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.
A Saudi court jailed a Lebanese man for six years and sentenced him to 300 lashes after convicting him of encouraging a Saudi woman to convert to Christianity, local dailies reported Sunday. The same court sentenced a Saudi man convicted
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Turkey blames Syrian regime for terrorist bombings in border town Nawaz Sharif appears to be the winner in Pakistan’s elections Turkey blames Syrian regime for terrorist bombings in border town Aftermath of the explosions
(AP) Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saintsBy FRANCES D’EMILIOAssociated PressVATICAN CITY Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led
New revelations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeted Tea Party and conservative organizations for additional review and investigation–and that senior officials knew about the practice, despite earlier denials–have shed light on the IRS’s aggressive investigation of a new pro-Israel
The Pentagon has now fully reversed its previous declarations and is now claiming it has no policy either way on whether proselytizing is allowed in the military. Given the contradictory statements on this issue and other instances of disallowing Christian
(AP) – Two astronauts took a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to find and, possibly, fix a serious leak at the International Space Station. Flakes of frozen ammonia coolant were spotted Thursday drifting from the long frame that holds the solar
(AFP) – Egypt’s interior minister said on Saturday police arrested members of an Al-Qaeda-linked cell that plotted to carry out a suicide bombing against a Western embassy and other targets in the country. Police “have delivered a successful blow against
(AP) – Defying threats of violence, Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent. But militant attacks that killed 20 people underlined the risks
(AP) – Senior American and Afghan officials held talks Saturday to try to iron out the details of a key pact signed a year ago that defines the future of the United States’ commitment to Afghanistan. The Strategic Partnership Agreement
(AP) – A woman found alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago is recovering in a hospital, but has trouble sleeping and sometimes grips the nurses’ hands in panic, doctors said Saturday.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Generational Dynamics World View is back! Taliban promises bloodbath during Saturday’s Pakistan elections New South China Sea confrontation between China and Philippines Syrian women get married for money in exchange for ‘survival sex’ Gun-control
On Wednesday, TIME Magazine reported that Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s third cousin, Magomed Kartashov, served as his guide during his six month stay in the Dagestan region of Russia from January to July of 2012. The magazine refers to Kartashov as “one of
As the situation in post-Gaddafi Libya continues to deteriorate, Islamist “militias” that seized different portions of Benghazi in the lead up to the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks that killed four Americans are now establishing a presence in Tripoli. The
Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney blamed Mitt Romney and Republicans for “politicizing” the Benghazi terrorist attacks. Harkening back to a Mitt Romney press conference on September 12, 2012, which addressed the Benghazi attacks only in passing while focusing
In a contentious press briefing on Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney came out swinging – and fibbing – about the Benghazi talking points. Early on Friday morning, ABC News reported that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s spokeswoman Victoria
UN Watch is reporting that the United Nations’ Richard Falk has again justified the Boston Marathon bombings as “resistance” to U.S. “military undertakings” in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. This makes the second time that he’s blamed the U.S. military in
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), who yesterday initiated legislation to ensure that future Accountability Review Boards are not controlled by the State Department, is now calling on the State Department Inspector General to investigate the ARB’s Benghazi
In a killing reminiscent of Corleone-style mafia hits of the past, police in Palermo, Italy have discovered the burned bodies of Cosa Nostra mobsters … from Canada. Two members of the Canadian mafia involved in a turf war to the
In the White House’s latest efforts at transparency, the administration announced to reporters that it would brief reporters on the latest shocking developments about the Benghazi situation … behind closed doors. Politico reports that the meeting started at approximately 12:45
Has Stephen Hawking really left the company of Albert Einstein, an avowed Zionist who worked to create the State of Israel, and replaced him with the august company of Elvis Costello and other Israel boycotters? I hosted Hawking for a lecture
ABC News has posted twelve different versions of the Obama administration’s talking points on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sep. 11, 2012, showing that the White House and State Department did all they could to remove
Remember the hippo dancing in Disney’s Fantasia and how cute it was? Don’t believe it for a second; as guide Paul Templer relates to the UK Guardian, hippos can be monstrously violent and even swallow you up. Templer knows because it happened to him. Templer
***UPDATE: Here are the 12 talking point revisions. Keep in mind the Obama Administration has repeatedly denied making these revisions and denied straight through to Sept 19 that there was any evidence of a terror attack. It looks as though
(AP) IMF says monetary easing could drive asset bubbleTOKYOInternational Monetary Fund officials say they are watching carefully for signs that massive flows of cash unleashed in world markets by unprecedented monetary easing might lead to asset bubbles, or to overheating
Turkish Airlines has reversed a ban on air hostesses wearing brightly-coloured lipstick following accusations it was trying to Islamise the company under government influence. The airline’s chief executive officer Temel Kotil announced the move in the Turkish media accusing overzealous
