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Underneath a bellicose posture, a decaying and fractured regime
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a stern warning last week against the international community, which imposed sanctions last month targeting the regime's vital oil exports and central bank.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- If Afghanistan isn't handled properly, that war could simmer for years.
Israel's frustration
BRICK, N.J., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- The writer says the United States shouldn't allow Israel to draw its into another disastrous war in the Middle East solely for its benefit.
Falling unemployment hardly a game-changer
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Prospects for more unemployment improvement aren't great and President Obama was smart to greet the recent jobs report with caution.
Commentary: China pivot -- or pirouette?
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The Asia pivot of U.S. strategy is bumping up against the reality of defense cutbacks. Secret operations combined with breakthroughs in robotic warfare are a realistic strategic stopgap.
ZURICH, Switzerland, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The negotiations between the European Union, the Greeks, the International Monetary Fund and the Institute of International Finance have past brinkmanship.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Although it has been 95 years since the Balfour Declaration and 64 years of Jewish independence in Israel, Zionism is still fighting for global recognition.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department on Friday to report the economy added 135,000 jobs in January, after gaining 200,000 in December. In 2012, weaker jobs gains are likely as consumer spending and economic activity slow.
Revolutions ahoy?
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- As long as government remains broken and destructive in the United States, political change is inevitable.
LONDON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The United Nations needs to rebut claims from Tehran that members of an Iranian dissident group in Iraq want to return to Iran.
ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Had the economic meeting in Davos, Switzerland, opened this week, the related upbeat ending mood would have been different.
State of dysfunction: Fairness, the economy and hypocrisy
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- In his State of the Union Address, U.S. President Barack Obama hammered on two resounding themes -- fairness and the economy.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Suppose the very unpredictable and nasty surprises that befell presidential hopeful Mitt Romney last week somehow afflicted global politics on a far grander scale?
South Carolina’s verdict: Romney may be no better than Obama
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Mitt Romney lost the South Carolina Republican primary by failing to convince voters he has the character and platform to turn the country around.
PARIS, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- There are moments, as this European drama of debt and deficit grinds on, when one wonders what Cecil von Renthe-Fink might have made of it.
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