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
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Rescue workers in South Africa are trying to reach dozens of miners who were trapped while working illegally in an abandoned mine. The South African Press Association reported Sunday that rescue teams were able to speak to
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Anti-government demonstrators in Ukraine’s capital ended their nearly three-month occupation of Kiev City Hall on Sunday as promised in exchange for the release of all jailed protesters. But tensions remained high as hundreds stayed outside the
The Egyptian military is reported to be creating a 500-meter buffer zone on its own side of the border with Gaza, and is already destroying tunnels used by Hamas to smuggle goods and weapons. (Several Palestinian homes have apparently been
Secretary of State John Kerry, traveling through Asia to promote the Obama Administration’s push for an agenda to highlight climate change, will begin his selling in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday. A State Department official acknowledged that this speech is only
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is winning a big chip in the worldwide game of poker that Russia plays against the U.S.: Egypt. Putin said this week that Field Marshal Sisi, 59, who is likely to run for the presidency in
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Mediator Brahimi blames collapse of Syria talks on al-Assad regime Collapse of Syria talks puts U.S. military action back on the table Indonesia on the alert for jihadists returning from Syria Mediator Brahimi blames
It was recently revealed in a released National Security Agency memo that Edward Snowden “tricked” his colleagues into giving him password information. This supposedly happened when Snowden told the NSA employees he needed their password protocols to perform his job
The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) is signaling that it’s time to return to choosing diplomatic nominees based on career professionalism, rather than the ability to raise campaign funds. To that end, the AFSA is asking the Obama administration to
A total of 11 people died in an “attack” in China’s Xinjiang region on Friday, with eight “terrorists” shot dead by police and three blowing themselves up, having injured four people, authorities said. The incident in Aksu prefecture is the
The US and China, the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, Saturday announced they were joining forces to share more information on trying to combat climate change. In a joint statement announced as US Secretary of State John Kerry
Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague on Saturday blamed President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for the breakdown in talks between Syria’s warring sides, calling the situation a “serious setback” for peace.
BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian opposition activist Dmytro Bulatov said Saturday he believes a pro-Russia group was behind his kidnapping and torture last month. Bulatov went missing on Jan. 22 and resurfaced a week later, badly bruised and with part of
A North Korean ship caught in July while trying to move undeclared Cuban weapons through the Panama Canal left Saturday to return to Cuba, the Foreign Ministry said. The Chong Chon Gang freighter disembarked from the Panamanian port of Colon
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of Pakistan’s assassinated premier Benazir Bhutto, on Saturday slammed the Taliban for trying to drag the country back to the “stone-age.” Addressing a gathering during the closing ceremony of a two-week cultural festival in his
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An improvised explosive device killed a NATO service member in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the U.S.-led international military coalition said. In its statement, the coalition did not give further details on where the incident occurred or
(Reuters) – Iraqi troops backed by helicopter gunships fought on Saturday to retake full control of a northern town from militants who overran parts of it earlier this week, the mayor and other local officials said. Talib Mohammed, the mayor
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russia will sell warplanes to Egypt Pakistan will sell warplanes to Saudis, denies nuclear cooperation France sending more troops to Central African Republic Russia will sell warplanes to Egypt Russia will sell $3 billion
For years she was a mother of 10 young children, keeping a good, Muslim home. Now she is a rebel commander with a gun, fighting, she says, for her honor and her religion. Her children battle at her side. Speaking
A radical Syrian cleric who spent January on a U.S. fundraising tour has erased a 2001 fatwa endorsing suicide bombings from his website. The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) uncovered Sheikh Mohammad Rateb Nabulsi’s fatwa last month, during his visit
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, released a statement this week urging university students to “refine your souls and to approach God,” but also to prepare for “cyber-war.” According to Iran’s Mehr News Agency, the Ayatollah released a message
Thousands of engaged couples clutching heart balloons and holding “I Love You” banners crowded into St Peter’s Square on Friday for a highly unusual Valentine’s Day date — an audience with Pope Francis. White silk cushions on which couples tie
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) wrote a February letter to Barack Obama that asked him to release the text of the Iran nuclear agreement. Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, said that
FLINDERS VIEW, Australia, Feb. 13 (UPI) — Australian police said they arrested a 19-year-old man accused of arming himself with a chainsaw and covering his head with a flower pot to rob a store. Investigators said Steven Frank Steele, 19,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com ‘Brilliant, bitter singles’ ruin Valentine’s Day for Shanghai, China, couples Greece’s unemployment reaches new record high European Union to ‘mobilize’ private savings for bailouts 2,500 couples marry in South Korea in pre-Valentine’s Day ceremony
NATICK, Mass. (AP) — They call it the holy grail of ready-to-eat meals for soldiers — a pizza that can stay on the shelf for up to three years and still remain good to eat. Soldiers have been asking for
