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.
There are conflicting reports about who is committing war crimes in Syria. According to the Assyrian International News Agency, the opposition rebels are murdering Christians. The Vatican reports that, while Christians are being murdered, the rebels are destroying Christian churches, broadcasting
(AP) ANKARA, TurkeyA Turkish military jet disappeared on Friday while flying over the Mediterranean Sea near Syria, and both countries were searching for it, officials told Turkey’s state-run media. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment on the missing plane,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Syria grounds air force after pilot defects to Lebanon U.S. Ambassador to Syria uses Twitter to encourage defections Report: U.S. helping funnel arms to Syria’s rebels Protests and name-calling dominate Cairo Egypt Economic news
For a few hundred dollars, NASCAR fans can go to Texas Motor Speedway in the off season and drive a race car around the track at fairly substantial speeds. It’s all part of an opportunity for fans to relate to
The last day of the trial of Anders Behring Breivik began Friday with his defence expected to call for the acquittal of the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in Norway last July. Breivik’s main lawyer Geir Lippestad launched into
Leaders of the eurozone’s four biggest economies gather in Rome Friday to thrash out ideas to tackle the debt crisis, with calls for the bloc’s bailout fund to intervene on bond markets set to top the agenda. The talks, which
DANIEL WOOLLS and ALAN CLENDENNINGAssociated PressMADRIDSpain’s troubled banks could need as much as (EURO)62 billion ($78.6 billion) in new capital to protect themselves from economic shocks, according to independent auditors hired by the government to assess the country’s struggling financial
A Syrian air force colonel won political asylum after landing his MiG fighter in Jordan, as a watchdog reported the deadliest day of fighting in Syria since the battered April ceasefire. The pilot, who reportedly flew his jet under the
By PAMELA SAMPSONAP Business WriterBANGKOKAsian stock markets fell Friday as gloomy economic reports from the world’s two biggest economies piled up, heightening fears of a sharper global downturn. The U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that the four-week average of applications
Mexico’s military on Thursday said it had captured the son of Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, dealing a major blow against the notorious crime syndicate run by this country’s most wanted man. The suspect believed to be
AMIR SHAHAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanThe Taliban stormed a lakeside hotel north of Kabul, killing three security guards, taking hostages and staging an hours-long gun battle with Afghan security forces, police said Friday. At least three suicide bombers _ armed with machines
By NICHOLAS PAPHITISAssociated PressATHENS, GreeceGreece’s new conservative-led coalition government on Thursday pledged to try and revise the country’s austerity commitments to its creditors, but insisted that would not endanger ties with the rest of Europe or Greek use of the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Fighting escalates between Turkey and PKK in northern Iraq Attorney General Eric Holder threatened with Contempt of Congress Federal Reserve extends ‘Operation Twist’ to end of year Antonis Samaras becomes Greece’s Prime Minister, seeks
Barack Obama’s Department of Justice is up to its secret ways again. Last year, six Muslims in south Florida were arrested and charged with sending tens of thousands of dollars to fund the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now, as Judicial Watch
Spain said Wednesday that it had no need of a full-blown bailout even though its borrowing costs were hovering near euro-era records and a vast rescue loomed for its stricken banks. Fears mounted among investors that punitive borrowing rates could
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS and ELENA BECATOROSAssociated PressATHENS, GreeceGreek conservative party head Antonis Samaras was sworn in as prime minister Wednesday at the helm of a three-party coalition that will uphold the country’s international bailout commitments. The move ends a protracted
Cuba on Tuesday accused Google of “outrageous censorship” after the US Internet giant blocked access to a web traffic analysis tool to comply with US sanctions against Havana. Google Analytics, a free tool allowing website operators to see when people
A Russian court on Wednesday extended by a month the detention of female members of the Pussy Riot punk rock group amid protests as they await trial for singing an anti-Vladimir Putin song in a cathedral. Police said they detained
A newly formed al-Qaeda group known as the Mujahideen Shura Council of Jerusalem has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack across the Israeli-Egyptian border on the Sinai Peninsula. The claim, made by video posted on an al-Qaeda website, confirms Israel’s assertion
An Iraqi Kurdish editor of a magazine that advocates relations between the Kurdistan region and Israel has been missing for more than 10 days, a journalist from the publication said on Wednesday. Mawlud Afand, the editor-in-chief of the Israel-Kurd Institute’s
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli air strikes killed a Palestinian militant and a 14-year-old boy on Wednesday as fighting across the border of the Gaza Strip entered a third day, despite Egyptian calls for a truce. A member of one of
By HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated PressCAIROHosni Mubarak was in a coma on Wednesday but off life support and his heart and other vital organs were functioning, according to security officials. Overnight, state media reported that the 84-year old former president, ousted in
(AP) Greece has government, Socialist head saysATHENS, GreeceGreece has a government, the head of the country’s socialist party said Wednesday, ending nearly seven weeks of political uncertainty which threatened to plunge Europe deeper into a financial crisis with global repercussions.
When President Obama led efforts to topple and kill former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, many predicted that Libya would fall into a state of unrest. And, according to CNN, “the weapons used by the rebels who overthrew” Gaddafi are “now
The current financial situation in the Eurozone is ugly, and the state of finance in Greece remains even uglier. Spain needs a bailout, Italy needs a bailout, and Greece by itself owes “161 billion” Euros to other governments in the
