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.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Afghanistan’s Karzai expels U.S. special forces from province Death of Palestinian prisoner threatens third intifada against Israel West Bank demonstrations are not yet a third intifada Historical analogy: 1936 Spain to Syria today Afghanistan’s
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, co-authored a 2009 report that called for U.S. troops to lead a peacekeeping force that would patrol the future borders between Israel and a Palestinian state. The
The Obama administration conducted two secret diplomatic missions to North Korea in 2012, according to reports in the South Korean press that were confirmed by the Los Angeles Times. The talks failed to dissuade the regime of Kim Jong Un
British PM David Cameron is encouraging Barack Obama to leave Michelle at home when he travels to the UK for the G8 Summit. The summit is being held at “the luxury Lough Erne resort in Northern Ireland,” and a Downing
B’nai Brith International, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, has released a statement on President Barack Obama’s nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to be Secretary of Defense, asking Senators “to carefully review Hagel’s record and hearing responses
Tokyo and Washington plan to install a US early-warning radar system at a coastal base near Kyoto to bolster defences against the North Korean missile threat, reports said Sunday. The X-band radar, capable of precisely tracking the trajectory of a
America’s top diplomat John Kerry began his first official trip as secretary of state on Sunday, a marathon get-acquainted tour of America’s closest allies in Europe and the Middle East. A plane carrying the news US secretary of state and
Two suicide car bombings in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed two intelligence agents and a police officer, officials said. In the first attack, a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a spy agency facility in the eastern town of
The man responsible for designing the Daleks, the robotic enemy of Doctor Who in the long-running television series, has died aged 84, his family said Saturday. Ray Cusick died in his sleep of heart failure on Thursday, his daughter Claire
Islamists demanding the execution of bloggers they accuse of blasphemy clashed with police in Bangladesh for a third straight day Sunday, and at least four protesters were killed when police opened fire. Up to 3,000 protesters, including students from religious
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Syria’s opposition pulls out of talks after Scud missiles hit Aleppo Jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra gains in popularity and influence A new influx of heavy weapons reaches the rebels in southern Syria An Egyptian
Alan Dershowitz has openly condemned one possible successor to Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, who he claims is virulently and openly anti-Semitic. Rodriguez Maradiaga has been one of the candidates mentioned as a possible pope,
Noteveryone is happy with UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision togive the British people an opportunity to leave the European Union (EU).If he is re-elected, Cameron has promised to hold an in-or-out votebefore the end of 2017. Yet with the
Sluggish economic growth and high debt led Moody’s to announce on Friday that it is downgrading Great Britain’s credit rating from “Aaa” to “Aa1.” The credit ratings agency cited “continuing weakness in the UK’s medium-term growth outlook, with a period
Israel warns that Iran is “closer than ever” to building a nuclear weapon based on a U.N. report that shows Iran is installing “next-generation equipment at one of its main nuclear plants.” On Feb. 21, the office of Israeli Prime
Speaking on Feb. 22, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said a portion of the 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan will be withdrawn this spring, leaving 32,000 through April of 2014 and an unknown number who will remain beyond 2014. The
The Obama administration is pushing for a meeting with Iranian officials this week at the Almaty talks in Kazakhstan. The U.S. knows they face an uphill battle, as Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayattolah Ali Khamenei has made clear his belief that
On Feb. 21, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said he will use every procedural option at his disposal to block the confirmation of John Brennan for CIA Director. Paul found Brennan’s answers regarding the use of drones on Americans insufficient at
(AP) – Thousands of students rallied in Bangladesh’s capital on Saturday demanding death to Islamic political party leaders who are on trial for alleged war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war. Eight top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest
(AP) – A key opposition leader called Saturday for a boycott of upcoming parliamentary elections, saying he will not take part in a “sham democracy.” President Mohammed Morsi’s Islamist party, the Muslim Brotherhood, shot back that the opposition was running
(AFP) – Egyptian police said Saturday they have arrested four students who filmed themselves publicly dancing in their underwear, as more people around the world emulate a viral dance craze called the “Harlem Shake.” The four pharmaceutical students shocked residents
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Bawdy Silvio Berlusconi may return as Italy’s Prime Minister U.N. claims immunity in Haiti cholera compensation case U.S. deploys 100 troops to Niger to operate drone base Al-Qaeda ‘tip sheet’ for avoiding drones found
To aid the confirmation of counterterrorism chief John Brennan as the next director of the CIA, the White House will release more emails and documents related to the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. According to Politico,
February 22 is the Roman Catholic Church’s Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, marking the Biblical passage – Matthew 16:18 – in which Jesus renames the apostle Simon, saying, “And I tell you, you are Peter” – which means
Defence experts who say many lives could have been saved during Arab uprisings if states used proper crowd control measures sought to tap into a growing market at an Abu Dhabi arms fair. Anti-riot vehicles with sophisticated acoustic repellents have
