(AFP) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday vowed total war against terrorism as the country’s security forces stepped up efforts to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists 45 days ago. Nigeria returned to democracy on May 29,
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Refugees waved flags and held pictures of Bashar al-Assad as they crushed into Damascus’s embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday to join Syrians worldwide voting early in an election that looks certain to give him a third seven-year
A group of sixth- to eighth-graders on a field trip in Chile are being heralded as the “tiny Indiana Joneses” of their hometowns after discovering the remains of a mummy estimated to be 7,000 years old. Local media suggest that
The leader of France’s conservative opposition UMP party, Jean-François Copé, resigned today after police raided his offices in an investigation over a massive fraud scandal involving former President Nicolas Sarkozy. France 24 reports that the entire UMP front bench now
Information on the whereabouts of the man at the head of a family-owned business responsible for the Sewol ferry that sank in April, killing 288 people, will now net an informer $500,000 from the South Korean government. Yoo Byung-eun and
This article originally appeared in The New York Times BRUSSELS — An angry eruption of populist insurgency in the elections for the European Parliament rippled across the Continent on Monday, unnerving the political establishment and calling into question the very
In an outburst somewhere between petulance and delusion, France’s economy and industry minister has said his country would be ready to “roll out the red carpet” for British investors if the UK voted to leave the EU. The socialist minister
French Socialist economist Thomas Piketty made a big splash in the U.S. recently with his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The 600-page tome argues that since the owners of capital end up with capital, it must be globally taxed
The government of Jordan has declared Syria’s ambassador to their country, Bahjat Suleiman, persona non grata and requested he leave the country. The decision, according to a statement from the Jordanian foreign ministry, follows a series of insults to the
The reaction by the two establishment parties in Spain to the showing by the hard-left Podemos party is much like the reaction of a Lexus driver after being blind-sided by a Suzuki Bandit: “Where the hell did that come from?”
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Europe has ‘political earthquake’ as anti-EU parties surge in elections ‘Chocolate King’ wins presidential election in Ukraine Pope Francis to try his hand at a Mideast ‘peace process’ Europe has ‘political earthquake’ as anti-EU
From the far left to the far right, in Britain, France, Denmark, Austria and Greece, euroscepticism is not merely “on the rise”; it has triumphed. In Britain, Nigel Farage MEP hailed a political earthquake, the greatest result seen in over
Charles de Gaulle once said: “Europe is France and Germany. Everything else is just the garnishes.” Last night it looked like Europe’s meat and potatoes might be heading in different directions. While France rocked the Continent with a triumph for
CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes doesn’t in any way resemble the site of roiling class conflict. It’s a French Riviera playground for the 1 percent, a sun-dappled land of velvet ropes. Yet at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which came
The shooting dead of four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday was “the result of constant incitement against Jews and their state,” according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. “Slander and lies against the State of
On May 24 Breitbart News reported that Peter Rodger–father of Santa Barbara attacker Elliot Rodger–released a statement through his attorney supporting gun control. Now Jenni Rodger, aunt of Santa Barbara attacker Elliot Rodger, has added her voice to the politicization
All eyes will be on potential gains by Europe’s increasingly popular anti-EU parties when a mammoth four-day election for the next five-year European Parliament winds up today. After kicking off in Britain and the Netherlands, then taking in five more
CANNES, France (AP) — The richly ruminative Chekhovian drama “Winter Sleep” was awarded the Palme d’Or on Saturday, the second Turkish film to take the Cannes Film Festival’s top honor. Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan accepted Cannes’ top honor, handed out
AFP – A jealous man castrated and murdered the mayor of a hamlet in northern France whom he suspected of having an affair with his girlfriend, officials said Friday. Mayor Dominique Leboucher, 55, was brutally stabbed in the neck by
Front National candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen suggested this week that France’s immigration problems could be “solved in three months” by “Monsieur Ebola,” suggesting that an outbreak of the deadly disease would reduce the immigrant population in the country. According to
The attempt by members of the European Parliament to force the European Council – that is, the heads of state and government of the EU member states – to choose their candidate to be the next president of the European
In what looks like a calculated outburst on the eve of the elections to the European Parliament, Nicholas Sarkozy, the former president of France, has called for half the powers of the European Union to be abolished and seized back
On Wednesday Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez unveiled a new online newspaper, created as a daily platform for Cuba-based programming. Shortly thereafter the Cuban regime blocked her paper – just hours after it appeared on the Internet. Cuban authorities reprogrammed the Internet
Buzzfeed hates America. There, I said it. No, not because it distracts American workers to the point where GDP forecasts will have to be revised down because of the number of hours we all spend reading, “19 ways you could
In what is being characterized as “a criticism of the West for failing to confront Mr Putin over his seizure of Crimea”, Britain’s Prince Charles said, “And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler” with said seizure.
