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.
Chinese General Li Shuangjiang’s son Li Tianyi “is among five suspects who allegedly gang-raped a woman in a hotel” in February. The AFP reports Tianyi has been charged with rape, and this is not the first time he has been part
Robert Mugabe is determined to hold onto power until his last breath. The 89-year-old President and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party have been ruling the sub-Saharan nation since its inception as an independent state in 1980. On
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated PressMEXICO CITYMiguel Angel Trevino Morales, the notoriously brutal leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, was captured before dawn Monday in the first major blow against an organized crime leader by a Mexican
Samuel Tadros, a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute specializing in Islamist movements, told a seminar at the Hoover Institution that the most important reason for the rapid collapse of the Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt is that the organization
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS News’ Face the Nation that Iran will reach the “red line” he laid down at the United Nations in Sep. 2012–90% uranium enrichment–within “a few weeks,” and that Israel will be prepared to act.
A senior US official flew into Cairo early Monday, hours after Egypt’s prosecutor ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 14 top Islamists. Under Secretary of State Bill Burns, the first US official to visit since the overthrow of president
Militants killed at least three people Monday and wounded 17 when they fired on a bus carrying workers in the North Sinai town of Al-Arish, security and medical sources said. Military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Aly said in a statement that
Several dozen Greenpeace activists broke into a nuclear plant in southern France early on Monday, unfurling banners against atomic power, the organisation and police said. The activists snuck into the grounds of the Tricastin plant in the southern Drome region
Moscow wants to exchange a married couple of Russian spies jailed this month in Germany for at least one convict jailed in Russia on charges of spying for the West, a report said Monday. Russia’s Kommersant newspaper said that the
A cap on the amount of benefits households can claim is being rolled out across England, Scotland and Wales from Monday as part of a major government overhaul of welfare. Under the changes, couples and single parents of working age
(AP) Asiana to sue San Francisco TV station over namesSEOUL, South KoreaAsiana announced Monday that it will sue a San Francisco TV station that it said damaged the airline’s reputation by using bogus and racially offensive names for four pilots
(AP) Congress, administration spar over Israeli visasBy BRADLEY KLAPPER and MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressWASHINGTONLegislation that would let Israelis visit the United States without visas but not demand full reciprocal treatment for all Americans wishing to travel to the Jewish state could
Gunmen murdered seven members of a United Nations and African Union peacekeeping team and injured 17 in Sudan’s western region of Darfur on Saturday. This incident is the deadliest single attack on the UN in the country and the third attack
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com WHO emergency meetings discuss MERS virus pandemic threat Pakistan Taliban sends hundreds of fighters to Syria Islamic State of Iraq launches multiple attacks in Ramadan WHO emergency meetings discuss MERS virus pandemic threat The
The authors of America 3.0 apparently didn’t like my assessment of their book–no sir, they didn’t like it, not one little bit. They probably didn’t like my title: “The New Book, America 3.0: Could a Balkanized America Defend Itself Against China? Iran? Anybody?”–and then things
Great Britain deployed more than 1,000 extra police to Belfast, Northern Ireland to assist the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) as they battle riots and protests over a banned parade route for the Orange Order’s annual July 12th parades.
Attempts by Palestinians to illegally enter pre-1967 Israel for possibly terroristic actions have now taken an insidious turn: two Palestinian Authority Arab women disguised themselves as Orthodox Jews and tried to sneak past the Hizme checkpoint in Samaria, according to
After the Nigerian government announced the militant Islamist group Boko Haram agreed to a cease-fire, the leader of the group Abubaker Shekau denied the agreement and vowed to continue killing. “Let me assure you that we will not enter into
When President Barack Obama harshly criticized members of the military who commit sexual assault, saying that they should be “”prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged,” he inadvertently created “unlawful command influence” throughout the armed forces that will be
An Israeli submarine was responsible for a July 5 attack on Russian missiles that had been delivered to Syria, the London Sunday Times reports. Israel had warned that such shipments would be legitimate targets. The P-800 anti-ship “Yakhont” missiles had been
Police in Belfast were attacked with petrol bombs in a second night of violence by Protestant rioters in the Northern Irish capital. Bricks, bottles, furniture and other missiles were also hurled on Saturday following riots that left 32 officers injured
Egypt’s new prime minister planned further talks Sunday on forming a cabinet, as prosecutors looked at criminal complaints against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and members of his Muslim Brotherhood. Hazem al-Beblawi held talks Saturday with candidates for ministerial posts
Typhoon Soulik was set to dump up to 18 centimetres (seven inches) of rain on eastern parts of China in just 24 hours, forecasters said on Sunday, a day after the storm killed two when it battered Taiwan. The typhoon
Key greenhouse gas emitter Australia on Sunday announced it will scrap its carbon tax in favour of an emissions trading scheme that puts a limit on pollution from 2014, a year earlier than planned. The move is set to cost
Pilots of the Asiana Airlines passenger jet which crash landed in San Francisco have returned to South Korea after being quizzed by US aviation officials, according to the transportation ministry. The four pilots returned home Saturday — a week after
