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.
China will loan Venezuela $4 billion and Mexico $1 billion for oil development. China also plans to strike a $1 billion trade deal with Mexico and is planning hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to Costa Rica, Trinidad, and
So which should we be more afraid of? The US Government and its scandalous–even tyrannous–intrusions on our finances and privacy? Or foreign enemies with their explosives, cyber-weapons, and nukes? Is your answer “both,” I agree. But we will all
(Reuters) At least 25 people were killed and 70 wounded in clashes in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday between protesters, eventually backed by government forces, and a militia operating with Defence Ministry approval, a doctor said. Residents
Controversial opposition politician Narendra Modi’s chances of becoming India’s next prime minister could get a major boost later Sunday when his party chooses its frontman for next year’s general elections. Modi, chief minister of the thriving state of Gujarat for
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said an upper-house election will take place on July 21 and voiced the possibility of delaying a consumption tax hike scheduled for next year if the economy remains weak. Abe, in a live interview with
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has demanded that all detainees being held by British forces in the restive south be handed over within two weeks, saying that holding prisoners any longer would be a violation of sovereignty. The British government came
About 10,000 Cambodians protested in the capital Phnom Penh to show their anger at an opposition leader who allegedly described a notorious Khmer Rouge prison as a Vietnamese invention. The rally came two days after parliament passed a law banning
A suicide car bomb targeting a Baghdad police station killed six people on Sunday, the latest in a string of bombings and attacks that have revived fears of all-out sectarian war in Iraq. The blast, which struck during morning rush
(AP) 2 Koreas talk in border village after tensionsBy FOSTER KLUG and YOUKYUNG LEEAssociated PressSEOUL, South KoreaGovernment delegates from North and South Korea began preparatory talks Sunday at a “truce village” on their heavily armed border aimed at setting ground
Pope Francis spoke to a general audience in Rome on Wednesday- which also happened to be World Environment Day- about the “culture of waste.” The pontiff put forward the concept that our world’s “culture of waste” has led to a
Master Sergeant Nathan Sommers is a 25-year Army veteran facing “retribution and punishment” for having a “NOBAMA” bumper sticker on his car and for reading David Limbaugh’s The Great Destroyer privately backstage at a U.S. Army band concert. Other bumper stickers
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com China’s Xi Jinping and Obama endorse ‘new model’ of relationship Churchill and FDR never met Hitler Pakistan strongly protests Friday’s drone strike China’s Xi Jinping and Obama endorse ‘new model’ of relationship Xi and
Amidst the recent controversy over Pentagon religious policy and the potential court-martialing of service members who share their faith, it is extremely important to understand the power of faith when faced with the unspeakable realities of war. For many of
The Guardian has uncovered a Presidential Policy Directive in which Obama ordered national security and intelligence officials to compile a list of overseas targets for U.S. cyber attacks. The directive–number 20–was issued in October 2012 but never published. According to
(AFP) – A car bomb explosion in a majority Shiite area of the Iraqi capital killed four people on Saturday, medical and security officials said. The explosion, near a clinic in Al-Amin district in southeast Baghdad, also wounded 20 people
(AFP) – A man wearing an Afghan uniform shot dead three NATO-led soldiers on Saturday in the east of the country, the international coalition said, in the latest apparent example of an “insider attack”. “Three ISAF (International Security Assistance Force)
(AP) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela is in “serious but stable” condition after being taken to a hospital to be treated for a lung infection, the government said Saturday, prompting an outpouring of concern from admirers of a
(AP) – The United States and China are in “uncharted waters” as they tackle the contentious issue of cybersecurity, President Barack Obama said following the opening round of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit in the California
(AFP) – Where are people most unfaithful? Who uses sex toys? On a darker level, where is child rape more prevalent? French geographers have tried to answer these questions and others in a global atlas on sexuality. From legislation and
(AFP) – Russian state television has pulled a show over a joke about President Vladimir Putin’s surprise divorce announcement, one of its presenters said Saturday. In a carefully staged announcement on Thursday, Putin said that he and his wife of
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com U.S. snubs Pakistan with new drone strikes in Waziristan U.N. rejects Russian troops to replace Austrian peacekeepers Greece’s economy continues its collapse, as the IMF blames the EU U.S. snubs Pakistan with new drone
More than nine million students packed exam halls across China for the opening day of the country’s university entrance exam on Friday — with attempts to stop cheating even leading to bans on metal bra clasps. Students in the northeastern
Reuters is reporting that Secretary of State John Kerry “quietly acted last month to give Egypt $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid.” According to laws governing the funds, in order to give the $1.3 billion to Egypt, the Secretary of State
Three decades after 63 people were killed in a bombing there, the U.S. embassy in Beirut is not classified as “high threat,” even though Lebanon as a whole is listed as “critical,” Hezbollah has a strong presence near it, and
Mexican troops have rescued 165 people who were purchased and kept as slaves by a Mexican drug cartel. The adults, children, and pregnant women had been kept in Mexico less than one mile from the U.S. border. The 165 people
