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.
When the NATO Summit takes place in Chicago on May 20-21, the president of Pakistan will be there because he was invited. But no Israeli representative will be there because the Islamists in NATO, especially Turkey, said “no way.” Think
(AP) Lightning hits French president’s plane, none hurt PARIS – French officials say that new President Francois Hollande’s plane was hit by lightning en route to Berlin. They say no one was hurt but that the plane returned to Paris as
President Barack Obama’s policy of “tough diplomacy” continues to fail, as the Iranian regime celebrates its gains at the negotiating table, which cross previous red lines set down by the U.S. and the international community. As even the New York
The Wall Street Journal reports that Greece’s political parties have failed to arrange a coalition government, and that new elections will be held in June. The previous elections saw Greek voters choose parties from the left and right extremes, partly
It is typical of anti-Israel protest–especially on college campuses–that the demonstrators refuse to debate their pro-Israel classmates. They don’t have facts, or right, on their side; what they do have is an elaborate fantasy in which Palestinians are innocent victims
(AP) Stocks, euro drop as deadlock continues in GreeceBy MATTHEW CRAFTAP Business WriterNEW YORKA political stalemate in Greece rattled financial markets worldwide on Monday, driving U.S. stocks lower. The euro sank to a three-month low against the dollar and borrowing
The Pentagon defended a program Monday that recruits local police forces in Afghan villages despite the findings of a US-funded report that found the project has failed to weaken the insurgency and is riddled with corruption and abuse. Top officers,
Mexican investigators on Monday searched for perpetrators of a heinous drug-war massacre in which 49 people were killed, decapitated, dismembered and left in plastic bags on the side of a rural highway. The mutilated corpses, whose hands had been cut off
BEIJINGChina accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the
Asian economies are better shielded from Europe’s financial woes than other regions and China is unlikely to undergo a “hard landing” despite recent gloomy data, credit watchdog Fitch said Monday. In a media telephone conference, the US-based firm’s head of
Iran and the UN nuclear agency on Monday went into two days of talks, their first since two failed visits three months ago aimed at clarifying suspicions Tehran had done nuclear weapons research. The Vienna meeting between Iran’s envoy to
European stock markets fell in opening trade on Monday, rattled by ongoing political uncertainty in Greece. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index slid 0.80 percent to 5,531.21 points, Frankfurt’s DAX 30 shed 1.31 percent to 6,494.25 points and in Paris the
French voters are learning that their newly-elected Socialist president, François Hollande owns three homes on the French Riviera, according to the Daily Mail: France’s new Socialist president owns three holiday homes in the glamorous Riviera resort of Cannes, it emerged
Greece must respect the terms and timetable of its reform programme agreed as part of an EU-IMF bailout as the “only and right” way out of its debt crisis, the German finance ministry warned Monday. The comments came as eurozone
By CIARAN GILESAssociated PressMADRIDSpain managed to raise (EURO)2.9 billion ($3.8 billion) in a short-term bond auction on Monday, but concerns over the future of the euro currency union pushed investors to demand higher interest rates to lend the money and
Democrats are bracing for the political impact of a likely visit by Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney to the State of Israel, which would highlight the fact that President Barack Obama has not visited Israel once during his term in
By BEN HUBBARD and HUSSEIN MALLAAssociated PressBEIRUTSyrian forces killed at least five people when they raided a Sunni farming village on Sunday, torching homes and looting shops in what activists said is a sign of worsening relations among the country’s
Time doesn’t heal for Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Things only get worse. On Monday, exactly a year will have passed since his arrest on charges of trying to rape a maid in a luxury New York hotel room. Those charges were dropped
By PORFIRIO IBARRA RAMIREZAssociated PressMONTERREY, MexicoForty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appears to be the latest blow in an escalating war
This past Sunday morning, I took to my blog, The New York Conservative, to opine on the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (“KSM”) and his fellow terrorists. The full text of the post is available further below. The New York
A study of over 10,000 veterans from WWII and Korea conducted by the Veterans Administration concluded that soldiers awarded the Purple Heart (PH) outlived their comrades who did not receive the medal. They compared mortality rates of those who received a
Just back from a trip to Jordan where he met with both Jordanian and Russian officials, Senator JohnKerry–Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee–weighed in on the increasingly diresituation developing in Syria. He now advocates for arming and training Syrian
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. World View will resume on Thursday China blames Philippines for escalating tensions and endangering Chinese nationals China denies preparing for war with the Philippines China repudiates international arbitration It’s ‘strategic pivot’ to Asia brings
Since the conclusion of Operation Iraqi Freedom in December of last year, there have been many calls to honor OIF veterans with a “welcome home” parade either in Washington, D.C. or New York City. The administration along with the Pentagon
Britain’s defence secretary said he had finally balanced his department’s books, in an interview out Sunday, following a week in which he made a U-turn on purchasing jets, to the annoyance of France. Philip Hammond told The Sunday Times newspaper
