WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama renewed his administration's offer of dialogue and diplomacy with Tehran on Saturday, a year after his offer of a new beginning with Iran failed to achieve concrete results. Obama, who addressed Iranians in a new videotaped appeal to mark the observance of Nowruz -- a festival celebrating the arrival of spring -- has pledged ...

Organizers say thousands of people are headed to the nation's capital to protest on the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. A coalition of anti-war groups, led by military veterans as well as activists Ralph Nader and Cindy Sheehan, are scheduled to hold ...

The EU and Israel have shelved a ministerial meeting scheduled for next week, though foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman will hold bilateral talks with European counterparts, diplomatic sources said Friday. EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton "has informed representatives of the 27 EU nations that the conditions aren't there" for a formal EU-Israel meeting, a diplomatic source said. Ashton spokesman ...

Most Israelis regard US President Barack Obama as fair in his dealings with their country, despite a simmering diplomatic row between the two countries, according to a poll published on Friday in the Haaretz newspaper. The poll said 51 percent of those questioned believed Obama was businesslike in his relations with the Jewish state and 18 percent saw him as ...