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Accused Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan is expected to tell a military judge on Tuesday how he plans to argue he was protecting the Taliban when he opened fire on dozens of people at the facility in 2009. The

Two suicide bombers struck the heart of the Syrian capital Tuesday morning, causing an unknown number of casualties, said official television channel Al-Ikhbariya. The channel screened images showing badly damaged vehicles and bloodied pavements. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Nepal’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to alter passports so that transgenders no longer have to describe themselves as male or female, a court spokesman said, a move welcomed by rights activists. The court made the decision on Monday

(AP) Mandela spends fourth day in hospitalJOHANNESBURGFormer South African President Nelson Mandela is spending a fourth day in a hospital, where he is being treated for a recurring lung infection. There was no official update Tuesday morning on the 94-year-old

A wave of attacks mostly targeting security forces in Sunni areas of Iraq killed at least 73 people, officials said on Tuesday, updating the toll from the violence a day earlier. Monday’s unrest, which wounded more than 250 people, is

(AP) Russian parliament to vote on anti-gay billMOSCOWA dozen activists have been detained in Moscow as they were protesting a bill that stigmatizes the gay community and penalizes dissemination of information about them. Protesters were detained Tuesday as they attempted

The German government of Angela Merkel has approved of a plan to put special labels on products made by Jews in the Israeli land of Judea and Samaria. Germany joins 13 other EU members in adopting this practice. The desire

The Taliban beheaded two boys, one 10-year-old and one 16-year-old, after the Taliban charged them with spying. The boys were rummaging among rubbish bins near police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second city, a vital base for Western forces. Grabbed by

In a new report released by the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, data indicates that NGO’s funded by the European Union have been leading the campaigns to target Israel through boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) actions. The report is titled Lack of

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com After years of hesitation, U.S. discussing arming Syria’s rebels Sunni Arab anger grows over Hezbollah’s support for al-Assad Russia considers putting troops on Israel-Syria border After years of hesitation, U.S. discussing arming Syria’s rebels

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called whistleblower Edward Snowden “a hero” and says he has been in indirect contact with the ex-CIA employee who exposed a vast US surveillance programme. Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in

A new oversight report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction shows that the U.S. government has provided the Afghanistan National Army (ANA) over $1 billion worth of U.S. taxpayer funded ammunition. The actual number is $1.03 billion; this

Following his provocative lecture on the “European Spring” to a conference of the American Freedom Alliance in Los Angeles on Sunday, I sat down with Dutch political leader Geert Wilders, who leads a party that demands an end to immigration from Islamic

Edward Snowden, the 29-year old who blew the whistle on the NSA’s surveillance programs, claims that China is not an enemy of the United States. When asked if Americans may suspect he is hiding in Hong Kong in order to

North and South Korea reached a patchy agreement to hold a high-level meeting in Seoul, following marathon talks aimed at rebuilding trust after months of soaring tension and threats of nuclear war. Sunday’s preparatory talks, held in the border truce

New Zealand is facing pressure to save the world’s rarest dolphin at an international scientific meeting underway this week in what conservationists say is a test of the nation’s “clean, green” credentials. The Maui’s dolphin, found only in shallow waters

All seven militants who launched an attack Monday on Kabul airport died in the assault, Afghan police said, adding that no civilian and security force casualties had yet been reported. Taliban militants launched a grenade and gun attack shortly after

Militants attacked NATO supply trucks in northwest Pakistan with guns and mortars, killing at least three drivers and wounding six others, officials said. The attack took place in the Shagai area, 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of Landi Kotal, the

(AP) Mandela still in hospital in serious conditionBy CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAAssociated PressJOHANNESBURGThe South African government says former President Nelson Mandela’s condition remains serious but stable, his third day in a Pretoria hospital. The office of President Jacob Zuma said in a

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com The deafening silence following the Xi Jinping / Barack Obama summit George W. Obama The deafening silence following the Xi Jinping / Barack Obama summit President Xi to meet Obama (Global Times) Prior to

Militants launched a suicide attack on Kabul shortly after dawn, police said, with loud explosions and gunfire heard near the Afghan capital’s airport. Several blasts and bursts of small-arms fire erupted for at least 45 minutes and were ongoing, with

Although Afghan President Hamid Karzi supported a new body of laws which banned violence against women, the Afghan legislature has rejected the laws on the grounds that parts of them “violate Islamic principles.” The laws would have specifically banned child

What do Samantha Power, Obama’s nominee for UN Ambassador, and Richard Falk, UN Human Rights Council “expert” and Boston terror apologist, have in common? They both champion the United Nations’ human rights credentials and denigrate those of the United States.