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 Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. officials involved in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 suspect that the plane may have been flying for up to four hours after its radar signals were shut down. The Malaysian government is
The captain of a missing Malaysian jet is said to be an engineering buff who assembled his own flight simulator, while friends of the co-pilot are defending his reputation after one report portrayed him as a cockpit Casanova. Malaysian Airlines
Search planes have found no trace of a missing Malaysian airliner near the site where Chinese satellites spotted floating objects, officials said Thursday. Two Vietnamese aircraft sent to inspect areas nearby “have returned and we found nothing so far”, Civil
The latest round of rocket attacks against Israeli civilian targets by Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip, who launched several dozen volleys into southern Israel Wednesday, occurred during the visit of Prime Minister David Cameron. Britain has often taken
JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza militants resumed their rocket fire toward Israel on Thursday, striking the outskirts of two major cities a day after launching the largest barrage since an eight-day Israeli offensive in late 2012. Thursday’s attacks set off air-raid
CAIRO (AP) — Masked gunmen opened fire on an army bus in Cairo on Thursday, killing one soldier and wounding three in a rare attack on troops in the Egyptian capital, security officials and a military spokesman said. The bus,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Malaysia accused of coverup over lost MH370 airliner Israel retaliates for barrage of 40 or more rockets fired from Gaza Israel votes to draft ultra-orthodox Jews into the military Malaysia accused of coverup over
BEIJING (AP) — China’s official Xinhua News Agency says a government website has images of suspected debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. The report says the satellite images from the morning of March 9 appear to show “three suspected
Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday that Russia, not content with defying the West as it invaded the Crimea, has now made a preliminary agreement with Iran to build two more Iranian nuclear power plants. This will help
TEHRAN, March 12 (UPI) —Iran said Wednesday it has negotiated a preliminary deal for Russia’s Rosatom nuclear power company to provide it with two more nuclear power generating units. Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran,
President Obama met with Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk at the White House where he reinforced his support for the new government and condemned the Crimean referendum scheduled on March 16 to break away from Ukraine. Obama and the West
Israel struck back following the March 12th rocket attacks by Palestinian Islamic Jihad against Israeli population centers. According to The Times of Israel, the Israeli Air Force launched retaliatory air strikes late in the day on the 12th and “struck
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Satellite images on a Chinese government website show suspected debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner floating off the southern tip of Vietnam, near the plane’s original flight path, China’s Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
(AFP)–US spy satellites detected no sign of a mid-air explosion when a Malaysian airliner lost contact with air traffic controllers, American officials said Wednesday. The US government in the past has used its satellite network to identify heat signatures linked
They’re coming for your porn – the regulators, that is. No, I’m not talking about some group trying to ban pornography but instead broadcast bureaucrats worrying about the origins of the porn. The CRTC, Canada’s broadcast regulator, is threatening to pull
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The last message from the cockpit of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight was routine. “All right, good night,” was the signoff transmitted to air traffic controllers five days ago. Then the Boeing 777 vanished as
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of conducting a large military buildup near their border that raises the threat of an invasion, but Moscow denied that. Andriy Parubiy, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA’s director and its top lawyer told White House attorneys in advance about their plans to file an official criminal complaint accusing Senate Intelligence Committee aides of improperly obtaining secret agency documents, the White House confirmed
The Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations, which includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and America, told Russia to stop all actions to annex Crimea and against Ukraine. If Russia declines, the G7 will not recognize the Crimean referendum
UPDATE 3 p.m. EST: IDFBlog.com indicates “IDF responded to the rocket attack” by striking “two terror locations in the northern and southern Gaza Strip with artillery fire.” And although the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims credit for the rockets that were
The Chinese Foreign Ministry is not happy with the work Malaysian authorities have done in locating missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Spokesman Qin Gang has had his hands full answering the media’s questions, calling working with Malaysian authorities “pretty chaotic”
Galina Timchenko, chief editor of Lenta.ru, and Anastasia Karimova, reporter with Kommersant, resigned from their positions due to censorship in Russia. Russia’s media regulating body sent a warning to Lenta.ru over an interview with Ukraine’s Right Sector Party Leader Andrei
The West vowed more sanctions against Russia if they use the March 16 referendum to stay with Ukraine or join the Russian Federation to justify more aggression towards Ukraine. Russia and Crimea are ignoring these threats and moving forward with
On March 16, Crimea will decide to stay an autonomous republic of Ukraine or join the Russian Federation. As a result, the pro-Russian militia in the peninsula is growing to protect the people from the Kyiv government, which they view
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — More than four days after a Malaysian jetliner went missing on route to Beijing, authorities acknowledged Wednesday they didn’t know in which direction the plane and its 239 passengers was heading when it disappeared, vastly
