SAWAQA, Jordan— U.S. plans to help the Kingdom of Jordan become the Arab world’s next nuclear power are raising alarms inside Israel. The political goal is to promote the nonmilitary use of atomic energy and pressure rogue nuclear programs in Iran and Syria to become more transparent. The U.S. would win economically, too, in any …
GAZA CITY (AMP) — American archaeologist Conrad Yeats was one of those captured—and since expelled—during Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, according to U.S. officials. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would not comment on the mystery surrounding Doctor Yeats. But Israeli authorities suggested he was merely trying to defy a passport ban prohibiting …
Pope Benedict XVI said he will overhaul one of the most powerful orders in Roman Catholicism, the Legion of Christ, in the wake of a Vatican investigation into decades of cover-ups of sexual abuse.
PIRAEUS (AMP) – Even as Greece sinks into a sea of debt, Greek tycoons like shipping billionaire Chris Andros III are sailing away with profits from Asia. “The Greeks for had a long-standing trade relationship with China for well over a century,” said Andros, the 27-year-old scion and chief executive of Andros Shipping best known …
HVOLSVOLLUR, ICELAND (AMP) – Even as ash from last week’s spectacular Iclandic volcano eruption continues to spew ash into the atmosphere and ground Europe’s airspace, Vatican sources today confirmed that the pope has dispatched Sister Serena Serghetti to the Arctic to investigate. Dubbed “Mother Earth” by the media for her environmental extremism and supermodel looks, …
CORFU, GREECE (AMP) — The battle for “biggest superyacht” among Russian billionaires has been roiled by sightings in the Greek Islands of the new 595-foot Midas, reportedly owned by Russian orphan-turned-British tycoon Sir Roman Midas. At 595 feet, the Midas is a full 54 feet longer than the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s upcoming 540-foot Eclipse …
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