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The following is adapted from an unpublished manuscript I wrote about my experiences as a freelance writer in Cape Town, South Africa, which included living for two years with a Muslim family in the industrial neighborhood of Salt River. Both
On a recent to trip to Sacramento, CA to be honored as his legislative district’s veteran of the year, U.S. Marine Cpl. Nathan Kemnitz (ret.) was asked to remove his dress shirt–covered in medals–during a TSA check before a flight.
In Egypt, an attack took place at Mar Mina Church in Port Said’s al-Manakh Tuesday, as a masked gunman opened fire and escaped, according to the state-run news agency, MENA. On Monday, unknown assailants attacked Port Said’s western seaport and
Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan has decided that it isn’t just Jews he despises; it’s blacks, too, apparently. Ripping his rival Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, who leads the center-left and secular Republican Peoples Party (CHP), Erdogan blustered, “Kiliçdaroglu is striving every bit he
The long-awaited trial of a US army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting spree at a Texas base is set to begin with jury selection Tuesday. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 42, could face the death penalty
The United States is seriously considering speeding up the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan because of frustration with President Hamid Karzai, the New York Times reported. And a so called ‘zero option’ — having no US troops in Afghanistan
Fifty-one people, mostly Mohamed Morsi loyalists, were killed in Egypt while rallying in favour of the ousted president, as the new rulers announced fresh elections by early 2014. Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, which has led demonstrations against Wednesday’s overthrow of the
Israel has urged Washington not to suspend its annual $1.3 billion in aid to Cairo in the wake of the ouster of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi by the military, press reports said on Tuesday. Under US law, all military and
(AP) South Africa: Mandela remains critical in hospitalJOHANNESBURGNelson Mandela remains in a critical but stable condition as he enters his second month in hospital. No official update was made Tuesday morning on the status of the ailing 94-year-old, who was
(AP) Greek municipal workers strike for 2nd dayATHENS, GreeceGreek municipal workers went on strike for the second day Tuesday to protest their inclusion in a government plan to reduce the number of civil servants and meet criteria for the country
(AP) Captain of wrecked cruise ship on trial in ItalyBy PAOLO SANTALUCIA and FRANCES D’EMILIOAssociated PressGROSSETO, ItalyThe trial of the captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner began Tuesday in a theater converted into a courtroom in Tuscany to
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Bin Laden capture: Pakistan’s greatest humiliation since 1971 Egypt in political chaos after morning massacre of Morsi supporters Burma’s Muslims receive training from Pakistan’s radicals Bin Laden capture: Pakistan’s greatest humiliation since 1971 Osama
The United States began trade talks with the European Union (EU) Monday. According to the Associated Press, EU executive Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said the talks will focus on “trade and investment,” as well as privacy, among other things.
In the latest round of violence in Egypt, at least 51 people were killed in clashes between Muslim Brotherhood members and the Egyptian Army near a military building in Cairo. A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mahmoud Badia, used the
Al Jazeera has obtained the full text of the secret report of Pakistan’s Abbottabad Commission, which investigated how Osama bin Laden was able to hide in the country for nearly a decade–and how Pakistan’s defense forces had failed to detect
“Approach with caution.” That’s the instruction the FBI gave to agents who spotted Anwar al-Aulaqi on September 4, 2002, according to new records obtained by Judicial Watch. And yet, the very next day, al-Aulaqi, identified by the FBI as a
Tensions in Egypt continue to escalate as Muslim Brotherhood members fight back against last week’s ouster of President Mohamed Morsi. More than 50 people were reported killed and hundreds wounded Monday in clashes between Egyptian military and Morsi supporters. Army officials say troops opened
In a word, no. But it is also not the Vatican equivalent of a New York Times op-ed. Nor is it merely a scholarly dissertation, to be read only by theologians, who might write their own scholarly dissertations on it,
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde blasted the United States for instituting “absolutely inappropriate” sequester-related reductions in the rate of budgetary growth that she says will retard economic improvement. “The budgetary procedure that is in place in the United States,
The founder of IKEA, 87 year-old Ingvar Kamprad, is returning to his native Sweden after having fled for Switzerland 40 years ago to escape Sweden’s prohibitive taxes. Kamprad said he would move back home to Almhult by the end of 2013.
Dear Mr. President: Recent events in Egypt show the failure of your administration’s policies toward this largest of Arab countries. You helped in the overthrow of dictator Hosni Mubarak. Very well. Americans should shed no tears for Mubarak’s departure. He stayed in
The Egyptian military opened fire on a crowd of unruly Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators who had staged a protest outside a military headquarters Monday, killing at least forty and wounding many others. In response, the country’s other major Islamic party, Nour,
