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PARIS (AP) — An ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s “Crown of Thorns” has made a special public appearance at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The crown — a circular band of branches encased in a gilded,

A full transcript of communications between missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and air traffic control until the moment the plane disappeared has been published. The new context shows that the flight disappeared the moment it left Malaysian airspace and was

Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government in Venezuela is getting increasingly desperate, as nothing they have tried has abated the wave of protests that began with the arrest of opposition leader Leopoldo López. After arresting two opposition party mayors this week, Maduro

Venezuelan deputies claim to have found new evidence that President Nicolás Maduro was born in Colombia and presented the nation with a fake birth certificate, according to one of Spain’s largest newspapers. ABC reports today that deputy Walter Márquez, who initially

Polish citizens are taking their money out of banks and filling out U.S. visa applications in anticipation of Russia’s westward push reaching Warsaw, according to a report from a professor visiting the Polish capital.  Brian Grodsky, a political science professor

Israeli military officials say they uncovered a Hamas tunnel that might be the largest yet discovered. It runs hundreds of meters into Israel from Gaza and posed “a direct link and threat to Israeli territory, and enable Hamas terrorists to reach and

In response to U.S. sanctions regarding the annexation of Crimea, some Russian business have banned Obama, Pussy Riot, and Secretary of State John Kerry, while others have set out candy that can only be eaten by those who support the

Cuba’s doctors got a big pay raise Friday — to 64 dollars a month, the official Communist Party newspaper Granma said. The hike in pay from $25 a month was to reward health professionals for being the country’s top source

As Vladimir Putin is cementing his power in Crimea, those studying Russia are increasingly concerned that the West has done little to stop Putin’s expansion. Human Rights Foundation Chairman Garry Kasparov warns that anything short of a full assault on

Speaking at Mashhad in northeastern Iran on Friday March 14, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said he was “uncertain” whether the Holocaust had, in fact, happened. According to The Times of Israel, Khamenei said: “The Holocaust is an event whose

On Friday, March 21, Ukraine and the European Union finally signed part of the Association Agreement. The date is significant because it is four months to the day Ukrainians went down to Kyiv’s Independence Square to protest then-president Viktor Yanukovych’s

Crimea is officially a member of the Russia Federation. On Friday, President Vladimir Putin signed all the bills to complete the annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine. According to the Associated Press, he said it was a “remarkable event.” I

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Search planes sent to find objects in the south Indian Ocean that may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet began returning without success Friday, and an Australian official said the hunt would be extended

Iran is building “a non-working mock-up” of a Nimitz-class carrier which U.S. officials believe will “be blown up for propaganda value. According to The New York Times, satellite photos of the model show that “mock aircraft can even be seen

In August the U.S. Army will perform its second test of a “hypersonic” missile designed strike anywhere in the world in 3 hours.  Called an “Advanced Hypersonic Weapon” (AHW), the missile is intended to give “the ground combat branch…the ability

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Putin’s approval ratings soar in Russia over Crimea annexation Riots among Palestinians over successor to Abbas Hundreds of dead pig carcasses found in China’s Gan River Putin’s approval ratings soar in Russia over Crimea

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Search planes flying out of Australia on Friday began a difficult hunt through rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth for objects that may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. In

In a March 15 article in Spiegel Online, Brookings Institute experts Fiona Hill and Glifford Gaddy suggested that if the West would just relax, Russian President Vladimir Putin might relax as well. Gaddy said he could imagine Putin rejecting the

Civil War historian Allen C. Guelzo won the $50,000 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History prize for his book Gettysburg: The Last Invasion. According to the Associated Press the award was created by the “Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation and Lewis E.

Red ink is mean according to a school in England, so teachers have now been prohibited from using the color to grade students’ papers. Teachers at Mounts Bay Academy near Penzance, Cornwall, England, have been told to throw away their

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dramatically outplayed President Barack Obama in his current invasion of Crimea. That’s largely thanks to Obama’s ideological reluctance to cite American interests as a rationale for opposition to Putin’s imperialism; instead, Obama has variously cited

Daniel Ceballos, the mayor of San Cristóbal, Táchira, was arrested late Wednesday night by Venezuelan secret intelligence agents as President Nicolás Maduro continues to crack down on members of the opposition party, Popular Will. Ceballos, who runs the city known

Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, mocked the current head of the search for the missing plane and explored atheism on social media, according to an investigation by the New York Times. The New York

When Russia annexed Crimea this week, few looked to South America for Russian support. Yet Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Argentinian President Cristina Fernández were lauding the conquest. Their support is no surprise: Putin has been cultivating it for years, reaping the rewards as the continent