Israel's defense minister has told a investigation into a deadly raid on an aid convoy to Gaza that the flotilla was a "planned provocation." The comments follow a stern defense of the raid by Israel's prime minister.

• August 11, 2010

The white fortress loomed above the fields, a crumbling but still imposing redoubt perched on a rock mound above a plane of golden rapeseed shimmering in the morning light.

• August 10, 2010

On the second anniversary of the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, the government in Tbilisi has accepted Russian occupation of their provinces — for now.

• August 10, 2010

The Obama Administration plans to sell 84 F-15 Eagle jet fighters to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the next ten years for a total of $30 billion.

• August 10, 2010

Australia's main opposition Liberal-National coalition of center-right parties said Tuesday it will open up uranium exports to India if it wins power in an election to be held Aug. 21.

• August 10, 2010

The majority in the Serbian cabinet supports the country’s participation in Bulgaria’s Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project, according to the Serbian newspaper “Vecherne Novosti.”

• August 9, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived Sunday in Abkhazia, one of the separatist territories over which Russia and Georgia warred two years ago, the state-run Interfax news agency reported.

• August 9, 2010

Serbian President Boris Tadic has arrived to Bulgaria’s Varna for high-level bilateral talks with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

• August 7, 2010