Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Australia faces strategic dilemma as rise of China challenges U.S. Obamacare: 500M lines of code, $500M, only 60% completed How could President Obama have been so wrong? The future of Obamacare Australia faces strategic
The U.S. released a top Iranian scientist Mojtaba Atarodi in April as part of the dealings with Iran in Geneva recently, the Times of Israel reported. The secret back channel of negotiations between Iran and the United States, which led to this
Argentine-born Pope Francis wrote the newly released Evangelii Gadium (“The Joy of the Gospel”) in his native Spanish, which may help to answer some thorny questions being raised about the English translation of the pontiff’s first solo official document (the recent
The New York Times reported that North Korea has “accused an elderly American veteran of war crimes, and released a video Saturday of him confessing to ‘hostile acts’ during the Korean War and while he was a tourist there last month.”
(AP) VP Biden trying to show US still focused on AsiaBy JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONIt’s up to Vice President Joe Biden to show that the U.S. effort to realign its gaze toward Asia hasn’t fizzled out. Biden is set to arrive
It didn’t take long for concerns that the Iranian nuclear deal could embolden other rogue nations to materialize. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced Thursday satellite footage strongly indicates that North Korea has restarted a formerly shut down plutonium plant. The International
A coalition source told the New York Times on Friday that the American and NATO commander in Afghanistan made a late-night phone call to Afghan premier Hamid Karzai to apologize for a series of raids and drone strikes that Karzai has railed
Pakistani political party Tehreek-e-Insaf revealed the name of “the top CIA spy in [their] country” and are calling for the spy and CIA Director John Brennan to be tried for murder. In response to a November 21st drone strike, Tehreek-e-Insaf’s information
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China began the week by escalating tensions with all its neighbors, declaring an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over islands belonging to Japan. Who this belligerence is meant to spook the most is still up for debate but, indisputably, the move poses its
Tensions between Iran and Israel over nuclear power have put Iran back in the news. America is confronted with the question: how should we deal with Iran? John McCain has his own advice, which he shared with America during his
Shezanne Cassim, 29, from Minnesota was arrested in April for his part in the video “Satwa Combat Schoo” because the United Arab Emirates said it violated federal cyber crime laws and posed a threat to national security. Cassim graduated from the
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said nine nations will get extended exceptions from economic sanctions due to “significant reductions” in buying Iranian oil. In a statement issued Friday by the State Department, Kerry said
By SYLVIA HUIAssociated PressLONDONProsecutors showed jurors graphic videotape of the events surrounding the near decapitation of a British soldier on a London street, as the trial of two men opened Friday in the suspected Islamic extremist attack. Michael Adebolajo, 28,
On Tuesday, Fulani herdsmen invaded a Christian village and killed 37 people, injured more, and destroyed homes in the Barkin Ladi Local Government Area in Plateau state in central Nigeria. The attack came after terrorist group Boko Haram already murdered
Two improvised rocket launchers were fired near a US military base near Tokyo, police said Friday, adding no-one had been hurt. No damage has been reported so far and police have not found the projectiles.” Local media reported the pipes
(AP) Mexican drug cartels now make money exporting oreBy MARK STEVENSONAssociated PressMEXICO CITYMexican drug cartels looking to diversify their businesses long ago moved into oil theft, pirated goods, extortion and kidnapping, consuming an ever larger swath of the country’s economy.
On Friday, Iran’s foreign minister said that his country will never enter talks with Israel over Iran’s nuclear program. IRNA, Iran’s official news agency, reported that Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said of such a meeting, “Never such a thing will
The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, speaking in Medina on Wednesday, said that the Saudi Arabian edict banning women from driving protected the country’s society from “evil.” Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, said that the push to let women
(AP) Egypt Islamists rally to defy protest lawBy TONY G. GABRIEL and MARIAM RIZKAssociated PressCAIROEgyptian security forces fired tear gas Friday to disperse hundreds of Islamist demonstrators defying a draconian new law restricting protests, which has drawn widespread criticism from
(AP) China sends fighters to ID flights by US and JapanBy IAN MADERAssociated PressBEIJINGChina said it launched two fighter planes Friday to investigate flights by a dozen U.S. and Japanese reconnaissance and military planes in its new maritime air defense
(AP) 18 Sunnis kidnapped in Iraq later found shot deadBy SAMEER N. YACOUBAssociated PressBAGHDADMen dressed as Iraqi soldiers abducted 18 Sunnis, whose bullet-ridden corpses turned up in farmland just south of Baghdad, authorities said Friday, a grim reminder of the
The Obama administration has been forced to admit that the nuclear deal to which Iran agreed last weekend in Geneva, Switzlerland has not actually been finalized. In the interim, Iran is continuing its enrichment of uranium, as well as continuing
(AP) Thai protesters storm army headquartersBy THANYARAT DOKSONE and JOCELYN GECKERAssociated PressBANGKOKProtesters in Thailand stormed the grounds of the national army headquarters on Friday, asking the military to support their increasingly tense campaign to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. In
(AP) Eurozone inflation up at 0.9 percent in NovemberBRUSSELSOfficial figures show that the inflation rate in the 17-country eurozone rose modestly in November, a development that may ease the pressure on the European Central Bank to loosen its monetary policy
