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) Bacon fries on pavement as heat wave grips ChinaBy The Associated PressSHANGHAIIt’s been so hot in China that people are grilling shrimp on manhole covers, eggs are hatching without incubators and a highway billboard has mysteriously caught fire by
(AP) Italy court confirms Berlusconi fraud convictionBy FRANCES D’EMILIOAssociated PressROMEItaly’s highest court has upheld ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s tax fraud conviction, but ordered a review a five-year ban on public office that was part of the lower court’s sentence. The court
The United States said Thursday it would close an unspecified number of embassies around the world on Sunday over security concerns. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said that after Sunday, the government would reassess its options, without specifying the particular
Italy’s top court on Thursday confirmed a prison sentence for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in the first ever definitive conviction in a tumultuous career for the billionaire tycoon. The court upheld a tax fraud sentence of four years in
On July 29, a total of 45 Christians in Nigeria were killed by five bombings allegedly carried out by the terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram. Although the bombers targeted “multiple churches,” 39 Christians were killed in the attack on Christ
The Defense Department claimed the sequester is forcing it to potentially reduce the size of the Army in such a manner that the country will no longer be able to fight two simultaneous wars. On Wednesday, the Pentagon said “one
Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has left the Moscow airport where he has been holed up for over a month, after being granted temporary asylum for one year in Russia, his Russian lawyer said Thursday.
Russia has a law prohibiting the “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations” around minors, and these laws make it against the law for gays to exhibit public displays of affection, such as holding hands or using public symbols such as a
A former US Army intelligence expert who investigated the fallout from the handover of classified files to WikiLeaks by Bradley Manning said no one named in the Afghan war logs had been killed. The testimony put a dent in the
Nepal on Thursday banned the sale of chicken after health workers found cases of bird flu at several poultry farms on the outskirts of the capital Kathmandu, officials said. Officials at Kathmandu District Animal Health Office said the government had
(AP) Japan Finance Minister under fire for Nazi commentBy MARI YAMAGUCHI and ELAINE KURTENBACHAssociated PressTOKYOJapanese Finance Minister Taro Aso has retracted a comment he made this week suggesting Japan should follow the Nazi example of how to change the country’s
(AP) US, Pakistan to resume high-level negotiationsBy DEB RIECHMANNAssociated PressISLAMABADU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Pakistani counterpart, Sartaj Aziz, say the two countries will resume high-level negotiations over security issues. Kerry also says he invited Pakistan’s newly elected
Eleven months after the infamous Benghazi attack, one of the groups allegedly tied to the attack is growing ever “more entrenched in Libyan society.” As the Weekly Standard reports, members of Ansar al Sharia were allegedly “part of the al
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Bank Of England helped Hitler loot Czechoslovakia’s gold Opposition to Greece’s bailout grows as 11 billion euro is revealed Egypt’s government demands end to pro-Morsi rallies Afghanistan headed for India vs Pakistan proxy war
President Obama asked Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to go to Egypt and encourage the military to allow civilian elections so a democratic process can continue. The Associated Press quoted Graham explaining the trip: The president asked Sen.
If a light bulb goes out somewhere in the Middle East, someone will come forward to blame a Jewish conspiracy. So when the Muslim Brotherhood’s man is forced from office in the wake of massive Egyptian opposition rallies, it can’t
America’s leading Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Islamic Circle of America (ICNA), are demanding that the Obama administration take punitive action against Egypt in the
(AP) Spanish train crash driver identifies callerBy CIARAN GILES and BARRY HATTONAssociated PressMADRIDThe driver of a Spanish train that crashed killing 79 people said he was talking by phone to the train’s on-board ticket inspector moments before the accident but
In recent weeks, the international outcry that followed the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi serves to confirm how fundamental the lie that Morsi was democratically elected has become in our perception of the Egyptian government. This oft-repeated inaccuracy is
The UN made me do it. That’s how Obama officials are explaining Secretary Kerry’s intense efforts to move Israel onto the front burner and shove over the bloody turmoil immediately affecting millions of Israel’s neighbors and the imminent catastrophe of
More than 5,000 Chinese workers at a Sino-US joint venture tyre manufacturer have gone on strike against the American parent company’s $2.5 billion takeover by an Indian firm, state media reported. Cooper Tire and Rubber announced last month that it
More than 10 people have died in China’s commercial hub Shanghai, a local health official said Wednesday as the city grapples with its highest temperatures in at least 140 years. Much of China is in the grip of a summer
The father of US fugitive Edward Snowden reached out to his son on Russia’s national television Wednesday, telling him he did not mind if the intelligence leaker stays in Russia as long as he is safe. Edward Snowden has been
(AP) UN reports spike in Afghan civilian casualtiesKABUL, AfghanistanThe U.N. mission in Afghanistan says the number of civilian casualties has spiked in the first half of this year as insurgents use the NATO drawdown to try to retake lost territory.
(AP) Syrian troops launch assault on northern villageBEIRUTSyrian activists say government troops have launched an assault to regain control of a northern village where an alleged chemical weapons attack took place earlier this year. Rebels captured the village of Khan
