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
The Holy See is once again before a UN Committee, this time the Committee on the Convention Against Torture (CAT) and, once again, the Catholic Church is being rebuked for its beliefs about sexuality and abortion. Given that the CAT
Financial Times sent shock waves through the U.S. business community last week when headlines announced that China will overtake the United States as the “world’s leading economic power this year,” a title we’ve held since we passed England in 1872.
Hundreds gathered Tuesday in front of the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest the Nigerian government’s failure to rescue the 276 teenage girls who were abducted 22 days ago by members of the Islamist group Boko Haram. It has
The Telegraph has reportedly uncovered China’s secret plans for handling the scenario of a collapse of North Korea’s regime under Kim Jong Un. The document suggests that China is worried about the short- and long-term overall stability of the Un
(AFP) The United States will send a team of military and police experts to Nigeria to help find more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, amid a growing wave of outrage over their abduction. US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday
The “People’s Donetsk Republic” and Luhansk plan on a referendum on Sunday, May 11, even though the Associated Press reported there are “no visible preparations for the vote.” Germany and the United States lashed out at the referendum, while Russia
Venezuelan campaign strategist Juan José Rendón has resigned from managing the campaign of Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos, after allegations surfaced that he received up to $12 million from drug lords seeking protection from extradition to the United States. The
Hundreds of Nigerian-American demonstrators and their supporters rallied today at Nigeria’s embassy in Washington, D.C., seeking to free the 276 girls (and the 8 more abducted today) kidnapped by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. “Bring back our girls, now!”
On Tuesday, Heritage Action announced that it would negatively score any legislation, like Rep. Jeff Denham’s (R-CA) ENLIST Act, that would grant amnesty to illegal immigrant DREAMers who join the U.S. military. Breitbart News’s Matthew Boyle first reported on Denham’s bill
On April 29th, a 53-year old diver taking part in the search for bodies aboard the sunken South Korean Sewol ferry became unconscious and later died after descending 25m into the water. The diver was known as “Mr. Lee” According
A man in Guangdong known only as Li received a sentence of 10 years for leaking “23 classic documents, 13 of which were considered highly classified.” Li “also passed along photos of military installations and movements.” According to BBC News,
The shortage of basic goods in Venezuela thanks to President Nicolás Maduro’s socialist mismanagement of the economy is finally hitting the media. El Universal, the nation’s largest newspaper, declared itself in a state of emergency yesterday, as it does not
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com As immigrants surge into Greece, 22 die on Aegean Sea U.S. considers helping Nigeria find its abducted girls Pakistan travel restrictions urged to stop spread of polio Violence in Odessa Ukraine revives memories of
The United States government is officially recognizing the offices of the opposition Syrian National Coalition as a “diplomatic foreign mission,” Reuters reported, both diminishing the legitimacy of the Bashar al-Assad regime and strengthening ties between the United States and the opposition.
The United States government has offered Nigeria help in finding the more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls currently under the custody of radical Islamist terror group Boko Haram. While the U.S. is reportedly offering satellite intelligence and other aid, many in
A new law in Russia imposes fines as heavy as 100,000 rubles on individuals and corporations who attempt to distribute works of art that include profanity. The move, which includes all forms of art from theater to recorded music, is
An Indonesian widow who was gang-raped by eight ‘vigilantes’ as punishment for having an affair with a married man, is now to suffer the further indignity of being caned in public. The rapists caught the couple together when they barged
Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told German citizens to leave south and east Ukraine and discouraged further travel to the country. He claimed the country is on the brink of war, which is the first time a western country described
President Barack Obama’s aunt was buried Tuesday in her birth nation of Kenya, family members said, after her death last month in the United States. Zeituni Onyango, half-sister of Obama’s father, died aged 61 from cancer and respiratory problems, according
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police shot and wounded a suspect who attacked passengers at a busy railway station in southern China on Tuesday, leaving six people injured in the third high-profile assault on civilians at a train station in a
A prominent blogger has been arrested in Vietnam accused of disseminating anti-state articles in the communist country’s latest crackdown on online dissent, police said Tuesday. Nguyen Huu Vinh, 57, more commonly known as Anh Ba Sam, was arrested in Hanoi
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday appeared to rule out reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood movement, raising the specter of a prolonged conflict with a group he said was finished. Sisi, who ousted the Brotherhood’s
Israel celebrates its independence day tonight and into Tuesday (Yom HaAtzmaut), while last night after sundown and today, it mourned its losses (Yom Hazikaron). The quick turnaround, marked by a day of mourning and a day of celebration in a
On May 4, Gerry Adams, leader of the Irish Sinn Fein party, was released after being arrested and questioned for four days about “the 1972 killing” of Jean McConville. McConville was a “37-year-old mother of ten” who “was abducted and
Two Nigerian women have been detained after demanding accountability from their government. Following the mass abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, Naomi Mutah was among many Nigerian citizens upset with their governments response. Protest groups amassed throughout the country,
