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.
A roadside bomb blamed on the Taliban tore through a police vehicle in southern Afghanistan at the weekend, killing nine people and wounding 15, officials said on Monday. The bombing took place late Sunday in the Shahjoy district of Zabul
Israeli and Palestinian officials resume direct peace talks Monday after a three-year hiatus, amid hopes US Secretary of State John Kerry’s quiet diplomacy may this time carry some chance of success. In a landmark agreement, the chief negotiators from both
(AP) Greek monks hurl petrol bombs at bailiffsTHESSALONIKI, GreeceCivilian authorities on Greece’s monastic sanctuary of Mount Athos say a group of monks facing eviction have attacked court bailiffs with rocks and petrol bombs. No one was injured in the incident
(AP) Egypt police arrest 2 more Islamist leadersBy AYA BATRAWYAssociated PressCAIROEgyptian officials say police have arrested two leaders of a Muslim Brotherhood-allied Islamist party on suspicion of inciting violence. The officials said Monday that Abul-Ela Madi and Essam Soltan of
(AP) Bus crash in southern Italy kills 38 peopleBy FRANCES D’EMILIOAssociated PressROMEAn Italian tour crushed through a sidewall of a highway bridge in southern Italy, and plunged some 30 meters (100 feet) into a wooded ravine, killing at least 38
The Syrian army has recaptured the key rebel district of Khaldiyeh in the central city of Homs, the state broadcaster reported on Monday. The army, backed by fighters from Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah militant group, had launched an assault on Khaldiyeh
More than a thousand bearded men, muffled in scarves and accompanied by veiled women, stand under the hot sun, waving black and white flags and chanting “Allahu Akbar!” (God is Greatest). This is not a scene from the Middle East
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Jordan’s one year old Zaatari refugee camp: 150,000 Syrian refugees Israel agrees to prisoner release, as new Mideast peace talk talks begin U.S. drone strike kills 6 in Pakistan, despite opposition Jordan’s one year
Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor-at-large of National Review Online, and Director of Catholic Voices USA, has provided Breitbart News with commentary during World Youth Day (WYD) 2013. In addition, Lopez has connected Breitbart News with young members of Catholic Voices USA
Pope Francis celebrated the closing Mass of World Youth Day (WYD) 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday. Prior to the end of the Mass, the pope announced that the next WYD will be celebrated in 2016, in Krakow,
On Friday, at the commencement of the United Nations gay-rights program, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who hails from the Anglican Church, excoriated religions that do not approve of homosexuality. Tutu said, “I would not worship a God who is
Pakistan is readying to propose a trade wherein it frees the doctor who helped the CIA pinpoint Osama bin Laden and in exchange the U.S. releases an Al Qaeda operative being held in a federal prison in Texas. As Fox
By local estimates, 3 million people gathered on the night of Saturday, July 27, on Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana Beach to sing and pray with Pope Francis, in the penultimate celebration of the 28th edition of the Roman Catholic
In the October 1981 issue of the American Historical Review, Allen Goodman of Georgetown University recounted asking former Comintern member Bertram Wolfe about Ho Chi Minh, whom he had spent three months with touring the Soviet Union as part of
A Japanese pearling ship which has lain on the ocean floor off northern Australia for more than 70 years will be protected for its historical significance, the government said Sunday. The Sanyo Maru, the only known wreck of a Japanese
Shebab Islamists claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack on a Turkish embassy annex in Mogadishu on Saturday that killed a Turkish guard and a Somali bystander. The Shebab claimed the attack in a post on their Twitter feed.
An apparent US drone strike killed six suspected Al-Qaeda militants overnight, a Yemeni military source told AFP. The six suspects were travelling in a two-vehicle convoy in Mahfad in the southern province of Abyan, much of which was held by
A suicide bomber killed eight Kurdish police in northern Iraq, a district official and a doctor said. The bomber blew up a car beside a three-vehicle police convoy in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, also wounding nine officers, district official
(AP) Israeli PM faces objections to Palestinian dealBy IAN DEITCHJERUSALEMIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged his skeptical coalition partners Sunday to agree to free Palestinian prisoners as part of U.S efforts to resume peace talks, calling the deal a “tough
(AP) Kuwait’s conservative tribes make election gainsBy HUSSAIN AL-QATARIAssociated PressKUWAIT CITYKuwait’s conservative Sunni tribes made gains in parliamentary elections while liberals reclaimed a foothold in the Gulf region’s most politically powerful elected body, according to results Sunday after voting forced
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Dozens of Egyptian pro-Morsi protesters killed by security forces Generational Dynamics analysis of the crisis in Egypt The Muslim Brotherhood Egypt’s future Dozens of Egyptian pro-Morsi protesters killed by security forces Pro-Morsi supporters carry
(AP) Pope draws 3M for vigil after chastising ‘exodus’By NICOLE WINFIELD and JENNY BARCHFIELDAssociated PressRIO DE JANEIROPope Francis drew a reported 3 million flag-waving, rosary-toting faithful to Rio’s Copacabana beach on Saturday for the final evening of World Youth Day,
Brandon Harker, a veteran of the War in Afghanistan living in Washington, returned home this week after an eight-month deployment and discovered the friend with whom he had entrusted the care of his Labrador retriever, had sold the two-year-old purebred
(AP) Ex-IMF chief Strauss-Kahn to be tried in FrancePARISFormer International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will have to defend himself in a French court on charges of aggravated pimping despite recommendations by prosecutors that the charges be dropped. Judges investigating
In his first major overseas event since being elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church in March, Pope Francis has kept a whirlwind schedule at World Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But when he gets back to
