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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview on Thursday that he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin will try to overthrow the Ukrainian government, remarks that come less than 24 hours after Russia invaded Ukraine. During an interview on ABC’s “World News Tonight,” anchor David Muir asked Blinken if he was convinced that Putin was going to overthrow the Ukrainian government.

President Biden watched a preschooler’s infrastructure project crumble before his eyes Monday as he visited a New Jersey school to promote his own beleaguered spending plans. “I’m sorry, my fault. That was my fault. I made you look up,” Biden said, bending over to pick up the pieces of what had been a tower of building blocks. Biden appeared at the North Plainfield school with Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, who faces an unexpectedly tight race for re-election next week against a surging Republican candidate, Jack Ciattarelli. Biden made only passing mention of Murphy but made time to gripe to the...

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) has attacked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) over their support for a Palestinian state and the need for a political process with the Palestinians. "We will take down the government over anything that would lead to a division of the Land of Israel and the creation of a Palestinian state. We will fight it," he said during an interview on Meet the Press. "There will be no Palestinian state here. I will do anything to stop it," he promised. "We are in a government whose basic principles include...

(IsraelNN.com) Likud Chairman and head of the Opposition Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to abandon his wait-and-see strategy and to launch a public campaign for toppling Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government. In a rally held Tuesday at the Likud headquarters building 'Metzudat Ze'ev' in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu reportedly told his supporters "this government has to go home and we need to start acting to make this happen." He told them to begin holding weekly protest vigils every Friday in busy intersections throughout Israel as well as street demonstrations. "The slogan is simple," he said: "'You've Failed – Go Home'." According to...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fueled by opposition to the Iraq war and anger at President Bush, liberal grass-roots and Internet activists on Wednesday claimed their most significant political victory -- the defeat of Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record). The three-term senator from Connecticut was repudiated on Tuesday by voters from his own party who chose Ned Lamont -- a relative unknown with a fierce anti-war message -- to represent Democrats in the November election. "The winner is people-powered politics," declared the Daily Kos Web site, a sentiment that echoed throughout the liberal blogosphere. Lamont, a millionaire businessman who...

'Bin Laden ordered me to topple government' By Nick Squires in Sydney (Filed: 17/02/2006) Osama bin Laden ordered a Muslim convert to help prepare a terrorist attack to topple the Australian government, Victoria supreme court was told yesterday. Joseph Thomas, 32, a taxi driver who changed his name to Jihad, was told to act as a sleeper agent and spy on military installations, said Nicholas Robinson, prosecuting. The allegations were made on the first day of the trial of the man the media have nicknamed "Jihad Jack". He denies receiving money from al-Qa'eda in 2002 and 2003, providing the terrorist...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A revolutionary court Sunday sentenced a prominent liberal political dissident to five years in prison on charges of trying to topple the Islamic system, his lawyer said. Mohammad Mohsen Sazgara was also sentenced in absentia to five years deprivation of his social rights, meaning he cannot take official posts or compete in elections. Sazgara, who lives in the United States, co-organized an Internet-based referendum for Iranian people to vote for their favourite political system in a challenge to the Islamic republic earlier this year. "My client believes his charges are baseless and the revolutionary court is...

Friday, 17 January, 2003, 02:28 GMTSaudi 'plan to topple Saddam' Prince Abdullah is said to have discussed the plan Arab leaders are planning a coup to topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, says a report in Time magazine. Saudi Arabia is reported to be behind the plot which proposes encouraging Iraqi generals to overthrow Saddam and his inner circle. The aim is to avoid a United States-led war with Iraq which could spark other wars in the region. If there is amnesty for the rest of the government, Saddam will be checkmated Diplomat The Saudi idea requires a United Nations resolution...

Iran 'could help US topple Saddam' Iran might help the United States topple Saddam Hussein despite years of mutual antagonism between the two countries. Iranian diplomats are in talks with their American counterparts to provide support in military emergencies such as pilots shot down or naval accidents in the Persian Gulf. The Pentagon says "preliminary feelers" between the two countries were underway through Arab intermediaries. Iran has also allowed a group of dissident Iraqi Shiite Muslims, now based in Tehran, to work with America to help overthrow Saddam, diplomats told USA Today. The negotiations could provide a major strategic boost...

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — While millions of Arabs decry the U.S. military presence in the Middle East and Washington's desire to attack Iraq, many Kuwaitis wouldn't have it any other way — the country is an island of support for America. It's been a decade since U.S. troops threw Saddam Hussein's army out of Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War, and Kuwaitis have not forgotten. ``If the United States were not here, maybe you wouldn't see me sitting at this coffee shop today, owning a mobile phone and being able to relax with my family,'' said Reda Shashtari, 56, a...

Al-Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein, the official spokesman for the Iraqi opposition National Congress stressed that the aim of the US is toppling the Iraqi regime, rather than occupying Iraq and colonizing it. In a statement to the London- based weekly al-Majallah (the magazine) issued on Sunday, al-Sharif Ali did not rule out that monarchy will come back to Iraq after the US invades it. He explained that the Iraqi people had experience the republican form of government for 40 years and today according to our contacts with the Iraqis, the majority of the Iraqi people prefer to return back to...

<p>LONDON (AP) --  Former Iraqi military officers and civilian opposition groups seeking a role in a future democratic Iraq gathered Friday to discuss efforts to topple Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>More than 200 people attended the open meeting at a convention hall to discuss how to topple Saddam's regime in Baghdad and secure democracy, organizers said. The meetings were to last through the weekend.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - President Bush early this year signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to undertake a comprehensive, covert program to topple Saddam Hussein, including authority to use lethal force to capture the Iraqi president, according to informed sources.</p> <p>The presidential order, an expansion of a previous presidential finding designed to oust Saddam, directs the CIA to use all available tools...</p>