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.
It does not take much to trace the lineage of the global governance movement. Beginning with the very first work on international law, written by Herman Grotius in 1623, down through the philosophical writings of Immanuel Kant and Karl Krause
Israeli officials who were placed at risk by the Obama administration’s leaks about the Stuxnet virus are disputing American claims that the cyber-weapon was jointly developed by the U.S. and Israel. Rather, they say, Israeli intelligence first started developing cyberspace
Like a bad soap opera, the European debt crisis never wants to end, and it’s likely to enter a worse phase when Greece holds its next election on June 17. With one week to go, the outcome seems preordained: the
It does not take much to trace the lineage of the global governance movement. Beginning with the very first work on international law, written by Herman Grotius in 1623, down through the philosophical writings of Immanuel Kant and Karl Krause
(AP) WASHINGTONDistrict of Columbia police and the FBI were investigating late Friday what they believe was the intentional crash of an SUV into a downtown Washington office building, police said. Police spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump told The Associated Press that the vehicle
Egyptian prosecutors asked parliament on Saturday for permission to investigate an Islamist MP police say was caught performing an “indecent” act with a woman in public, official media reported. The official MENA news agency quoted a police report saying that
(AP) LONDONThe Olympic torch is crossing Loch Ness, home of the fable monster, as part of its cross-country trek that ends at London’s Olympic Park next month. The torch is being taken across the roughly 20-mile long lake by boat from
By SARAH EL DEEBAssociated PressCAIROA mob of hundreds of men assaulted women holding a march demanding an end to sexual harassment Friday, with the attackers overwhelming the male guardians and groping and molesting several of the female marchers in Cairo’s
Signs that Spain needs aid for its banks shows that Europe’s answers to the eurozone sovereign debt crisis have failed, the head of Greece’s leftist party that could win June 17 elections said on Saturday. Speculation is rife that Spain,
The head of the German central bank, Jens Weidmann, is pressing Spain to seek a bailout for troubled banks from the eurozone’s current rescue fund, the EFSF. Volker Kauder, who heads the German parliament’s conservative faction, told the weekly Frankfurter
Britain’s Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, left hospital on Saturday after five days of treatment for a bladder infection that sparked concerns for the 90-year-old’s health. The prince shook hands with staff, smiled and nodded when asked
The Veterans Job Corps sounds like a fabulous idea…for a Democrat. Identify a myriad of ways to help Veterans and in the process keep our every growing bureaucracy in business. Let’s cut to the chase. Incentives to hire Veterans as
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Spain is expected to ask for a bailout on Saturday Bipolar investors pop champagne corks after week on Wall Street Greece’s debt: $1.3 trillion Israel’s Netanyahu announces plans for 851 new West Bank settlements
(AP) Holder appoints 2 prosecutors to lead leak probesBy PETE YOSTAssociated PressWASHINGTONAttorney General Eric Holder on Friday appointed two U.S. attorneys to lead a pair of criminal investigations into possible unauthorized disclosures of classified information, authorizing the two prosecutors to
The White House is meeting with a notoriously anti-Israel Christian preacher who runs in anti-Semitic circles. Serge Duss is Director of the New Century Evangelicals project and serves on the board of the New Evangelical Partnership (NEP). He has been
The Obama administration in general, and the State Department in specific, has a vested interest in a successful outcome for nations that were involved in the Arab Spring. After all, we didn’t just watch the political purging of that season
Word of another massacrein Syria yesterday has made it clear to even the biggest fans of theU.N. that Ban Ki-moon’s ceasefire effort is a complete failure. In thelatest government atrocity, 70 Syrians, more than half of them women andchildren, were
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Greek politician punches woman on TV Greek far left Syriza candidate promises to halt firings of civil servants Leon Panetta: U.S. is ‘running out of patience’ with Pakistan Ban Ki-Moon accuses Syria’s al-Assad of
(AP) UK’s Cameron to face media ethics inquiryBy DAVID STRINGERAssociated PressLONDONBritish media ethics inquiry said Friday that Prime Minister David Cameron will give evidence next week, amid questions over his ties to a number of suspects in the country’s tabloid
The White House has rejected the idea of appointing a special counsel to investigate a series of intelligence leaks that apparently originate from the “highest levels” of the administration, Yahoo! News is reporting. Democrats and Republicans joined together this week
A deadly blast rocked a Damascus suburb, killing two security forces members, among 10 people killed across Syria on Friday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The bloodshed came as people took to the streets to demonstrate against the
In India on Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta acknowledged that the United States is at war within the boundaries of Pakistan: “We are fighting a war in the FATA. We are fighting a war against terrorism.” FATA is an
Fitch Ratings slashed Spain’s sovereign credit rating by three notches Thursday, citing ballooning estimates of the cost of a banking crisis, mushrooming debt and a deepening recession. The long-term rating was chopped to BBB from A and left with a
Germany is facing the growing problem of an aging population with a birth rate estimated at 1.6 children per woman. To remedy this issue, the government has decided to bribe parents into having more children. It recently proposed a monthly
On Thursday, Greek prosecutors in Athens ordered the arrest of Ilias Kasidiaris, the spokesman and MP of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, because he physically attacked two female leftist politicians during a live TV debate. During the heated argument he had with
