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.
Russia’s top Islamist leader Doku Umarov called in a video released on Wednesday for jihadists to stage attacks against a range of targets that include the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games.
(AP) Egypt turmoil grows as army deadline set to expireBy HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated PressCAIROWith a military deadline for a resolution to Egypt’s political crisis looming, the country braced for a showdown Wednesday after embattled President Mohammed Morsi insisted he will not
(AP) Global stocks slide as oil jumps on Egypt crisisBy KAY JOHNSONAP Business WriterBANGKOKGlobal stocks slumped Wednesday as Egypt’s unfolding political crisis pushed the price of oil to its highest level in more than a year, adding to an uncertain
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a Maine-born college student who graduated from Bowdoin College in 1852, only to return with his wife three years later to become a professor of languages and rhetoric. He taught until the Civil War began in
With reports that a second miracle, attributed to the influence of Pope John Paul II, has been approved by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, it is anticipated that Pope Francis could canonize the former pontiff before the end
As millions of Egyptians protest to demand President Mohammed Morsi’s removal, sexual assaults and attempted sexual assaults are ubiquitous. According to the AP, a “vigilante group” that has formed to protect women reported 46 attempted sexual assaults on June 30
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Egypt’s Morsi gives angry, desperate speech to save his job Egypt’s deposed president Hosni Mubarak says Morsi should resign Afghan Taliban scores another big terror attack in Kabul Greece and Portugal compete for this
Hours before the deadline of the Egyptian military’s ultimatum arrives, President Mohammed Morsi gave a televised address in which he said, “[I will] pay my life to protect” Egypt’s fledgling democracy and the Islamist-fashioned constitution. According to The Wall Street
According to FBI documents released after a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request, terrorist cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, who was killed in 2011 by a drone strike in Yemen, spent his days immediately after 9/11 patronizing hookers and hanging with
Since I am considered by many to be a “little guy,” you’d think I’d always be “looking out” for him–the proverbial little guy. You could not be more wrong. The little guy bugs the crap out of me. But let
Local reports suggest that two teenage girls in Pakistan were shot to death in an honor killing for supposedly dancing in the rain. News 24 Online states that Noor Basra, 16, and Noor Sheza, 15, were shot by a group
As one Egyptian government minister after another resigned on Monday and Tuesday, President Barack Obama refused to withdraw his support for President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood government, noting that they came to power in a “legitimate” election. Meanwhile,
Dr. Sam Axelrad, right, hands over arm bones belonging to former North Vietnamese soldier Nguyen Quang Hung, left, at Hung’s house in the town of An Khe, Gia Lai province, Vietnam on Monday July 1, 2013. In October 1966 Axelrad
An unmanned Russian Proton-M carrier rocket exploded on takeoff at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, in images broadcast live on national television. Spectacular footage showed the rocket veering off its trajectory just seconds after its 6.38 am (0238 GMT) launch,
The US government has announced that married same-sex couples may now apply for “green card” residency permits just as heterosexual married couples can, in the latest move to end discrimination against gay unions. Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano announced the
US fugitive Edward Snowden has abandoned his request for political asylum in Russia after Moscow told him he would have to stop leaking US intelligence reports, a Kremlin spokesman said on Tuesday. Snowden applied for asylum on Sunday night and
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr has tendered his resignation, the official MENA news agency reported on Tuesday. Amr is the latest and most high profile minister to resign after millions of Egyptians took to the streets to demand President
Egypt’s presidency on Tuesday rejected an army ultimatum threatening to intervene if Islamist President Mohamed Morsi did not meet the demands of the people, raising the stakes in the country’s political crisis. The army statement, read out on television Monday,
An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered the reinstatement of public prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmud, whose sacking in November sparked a bitter row between President Mohamed Morsi and the judiciary. The Court of Appeals “issued a final ruling ordering the return
(AP) Obama calls embattled Egyptian President MorsiBy NEDRA PICKLERAssociated PressDAR ES SALAAM, TanzaniaPresident Barack Obama is encouraging embattled Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (MOHR’-see) to respond to concerns being voiced by throngs of protesters seeking his removal from office. The White
Update: The Laborde has indicated to Breitbart News that the view he was expressing was a statement of fact about United Nations policy, and not his personal view, which he has declined to express in his new capacity. *** The
With France and Germany outraged to find that the Obama administration has allegedly bugged 38 foreign embassies to snoop on our allies, Secretary of State John Kerry claimed there is nothing unusual about spying on allies in that fashion. Said
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com In stunning intervention, Egypt’s army sides with protesters against president Morsi Army says it will not stand idle while Egypt ‘is in severe danger’ How the world recognized the Taliban government in Afghanistan In
Egypt’s Islamist government teetered on the brink Monday in the wake of stunning weekend protests against Muslim Brotherhood rule. “Theocracy failed here,” Egyptian blogger Mahmoud Salem, also known as “Sandmonkey,” wrote in a Twitter post Monday. Sixteen people were killed and hundreds were injured
Secretary Of State John Kerry has taken to scampering back and forth between Amman and Jerusalem in an effort to accelerate momentum towards peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Fatah government in the West Bank. The mainstream media, inspired
