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.
In an interview with the Georgetown Public Policy Review in 2011, former Sen. Chuck Hagel indicated that he opposed President Barack Obama’s policy in Libya, arguing that “Libya was a mistake” and that President Obama been wrong to declare that
The Reserve Officers Association (ROA), a membership association chartered in 1922 by Congress dedicated to providing a voice for Reserve Component service members of all military branches, released a report on Thursday regarding how sequestration would affect the Department of Defense budget.
By PAUL HAVENAssociated PressHAVANACuban President Raul Castro has unexpectedly raised the possibility of leaving his post, saying Friday that he is old and has a right to retire. But he did not say when he might do so or if
By SHAWN POGATCHNIKAssociated PressDUBLINAn Irish slaughterhouse has been caught labeling horse meat as beef and shipping it to a company in the Czech Republic, Ireland’s government said Friday, in the latest crackdown on alleged fraud in Europe’s month-old scandal. No
By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe U.S. and its NATO allies revealed Friday they may keep as many as 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after the combat mission ends next year, largely American forces tasked with hunting down remnants
Roman Catholic priests should be able to marry and have children, Britain’s most senior cardinal said on Friday. Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who will be part of the conclave tasked with chosing a new pope to replace Benedict XVI, said the
We’ve seen a number of challenges in recent weeks, not the least of which were the Russian bombers intercepted over the island of Guam and the North Korean nuclear test in which some military experts see Iran’s hand. It seems
(AFP) – Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Port Said on Friday to demand justice for protesters killed by Egyptian police, as a strike in the Suez Canal city entered its sixth day. Protesters chanted against Islamist President
(AFP) – Thousands of Syrian protesters took to the streets on Friday with chants, banners and cartoons of President Bashar al-Assad to vent their anger at Lebanon’s Shiite movement Hezbollah and the international community. In the Turkish border town of
(AFP) – The United Arab Emirates on Friday dismissed charges that Dubai police had tortured three young Britons arrested more than seven months ago on drugs charges, a day after a court denied them bail. “The UAE is aware of
Bangladesh police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Friday in fierce clashes with Islamists demanding the execution of bloggers they accused of blasphemy, killing one person and injuring around 100. Parts of central Dhaka turned into a battlefield as protesters
Russia and China said on Friday they saw eye-to-eye on all the world’s problems including the Syria conflict, as the Chinese foreign minister was in Moscow to prepare a visit by new leader Xi Jinping later this year. Chinese Foreign
The eurozone faces another full year of recession in 2013 with economic output set to shrink by 0.3 percent after a 0.6-percent contraction last year, the European Commission said on Friday. The winter economic forecast said there would not be
An al-Qaeda document listing 22 ways for avoiding drones has been found inside a manila envelope in a building in Mali. The associated press found the document in Timbuktu after Islamists fled from a French military assault. The document reveals
Now that the Islamists have taken over Egypt, after the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, an Islamic group has arisen to threaten a number of Coptic Christian priests with death if they don’t convert to Islam. The priests are
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Indian Mujahideen suspected in bombing in Hyderabad Indian Mujahideen linked to Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Toiba Stock market has ‘mini-panic’ over Fed QE signal The Fed’s falling inflation expectations Mainstream economists’ failing recovery forecasts Indian Mujahideen suspected
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has not yet acted on calls from within his own party to form select committees to uncover more information on the attack which killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill
Islamists in the Egyptian government have ceased issuance of alcohol licenses and will not renew expiring licenses “in Cairo, Alexandria, and other major cities.” The New Urban Communities Authorities (NUCA) made this decision because resident representatives said there had been
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel declined to sign a letter circulated by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in 2007 calling upon then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to press Arab allies of the U.S. to recognize Israel’s right to exist “and not use
Predicting who will be elected the next pope when the College of Cardinals convenes in a papal conclave in early March is far more difficult than predicting the next President. That hasn’t stopped American media pundits from speculating that New York
Reports from India state that 12 people have been killed and many injured when two bombs went off in Hyderabad, India. Police have already said that the bombings constitute a “terrorist attack.” The devices were coordinated to blow up within
(AFP) – Europe releases its latest economic forecasts Friday — with a weak growth outlook likely to push France into overshooting EU budgetary targets and possibly triggering an intensification of the eurozone debt crisis. After months in which the twin
(AP) – Indian police said Thursday that they have launched a manhunt for men suspected of raping and killing three sisters, aged 5 to 11, in the latest case of sexual violence to grip the country. The sisters’ bodies were
(AP) – One year after the band Pussy Riot staged an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Moscow’s main cathedral that landed them in jail, a released band member said Thursday that she has no regrets. Yekaterina Samutsevich told the Associated
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says he will block John Brennan’s confirmation for CIA Director until the White House releases the drone surveillance footage of the Benghazi attack and the “emails on talking points that falsely claimed the attack was a
