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.
The chief UN atomic inspector said Thursday that talks with Iran had failed again to reach a deal on agreeing enhanced inspections of Tehran’s nuclear programme, and that no new meeting had been set. He declined to comment on whether
Two days after North Korea’s nuclear test, South Korea signalled Thursday the deployment of a new cruise missile capable of a precision strike on members of Pyongyang’s high command. The defence ministry called in reporters for a special video presentation
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One of the most isolated, longest-surviving, and brutal dictatorships the world has ever known is at it again. North Korea recently put out a very disturbing video that showed a nuclear bomb hitting New York City and the subsequent aftermath.
Through the morning of Feb. 13, Chuck Hagel looked to have all 55 Democrat Senators and Republican Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) in his corner. That tally just changed: Collins has announced that she will vote against
During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Barack Obama boasted that he and NATO are planning to leave Afghanistan at the end of 2014 and leave the security of the country to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). There’s
Israel’s former Deputy Foreign Minster Danny Ayalon is “convinced” that an upcoming U.S. visit to Israel will include a summit between Obama, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas. Obama is currently scheduled to visit Israel, the
Israel appears to be readying itself for a war with Lebanon in order to keep Hezbollah from acquiring the weaponry they need to carry out attacks on the Jewish state. Israeli officials have “warned” U.S. officials that such a conflict
Security experts are now wondering if North Korea’s nuclear test on Tuesday was carried out for Iran’s benefit. Bar-Ilan University’s Dr. Alon Levkowitz says there’s no information to confirm such a collaboration yet but warns that it Iran could be conducting tests in
Senior Muslim clerics in Egypt believe Pope Benedict XVI’s abrupt resignation could reopen the way for dialogue with the Catholic Church, severed after Benedict’s controversial 2006 remarks on the Muslim prophet. But improved ties between the Church and Al-Azhar, the
(AP) Fighting rages near Aleppo airportBy BARBARA SURKAssociated PressBEIRUTSyrian rebels fought pitched battles Wednesday against regime forces at a military base that protects a major airport in the country’s north in fighting that has left more than 40 government troops
(AFP) – The Iranian dissident group MEK on Wednesday accused Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of ordering a deadly attack on its camp in Iraq and said the Iraqi government facilitated the assault. The People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK)
LONDON (Reuters) – British police investigating the hacking of mobile phones to generate stories at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid made six more arrests of journalists or former journalists on Wednesday. The phone hacking in the new
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday that France was unlikely to achieve its target of reducing its public deficit to three percent of output this year.
Russia said Wednesday it was delivering military hardware and light weapons to the governments of Syria and Mali as it expands sales and maintains its footing in some of the world’s deadliest conflicts. The head of Russia’s arms exporter Rosoboronexport,
President Barack Obama announced that 34,000 troops would be pulled out of Afghanistan in the next year, and vowed that by the end of 2014 the US war in the country would be over. The long-awaited move effectively halves the
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Now that Pope Benedict XVI has resigned, the speculation about his successor is already heating up. What follows is a short list of those who have been mentioned as possible candidates. Two candidates from Italy are prominently mentioned, because Italians
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama failed to mention the late Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the three other Americans who died on Sep. 11, 2012 in the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. He
As President Obama prepares to talk about the state of our union, Egyptian human rights activist Bahieddin Hassan claims the state of Egypt is worse because of Obama’s support of President Mohamed Morsi. In an open letter to President Obama,
A Chinese-born businesswoman’s harrowing tales of gang-rape and murder in the Cultural Revolution years have come under fire from web vigilantes who accuse her of duping impressionable US readers. Ping Fu, who went on to found US technology firm Geomagic
Two Serbian alleged members of the “Pink Panther” gang of international jewel thieves are to face trial in Switzerland for heists there, police said on Tuesday. One of the two, a 34-year-old arrested in Turkey on an international warrant, will
By JAMEY KEATENAssociated PressPARISFrance’s lower house of parliament approved a sweeping bill on Tuesday to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt children, handing a major legislative victory to President Francois Hollande’s Socialists on a divisive social issue.
Sales of champagne fell by 4.4 percent in volume terms last year, but increased exports helped compensate for sagging European consumption and kept revenue flat at 4.37 billion euros ($5.86 billion), a trade association said Tuesday. The slide in annual
An expert panel on Tuesday urged Canada to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars in planned defense spending to build up its defense sector, in order to bolster its economy. In a report, the panel led by Tom Jenkins, a
