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
China military spending is surging from the $139.2 billion it spent in 2013 to the $148 billion allotted in 2014. And this “comes as defense budgets at the Pentagon and many NATO countries shrink.” According to The New York Times,
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced on January 30th: “As correct as the policy of military restraint is, it must not be misunderstood as a culture of standing aside.” In a full-page interview under the headline “Germany and the World,”
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In a crowded room overlooking a gleaming television studio, Tolo TV’s election team is strategizing for Afghanistan’s presidential debate when the room suddenly goes dark. The staff doesn’t miss a beat. The 13 men and three
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say Syrian forces have dropped a crude bomb on a mosque in a rebel-held neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least five people, including children. Activist Hassoun Abu Faisal of the Aleppo Media
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Shortly before Anne Frank and her family went into hiding from the Nazis, she gave some of her toys to a non-Jewish neighborhood girlfriend for safekeeping. The Anne Frank House Museum says the toys have now been
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri picks sides among Syria’s jihadist terrorists Monday’s market plunge continues ‘that 1929 feeling’ Bitterness between U.S. and Israel increases as ‘peace process’ collapses Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri picks sides among Syria’s jihadist terrorists Al-Qaeda’s
National Security Advisor and former UN Ambassador Susan Rice took to Twitter on Monday night to blast Israel for widespread recent criticism of Secretary of State John Kerry by Israeli government officials. The torrent of tweets ran from at 8:14
Two leading advocates of direct American involvement in Syria’s civil war say the Obama administration may be considering taking a greater role. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., say Secretary of State John Kerry made blunt remarks during
One of Nigeria’s leading Salafist clerics, Sheikh Mohamed Awwal Adam Albani, was gunned down by the radical jihadist Boko Haram group on Saturday night near his home in the northern part of the African country. The highly respected 54-year-old preacher
The Obama administration is not expecting to meet its April 29 deadline for introducing a framework for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, owing to persistent differences between the two sides, the Jerusalem Post
A Somali cabdriver was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for his role in a broader San Diego-based conspiracy to provide material and logistical support to the Islamic terrorist group, al-Shabaab. Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud from Anaheim was the last of four
The European Union’s Home Affairs Commissioner has admitted that corruption across the European Union is “breathtaking” and could account for as much as $160bn lost every year, a figure around seven times larger than Britain’s annual contribution to the EU.
In an otherwise excellent piece for the Trending Central website, my good friend and colleague Alex Wickham states that had the UK Conservative Party “swallowed their pride” in 2012 and allowed for democratic reforms of Britain’s upper chamber to pass,
BAGHDAD (AP) — A new series of car bombings in and around Baghdad on Monday killed at least 23 people, officials said, as Iraq’s Shiite-led government grapples with a stubborn Sunni extremist-led insurgency in the western Anbar province. In the
MILAN (AP) — The judge who announced the guilty verdicts against Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for murder is facing allegations of impropriety that could result in disciplinary proceedings. Defense lawyers for Sollecito, Knox’s co-defendant, said Monday
Iran is set to receive its first batch of oil money from a $4.2 billion pot this week, according to its chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi. The funds, thought to be around $550 million, are due to be deposited in
CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida’s central leadership broke off ties with one of the most powerful militant groups in Syria, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and distanced itself from the rebel infighting in that country’s civil
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It’s a story that almost defies belief: A man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on
Their 2008 convictions have been upheld on appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up the case. So five men convicted of illegally routing millions of dollars to Hamas through a Dallas-based charity are trying the only ploy
The Obama administration may believe that Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is a “moderate,” but he has presided over a wave of executions, the latest being of Iranian-Arab poet and activist Hashem Shaabani, according to the Jerusalem Post. The 31-year-old was
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The executors of Nelson Mandela’s estate say he left behind about $4.1 million and that the will’s beneficiaries include his family, members of his staff, schools that he attended and the African National Congress, the liberation movement
MOSCOW (AP) — A 10th-grade student armed with two rifles burst into his Moscow school on Monday and killed his 76-year-old geography teacher and a policeman before being taken into custody, investigators said. None of the children in School No.
BERLIN (AP) — A group of computer hackers and human rights campaigners in Germany announced Monday that they are suing their government for allegedly breaking the law by aiding foreign spies. The Chaos Computer Club and the International League for
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party will adopt new name if banned Syria’s al-Assad has week of victories, including rebel infighting Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party will adopt new name if banned Faced with threats
