Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to US President George W. Bush   Translated by “Le Monde”   May 8, 2006           Mr George Bush, President of the United States of America   For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions …

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin’s state of the nation address on Wednesday focused on domestic problems such as how to reverse a population decline, but he also took swipes at the United States in his first reaction to US Vice President Dick Cheney’s lambasting.

NABLUS (AP) — Palestinian gas stations began shutting down and motorists lined up at pumps after an Israeli fuel company cut off deliveries Wednesday, deepening the humanitarian crisis in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that has followed Hamas’ rise to power.