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.
By IAN DEITCHAssociated PressJERUSALEMIsraeli warplanes struck targets early Wednesday in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire toward southern Israel, the first air strikes launched by Israel since an informal cease-fire ended eight days of cross-border fighting between Israel
A majority of Palestinians believe the US will fail to revive the Middle East peace process, according to a survey after Barack Obama’s visit to the region, seen by AFP on Tuesday. The Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research’s
Today the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a global gun control treaty called the Arms Trade Treaty. Now the fight begins here at home. There are several things gun owners need to know to protect their constitutional rights.
On April 2, the UN General Assembly signed off on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)–a treaty ostensibly aimed at gun trafficking internationally, and which will require nations to monitor and adjust their export/import practices accordingly. The Obama administration supported the draft
In what may mark the beginning of a historic shift, Australia appears ready to bypass the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency and allow for the direct convertibility of the Australian dollar into the Chinese yuan. “Reserve currency” is
(AFP) – Authorities in six leading European countries have taken steps to force US Internet giant Google to comply with EU privacy rules, France’s Cnil data protection agency said on Tuesday. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United
(AFP) – A Vietnamese farmer who became a folk hero after using homemade weapons to resist eviction went on trial Tuesday as scores of people defied police to voice support for the flashpoint issue of land rights. At least three
(AP) – China reported Tuesday that four more people in one province were seriously sickened by a bird flu virus new to humans while cities along the eastern seaboard stepped up public health measures to guard against a disease that
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Tuesday letting him pick candidates to lead Russia’s regions if local lawmakers scrap popular polls, in what critics called a setback for democracy in the Russian leader’s new term. The
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Satellite pictures detail massive Buddhist on Muslim violence in Burma U.S. Navy moves destroyer off coast of Korean Peninsula Influence of extremist groups in the Balkans grows David A Stockman says our economy is
(AP) SEOUL, South KoreaNorth Korea vowed Tuesday to restart all mothballed facilities at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, adding to tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. The reactor was shut down in
On Monday, the Associated Press reported that operatives of Mexican drug cartels have infiltrated virtually every large and mid-sized city in the United States in order to “tighten their grip on the world’s most lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits.”
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades denies reports that a company owned by his family withdrew tens of millions of dollars before the government decided to seize up to 62.5% of uninsured Cypriot bank depositor monies as part of a $13 billion
(AP) – Egypt’s most popular television satirist, who every week skewers the Islamist president and hard-line clerics on his Jon Stewart-style show, was released on bail Sunday but could face charges of insulting the country’s leader and Islam. Bassem Youssef
(AP) AP IMPACT: Cartels dispatch agents deep inside USBy MICHAEL TARMAssociated PressCHICAGOMexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian government will not aid businesses that have lost money in Cyprus, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said, underscoring Moscow’s resolve to clamp down on the flight of capital to offshore financial centers. Major account
South Korea’s new president on Monday promised a strong military response to any North Korean provocation after Pyongyang announced that the two countries were now in a state of war. President Park Geun-Hye’s warning came as North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament
A suicide bomber blew up a tanker truck at police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Tikrit Monday, killing seven people in the latest in a spike in unrest ahead of the first elections since 2010. Eleven people were also
A Bahraini accused of spying for Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards unit has had his 10-year jail sentence confirmed by a court of appeal, the state news agency BNA reported. The sentence, passed in July 2011 by a lower court, was
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Half of China’s rivers have disappeared Germans may be removing their savings from banks Suspicions grow that the Cyprus bailout numbers don’t make sense Jordan and Palestine agree to jointly defend Jerusalem from Israel
In his first Urbi et Orbi message- to the city of Rome and to the world– Pope Francis told the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who came to celebrate Easter with him, that the power of Christ’s Resurrection, “this passover
For the first time, there are more Jews living in Israel than in America, making the Jewish state the home of the largest Jewish population in the world. There are 6 million Jews in Israel and 5.5 million in America,
In an ironic move, Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh, politburo chief Khaled Mashaal Haniyeh, and other Hamas officials are going to Cairo to complain about alleged Israeli violations of the Pillar of Defense truce between Israel and Hamas.
Pope Francis used his first Easter Sunday address to call for peace in the world and appealed for a diplomatic solution to the crisis on the Korean peninsula. In his first “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world)
Even as news is surfacing that the Cypriot bank “bail-in” will now confiscate up to 62.5% of depositor funds, a new budgetary document from Canada’s finance minister suggests that America’s neighbor to the north may be considering a Cyprus-like bail-in
