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.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was to leave Tehran for New York on Saturday for the UN General Assembly, where he will deliver his final speech to the world gathering, state television reported. His speech this year was keenly awaited in
(AP) Mexico stays on gun probe despite US reportMEXICO CITYMexican prosecutors say they will continue investigating the gun smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious even after a U.S. Justice Department internal watchdog report concluded that more than a
More than six million revellers from around the globe are set to descend on Munich from Saturday for the world’s biggest beer fest, complete with lederhosen, pretzels and plenty of the amber nectar. With the traditional cry of “O’zapft is”
Venezuela and China signed an agreement to develop together one of the world’s biggest gold mines, with plans to exploit both the yellow metal and cooper there. President Hugo Chavez made the announcement on Friday after meeting at the Miraflores
French “Spiderman” Alain Robert added another structure to his record of climbing achievements on Saturday, scaling most of a 388-metre (1,280-foot) tower in central China. The climber ascended to an observation platform 268 metres up the Central Plains Fortaleza tower
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Libya citizens storm Benghazi Islamist militia hq in backlash against Consulate attack Bailout talks for Greece collapse once again Capital flight is leading to the disintegration of the eurozone Fifteen killed in violent anti-American
The 33,000 troops Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan as part of the 2009 surge have been withdrawn to bolster the president’s war-victory claims in the upcoming election. The troops were originally sent to push back the Taliban and create safe
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi, the recently elected president of Egypt, will be a featured participant at the eighth annual meeting of Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative in New York next week. Morsi is a prominent figure in the Egyptian
A prominent Salafi-Jihadi cleric has come forth with a fatwa to approve of the killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and any other diplomats that Islamists prefer to murder. When questioned about whether the killing of Ambassador Stevens was
Two employees at the General Services Administration have stonewalled Breitbart News, and another has mysteriously “disappeared” as the investigation into the State Department “no bullets” contract with Blue Mountain Group, the British firm that provided security at the American mission
From everything we’ve learned since the murder of our Libyan Ambassador, Chris Stevens, two weeks ago on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, the White House has done nothing but lie to the American people and our compliant media. We were
Ambassador Christopher Stevens was assassinated on September 11th by al-Qaeda terrorists in Libya. He and three other Americans were brutally and savagely murdered at the hands of America’s enemies. The Obama Administration and the Clinton State Department were warned about
In keeping with his administration’s philosophy of “leading from behind,” President Barack Obama filed a new complaint against China with the World Trade Organization (WTO) this week–after Republican nominee Mitt Romney began highlighting Obama’s failure to out-compete China in trade
(AP) Pakistani protests of anti-Muslim film turn deadlyBy RIAZ KHANAssociated PressPESHAWAR, PakistanProtests over an anti-Muslim film turned violent Friday across Pakistan, with police firing tear gas and live ammunition at thousands of demonstrators who threw rocks and set fire to
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis are expected to protest Friday as global Muslim anger mounts over a US-made anti-Islam film and cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a French magazine. Huge crowds attempted to storm Islamabad’s diplomatic enclave Thursday, and
(AP) Syrian rebels seize control of a border crossingBy NEBI QENAAssociated PressAKCAKALE, TurkeyRebels seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey on Wednesday, pulling down the Syrian flag and sending a stream of jubilant people pouring across
(AP) France to ban new prophet film protestPARISFrance’s leadership is barring a planned protest by people angry over a film produced in the United States that insults the Prophet Muhammad, but are defending a newspaper’s right to publish caricatures of
The veteran leader of Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party told AFP that the authorites would crack down on hardline Salafists after deadly violence around the US embassy, saying they pose a threat to the country’s freedoms and security. Ghannouchi denied that
Iran proudly paraded its military hardware in Tehran on Friday under the gaze of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who used the event to again defiantly lash out at the West and Israel. The display, involving thousands of military personnel, tanks and
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Spain’s Catalonia region demands economic independence from Spain Libya’s account of killing of U.S. ambassador contradicts American account Anti-American protests spread across cities in Pakistan Anti-American protests quieting as Muslims debate Islam versus tolerance
Alfred de Zayas is the Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order of the United Nations. He is also a Holocaust revisionist whom Cuba defended in front of the UN Human Rights Council. At the
(Reuters) – British author Salman Rushdie, who lived in hiding for nine years under a death sentence from Iran’s supreme leader, said in an interview published on Thursday that something had gone wrong at the heart of Islam. Rushdie told
A new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) claims Israel acting alone will not be sufficient to stop Iran’s nuclear program. There will have to be U.S. strikes if it’s to be successful. According to the
Last week, the Obama administration slammed Mitt Romney repeatedly for daring to criticize what Romney called the administration’s “disgraceful” response to the Islamist takeover of the US embassy in Cairo. Romney stated that evening that the Cairo embassy’s September 11
Senator John McCain is changing positions on the war in Afghanistan, and is now open to the idea of pulling all troops out of the region. Up to this point, McCain has opposed pulling all remaining troops out in 2014,
