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.
(AP) Horst Faas, AP combat photographer, dies at 79By RICHARD PYLEAssociated PressNEW YORKAs chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn’t just cover the fighting _ he also recruited
From ABC News: Police found 18 mutilated, headless bodies near a lake popular with tourists and American retirees just outside Guadalajara, Mexico, a massacre that authorities blamed on the Zetas drug cartel. A phone call alerted police to two vans
Back in mid-February, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warned that al-Qaeda had “infiltrated” the Syrian opposition. At roughly the same time, videos began emerging on the internet that clearly revealed just what an understatement–to put it mildly–Clapper’s observation represented.
The United States opened its banking market to China’s biggest bank ICBC, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company. Just days after high-level US-China economic talks in Beijing, the Federal Reserve
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. China deploys oil rig as weapon to assert South China Sea claims China hails a ‘new era’ for its oil industry China’s media ‘accidentally’ claims Philippines as part of China China cracks down further
The Bank of France on Thursday forecast zero growth in the French economy for the second quarter of 2012 — the second quarter in a row of stagnation. France’s gross domestic product should remain “stable” in the second quarter compared
By MICHAEL WARRENAssociated PressBUENOS AIRES, ArgentinaAdults who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to get it as part of their public or private health care plans under a gender rights law approved Wednesday. The measure
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will skip the G8 summit and ice breaker talks with President Barack Obama next week, the White House said, raising new questions about Moscow-Washington ties. Putin had been expected at the summit at Camp David and
By ANDI JATMIKOAssociated PressCIDAHU, IndonesiaRescuers discovered bodies Thursday near the shattered wreckage of a new Russian-made passenger plane that smashed into the steep side of an Indonesian volcano during a flight to impress potential buyers. All 45 people on board
By MATTHEW PENNINGTONAssociated PressWASHINGTONA U.S. government-funded study says North Koreans have unprecedented access to foreign media, giving them a more positive impression of the outside world. But it says North Korea still has the world’s most closed media environment, and
Blind activist Chen Guangcheng on Thursday accused authorities in his home province in eastern China of seeking revenge for his escape by detaining his nephew and threatening other relatives. Chen, whose daring flight from house arrest to the US embassy
By MARGIE MASONAssociated PressHANOI, VietnamThe number of international adoptions has plummeted to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world economy and efforts by countries to place more children with
Queen Elizabeth II voiced the ruling coalition’s bid to offer economic hope and win back voters after its worst few weeks yet in her annual address to the British parliament. New laws in the coming year would focus on “economic
Two powerful blasts in quick succession rocked the Syrian capital at morning rush hour Thursday, killing and wounding dozens of people, state television said, blaming the attacks on “terrorists.” Residents said the explosions rattled windows and sent plumes of smoke
VERENA DOBNIK and RANDY HERSCHAFTAssociated PressNEW YORKEven after decades of in-depth Holocaust research, excruciating details are only now emerging about more than 1,100 German-run ghettos in Eastern Europe where the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews. And there were
By ALAN CLENDENNINGAP Business WriterMADRIDSpanish stocks rebounded Thursday while the pressure on the country’s government bonds eased, as investors reacted positively to the government’s confirmation that it will nationalize the country’s fourth largest bank. The benchmark Ibex index was up
Police found the dismembered, decapitated bodies of 15 people in two abandoned vehicles in western Mexico Wednesday in an apparent revenge killing between powerful drug gangs. Police initially counted 12 bodies dumped in the car on a road between Mexico’s
Fond of saying she’s proud to be American, former presidential contender Michele Bachmann also frequently has spoken of her family’s Norwegian ancestry. Now the Republican lawmaker is touting new-found ties to Switzerland, after being granted dual citizenship, US media reported
Somewhere, at an airport near you, TSA personnel are asking elderly women to remove their adult diapers for inspection, performing patdowns on children with cerebral palsy, and doing full body scans of grandpas whose only ties to terrorism are the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Kofi Annan says Syria is on brink of civil war, and only his plan can prevent it New elections looming for Greece Greece faces major new financial crisis and may leave eurozone Greece and
(AP) Contact lost with Russian-made plane in IndonesiaJAKARTA, IndonesiaA Russian-made plane carrying 46 people lost contact with air controllers while flying over mountains during a demonstration flight Wednesday in western Indonesia, officials said. Search and rescue teams were heading to
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently shook hands with the Kadima party and forewent an upcoming general election, he not only created one of the largest governing coalitions in Israeli history but also further insulated himself from the bullying
By ELENA BECATOROSAssociated PressATHENS, GreeceProposals by Greece’s radical left party to withdraw from the international bailout commitments will lead to a “certain and immediate” catastrophe, Greece’s conservative leader said Wednesday. Antonis Samaras’s conservative party came first in Sunday’s election but
Athens raised the prospects Wednesday of renegotiating a hard-earned rescue package after an election in which voters roundly rejected austerity measures, raising fresh doubts over Greece’s eurozone membership. The head of the radical left-wing Syriza party charged with forming a
