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) Bombings kill 115 people in PakistanBy ABDUL SATTAR and SHIRIN ZADAAssociated PressQUETTA, PakistanA series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 115 people on Thursday, including 81 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall
Italian archaeologists have found brightly coloured fragments of frescoes depicting heroic and erotic scenes inside a corridor of the Colosseum in Rome, along with samples of ancient graffiti. The fragments “seem to depict the glory of the gladiator world, with
The United States sought to assure Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday that it would remain committed to his country even as US officials weigh a major withdrawal of American forces. After an elaborate military ceremony for Karzai outside the
In a sign that Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense may have been long anticipated, several prominent left-wing figures have emerged as supporters of a forthcoming biography of Hagel. The biography, Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward, by University of Nebraska journalism
This week, while media attention focused on former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and his controversial views on Israel, another iconoclastic Republican stirred controversy in Israel itself. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) visited Israel as part of a trip that will include
When the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal all have front-page stories about global warming, you know something’s up. That’s what happened Wednesday, and it smells as if the Obama Administration is gearing up for
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is still in Cuba recovering from his latest cancer surgery. Recovery has not gone good, and at times he has been reported near death. Because of this, he has been unable to return to Venezuela to
(Reuters) – The worst snowstorm in 20 years shut public transport, roads and schools in Jerusalem on Thursday and along the northern Israeli region bordering on Lebanon. Elisha Peleg, an official in charge of emergencies with Israel’s municipality for Jerusalem,
Japan scrambled fighter jets Thursday to head off a number of Chinese military planes near islands at the centre of a territorial dispute, Japanese media said. The Chinese planes were spotted on Japanese military radar north of the Japanese-controlled Senkaku
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi breaks neutrality and rebukes Syria’s Assad Tensions between China and Japan over Senkaku/Diaoyu continue to escalate Hamas teaching Hebrew to young Palestinians Syria’s Assad frees 2,130 prisoners in exchange for
Last Friday, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority and a man whom the world mistakenly regards as moderate, appeared on PA TV and named the “martyrs” of the Palestinian people. Among the “pioneers” whom Abbas mentioned was “the Grand
A few years ago, I was out having dinner with my orthodox, gay, Jewish brother when a religious man walked over to me and asked if I was Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. From his aggressive posture, I knew in my gut
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is expressing concerns over the nomination of John Brennan to CIA Director. Going back to his support of enhanced interrogation techniques — excluding waterboarding — CAIR sees in Brennan a man who went along
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) has been given the leading role on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s “new Middle East and North Africa subcommittee.” She was specifically given “jurisdiction over the Middle East,” which is great news for Israel, as Ros-Lehtinen is considered
Pro-Israel Democrats who have, in the past, defended President Obama have been able to cite continued close cooperation between the U.S. and Israel on defense issues. With former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) presiding at the Pentagon, that may change. That is specially so
President Obama and the White House have stated multiple times that the President is fiercely “committed” to discovering and punishing those responsible for the attack on the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya in September of last year which cost
The British flag was hoisted over Belfast’s City Hall on Wednesday for the first time since its removal a month ago sparked riots in Northern Ireland. On a sixth consecutive night of violence in the British province, protesters pelted police
Police in the Republic of the Maldives, better known simply as Maldives, have charged a stepfather for repeatedly raping his 15-year-old daughter. Unfortunately, her troubles did not stop there. In their investigation of the abuse case, authorities found what they
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: New fighting between India and Pakistan in Kashmir Switzerland’s Wegelin bank to close after U.S. indictment Three scenarios for an accidental South China Sea war New fighting between India and Pakistan in Kashmir India
On the heels of French Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem stating she wants Twitter to help in enforcing censorship standards, the French Union of Jewish Students is lobbying for Twitter to publish the names of the authors of anti-Semitic tweets. There was an
Tunisian authorities announced today the release of one of the few suspects being held in connection to the attack on the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya that killed for Americans in September of last year. Ali Harzi, 26, was
In a statement released Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) telegraphed that he would delay the confirmation of President Barack Obama’s CIA nominee John Brennan if the White House fails to answer questions about the Benghazi attacks. “I do not believe
With Obama now heading into his second term and clearly intent on giving the Middle East away to Islamists and allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate his own administration, a new book has arrived to diagnose this dire situation and
By DAVID DISHNEAUAssociated PressFORT MEADE, Md.An Army private suspected of sending reams of classified documents to the secret-sharing WikiLeaks website was illegally punished at a Marine Corps brig and should get 112 days cut from any prison sentence he receives
The Obama administration chose to listen to voices suggesting that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was moderate rather than those who warned it would resort to violence if it came to power, cables obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism show. The
