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.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of U.S. armed forces, said on Thursday that he does not wish to be “complicit” in any Israeli strike on Iran.Today it was reported that Benjamin Netanyahu, frustrated with the
Iran’s supreme ruler, the Ayatollah Khamenei, praised the Ocuppy Wall Street Movement on Thursday and called for the end of U.S. and Israeli dominance in international affairs. Speaking at the Non-Alignment Movement (NAM) conference in Tehran, Khamenei used the rhetoric
(AP) Spain approves ‘bad bank’ for toxic assetsBy CIARAN GILESAssociated PressMADRIDSpain’s government made a further attempt at solving its economic crisis Friday when it approved a new package of measures to create a “bad bank” to handle the country’s toxic
John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, the most honest and clearheaded person in foreign policy, is saying that Israel should not wait to attack Iran because Barack Obama will never come to Israel’s aid. In an interview published
(AP) Greek police unionists protest planned pay cutsATHENS, GreeceDozens of uniformed police officers have protested peacefully outside Greece’s Parliament against pay cuts that are planned under the government’s new austerity drive. Shouting slogans and displaying banners, police unionists were joined
China denied it was competing with Washington in the Pacific islands Thursday, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived at a regional summit aiming to reassert US influence. In a press conference that coincided with Clinton’s arrival at the
The United States and Israel are responsible for the conflict scorching Syria by “flooding weapons” to rebels there, the supreme leader of Iran — the main ally of Syria’s regime — said on Friday, according to his official website.
By TERESA CEROJANOAssociated PressMANILA, PhilippinesA 7.6-magnitude quake struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines late Friday, killing at least one person in a house collapse, knocking out power in several towns and generating negligible tsunami surges. A tsunami alert
(AP) Iran pushes to blunt UN nuke agency powersBy GEORGE JAHNAssociated PressVIENNAIran is urging member countries to dilute the clout of Western nations at the U.N. nuclear agency that fears it may be trying to make atomic arms. Instead, it
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly shouted “Time has run out!” at U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro, as the two met in Israel earlier this week and discussed the Obama administration’s position on Iran. The Jerusalem Post reported that Shapiro was in Israel
Julian Assange expects to remain holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy for up to a year as the two countries struggle to resolve a diplomatic row over the controversial WikiLeaks founder. Assange took shelter in the embassy in June after
(AP) Death toll rises to 41 in China mine blastBEIJINGThe death toll in China’s worst mine accident in nearly three years rose to 41 on Friday with five others still trapped underground. State media said that one person was pulled
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Australia dealt a ‘physical blow’ by ‘shocking’ deaths in Afghanistan Egypt’s President Morsi shocks Iran with statement condemning Syria’s Assad Ban Ki-moon denounces Iran over calls to destroy Israel Iran’s Supreme Leader slams the
By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security WriterWASHINGTONThe Pentagon’s top lawyer on Thursday informed the former Navy SEAL who wrote a forthcoming book describing details of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden that he violated agreements to not divulge military secrets
The U.S. State Department continues to provide consular support for the family of Rachel Corrie: the American killed when run over by a bulldozer in Gaza in 2003. Corrie, a resident of Olympia, Washington, became concerned about Israeli / Palestinian
Earlier this year, Egypt allowed an Iranian ship carrying weapons for Syria to pass through the Suez canal against U.S. objections. No specifics were then available. Now, however, Mohab Mamish, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, says Egypt also refused
By NASSER KARIMIAssociated PressTEHRAN, IranEgypt’s President Mohammed Morsi arrived in Tehran on Thursday in the first visit by an Egyptian leader to Iran in decades. The Egyptian president was attending a summit of the Nonaligned Movement, and is supposed to
A two-day Non-Aligned Movement summit opened in Tehran on Thursday, gathering the heads of state or government and senior officials from 120 nations in an event Iran hailed as proof it was not internationally isolated. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressTAMPA, Fla.Republicans delivered a scathing indictment of President Barack Obama’s national security policy, although the Democrat’s aggressive approach has often been compared to that of his GOP predecessor, George W. Bush. Defense and foreign policy, largely footnotes
(AP) ATHENS, GreeceGreece’s prime minister has promised that a new round of painful austerity measures planned for the next two years will be the last for the recession-mired country. Antonis Samaras told a meeting of his conservative party’s officials that without
By ROMINA RUIZ-GOIRIENA and MARTHA MENDOZAAssociated PressGUATEMALA CITYA team of 200 U.S. Marines began patrolling Guatemala’s western coast this week in an unprecedented operation to beat drug traffickers in the Central America region, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday. The
French leader Francois Hollande flies to Spain on Thursday, brandishing his support for the crisis-torn nation as it seeks a saviour from potentially crippling market interest rates. The French president makes his maiden official visit to Madrid as the European
(AP) ROMEItaly has paid lower rates to easily sell (EURO)6.5 billion ($8.15 billion) in treasury bonds, the third auction this week that saw the country’s borrowing rates drop amid increased investor confidence in the country. Italy’s central bank said Thursday it
TRES MARIAS, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican federal police shot and wounded two CIA operatives last week, security sources said, in an apparently deliberate attack that could hurt U.S.-Mexico cooperation in their war against drug cartels. The two experienced officers were
South Korea on Thursday formally rejected Japan’s proposal that the two countries ask an international court to settle a bitter row over disputed islands, labelling Tokyo’s stance “wrong”. South Korea last week received a “note verbale” — an unsigned diplomatic
