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In the classic noir novel The Big Sleep, the world-weary private eye Philip Marlowe muses on a man’s final resting place in a dirty sump: “You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things

Obviously emboldened by his 2012 re-election victory, President Obama has announced his opposition to a new round of even harsher sanctions on Iran, even as Iran moves steadily toward development of nuclear weapons. A bipartisan Senate measure from Robert Menendez

(AP) Kuwait election boycott shifts drama to streetsBy HUSSAIN AL-QATARIAssociated PressKUWAIT CITYThe drama of Kuwait’s parliamentary elections has nothing to do with the ballot count. It’s what may come afterward that has the country on edge as a broad coalition

The reign of Kim Jong Un has now produced a stunning new discovery: a unicorn lair once rumored to be myth. According to North Korean media outlets, a unicorn home belonging to King Tongmyong has now been found by the

VIENNA (Reuters) – Anti-Israel hackers, who the U.N. nuclear agency this week said had posted data online stolen from one of its servers, claimed in a new statement they had published confidential material obtained from the watchdog. The statement –

(AP) BEIJINGChinese regulators suspended a broadcaster Friday after an unaired segment of a TV game show was leaked online showing a raucous shouting match about nudity between spectators and a woman who calls her daughter the next Lady Gaga. The suspension

(AP) Egypt draft constitution sparks mass protestBy AYA BATRAWY and MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressCAIROMore than 100,000 protesters took the streets in Egypt vowing to stop a draft constitution that Islamist allies of President Mohammed Morsi approved early Friday in a rushed,

That Susan Rice either willfully misled the American people on the Benghazi attacks, or lazily absorbed intelligence briefings without the least bit of personal involvement, is obvious. That she was covering for the Obama Administration in denying a terror attack

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and KARIN LAUBAssociated PressRAMALLAH, West BankEuphoric Palestinians erupted in cheers, honked car horns and chanted “God is great” after the United Nations endorsed an independent state of Palestine, giving sweeping international backing to their demands for sovereignty

The head of France’s central bank on Friday hit out at Moody’s, saying the agency had made a “factual mistake” when it took away the country’s cherished AAA credit rating. In making its decision, which followed a similar move by

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and two other Nobel Peace laureates have written to the foundation in protest at the decision to award the 2012 prize to the European Union. The “EU is clearly not ‘the champion of peace’ that Alfred Nobel

Italy’s unemployment rate rose to a new record of 11.1 percent in October, initial data published by the national statistics office ISTAT showed on Friday, as recession grips the economy. The rate was 0.3 percentage points higher than in September,

Israel is to build 3,000 new settler homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank after the Palestinians won recognition as a non-member state at the United Nations, an Israeli official told AFP on Friday. Asked if he could confirm

By GILLIAN WONGAssociated PressBEIJINGA Chinese court sentenced the nephew of legal activist Chen Guangcheng to more than three years in jail for assault in a hurried, suddenly announced trial Friday that his parents were barred from attending. The punishment against

By KARL RITTERAssociated PressDOHA, QatarThe United Nations climate chief is urging people not to look solely to their governments to make tough decisions to slow global warming, and instead to consider their own role in solving the problem. Approaching the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Thousands of Egyptians protest the ‘Brotherhood Constitution’ Israel approves 3,000 new settlement homes on the West Bank Bankster types take over the computer malware detection industry Thousands of Egyptians protest the ‘Brotherhood Constitution’ Thousands

From all indicators at present, the Arab Spring that promised freedom and peace but delivered bondage and heavy-handedness throughout the Middle East is poised to show itself in Jordan beginning on Nov. 30. The National Front for Reform, led by

Iran’s nuclear energy chief Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani is on record saying Iran will go on enriching uranium “with intensity.”  This means international demands that Iran halt enrichment “to the higher 20 percent fissile purity level, close down its Fordow enrichment plant,

The psychiatrist who treated WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning at Quantico says that Marine commanders regularly ignored his advice and treated Manning too harshly.  At Manning’s pre-trial hearing, Captain William Hoctor said he was often frustrated by the way the commanders

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com United Nations creates the nation ‘Palestine’ Mahmoud Abbas demands an end to the Israeli occupation Israeli ambassador says that Palestinians don’t want peace China to step up military confrontations in South China Sea Philippine

UPDATE- Anonymous Clarifies on Twitter: Anonymous is attacking Assad due to the internet outage. Anonymous is not attacking Assad in support of the Free Syrian Army. #OpSyria ———- As fighting in Syria between pro-government forces and opposition rebels escalated on

By HAMZA HENDAWI and MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressCAIROIslamists approved a draft constitution for Egypt early Friday without the participation of liberal and Christian members, seeking to pre-empt a court ruling that could dissolve their panel with a rushed, marathon vote that

After then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown raised the top tax rate on those making more than £1 million to a whopping 50%, nearly two-thirds of British millionaires fled the country to avoid taxes, fewer entrepreneurs came into the country, and

By EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated PressUNITED NATIONSThe United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians but an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States. The resolution upgrading the Palestinians’ status to a nonmember

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, attempting to rule Egypt with an iron Islamist hand, lavishly praised his benefactor, Barack Obama, in an interview with Time Magazine. Morsi cooed: “President Obama has been very helpful, very helpful.” Morsi continued, “And I can say really that

Islamist Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan is planning to visit the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip next week, Turkey’s Today’s Zaman reports. According to Erdogan, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal invited him to visit. He’s always wanted to go, but in the

Following last year’s failed attempt by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to gain admission to the United Nations as a full member state via UN Security Council vote (known as the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, or UDI), PA President Mahmoud Abbas

Is Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi a secular reformer or a religious hardliner? The answer to that question depends on the particular audience he is addressing. Wednesday, Time magazine published an interview with Morsi, his first statement to the US media since

Today’s UN General Assembly resolution granting Palestine official status as a “non-member state” is absurd. It would be more accurate to call Palestine a “non-state member,” since (by its own doing) it does not possess  the basic territorial or political

As talk of tax hikes, spending, and ‘redirection of federal investment’ appear to be occupying the majority of time for legislators at this point, necessary areas of spending which can be cut without anyone knowing–or without anyone knowing for years–will

The soccer association, Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), is pledging to rebuild the Gaza stadium that Israeli defense forces targeted after Hamas rockets were fired from it. FIFA says they see it as their “mandate” to rebuild destroyed stadiums,

VIENNA (Reuters) – The United States effectively set a March deadline on Thursday for Iran to start cooperating in substance with a U.N. nuclear agency investigation, saying it would otherwise urge reporting the issue to the U.N. Security Council.

(AP) Palestinians certain to win recognition as a stateBy EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated PressUNITED NATIONSThe Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state Thursday but success could exact a high price: Israel and the United States warn it could

Syria has effectively been cut off from the Internet, two US technology companies which monitor web traffic reported Thursday. Akamai, one of the firms which monitors global traffic, said traffic stopped from 1026 GMT, and that this supports the observation

(AP) Wave of attacks in Iraq kills at least 43 peopleBy SINAN SALAHEDDINAssociated PressBAGHDADBack-to-back explosions tore through tents housing Shiite pilgrims in southern Iraq Thursday, the deadliest in a wave of bombings that killed at least 43 people nationwide, officials