Epstein Secrets

Ismail Haniya, the Hamas prime minister of Gaza, who now runs a Gaza research group called House of Wisdom. "The tense relations between Gaza and Ramallah has been intensified. Everybody is suspicious." In separate interviews this week, three senior Hamas leaders — Ziad el-Zaza, the finance minister a

influence and thwarting what they each view as meddling in sovereign nations' internal affairs. On the other hand, relentless demographic trends in Northeast Asia suggest that any collaboration between Moscow and Beijing will operate under a cloud, which could grow darker as China's relative military st

to come out of hibernation in the West Bank. An Israeli leadership that has successufully bottled Hamas up in Gaza and a Palestinian leadership in Ramallah that has rooted Hamas out of Palestinian institutions over the past five years will hesitate to allow Hamas to come out into the open there. Of cou

and: freak droughts in the Corn Belt, falling water tables in the Southwest, catastrophic fires in the Rockies and a tropical storm devastating the Northeast in late October. Ironically, Sandy provided an election-eve pair of boons for Obama: Michael Bloomberg, an Independent and New York City's mayor,

made a disappointing showing in yesterday's local elections, with its chosen candidates failing to secure local majorities in key cities including Ramallah despite a boycott by its chief rival, Hamas. "This is a landmark of the end of Fatah," says Mandi Abdul-Hadi, head of the Palestinian Academic Soci

the Chinese overran in 1962 and consider to be "Southern Tibet," while India has steadily beefed up its military deployments in the long-neglected Northeast. The issue of Tibet casts a long shadow—in 1959, the Dalai Lama fled to India, an accommodation that Beijing still resents. When he went recently t