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.
OSLO, NorwayConfessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik’s original plans for a terror attack was to bomb Oslo’s government district, the Labor Party’s office and a third target, possibly the royal palace, he told a court Thursday. The far-right fanatic has
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of tougher measures if he squanders his “last chance” by failing to implement the Kofi Annan peace plan. Either the international community succeeds in “pushing forward” Annan’s
Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign appeared to lose steam Wednesday, four days ahead of the first round of France’s presidential election that pollsters increasingly say he will lose to his Socialist rival. Abandoned by some allies and rounded on by some traditionally
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a staunch opponent of foreign aid, says he specifically wants the U.S. to cut off all financial aid to Egypt. Paul, in a letter to President Obama, stated that Egypt has issued arrest warrants against
Two “peace activists” who flew in to Israel to be part of the Anti-Israel fly-in protest left a swastika scrawled on a wall in Ben-Gurion airport. The two Nazi wannabees were among 79 foreigners who arrived in Israel in the
So the LA Times has now published photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of Afghan suicide bombers. And while the White House seeks to dampen the impact of the story by expressing their disappointment in the fact that
For more than five decades, Leila Jabarin hid her secret from her Muslim children and grandchildren — that she was a Jewish Holocaust survivor born in Auschwitz concentration camp. Although her family knew she was a Jewish convert, none of
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Iran’s nuclear programme on Wednesday during a ceremony in Jerusalem to commemorate the Nazi Holocaust that killed six million Jews. Iran must be “stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons. That is the duty of the
(AP) Boehner says Obama ‘checked out’ last Labor DayBy LAURIE KELLMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONHouse Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that President Barack Obama “checked out” last Labor Day and has been running for reelection, rather than governing, ever since. Boehner’s tough talk
By KARL RITTERAssociated PressOSLO, NorwayNorway’s prison terms are “pathetic,” mass killer Anders Behring Breivik declared Wednesday in court, claiming the death penalty or a full acquittal were the “only logical outcomes” for his massacre of 77 people. The right-wing fanatic
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. As Kofi Annan’s Syria peace plan collapses, Russia blames ‘external forces’ Turkey says that we just have to wait and see what happens in Syria Ban Ki-moon asks the EU for airplanes and helicopters
The Philippines leads the world in the number of people who believe in God, while the elderly across all countries tend to be the most religious, according to a US study out Wednesday. Belief in God tends to be strongest
By KARIN LAUBAssociated PressBEIRUTSyrian forces assaulted an opposition stronghold with a steady rain of mortar shells Wednesday even as the foreign minister promised the regime would respect a week-old cease-fire and withdraw troops from urban centers in line with an
By STEVEN R. HURSTAssociated PressWASHINGTONMitt Romney wants the United States to get much tougher with Iran and to end what a top adviser calls President Barack Obama’s “Mother, may I?” consensus-seeking foreign policy. With the presidential nomination all but locked
The United States said Tuesday that persistent violence in Syria was “unacceptable” and demanded that President Bashar al-Assad do more to comply with a peace plan to end months of bloodshed. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said that a ceasefire
By KARL RITTERAssociated PressOSLO, NorwayNorwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik insisted Tuesday he would massacre 77 people all over again, calling his July rampage the most “spectacular” attack by a nationalist militant since World War II. Reading a prepared statement in
When Islamic religious materials containing “extremist messages or inscriptions” were burned at Bagram Air Field in February, Afghan President Karzai was among the first to call for U.S. troops to face swift justice for it. And when, a month later,
This image isn’t exactly an illustration of “smart power” the Obama administration touted coming into office. In fact, some are saying the spectacle was a total embarrassment to the US government — along with other recent embarrassments by our selfless
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea on Tuesday dismissed a rebuke by the U.N. Security Council of its failed long-range rocket launch and said it was no longer bound by an agreement with the United States for a moratorium on missile
By ALAN CLENDENNINGAP Business WriterMADRIDArgentina’s President Cristina Fernandez is attempting to quell increasing unrest at home and boost her popularity with an “unlawful” bid to nationalize YPF, the Argentine oil unit of Spanish energy firm Repsol, the company’s president claimed
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Europe fiscal crisis worsens as Spain’s bond yields push through 6% Switzerland’s bonds sell at negative interest rates Plans go forward for Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities Palestinians deliver an ultimatum to Israel
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Malcom X’s grandson, stated on Press TV, Iran’s television network, that blacks are murdered in the United States while their murderers go unpunished because the system is unjust. This was in response to the Trayvon Martin incident:
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) – Geologists in Russia’s volatile Chechnya region have discovered what they believe to be fossilized dinosaur eggs laid by one of the huge extinct reptiles that roamed the Earth more than 60 million years ago. “We’ve found
Swedish Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth joined in an unthinkably repulsive event on Saturday in which she carved the labia from a cake baked to look like a “stereotypical African woman.” As the Swedish newspaper Fria Tider reported, “the
By KARIN LAUBAssociated PressBEIRUTThe Syrian regime widened artillery attacks on opposition strongholds Tuesday in another sign that the U.N.-brokered cease-fire is quickly unraveling despite the presence of foreign observers, activists said. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said he is asking the
