Hamas has reportedly urged Meshaal to reconsider.
Major powers signaled on Friday their willingness to reopen talks about curbing Iran's suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons but said Tehran must show it is serious about any negotiations.
Oil prices fell on Friday, pressured by economic uncertainty ahead of a possible debt deal in Greece, concerns about China's sluggish manufacturing sector, and weak U.S. petroleum demand.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday warned against military intervention in Iran, fearing that it would not stop the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons program, but instead bring more chaos to the region.
Hamas has also called for the European Parliament to intervene on Dweik's behalf.
The speaker of the Palestinian parliament has been arrested by Israeli soldiers, according to Hamas officials.
General Motors has once again grabbed the largest share of global sales and become the world's largest automaker, moving past sales of Toyota and Volkswagen in 2011.
Iran's foreign minister warned Arab neighbors on Thursday not to put themselves in a dangerous position by aligning themselves too closely with the United States in the escalating dispute over Tehran's nuclear activity.
Rather than sending back the RQ-170 Sentinel drone that crashed into Iran last year, Tehran-based Aaye Art Group says it plans to send President Obama miniature fake versions of the spycraft... and rumor has it the $4 toys are likely to be pink. Though the Iranian government is still insisting that the spy drone was over Iran when it crashed and that Iranian spies brought it down, the U.S. claims the aircraft was in Afghanistan, and suffered a technical malfunction.
The possibility of a war against Iran is no longer in the realm of fantasy.
He has helped the military predict where bombs will go off and worked with law enforcement to fight crime, but now Quantum Leap Innovations CEO Joseph Budner Elad wants to use his technology to help consumers
Lavrov also criticized moves by the West to tighten the economic screws on Iran.
Rick Perry has come under fire for his remark at Monday's South Carolina debate that Turkey is run by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists.
Why would Israel take such a risk to engineer such acts against one of their deadliest enemies, Iran?
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A hacker network purported to be based in Saudi Arabia is reportedly to blame for the disruption of Israel's Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and national airline El Al Web sites on Monday, officials at both companies confirmed.
Hackers disrupted online access to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, El Al Airlines and three banks on Monday in what the government described as a cyber-offensive against Israel.
Terror suspect and alleged Hezbollah militant Atris Hussein led Thai police to a warehouse filled with bomb making material outside of Bangkok on Monday.
Computer hackers disrupted access to the Web sites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and Israel's flag carrier El Al Airlines on Monday, officials at both companies said.
The United States and Israel have postponed a joint military exercise due to be held in the coming weeks until later in the year, an Israeli security source told Reuters Sunday.
Iran said on Sunday it had received a letter from the U.S. government about the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial oil shipping lane that Tehran has threatened to close if sanctions prevent it exporting oil.
Iran said on Saturday it had evidence Washington was behind the recent killing of one of its nuclear scientists, state television reported, at a time when tensions over the country's nuclear program have escalated to their highest level ever.
