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.
(AP) – A hunger strike among prisoners at Guantanamo Bay keeps growing. Lt. Col. Samuel House said Saturday that 100 of 166 prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba have now joined the strike. He says 19 are receiving liquid
(AP) – Police in Bangladesh took five people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed building that killed at least 348 people, as rescue workers admitted Saturday that voices of survivors are getting weaker after four days
(AFP) – US and British accusations that the regime in Damascus may have used chemical weapons are a “barefaced lie,” Syria’s information minister told Russian television Saturday. “First of all, I want to confirm that statements by the US Secretary
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Demonstrators in Jordan protest American troop presence Jordan’s King Abdullah and Obama meet to discuss Syria Sunni Jihadists pour into Syria Demonstrators in Jordan protest American troop presence Anti-American protesters in Amman, Jordan on
(AP) – North Korea said Saturday it will soon put a detained American on trial for allegedly trying to overthrow the government, further complicating already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington. The indictment of Kenneth Bae comes in the middle
According to an analysis by the government’s Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC), suspected terrorists Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev “closely” followed bomb-making instructions found in an online al Qaeda magazine. TEDAC analyzed bombs that were exploded at the Boston Marathon and during
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian security services offered US intelligence no information on the Tsarnaev brothers. They instead likely warned the Americans that the Tsarnaevs might join an anti-Russian terrorist group within Russia. The Federal
Although law enforcement was lauded for quickly identifying and neutralizing both suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing last weekend, the FBI has much explaining to do over why now-deceased Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspects, managed to slip through the
(AFP) – New Delhi on Friday alleged Chinese soldiers have advanced nearly 20 kilometres (12 miles) into Indian-claimed territory after intruding across the disputed border earlier this month, a report said. Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma and other military officials
Israeli military officials say they have shot down another Hezbollah drone. The drone was reportedly “in Israeli airspace near the city of Haifa.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the drone as “another attempt to breach [Israel’s] borders.” He said Israel “will
As Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told U.S. lawmakers that evidence shows the government of Syria used sarin nerve gas on its own people, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchanged pleasantries with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The Korean Central News Agency
(AP) 38 die in mental hospital fire outside MoscowNATALIYA VASILYEVAAssociated PressMOSCOWA fire swept quickly through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, most of them sedated and in their beds, officials said. The one-story brick-and-wood hospital building
The Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed Friday it has been targeted by hackers many times, as they reportedly look to access market-sensitive information before public release. According to newly declassified documents and internal incident reports obtained by The Australian Financial
(AP) Gunmen kill 13 in Philippine political violenceMANILA, PhilippinesGunmen attacked a truck carrying a southern Philippine mayor and his supporters and killed 13 people including his daughter, police said Friday. The mayor and nine others were wounded in the country’s
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com S. Korea sets deadline for N. Korea on Kaesong Industrial Complex U.S. says Syria has used chemical weapons twice China’s Uighur violence may be related to East Turkestan Islamic Movement U.N. Security Council approves
On July 7, 2011, U.S. UN Ambassador to Geneva, Eileen Donahoe, issued a statement condemning Richard Falk for an anti-Semitic cartoon posted on his personal blog. Falk is the UN “human rights expert” who thinks Boston had it coming. He’s also the
Joining Senate Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham Thursday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the powerful chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, released a statement that bluntly accused the Syrian regime of crossing President Obama’s “red line” with its use of
Thursday morning, the Associated Press reported that newly-installed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told a group of reporters in Abu Dhabi that it was likely that the current Syrian regime had used chemical weapons on a “small scale,” adding, “It violates
(AP) Hagel: Syria has used chemical weaponsBy ROBERT BURNSAP National Security WriterABU DHABI, United Arab EmiratesDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the Syrian regime has likely used chemical weapons on a “small scale.” Hagel was speaking to reporters in Abu Dhabi.
Reports indicate Russian authorities warned the U.S. government about Tamerlan Tsarnaev multiple times before he bombed the Boston Marathon on April 15. During a closed briefing on April 23, Senate Intelligence Committee members learned Russia had made “multiple contacts” with U.S.
BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) – A new bird flu strain that has killed 22 people in China is “one of the most lethal” of its kind and transmits more easily to humans than another strain that has killed hundreds since 2003, a
(AFP) – Former US president George W. Bush says he remains “comfortable” with the decision to invade Iraq, even as a new spate of bloody violence hit the country and rocked politics in Baghdad. Bush told ABC News in an
The Israeli air force on Thursday shot down an unmanned drone several miles off the coast of the northern port city of Haifa after it entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon, the military said.
U.N. Human Rights Council Palestine monitor Richard Falk is arguing that the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out in “retribution” for U.S. military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, “American global dominion,” and supposed Israeli influence of American foreign policy. Concerning
(AFP) Three British Muslims including a convert to Islam were jailed on Thursday for planning acts of terror. White Muslim convert Richard Dart, 30, a former security guard for the BBC, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment at England’s Old
