The United States Treasury Department announced sanctions Wednesday against a Bahrain bank accused of helping Iran's alleged nuclear proliferation activities.
President Bush said Sunday that Iran is threatening the security of the world, and that the United States and Arab allies must join together to confront the danger "before it's too late."
The war of words between United States and Tehran continued Wednesday, with President Bush repeating his assertion that Iran is "a threat to world peace."
On the opening lap last week in Texas, Ricky Rudd was hit from behind, sending him over the top of David Ragan backwards. More than knocking him out, the incident was a microcosm of Rudd's season, which has been moving backwards since he took the green flag for the Daytona 500.
Jimmie Johnson finds himself in an unusual position this week. For the first time in nearly three years, JJ isn't among the top 10 in the Nextel Cup points for the first time in nearly three years. His 105-race streak began March 9, 2004 at Atlanta and ended with last Sunday's 39th-place finish in the Daytona 500.
The United States Treasury Department announced sanctions Wednesday against a Bahrain bank accused of helping Iran's alleged nuclear proliferation activities.
President Bush said Sunday that Iran is threatening the security of the world, and that the United States and Arab allies must join together to confront the danger "before it's too late."
The war of words between United States and Tehran continued Wednesday, with President Bush repeating his assertion that Iran is "a threat to world peace."
On the opening lap last week in Texas, Ricky Rudd was hit from behind, sending him over the top of David Ragan backwards. More than knocking him out, the incident was a microcosm of Rudd's season, which has been moving backwards since he took the green flag for the Daytona 500.
Jimmie Johnson finds himself in an unusual position this week. For the first time in nearly three years, JJ isn't among the top 10 in the Nextel Cup points for the first time in nearly three years. His 105-race streak began March 9, 2004 at Atlanta and ended with last Sunday's 39th-place finish in the Daytona 500.
Saad Al-Jassem slips out of his dishdasha revealing a body in extraordinary shape for a man who turns 70 this year. On a traditional wooden dhow off Doha's corniche, Saad is getting ready to show me how to dive for pearls.
Two people were missing two days after a cruise ship carrying 126 people capsized in the Persian Gulf off Bahrain during a party, killing 57, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said Saturday.
At least 63 passengers were rescued -- and the bodies of 51 others recovered -- after a passenger ferry carrying about 135 people on a company outing capsized and sank Thursday night in a narrow channel off the Bahrain coast, officials said.
Lost amid the political furor over the Dubai ports deal is a much larger story. No, we're not talking about weak Coast Guard inspections or other security-related safeguards. (I'll leave that issue for another day). Instead, it's the staggering shift in global economic power that the global commodity boom has wrought.
Pop star Michael Jackson, who has been in seclusion since his acquittal on sex abuse charges, has written a song that he will record to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina, according to his publicist.
The U.S. military is holding five men with U.S. ties -- two citizens and three possible U.S. citizens -- suspected in insurgent activities around Iraq, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
Security police Wednesday arrested seven men suspected of planning to bomb sites in Bahrain to "spread chaos and fear," and harm the national economy and foreign investments, the Interior Ministry said.
The State Department is asking U.S. Embassy "non-emergency" employees and their families to voluntarily leave the tiny Persian Gulf state of Bahrain, citing terrorism concerns, and warned U.S. citizens to defer travel to the country.
Up to 900 U.S. military dependents will be ordered out of Bahrain because of "credible intelligence" that the tiny Persian Gulf state could be the next site of a terrorist kidnapping or other attack against Americans, Pentagon sources said Friday.
U.S. President George W. Bush has invited the leaders of Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan and Yemen to meet with G-8 leaders at next month's summit in the coastal resort town of Sea Island, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Many Arabic newspapers published the story of the beheading of U.S. civilian Nick Berg on Wednesday -- but all did so without commenting and the amount of coverage varied greatly.
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