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.
(AP) Al-Qaida claims responsibility for Iraq bombingsBAGHDADAl-Qaida’s branch in Iraq says it carried out a wave of bombings that killed at least 82 people, mostly in Shiite areas in the capital, in retaliation for the execution of Sunni prisoners by
Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel said he and President Benigno Aquino discussed expanding the US military’s presence in the Philippines on Friday as the Asian ally looks to defend its territorial claims in disputed waters. The US defence chief went ahead
Israel deployed its Iron Dome missile defence system in Tel Aviv on Friday, as the United States weighed military strikes on neighbouring Syria, local media said. Army radio said that a battery of the mobile system was set up during
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com China and Japan really DO hate each other Echoing 1938, Britain gives a pass to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad China and Japan really DO hate each other Japan-China mutual attitudes, 2005-2013 (GenronNPO) A survey conducted
Various conservative organizations have banded together on a social media campaign designed to memorialize the four Americans murdered in the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, nearly a year ago on Sept. 11, 2012. The campaign demands accountability from President Barack Obama’s administration
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said President Barack Obama should be actively differentiating between rebels who are Al Qaeda and non-Al Qaeda instead of launching a symbolic strike against Bashar al-Assad that expresses “some moral outrage from a university faculty lounge.”
Aasiya Noreen “Asia” Bibi has been sentenced to death by hanging in Pakistan for drinking water “from a well belonging to Muslim women, [and] using ‘their’ cup in the burning heat of the midday sun.” According the The New York
Police have detained a drug cartel operator in northern Mexico suspected of being responsible for the killing of more than 350 people found in 23 clandestine graves, authorities said Thursday. Mario Nunez Meza, 39, was captured on Wednesday in Ciudad
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un reportedly executed his former girlfriend and 11 others by firing squad after they were detained for allegedly violating the nation’s laws against pornography. The Telegraph reports the South Korean paper Chosun Ilbo claims Hyon Song-wol, a North Korean
If someone asks how self-absorbed the younger generation can be, all you have to do is point to the website “Selfies at Serious Places,” which documents photos taken by the subjects of themselves at scenes of tragedies. Some examples of
(AP) UK Prime Minister Cameron loses Syria war voteBy RAPHAEL SATTER and GREGORY KATZAssociated PressLONDONBritish Prime Minister David Cameron has lost a vote endorsing military action against Syria by 13 votes, a stunning defeat for a government which had seemed
News is breaking that Pakistani officials have overturned the jail sentence of Dr. Shakil Afridi–the doctor who helped the CIA pinpoint Osama bin Laden. Afridi was arrested for “conspiring against the state of Pakistan” just after the raid on bin
As President Barack Obama has outwardly attempted to curtail Americans’ Constitutional Second Amendment right to bear arms, his Administration has approved huge increases in defense spending and export sales. The Administration is now seeking to eliminate stringent State Department controls
The Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, who is the leader of the Melkite Catholic Church, the leader of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church, and a spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church have all warned the United States and other western countries that
Russia will “over the next few days” be sending an anti-submarine ship and a missile cruiser to the Mediterranean as the West prepares for possible strikes against Syria, the Interfax news agency said on Thursday.
In a Thai village, homes are raided, property is pinched and locals are attacked by dastardly gangs operating beyond the law — but the perpetrators are not men, but monkeys. Around 150 households in the shrimp farming community in Chachoengsao
At least 41 people were killed Thursday in a bus crash west of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the Kenyan Red Cross said. The Kenyan Red Cross said it had confirmed 41 deaths and 27 others with “multiple injuries”. The bus
A three-year-old girl was killed by a bulldozer during a land dispute in China, her father told AFP Thursday, the latest case highlighting the human cost of the country’s breakneck urbanisation. Hong Xiaorou died under the tracks of the construction
(AP) Obama: US action would send Assad ‘strong signal’By JULIE PACE and DEB RIECHMANNAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama is vowing that American retaliation for Syrian chemical weapons use would send a “strong signal,” as U.S. intelligence officials readied briefings for Congress
(AP) Hagel wraps up defense talks with Asian alliesBy ROBERT BURNSAP National Security WriterBANDER SERI BEGAWAN, BruneiWith the Syria crisis shadowing his weeklong Asia tour, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is wrapping up talks on ways of deepening defense ties
China is searching for a woman who gouged out the eyes of a 6-year-old boy. Police in Linfen, Shanxi are offering a 100,000 yuan ($16,000) reward. A police officer said they could not speculate on a motive. The eyeballs were
Vijay Jadhav, one of the five suspects in the Mumbai, India gang rape case, told police this is not the first crime the five have committed. They were able to get away with those other crimes. Jadhav told the police
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com New sectarian bombings kill 86 in Baghdad, Iraq Obama, under international pressure, may be forced to back down on Syria New sectarian bombings kill 86 in Baghdad, Iraq Car wreckage in Sadr City on
Hi, it’s me, Marcel Proust, and I’m here today to talk about Barack Obama and the forthcoming Syrian War. Maybe I have a useful perspective based on my reading of history–and my writing of psychological fantasies. Yes, it’s true, I
Germans are giving up their American email providers and opting for German-based email companies in the wake of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance scandal, reports Spiegel. German web hosting company 1&1, which owns email providers GMX and web.de, says
