| Iranian Filmmaker, Panahi, Is Released From Prison The filmmaker, Jaffar Panahi, was released Tuesday on $200,000 bail, two weeks after beginning a hunger strike, the ISNA news agency reported. feeds.nytimes.com |
Biden, in Iraq, Urges Leaders to Form Government The vice president drew an analogy to the signers of the Declaration of Independence in exhorting Iraqi leaders to end the four-month-long postelection paralysis. feeds.nytimes.com |
Get the Driver Out: Iraqi Political Satire in Song and Video A music video takes a swipe at Iraq's reluctant-to-depart caretaker government. feeds.nytimes.com |
Israel to Buy Advanced US Fighter Jets JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli government has officially approved plans to buy American-made F-35 stealth fighter jets. feeds.nytimes.com |
Parliament debates war in Afghanistan NINE years after Australia first committed troops to the war in Afghanistan, the Australian parliament will start debating the conflict later today. news.com.au |