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.
Over the decades rich nations have poured trillions of dollars into African development projects, but the global economic meltdown and Africa’s booming growth are turning off that tap. In 2012 western aid to sub-Saharan Africa quite literally decimated. Rich countries
(AP) BERLINGermany’s chancellor says she will use her country’s economic clout to hinder the European Union from imposing punitive tariffs on some Chinese products to avoid a trade war. Angela Merkel told visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday that she
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and DEBORA REYAssociated PressBUENOS AIRES, ArgentinaArgentine President Cristina Fernandez rallied a huge crowd Saturday night celebrating the 10-year government that she and her late husband Nestor Kirchner began in 2003. Her voice breaking, she called it a
US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Colombia on Sunday as he launched a six-day tour that will also take him to the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazil. The visit — Biden’s fourth to the region
(AP) Rockets in Lebanon capital signal Syrian spilloverBy KARIN LAUBAssociated PressBEIRUT Two rockets hit Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut on Sunday, tearing through an apartment and peppering cars with shrapnel, a day after the Lebanese group’s leader pledged to lift President
Two U.K. politicians have called out the BBC for interviewing an Islamic cleric who refuses to condemn Wednesday’s grisly terror attack where two men beheaded a British soldier. The Guardian is reporting that Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi and shadow defense secretary
In an apparent response to a pledge of support by Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah for the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, Syrian rebels targeted a Hizbullah stronghold in Beirut, Lebanon on Sunday, widening the international scope of the Syrian civil
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Syria conflict in possibly climactic battle near Lebanon border Lebanon’s Hezbollah leads the fight in Syria battle Lebanon’s opposition condemns Nasrallah and Hezbollah Syria conflict in possibly climactic battle near Lebanon border The army
A Sunday report from the UK Independent says that Michael Adebolajo, one of the men suspected of beheading British soldier Lee Rigby last week in Woolwich, had been known to anti-terror forces for at least three years before the attack.
Newly-released pictures show Woolwich beheading suspect Michael Adebolajo marching on the anniversary of September 11 in 2009, joining forces with other British Muslims to protest at anti-Islamist march by the English Defence League. When the EDL didn’t hold an event
British Prime Minister David Cameron has reportedly decided on a new task force to stamp out Islamic extremism across the country. According to the UK Daily Mail: The Prime Minister wants to stop extremist clerics using schools, colleges, prisons and
On ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) launched into President Obama’s drone war abroad. While Paul acknowledged that he was pleased the president had finally recognized limitations on his power to use drones against American citizens, he
Speaking to the Naval Academy Commencement on May 24, President Obama “called on graduating Midshipmen, soon to become Naval and Marine Corps officers, to show honor and courage” by helping to end sexual assault in the armed forces. According to
As news broke that a French soldier had been attacked by a “bearded man [of] North African origin…wearing a light colored hijab,” the tensions between the French government and those who claim Islamist affiliation above all else were brought to
After the brutal and barbaric murder of an off-duty soldier in Woolwich on Wednesday, Britons took to the street to protest in a massive rally led by the controversial English Defence League. EDL leader Tommy Robinson told the rally in
(AP) – Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation. Metropolitan Police investigating
(AP) – Suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire Saturday on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India’s ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 16 people and wounding 25
(AFP) – France’s defence minister said a soldier stabbed in Paris Saturday was targeted because he was in the army and vowed to continue his country’s “implacable” fight against terrorism. “They tried to kill the soldier because he was a
(AP) – British police investigating the savage killing of an off-duty soldier in London have arrested three more suspects. Scotland Yard said counter-terrorism officers arrested two men, aged 24 and 28, at a residential address in southeast London. A third
Friday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) stated the Obama administration has been covering up the truth about what took place during the Benghazi attack in Libya on 9/11. He described both the White House and State Department as uncooperative as his
(AP) – A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links with the bloody killing of a British
(AP) – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military. A day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar
(AP) – Sixteen schoolchildren and a teacher burned to death in eastern Pakistan early Saturday when a short-circuit near a leaking gas tank caused their minibus to be engulfed in flames, police said. Police officer Ijaz Ahmad said five children
(AP) – Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror. Obama is not claiming final victory over extremists who still seek to kill Americans and other Westerners.
(AP) – Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad shelled a strategic western town on Saturday in their heaviest barrage of a week-long battle to dislodge rebels from there, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at
