurances from Obama Administration officials that Russia remains a productive and essential ally of Western efforts to secure a permanent nuclear deal agreement with Iran that keeps the Islamic Republic from obtaining the means to develop

Speaking last Friday to a private gathering of the Trilateral Commission in Washington, D.C., US Secretary of State John Kerry predicted that Israel would become “an apartheid state” if it did accept his two state formula for peace in the

When Ukraine’s interim president went to the United States begging for weapons and munitions so his country could defend itself, he was turned down and offered ready to eat meals instead. America’s decision to send 125 combat troops to the

Things are looking up for Syrian President Bashar Assad. He claims, with some truth, that the tide of civil war has finally turned in his favour and that his forces will soon “win” Syria’s three-year-old fratricidal slaughter.  Speaking to students

Russia has in part justified its invasion, annexation of, and subterfuge in Ukrainian territories by claiming it was necessary to protect Ukrainian Jews from the “anti-semitic” and “fascist” new government in Kiev. Meanwhile, all Jews over 16-years-old in Eastern Ukraine

On Thursday Israel announced that it will start deducting tax revenues collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to satisfy the mounting unmet claims of Israeli utility companies owed several hundred million dollars. By treaty, Israel is responsible for

When it comes to Indian elections, the numbers are always mind boggling. India, with more than 820 million eligible voters, is, as the saying goes, by far the world largest democracy. India’s democracy is several hundred million voters larger than

Whatever reservations China’s top officials might have had directly confronting their American counterparts in the past, appeared to vanish completely during this week’s visit to China by US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel. Following their meetings in Beijing, General Chang Wanquan,

As US Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to return home empty handed yet again from two weeks of overseas diplomacy, he told reporters in Morocco that as far as his Middle East peace initiative goes, it is “reality check

Several hours after Mahmoud Abbas appeared on television to announce he was breaking off negotiations with Israel and the United States, John Kerry took to the microphones in Brussels to solemnly declare no such thing ever happened.  “Let me make

Tensions on the Korean peninsula are as heightened as they have been since the end of the Korean War in 1953. Yesterday, North Korea responded to a long planned South Korean amphibious naval exercise by firing a thousand missiles and

US Secretary of State John Kerry hurriedly broke off talks with European allies on the small matter of Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea to race back to Israel to try and salvage what he regards as his far more

Jordan’s King Abdullah urged Israel’s opposition leader on Monday to make sure his country’s government does not quit negotiations until “peace is achieved” warning that the “chance for peace will not be repeated”. Quoting from a statement issued by the