Today's Headlines: Obama tells UN a Palestinian state could rise within a year Amnesty International calls for the release of Polisario dissenter Pakistani scientist sentenced to 86 years in US...

Today's Headlines: Arab League agrees to direct Israeli-Palestinian talks, demands US guarantees Saudi monarch meets with Assad prior to joint Lebanon summit And...UN finally declares access to water a basic human...

The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas military commander, had all the elements needed to shoot it to the top of editorial priority lists around the world. There was mystery,...

(Al Jazeera English: September 15, 2009) A UN report found strong evidence of crimes against humanity committed by both the Israeli military and some Palestinian factions, including Hamas. Other stories...

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) spoke at the Senate debate on the establishment of a "Truth Commission" to investigate torture and other misdeeds under the Bush administration. From Democracy Now!,...

Filmmakers lead an investigation into the identity of the only anonymous victim of a 2002 bus explosion in Tel Aviv.