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Among other options being considered by senior officials in the UK government's National Security Council is the deployment of the Royal Navy in the Middle East.

Good news out of Iran on Tuesday helped add to crude oil's price decline, already spurred by economic woes plaguing Europe.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading on Tuesday are: STMicroelectronics, Ceragon Networks, Trina Solar, Vodafone Group, Mellanox Technologies, Nokia Corp, Cellcom Israel and AstraZeneca plc.

Israel has never sent troops to any other country in its history, the statement added.

The Cannes Film Festival is indisputably one of the most anticipated film events of the year. It is associated with glamour, prestige, and cinematic brilliance. Yet the festival is also famous for its numerous scandals. This year Sean Penn's outburst during a press conference paled in comparison to past controversies that have occurred on the Croisette.

IAEA officials were denied entry into Parchin on two separate occasions earlier this year.

Japan's vaunted automakers may soon stop building cars in their homeland for export as a soaring yen combines with Mother Nature's mood swings, and an aging population saps the strength of its domestic market, driving the companies across wide oceans and far from their birthplace.

Iran is good at playing this chess game.

The Israeli Defense Forces opened fire on Palestinians at a border crossing near northern Gaza Thursday, wounding eight civilians, according to Palestinian officials.

Israeli leaders Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Ehud Barak have long taken a hawkish stance against Iran.

Shortly after winning 21 seats in parliament, Greece's Golden Dawn has already become a political pariah.

The fertility level in western Turkey (the most economically advanced part of the country) is now about 1.5 -- roughly the same as in western Europe.

Thousands of Palestinians throughout the Middle East and the Arab world observed Nakba Day -- literally translated as the Day of Catastrophe -- on Tuesday to commemorate their mass displacement 64 years ago from lands that now constitute the State of Israel.

International opinions about which nations serve as a positive influence on global affairs are changing. Around the world, more people are looking to Asia, with Japan topping the list, while increasing numbers are disappointed with Europe. However, Asians themselves remained wary of their neighbors.

The Obama administration is trying to get Iranian exile group the People's Mujahedin of Iran taken off of the State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, according to a Monday report in the Wall Street Journal.

Singapore was the fifth-largest arms importer in the world between 2007 and 2011.

Iran has executed a man accused of being an Israeli spy, who was found guilty of killing an alleged Iranian nuclear physicist in 2010, Iranian state media reported Tuesday.

Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, who was sentenced to death in August of last year was said to have worked as an assassin for Israeli intelligence service Mossad, receiving $120,000 for the hit.

Afghanistan will be the focus of a crucial NATO summit in Chicago this month, said NATO Secretary General Ander Fogh Rasmussen during a press conference on Friday. But Pakistan, once a crucial partner in NATO's efforts there, may not be represented at the event.

Rutin -- a compound that occurs naturally in a number of fruits and vegetables and is sold as an herbal supplement -- has a number of anti-clotting properties, meaning that it holds promise as a treatment for conditions like stroke and pulmonary embolism caused by dangerous blood clots.

It's not the type of endorsement you'll see Mitt Romney tout, but General Aladeen, Sacha Baron Cohen's dictator character from the soon-to-be-released film 'The Dictator,' backed the ex-Massachusetts governor over President Barack Obama during a press conference Monday promoting the film.