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 psychiatrist who treated WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning at Quantico says that Marine commanders regularly ignored his advice and treated Manning too harshly. At Manning’s pre-trial hearing, Captain William Hoctor said he was often frustrated by the way the commanders
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com United Nations creates the nation ‘Palestine’ Mahmoud Abbas demands an end to the Israeli occupation Israeli ambassador says that Palestinians don’t want peace China to step up military confrontations in South China Sea Philippine
UPDATE- Anonymous Clarifies on Twitter: Anonymous is attacking Assad due to the internet outage. Anonymous is not attacking Assad in support of the Free Syrian Army. #OpSyria ———- As fighting in Syria between pro-government forces and opposition rebels escalated on
By HAMZA HENDAWI and MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressCAIROIslamists approved a draft constitution for Egypt early Friday without the participation of liberal and Christian members, seeking to pre-empt a court ruling that could dissolve their panel with a rushed, marathon vote that
After then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown raised the top tax rate on those making more than £1 million to a whopping 50%, nearly two-thirds of British millionaires fled the country to avoid taxes, fewer entrepreneurs came into the country, and
By EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated PressUNITED NATIONSThe United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians but an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States. The resolution upgrading the Palestinians’ status to a nonmember
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, attempting to rule Egypt with an iron Islamist hand, lavishly praised his benefactor, Barack Obama, in an interview with Time Magazine. Morsi cooed: “President Obama has been very helpful, very helpful.” Morsi continued, “And I can say really that
Islamist Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan is planning to visit the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip next week, Turkey’s Today’s Zaman reports. According to Erdogan, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal invited him to visit. He’s always wanted to go, but in the
Following last year’s failed attempt by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to gain admission to the United Nations as a full member state via UN Security Council vote (known as the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, or UDI), PA President Mahmoud Abbas
Is Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi a secular reformer or a religious hardliner? The answer to that question depends on the particular audience he is addressing. Wednesday, Time magazine published an interview with Morsi, his first statement to the US media since
Today’s UN General Assembly resolution granting Palestine official status as a “non-member state” is absurd. It would be more accurate to call Palestine a “non-state member,” since (by its own doing) it does not possess the basic territorial or political
As talk of tax hikes, spending, and ‘redirection of federal investment’ appear to be occupying the majority of time for legislators at this point, necessary areas of spending which can be cut without anyone knowing–or without anyone knowing for years–will
The soccer association, Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), is pledging to rebuild the Gaza stadium that Israeli defense forces targeted after Hamas rockets were fired from it. FIFA says they see it as their “mandate” to rebuild destroyed stadiums,
VIENNA (Reuters) – The United States effectively set a March deadline on Thursday for Iran to start cooperating in substance with a U.N. nuclear agency investigation, saying it would otherwise urge reporting the issue to the U.N. Security Council.
(AP) Palestinians certain to win recognition as a stateBy EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated PressUNITED NATIONSThe Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state Thursday but success could exact a high price: Israel and the United States warn it could
Syria has effectively been cut off from the Internet, two US technology companies which monitor web traffic reported Thursday. Akamai, one of the firms which monitors global traffic, said traffic stopped from 1026 GMT, and that this supports the observation
(AP) Wave of attacks in Iraq kills at least 43 peopleBy SINAN SALAHEDDINAssociated PressBAGHDADBack-to-back explosions tore through tents housing Shiite pilgrims in southern Iraq Thursday, the deadliest in a wave of bombings that killed at least 43 people nationwide, officials
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said on Monday that he is moving forward this week to begin consideration of the United Nations Treaty for People With Disabilities. The treaty, which was negotiated during the George W. Bush administration and
Today, for the first time, the United Nations will name Palestine a (non-member) “observer state” by first engaging in exactly the charge that they press against Israel: apartheid. For kick-off day and the vote at the General Assembly, which is
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Israel tries desperately to dilute Abbas’ bid for state of Palestine Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood seeks to consolidate power on Thursday Iran tells its people to marry younger and have babies Israel tries desperately to
The tissue samples forensic experts extracted from Yasser Arafat’s corpse on Nov. 27 will take weeks to examine, and it will be months after that before results are known. Abdullah al-Bashir, a Jordanian doctor and head of the Palestinian medical committee,
Mexican beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gomez, 2012 Woman of Sinaloa, was killed over the weekend in a shootout between drug traffickers and soldiers. An official said the gunmen used her as a human shield. She was only 20 years
The French government, having eschewed socialist takeovers since French President François Mitterrand seized the banks, insurance groups, arms makers and steel industry some thirty years ago, is now considering seizing ArcelorMittal’s steel operations in the Lorraine plateau. France’s minister of
The pictures of Hamas dragging the bodies of alleged Israeli collaborators through the streets of Gaza were all over the internet a few days ago. The problem — the bodies weren’t those of Israelis collaborators but of Al Qaeda operatives
On Tuesday, the Obama Treasury Department sparked bipartisan outrage when it released a report denying that China manipulates its currency, a belief widely held by Democrats and Republicans alike. By artificially lowering the value of its currency, Chinese companies sell
