To Obama, the Geneva Convention applies to stateless terrorists–who are not parties to the convention, and are not lawful combatants–but not to U.S. sailors captured and detained by Iran at gunpoint
NEW DELHI (AP) — India deployed sharpshooters and security forces around the capital Monday as Narendra Modi prepared to be sworn in as prime minister in a ceremony attended by a slew of foreign dignitaries — including the prime minister
*UPDATE 1:45PM* Fighting in Donetsk resumed after a storm cleared the area. AFP reporter Paul Gypteau found a beheaded woman in front of the train station. Body of a beheaded old woman in front of #Donetsk railway station. Unclear what
Last week’s announcement that China and Russia had signed a 30-year, $400 billion gas deal posed a striking contrast to the Obama administration’s dithering on the Keystone XL pipeline. If two rival, backward powers are able to agree to share
President Obama, who paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, was snubbed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai when he turned down an invitation to meet with the President at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul. The two leaders’ relationship has
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian senator startled his colleagues by producing a fake pipe bomb during a committee hearing on Monday. Sen. Bill Heffernan, who represents the ruling Liberal Party, was making a point about a relaxation of security
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An express train slammed into a parked freight train in northern India on Monday, killing at least 40 people and reducing cars to a heap of torn and twisted metal, officials said. The Gorakhpur Express passenger
JERUSALEM (AP) — Pope Francis honored Jews killed in the Holocaust, kissing the hands of six survivors in an emotional ceremony at Israel’s national Holocaust memorial on Monday as he capped a Mideast trip with poignant stops at some of
Subcomandante Marcos, the mysterious masked leader of Mexico’s Zapatista rebels, bowed out as chief of the 20-year-old movement in what he described vaguely as “internal changes.” Marcos made the announcement one day after making his first public appearance in five
Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian translator Andrey Mironov were killed in Sloviansk. They documented the fighting between pro-Ukrainians and pro-Russians in turbulent east Ukraine. French freelance journalist William Roguelon was with them and told reporters they “came under
A replica of Egypt’s iconic Sphinx built in northern China will be dismantled after an Egyptian ministry complained about the structure, state media said Sunday. A massive replica of the ancient statue was built in Hebei province, the official Xinhua
Pope Francis arrived in Israel on Sunday to formally launch the final leg of his three-day Middle East tour. He flew in by helicopter from the West Bank town of Bethlehem, landing at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv where
The leader of Nigeria’s Muslims on Sunday called for followers of the faith to unite against Boko Haram extremists, pledging the government full support to ensure their defeat. But the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, also said the
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — As Pope Francis made his way Sunday to preside over a Mass in the West Bank, he made a surprise stop at the wall separating it from Israel. Photographers and onlookers rushed over to watch
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Pope Francis visits Mideast to urge freedom of religion The schism of the Orthodox and the heresy of the Protestants Pope Francis’s visit also commemorates forgiveness of Jews Pope Francis visits Mideast to urge
As citizens of a free country it is necessary that we acknowledge the sacrifices of the men and women in uniform that died to defend it. Civil society only survives in a world of violence and tyranny if there are
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he will respect Ukraine’s presidential election and work with the new president, but there is an interesting chocolate bar for sale in Russia. Produced by a Russian company called Shokobox, it shows Russia in 2015,
The polls closed in Ukraine, and “Chocolate King” Petro Poroshenko is on top of the exit polls with 56% of the votes. Another exit poll has very similar result. RT @Ukroblogger: Exit poll: #Poroshenko 55.9% #Tymoshenko 12.9% Lyashko 8% pic.twitter.com/caICk3mwu4
The polls opened at 8AM Kyiv time (1AM ET) and the people brought their families to participate in this historic election. It is an election Ukraine and the West hope will restore order and bring peace to the troubled country.
Pope Francis invited Israeli President Shimon Peres and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmud Abbas on Sunday to his home in the Vatican for a “heartfelt prayer” for peace.
Belgium, sometimes described as a country invented in 1830 by the British to annoy the French, goes to the polls on Sunday not just for the elections to the European Parliament but for elections to its national parliament and, eventually,
On the last day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, large energy companies signed contracts with Igor Sechin, President and Executive Chairman of Rosneft and a man on a US sanctions list. ExxonMobil and British Petroleum (BP) were a
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom have been threatening Ukraine and Europe’s gas supply since March, but now Putin said “Ukrainian radicals” could endanger the gas supplies. “We are seriously concerned about statements by Ukrainian radicals,
This week’s historic $400 billion agreement for Russia to provide China with a guaranteed 30-year supply of safe, reliable, affordably priced Russian natural gas comes as the most dramatic illustration yet of just how rapidly the geopolitical landscape of the
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — An earthquake beneath the sea shook northern Greece and western Turkey Saturday, with 266 people reportedly injured in Turkey. The quake struck at 12:25 p.m. local time (0925 GMT) southwest of the Greek island of Samothraki,
After two days of intense violence and death, it is quiet in Ukraine one day before a historic presidential election. The presidential candidates are out of the public eye due to a law that forbids campaigning 24 hours before an
