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
LONDON, United Kingdom — Britain’s Labour Party has scrambled together a statement claiming that Yasmin Qureshi MP’s offensive statements about the Holocaust were “taken out of context.” Breitbart News reported earlier today that Labour Member of Parliament for Bolton North,
PENTICTON, British Columbia, Feb. 6 (UPI) —Officials in a Canadian city likely didn’t endear themselves with everyone over their deer population control effort, having received a statue covered in scat. City officials say someone last month left a statue of
LONDON, United Kingdom — Yasmin Qureshi, Labour’s Member of Parliament for Bolton South East in the North of England, has slammed the State of Israel in an absurd attack during a Westminster Hall debate in the British Parliament. Pakistani-born Qureshi
LINCOLN, England, Feb. 6 (UPI) — British scientists say “friendly” robots are helping them to understand how more realistic relationships might be developed between humans and androids. A robot dubbed ERWIN (Emotional Robot with Intelligent Network) developed by computer scientists
A new poll by Israel’s Geocartography Institute found that 70% of Israeli Jews do not trust the U.S. to protect Israeli security interests in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, according to the Jerusalem Post. The poll, which was conducted among 500
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is temporarily banning all liquids, aerosols, gels and powders on flights between Russia and the United States, ABC News reported on Thursday.
In an astonishing display of the giant strides science and medicine have made, European researchers have developed a bionic hand that is sensitive to textures and shapes. Heretofore, artificial hands could not give the wearer any sensation of what he
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senior American diplomats, thinking their conversation about the Ukraine was secure and private, were caught disparaging the European Union in a phone call that was apparently bugged, and U.S. officials say they strongly suspect Russia of
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Russia contemplates Ukraine military action after Sochi Pakistan government mediators talk to Taliban mediators Russia contemplates Ukraine military action after Sochi Some Russian nationalists in Moscow are discussing a possible militaryannexation of Ukraine once
A recording leaked online and posted to YouTube allegedly contains the voice of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland saying, “Fuck the EU.” In the recording, Nuland is discussing the “roles of Ukrainian opposition leaders and the United Nations”
On Wednesday, it took me around 45 minutes and cost £40 ($65) in a London black cab to traverse the three miles between Victoria train station and Gray’s Inn Road in London. Those familiar with the city will realize I
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate easily confirmed longtime Sen. Max Baucus on Thursday to become ambassador to China, handing the job to a lawmaker well-versed in U.S. trade policy but with little expertise about military and other issues that have
The United States said Thursday that Iceland was violating an international agreement through its whaling, opening the possibility of economic sanctions over the controversial hunt. The Department of the Interior, in a decision it is required to take under US
Washington’s new top diplomat for Europe, Victoria Nuland, apologized Thursday to EU counterparts after she was caught cursing about the European response to the crisis in Ukraine in a bugged phone call. US officials, while not denying such a conversation
Arturo has been in mourning since the death of his companion in 2012. It is summer now in Argentina, and he is exhausted from the heat. A trip to cool Canada might brighten his mood. Such is life for an
Ukraine’s embattled president, Viktor Yanukovych, found himself squeezed between mounting pressure by the United States and Russia on Thursday as the former cold war superpowers sought to influence a political crisis wracking his ex-Soviet satellite state. Yanukovych late Thursday was
Imagine my surprise, bemusement, and ultimate joy when I was told that I had been nominated this year the most august prize of “Islamophobe of the Year,” an inconsistently presented award offered by the farcically named “Islamic Human Rights Commission”
A University of California, Berkeley professor is requiring 100 students to create Twitter accounts and post comments about “Islamophobia,” anti-Islamist Muslim activist Tarek Fatah reports. In his Toronto Sun column Wednesday, Fatah, a founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, describes the “panicked message” he
Everything is smaller in Rome. At least the parts of Rome that I have seen so far. I just finished taking a shower in something the size of a phone booth and had to increase the font size on this
Outside of a honeymoon cruise to the Caribbean, a few days in Canada, and a weekend in Santa Monica, I have never traveled outside of America. That all changes this week, as the wife and I begin to make our
The Taliban say they have captured a dog belonging to the US military following a raid in eastern Afghanistan late last year. A video posted on the insurgents’ website on Wednesday and later on Facebook shows the animal, named by
(Reuters) – Flower power may have meant the difference between life and death for some of the extinct giants of the Ice Age, including the mighty woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. Scientists who studied DNA preserved in Arctic permafrost sediments
A Harley-Davidson motorbike that briefly belonged to Pope Francis was sold for 241,500 euros ($326,000), 16 times its highest original valuation, at an auction in Paris on Thursday. The US motorbike maker gave the 1,585cc Dyna Super Glide to the
An elderly lady lay dead in her inner city home for nearly eight years before her skeletal remains were found, an inquest heard Thursday, in a case dubbed “the woman Sydney forgot” by local media. Natalie Wood was discovered by
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Another gory lynching in Central African Republic, this time by soldiers China struggles to import food from around the world U.S. challenges China on South China Sea claims Another gory lynching in Central African
