National Security

The meeting between newly elected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif prompted a variety of responses from observers. In India, Sharif was heralded as a “gentleman,” while Pakistani media questioned Modi’s intentions and worried the meeting

Argentina is settling a decades-old claim with the Paris Club in a landmark $9.7 million deal that will put the South American nation one more step towards rehabilitating its scarred economy. The debts have gone unpaid since Argentina’s economy defaulted

On Wednesday, the Venezuelan government unveiled widespread accusations of conspiracy to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro, which implicated a number of high-profile leaders of the opposition, including ousted legislator María Corina Machado and the United States Ambassador to Colombia Kevin Whitaker.

An Australian woman was sentenced to 23 years in prison in Cambodia for attempting to smuggle heroin from Phnom Penh into her native country. Yoshe Ann Taylor, 41, was arrested, along with French teenager Charlene Savarino, who was sentenced to

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Riot police dismantle migrant camps in Calais France 1,000 migrants storm Spain’s Melilla enclave in Africa Major faction defects from Pakistan Taliban, splitting it in two Is this the end of the TTP (Pakistan

On May 28 Thailand’s government blocked Facebook access for one hour in an effort to diffuse protests against a “coup carried out last week.” “A military junta was installed” on May 22, giving the Royal Thai Army control of the

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday followers of an Islamic cleric with whom he’s locked in a power struggle might leak a video about him and his family to smear him before an August presidential

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Rebels in eastern Ukraine shot down a government military helicopter Thursday amid heavy fighting around Slovyansk, killing at least 12 soldiers including a general, officials said. Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov told the parliament in Kiev that

Japan’s coastguard was rushing on Thursday to deal with an explosion aboard a tanker off country’s coast, officials said.

(AFP) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday vowed total war against terrorism as the country’s security forces stepped up efforts to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists 45 days ago. Nigeria returned to democracy on May 29,

(AFP) Egypt’s ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was headed on Thursday for an overwhelming victory in a presidential election touted as a plebiscite on his ouster of the elected Islamist leader last year. With almost 15 percent of polling stations

In another candid press briefing while on board a plane returning to Rome, this time from the Middle East, Pope Francis reportedly said he would not rule out retiring like his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI. “I will do what the

From the vantage point of the just-about-to-graduate cadets at West Point, it must be very cool to have the Commander-in-Chief be your commencement speaker. Perhaps the ‘wow-factor’ is diminished when the speech is one that underlines why America isn’t important

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Refugees waved flags and held pictures of Bashar al-Assad as they crushed into Damascus’s embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday to join Syrians worldwide voting early in an election that looks certain to give him a third seven-year

On May 27 almost 40 people were killed after Al-Shabab militants raided “a village between Ethiopia and Somalia.” Al-Shabab is an “Al-Qaeda-linked” group of militants. According to Voice of America (VOA), the local Somali governor said “27 pro-government militiamen and

In the last few days Ukraine has seen the heaviest fighting since the crisis initiated by the Kremlin this spring. This comes just hours after a new President was elected in Kiev. At the same time a “rabble” stormed the headquarters

European pro-lifers are outraged at what they consider the anti-democratic decision by the powerful European Commission to ignore a pro-life petition signed by nearly two million people from more than twenty EU member states. The petition, called One of Us,

On May 26 Iranian “commander Sardar (General) Abdullah Eskandari… was killed on Monday in clashes in Damascus.” News of his death was announced on Iranian state-run television and reported by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Muslim rebels stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, launching grenades and spraying civilians with gunfire, witnesses said. At least five bodies were brought to area hospitals,

(Reuters) – Local officials in China‘s western Xinjiang region held a public rally for the mass sentencing of criminals on Tuesday, handing out judgements for 55 people and at least three death sentences for crimes such as “violent terrorism”, state media

Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Elías Jaua is beginning a world tour that will take him to Bolivia, Portugal, and Russia in which he plans to denounce the alleged interference of the U.S. in Latin America. The tour follows a

(AFP) Egyptian ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday led with about 93 percent of votes cast in a two-way presidential election with results in from almost 15 percent of polling stations, state media reported. Sisi, who deposed Islamist president

(Reuters) – Four more of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month have escaped than previously thought, Nigeria’s Borno state said on Wednesday, but 219 others were still missing and assumed held by the Islamist militants. The girls were

BBC News reports the Mehsud faction has split from the Pakistani-Taliban over “un-Islamic” practices. According to the BBC: The rift comes after a month of infighting in which dozens of fighters from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed. The powerful