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.
Four people were killed and 15 wounded in a twin suicide attack in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, in a strike that targeted a meeting of tribal elders, officials said.
Libya is pushing forward with its investigation into the deadly September 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, but fear of retaliation by Islamist extremists has proved a hurdle. Security reports point to the possible involvement of an Al-Qaeda-linked
Iran is designing “intelligent software” that would give citizens restricted and controlled access to banned social networking sites, local media on Sunday quoted police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghadam as saying. Facebook, Twitter and many other social websites are blocked by
(AP) Assad outlines new Syria peace planBy BASSEM MROUEAssociated PressBEIRUTSyrian President Bashar Assad on Sunday outlined a new peace initiative that includes a national reconciliation conference and a new government and constitution but demanded regional and Western countries stop funding
(Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan ruled out a general amnesty for Kurdish militants on Sunday but said intelligence agents would continue to talk to the rebels’ jailed leader in a bid to end a near three-decade insurgency. Erdogan’s
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Syria’s Bashar al-Assad will make a major speech on Sunday U.S. troops pour into Turkey to operate Patriot missile systems Israel quietly puts the ‘E-1’ settlement plan on hold South Korea refuses to extradite
On Wednesday, President Obama signed the Defense Bill that had barred him from transferring GITMO inmates to their home countries or to the United States. Yet in so doing, he added a signing statement that basically says he claims the
The European Commission was forced to take down a poster placing the Communist hammer and sickle next to symbols of major religions from its headquarters in Brussels after Arunas Vinciunas, the Lithuanian ambassador to the European Union, lodged a complaint
By MIKE IVESAssociated PressHANOI, VietnamNghiem Ngoc Thuy has been slinging coffees to thirsty Vietnamese for 20 years in her colonial-style villa with peeling shutters, and she and her customers aren’t too worried that the imminent arrival of U.S. giant Starbucks
By IAN JAMES and JORGE RUEDAAssociated PressCARACAS, VenezuelaVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez can take the oath of office for his next term before the Supreme Court at a later date if the ailing leader isn’t fit to be sworn in next
The US deployment of Patriot missiles in Turkey began Saturday to help the country defend against any possible threats from neighbouring Syria in the throes of a civil war. US military personnel and equipment began arriving Friday at Incirlik Air
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Cuba and Venezuela grow tense over possible death of Chávez Palestinian Authority changes name to ‘State of Palestine’ Al-Jazeera buys Al Gore’s Current TV to gain American audience Cuba and Venezuela grow tense over
By CESAR GARCIAAssociated PressBOGOTA, ColombiaA Colombian firm that makes bulletproof vests is now creating armored clothing for children. Factory owner Miguel Caballero said he never thought about making protective clothes for kids until requests came in following the deadly attack
The European Commission welcomed on Friday efforts by France to reform its struggling economy but played down suggestions that it might give Paris more time to meet public deficit targets. Faced with an economy on the brink of recession and
By JOE McDONALDAP Business WriterBEIJINGChina fined South Korean and Taiwanese makers of LCD display screens $56 million on Friday for price-fixing, joining the United States and Europe in a crackdown on the industry. Suppliers have been hit by American and
(AP) HONG KONGShark fin traders in Hong Kong have laid out thousands of fins on rooftops in what appears to be a move to escape public scrutiny of their industry. Thousands of the freshly cut fins were seen blanketing the roof
The Greek prosecution service has questioned two finance ministry officials close to former socialist finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who is caught up in a tax scandal shaking Greek politics, judicial sources said on Friday. The two officials worked in Papaconstantinou’s
When Essam al-Erian, an adviser to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, encouraged Egyptian Jews to leave Israel and come to back to Egypt, he started a firestorm that has resulted in his denunciation by Islamic Jihad. In fact, Islamic Jihad has
Venezuela accused the international media of waging a “psychological war” over President Hugo Chavez’s health to try to destabilize the government and bring down its socialist revolution. The hardline stance was adopted after Vice President Nicolas Maduro returned from a
The Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education has been discharged from the British hospital treating her, a hospital spokeswoman said on Friday. Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central England, said 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai would continue
Tens of thousands of supporters of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party rallied in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Friday in the climax to the party’s first anniversary celebrations in the territory since 2007. The event came at the end of a
Russians reacted Friday with amusement, disbelief and a heavy dose of irony to the news that the Kremlin has granted citizenship to French actor Gerard Depardieu to solve his tax woes. In a letter broadcast on Russian television on Thursday,
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) released a video of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi delivering racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-American remarks . The incendiary rhetoric becomes relevant now that the Obama administration plans to give 200 Abrams tanks and 10
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2013, sparking a firestorm of liberal outrage. At issue is the bill’s language to keep Guantanamo Bay open, provisions that Mr. Obama previously threatened to veto. The
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