Donald H. Harrison

SACRAMENTO (Press Release)–California’s Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced on Tuesday  that the California Department of Insurance (CDI) has removed Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands), Shell International Finance (Netherlands), Total SA (France), and Repsol YPF (Spain) from the CDI “List of Companies Doing Business with the Iranian Petroleum/Natural Gas, Nuclear, and Defense Sectors.” The CDI initially published its

  PARIS (WJC)–French Foreign Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie has told a gathering of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) that “France will take a strong stance against Iran.” She pledged to take a firm position on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and said all form of economic sanctions would be envisaged if Iran continued to pursue the nuclear program.

BRUSSELS (WJC)–The European Union will not recognize Palestinian statehood until an “appropriate” time, the 27 EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels said in a joint statement. It came in response to a letter from Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, in which he had urged the EU countries to join

BAGHDAD, Dec. 13 (Press Release) –The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff stressed to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki today that now is the time for the United States and Iraq to plan for a normal, long-term military-to-military relationship. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen met with Maliki at the prime minister’s residence in downtown