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.
As the Romney-Ryan ticket inches ahead in the polls, one of the little noticed implications just may be the avoidance, at least for a time, of World War III. World War III? How does that work? According to high-level U.S.
(AP) Canada closes embassy in IranTORONTOThe Canadian government says it is shutting its embassy in Tehran and severing diplomatic relations amid recent attacks on foreign diplomats in Iran. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Friday that the Canadian embassy in
Canada has closed its embassy in Iran and plans to expel all Iranian diplomats within Canada in the next five days. According to reports, Canadian officials have decided Iran’s hostility toward Israel, its refusal to halt its nuclear program, and
Now, I know to expect this from the BBC who, at the London Olympics, did not list Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. I also know to expect it from, say, the Palestinian Authority. When I accompanied the Rev. Al Sharpton to
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: ECB announces huge new unlimited bailout program Stocks returning to height of 2007 bubble levels Hungary rejects IMF/EU’s austerity demands for a bailout 60 migrants drown in smuggling attempt from Turkey to Greece ECB
Video obtained from C-SPAN suggests that as Democrats discussed their party’s emerging new position on Israel this past summer, few seemed concerned about the party’s radical new direction on Israel policy. Those who advised against making drastic changes from past
The left has two uses for our men and women in uniform: scapegoats and props. When they’re not denigrating them, they’re using them as props in political campaigns. Sen. John Kerry, the target of swift boat ire back in 2004,
Col. Gregory Gross, the judge presiding over Major Nidal Hasan’s court-marshal, has ordered Hasan be taken from the court room and shaved. Gross had decided to have Hasan forcibly shaved last month, when the Court of Appeals stepped in and
On the heels of putting words in Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s mouth for at least a second time, Democrat National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz says leaving Jerusalem out of the DNC platform was simply a “technical omission.” During an
By MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressBANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, BruneiU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that her talks in China this week were useful despite highlighting sharp differences between Washington and Beijing over key international issues from Syria’s civil war to
The Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral James Winnefeld, is on a secret visit to Israel as tensions rise over Iran’s nuclear progress, Israel’s army radio reported on Thursday. The Israeli military itself refused to confirm
By JIM HEINTZAssociated PressMOSCOWPresident Vladimir Putin says Russia can work with Mitt Romney if he’s elected U.S. president, even though Romney has called Russia the United States’ “No. 1 geopolitical foe.” In an interview broadcast Thursday by the Kremlin-funded Russia
Greece’s jobless rate rose to 24.4 percent in June with more than 1.2 million people unemployed, official data showed on Thursday ahead of an EU-IMF audit crucial to the country’s economic survival. The state statistics agency said that more than
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAAssociated PressISTANBULSome 58 people drowned when a fishing boat carrying migrants that smugglers had promised refuge in Europe sank after hitting rocks off the coast of western Turkey, officials said Thursday. Nine children were among the dead, according
By SARAH DiLORENZOAP Business WriterPARISEurope’s debt crisis is pushing the 17-country eurozone toward recession and dragging down the global economy, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday. Even growth in traditional economic powerhouse Germany is slowing, and the
By DAVID McHUGHFRANKFURT, GermanyThe European Central Bank unveiled its most ambitious plan yet to halt Europe’s financial crisis on Thursday with a pledge to buy unlimited amounts of the government bonds of countries struggling to manage their debts. Large-scale purchases
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Bullfights to the death being televised in Spain and Portugal Eurozone demands that Greeks should work six days a week Six thousand would-be immigrants wait in Turkey to be smuggled into Greece Televised speeches
By ALBERTO ARCEAssociated PressTEGUCIGALPA, HondurasInvestors can begin construction in six months on three privately run cities in Honduras that will have their own police, laws, government and tax systems now that the government has signed a memorandum of agreement approving
Days after the Obama administration announced drastic cuts in the number of U.S. troops participating in military exercises with Israel, U.S. military planes landed in Egypt for joint exercises with Egypt’s military forces. Named “Eagle Arena 2012,” the exercise marks
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEHAssociated PressRAMALLAH, West BankThe widow of Yasser Arafat said Wednesday that French investigators will soon visit the West Bank to dig up the remains of her husband in hopes of determining what killed the longtime Palestinian leader eight
(AP) FUERSTENFELDBRUCK, GermanyRelatives of Israelis slain in an attack by Palestinian gunmen during the 1972 Olympics in Munich marked its 40th anniversary on Wednesday with Israeli and German officials at the air base where most of the 12 victims died, even
By DEB RIECHMANN and AMIR SHAHAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanAfghan authorities have detained or removed hundreds of soldiers in an investigation into rising insider attacks against international service personnel who are their supposed partners in the fight against Taliban insurgents and other
By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDYAssociated PressBEIRUTTurkey accused Syria of “state terrorism” Wednesday after a sharp spike in the death toll from the Syrian civil war, and Iran came under new scrutiny with the U.S. alleging that Tehran is flying weapons to
The number of people killed in Syria will soon reach genocidal levels. Tens of thousands of civilians, including children, women and the elderly, have been massacred by the Assad regime since spring 2011. That jihadi militias are present and have
It appears that September 4 was not the first time Democrat National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz had lied about Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren’s position on Israel and the Republican Party. She has made similar claims on
