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.
While President Obama continues to discourage Israel from striking Iran in self-defense, Iran continues to flout the opportunities this is providing: both as regards their aggression toward Christians within their own borders and aggression toward Israel. Thus, while Obama dithers,
The West may have finally decided to wake up — and in London, of all places. The mayoral race in London features two candidates: Boris Johnson, the incumbent , and Ken Livingstone, his predecessor. Johnson has taken an eight-point lead
Russia has reportedly sent military reinforcements to aid Syria’s crackdown on opposition forces, ending any pretense of neutrality in the country’s conflict. The U.S. State Department claims it wasn’t aware of this breaking development. Because the United States will not
Southern Command’s chief, Air Force General Douglas Fraser, has recently briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee on the growing threat of Iranian-backed terror networks in South America. His insight contradicts the Director of National Intelligence’s, James Clapper’s, most recent national
As Anne Bayefsky reports at National Review today, Iranian government officials have been walking round the U.N. Human Rights Council bullying Iranian dissidents. As Bayefsky states: The president’s decision to join the U.N.’s top human-rights body in 2009, and more
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos announced on Monday that he is resigning his government job after being elected on Sunday to head the Socialist party PASOK, in the run-up to elections. “In the next few weeks, up to the elections,
Simone Farrow, 37, was arrested this week in Sydney, Australia, suspected of running a global drug syndicate. According to the UK Daily Mail, Farrow “is accused of trafficking the drug meths in bags of bath salts from a posh apartment
Today, Haaretz reports, “Iranian military experts are active in the Gaza Strip and in Sinai, according to a high-ranking official in Jerusalem. The official said the Iranians entered the areas via Sudan and Egypt, and added that some of the
Tens of thousands of loyalists of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr rallied in south Iraq Monday decrying poor services and rampant graft on the ninth anniversary of the US-led invasion against Saddam Hussein. Protesters flooded the centre of the southern port city
(AP) Gunman kills 4 outside Jewish school in FranceBy JOHANNA DECORSEAssociated PressTOULOUSE, FranceA motorcycle gunman opened fire Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two small sons and one other
The Brazilian justice system has decided to stop 17 Chevron and Transocean oil executives from exiting the country while it determines whether to file criminal charges for an oil spill that occurred in November 2011. The chief operating officer of
The city of Seattle’s LGBT Commission has cancelled a reception for a delegation of Israeli gay leaders at the behest of anti-Israel gays. The Israeli gay delegation had already visited San Francisco and Los Angeles to discuss the cause of
The State Department states that the U.S. is giving a stern talking-to to the Iraqi government after the Iraqis reportedly allowed Iran to use its airspace to ship weapons to Syria, The Washington Times reports. “We are concerned about the
A spokesman for Media Matters for America, which communicates directly with the White House in a weekly “strategy call,” boasted in 2010 of President Obama’s mistreatment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a forum held by Al-Jazeera. The Daily
(AP) Syrian state news agency: explosion in AleppoDAMASCUS, Syria Syria’s state news agency says an explosion has gone off between two residential buildings in the in northern city of Aleppo. The report Sunday by SANA gave no information on casualties
An Al-Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility Sunday for shooting dead an American teacher in Yemen, saying he was a Christian missionary, a statement by the jihadist group said. Fighters of Ansar al-Sharia, or Partisans of Sharia, “killed an American Christian missionary”
Britain is winding down its aid programme to India, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell told The Sunday Times. Britain has spent £1 billion ($1.6 billion, 1.2 billion euros) on aid programmes in India over the past five years, with another
Mar 18 – Dozens have been arrested during a day of protests to mark the six-month anniversary of the Occupy movement. Paul Chapman reports.
A call for a “Buy European Act” by French President Nicolas Sarkozy based on a US law that obliges use of domestically-made products in public contracts, could prove troublesome, economists warn. The proposal, made in a speech that also called
Beijing, March 18 (QNA) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Sunday urged policy makers to be vigilant as oil prices, debt levels, and the risk of slowing growth in emerging markets threaten global economic stability. The
