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.
With recession looming in debt-struck Europe, governments face growing pleas to move away from all-out austerity and inject growth policies as leaders struggle to revive their economies. European Union leaders used two summits this year to begin discussions on how
(AP) China, Philippine naval standoff continuesBy JIM GOMEZAssociated PressMANILA, Philippines A dangerous naval standoff between China and the Philippines at a disputed South China Sea shoal has eased, but tension flared anew after China deployed a second ship and an
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. For Easter, Jerusalem lights up with the ‘Holy Fire’ celebration Thousands of Egyptian Copts visit Jerusalem for Easter ceremony China demands complete sovereignty over Philippine island U.N. observers will arrive in Syria on Sunday
European Union’s Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton gave a press conference in Istanbul. Iran and world powers agreed in nuclear talks Saturday to hold a more in-depth meeting in Baghdad on May 23 where, the EU’s foreign policy chief warned
US billionaire investor George Soros has called on Germany to contribute more to help save the euro, according to an interview published in the weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. If Germany chooses to ditch the eurozone, its exports would suffer
The United States called off plans to send food aid to North Korea after the impoverished state’s defiant rocket launch, as an aid group feared more than two million children would go hungry. The United States had already suspended the
By HAROLD HECKLEAssociated PressMADRIDSpain’s King Juan Carlos has successfully undergone hip replacement surgery after tripping on stairs and fracturing bones around the joint while on an elephant hunting trip in Botswana, officials said Saturday. It was the monarch’s fourth surgery
By JORGE RUEDAAssociated PressCARACAS, VenezuelaVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez is skipping the Summit of the Americas for medical reasons as cancer treatment increasingly forces him out of the international spotlight. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro announced the decision on Saturday from
By JEAN H. LEEAssociated PressPYONGYANG, North KoreaHours after a failed rocket launch criticized abroad as a covert test of missile technology, North Korea’s new leader underlined the country’s “military first” policy with a budget that allocates a sizable chunk of
British airline Jet2.com said Saturday it has cancelled tickets for an unspecified number of passengers planning to attend a pro-Palestinian activist gathering after Israel raised objections. The Guardian newspaper had reported that Jet2.com contacted three women passengers late Friday to
Gunmen on Saturday shot dead seven Shiite Muslims in two separate incidents of sectarian violence in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern city of Quetta, police said. The drive-by shootings took place in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province bordering with Iran and
By BASSEM MROUEAssociated PressBEIRUTSyrian troops and rebel gunmen carried out attacks across Syria on Saturday, killing at least nine people in a surge of violence that threatened a U.N.-brokered cease-fire. The bloodshed came as the U.N. Security Council considered whether
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Wharton School’s Jeremy Siegel is lying about stock valuations Spectacular missile failure makes North Korea very dangerous right now Syria violence is lower than before on second day of ‘truce’ U.S. sends nonlethal aid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The fate of a new package of sanctions on Iran proposed by U.S. lawmakers may hinge on whether Iran and six major world powers can make any progress at high-level talks this weekend toward resolving a dispute
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has announced it is filing a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs, and the FBI due to the questions these three federal agencies ask Muslims who attempt to cross our northern
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. North Korean rocket launch a humiliating failure Tensions grow between Hong Kong and mainland China Syria regime slaughter down on truce, as Friday protests loom United Nations may send observers to Syria North Korean
Syrian forces shot dead three demonstrators on Friday, as tens of thousands marched across the country heeding calls by the opposition to take advantage of a hard-won UN-backed ceasefire. Security forces opened fire at a group of men as they
North Korea’s new leader Kim Jong-Un on Friday led a mass rally for his late father and grandfather following the country’s failed rocket launch. The defiant launch drew condemnation from world leaders who described it as a “provocative” act that
By COLLEEN BARRYAP Business WriterMILAN European stocks slipped Friday on weak Chinese economic data and persistent tensions in eurozone debt markets, while Asian markets were buoyed by a botched North Korean missile test. Concerns about the prospects for global groth
According to South Korea’s YTN news television, North Korea has launched the rocket it has prepared for the 100th anniversary of the birthday of leader Kim Il-Sung. The launch was prohibited by the United Nations as part of its ban
Two medical ethicists connected to Oxford University are arguing in Oxford’s Journal of Medical Ethics that babies have no moral status, and can be killed because they are only “potential persons” rather than “actual persons.” They also argue that if
Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday to win $500 billion in investment for Russian offshore field development over 30 years to tap the country’s full energy potential with the help of foreign expertise. Putin outlined a broad new and largely business-friendly energy
Wissam Mohammed Kazem took off in south Iraq in a homemade plane, but his love of aviation ultimately landed him in jail for making the aircraft without approval. Another Iraqi ended up in trouble 30 years ago over a homemade
Confidential calls to Britain’s anti-terrorist hotline have been recorded by hackers, police revealed Thursday, in the second security breach involving the force in the past three months. A spokesman refused to be drawn on who might be responsible. In February,
