Anthem’s offer for smaller rival Cigna is part of a daisy chain of potential deals in the health insurance sector. Cigna Chairman Isaiah Harris, Jr. and Chief Executive David Cordani wrote a letter to Anthem’s board outlining reasons why the company was rejecting Anthem’s stock and cash offer. Anthem, the second-largest U.S. health insurer, said […]

Crazy Roger Waters of Pink Floyd tried unsuccessfully to get international rock star Alan Parsons to boycott Israel. Waters belongs to BDS (I say it stands for Big Dumb you know whats) who think that getting artists to refuse to …

WASHINGTON — Defying President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner announced on Wednesday that he's invited Israel's prime minister to stand before Congress and push for new sanctions against its archenemy Iran. Boehner's decision to …

US Secretary of State John Kerry, second right, meets with Arab League secretary general Nabil El-Arabi, second from left, on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014, in London. The meeting was to discuss the ongoing peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians.

LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch brewer Heineken HEIN.AS said on Sunday it was approached by larger rival SABMiller SAB.L about a potential takeover but that its controlling shareholder intended to keep the company independent. The maker of Heineken and Amstel beers said it consulted with its majority shareholder and concluded that SABMiller’s proposal was “non-actionable”. “The […]

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After an hour-long phone call, Putin says Russia and the U.S. are still far apart.

And Turkey's Islamic supremacist Prime Minister didn't back away from his antisemitic conspiracy theory one bit. "Turkish PM Erdoğan rebuffs US for strong reaction to his Israel comments," from the Hürriyet Daily News, …

The military’s ultimatum, read on state TV yesterday, has demanded that President Mohammed Morsi and his opposition reach a resolution to the crisis within 48 hours or it will take action.

Faced with a diplomatic impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas, John Kerry extracted from the Arab League an agreement to dust off a decade-old regional plan, the Arab Peace Initiative.