South Sudan's parliament speaker proclaimed the fledgling state's independence on Saturday, marking its birth as the world's newest nation and splitting Africa's largest country in two.
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Barely audible above the chants of "traitor," an Israeli actress who lost a leg in a Palestinian attack read out on Thursday a declaration by Israeli intellectuals endorsing the creation of a Palestinian state.
The United Nations may declare Palestine a sovereign state whose territory includes all of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem during its annual General Assembly meeting in September.
Stop us if you've heard this one: President Barack Obama wants to return the entire land mass of the United States of America to Native American tribes.
