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.
The last revolutionary from mankind’s bloodiest century died Friday at a military hospital in Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi. A former journalist with no formal military training, General Vo Nguyen Giap defeated the French at Dien Ben Phu in 1954 and later America’s
There has been a wave of attacks against religious freedom inside the United States Military. There was the Air Force officer who was forced to remove a Bible from his desk because it might offend someone. There is the military
(AP) Migrants used empty water bottles to stay afloatBy ANDREA ROSAAssociated PressLAMPEDUSA, ItalySurvivors of a fiery shipwreck that killed more than 100 African migrants clung to empty water bottles to keep themselves from drowning and were coated in gasoline, an
(AP) UK mother of starved boy jailed for 15 yearsLONDONAn alcoholic British mother who let her 4-year-old son starve to death and left his body in a cot for almost two years was sentenced Friday to 15 years in jail.
(AP) Police arrest 3 in $1.4M Rolex watch robberyPARISPolice have arrested three men suspected of robbing a Rolex store in Bahrain and making off with $1.4 million worth of watches. A gang of six thieves disguised as women broke into
(AP) Man crushed to death by grapes in SpainMADRIDEmergency services say a man has died after being crushed by grapes during the annual harvest in the central Spanish wine producing region of Castilla-La Mancha. A local rescue service center said
An Italian Senate committee on Friday approved a motion to expel Silvio Berlusconi from parliament following his tax fraud conviction, a move that will now have to be formally approved by the full chamber. The committee “has decided by a
(AP) Spanish court convicts 53 in corruption trialBy CIARAN GILESMADRIDA Spanish court convicted 53 people Friday in the country’s biggest-ever corruption trial, which lasted two years and centered on widespread real estate fraud and bribery in the southern jet-set resort
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, one of Afghanistan’s most notorious Islamist warlords, announced today his candidacy for the presidency of Afghanistan. Elections are scheduled for April 2014. As reported in London’s Daily Telegraph, Sayyaf declared he is running “to preserve the nation.” Sayyaf
At an event attended by a Breitbart News reporter on September 29, Nobel laureate and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel announced strong opposition to President Obama’s overtures to the Islamist regime of Iran. The Jewish newspaper The Algemeiner reported Wiesel said he has spoken
Pope Francis on Friday called for the Catholic Church and its faithful to rid themselves of earthly concerns like St Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage to the saint’s Italian hometown. Speaking in the hall where the medieval saint is
The Obama administration asked Congress on Thursday to delay a new round of sanctions against Iran, citing new negotiations and the progress made in recent overtures between President Barack Obama and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. Until now, the administration has
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Series of giant hornet attacks in China kill 41, injure thousands Libyans attack Russian embassy to avenge attack by Russian woman President Obama ‘jawbones’ the stock market down Obamacare web sites keep crashing because
The name Huma Abedin might be best known to you as the wife of disgraced former Congressman and former New York Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. But it is her relationship with Hillary Clinton and the U.S. State Department that is
On October 15th, our military personnel will receive their paychecks as usual, thanks to a last-minute act of Congress passed in spite of the government shutdown affecting much of the rest of the government. But our servicemen and women are
(AP) Russian Embassy in Libya evacuated after attackBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOVAssociated PressMOSCOWRussia on Thursday evacuated all of its diplomats and their families from Libya, the day after a mob attack on the Russian Embassy, and issued a warning to its citizens
MANAMA, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 3 (UPI) — A Saudi Arabian man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for dancing naked on the roof of a car, court officials said. The man was also ordered to
Swarms of hornets have killed 42 people in northwestern China in recent months, state media said Thursday, as temperatures rise and development drives the stinging insects into cities. The terrifying attacks started in July, the official Xinhua news agency said
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) lost two soldiers to Palestinian violence in the West Bank last week. Although a third intifada remains unlikely according to intelligence assessments, the threat of terrorism in the West Bank remains ever-present, and the army
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani told reporters on Wednesday that he turned down five requests from U.S. President Barack Obama to meet at the United Nations, according to Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency. Rouhani said: “Before my trip (to New York),
Omar Shire Hussein, 60, formerly of the Calgary area, beheaded his four children, ages 6 to 11, and was arrested. The news disturbed the Canadian Somali community. “That’s unheard of,” said Mohamed Jama, president of the Somali Canadian Society of
Last weekend, the Islamist radical terror group Boko Haram, which means “Western education is forbidden,” butchered 50 students at an agricultural college in Nigeria. They struck a dormitory at the Yobe State College of Agriculture in the middle of the
The country of Kenya is concerned their tourism industry will be affected by the Westgate terror attacks. Tourism is an important part of Kenya’s economy and Moody’s predicts the attack will cost Kenya $200 million in tourism. Moody’s and the
(AP) Overflowing tank cause of new leak at FukushimaBy MARI YAMAGUCHIAssociated PressTOKYOAnother day, another radioactive-water spill. The operator of the meltdown-plagued Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says at least 430 liters (110 gallons) spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank without
(AP) US, Japan to deploy new radar, drones in next yearBy LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressTOKYOThe United States and Japan moved Thursday to modernize and expand their defense alliance to counter new 21st century challenges including the continuing
