FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation in the eurozone sagged more than expected to 0.5 percent in May, increasing pressure on the European Central Bank to take action this week to support the weak economic recovery. The figure released Tuesday by
A 2010 article from The UK’s Daily Mail reported Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl converted to Islam and taught Taliban fighters how to make bombs as well as trained them to ambush, one of his captors and Afghan intelligence officials told the
HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Fabian Johnson scored his first international goal, Clint Dempsey doubled the lead off a defensive lapse and the United States beat Turkey 2-1 Sunday in the second of three World Cup warm-up matches for the Americans
David Cameron’s Conservatives have been so weakened by their losses in the European Parliament that Tory MEPs may now be forced to sit in a political group with some of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s German opponents – leaving Cameron embarrassed after
On Tuesday night at a European Council meeting in Brussels, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was not keen on the idea of Jean-Claude Juncker, former prime minister of Luxembourg and leading eurofanatic, becoming the next president of the European Commission. This
A “new record” is not always a good thing. According to a Wednesday report released by the French Labor Ministry, France is now seeing record high unemployment numbers with a record 3.364 million people looking for work. Economists predicted an
On CNN’s Wednesday broadcast of “Crossfire,” Dr. Ben Carson, author of “One Nation” went toe-to-toe with former Gov. Ted Strickland (D-OH) and former Obama campaign adviser Stephanie Cutter over remarks he made back in March likening the communication of public
English football fans are set for four more years of hurt according to a highly accurate Goldman Sachs model of forecasting the World Cup winners. Brazil, claims the investment bank, is the favourite, with Argentina and Germany following. Goldman claims:
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?”
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
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” host Chris Hayes discussed the “history of economic plunder and exploitation” that were called key features of white supremacy in America with The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates. Transcript as follows: HAYES: You hear it
A former German chancellor has said the European Parliament should launch “a putsch” against the European Union executive which is showing signs of “megalomania.” In an interview with the German newspaper Bild, Helmut Schmidt, who was social democrat Chancellor of
California candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Ron Nehring, spoke Tuesday night to the Latino American Political Association of San Diego, a bipartisan group, and recounted why his German immigrant father would have supported voter ID. Nehring went on to recount serving
The Swiss have overwhelmingly voted to reject proposals to create the world’s highest minimum wage because they were worried increased business costs could damage their economy. In a referendum on Sunday, 76 per cent of voters turned down proposals made
Thousands of young people who are say they are “pro-European but anti-European Union” held a march in Vienna yesterday as part of the Identity Movement which has sprung up in France, Germany and Austria. The movement, known in the Germanic
In what at first glance looks like an inexplicable mixture of tolerance and intolerance, two studies just released rate Norway as both the most pro-gay and the most anti-Semitic of the traditionally-liberal Scandinavian countries. An index to attitudes in 100
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung (FAZ) she wants to continue a relationship with Russia despite the continuing violence in east Ukraine and threats of invasion by Russian troops. However, she said she would consider more sanctions.
Millions of voters in the 28 member states of the European Union will head to the polls later this month to cast their ballots in the elections to the European Parliament, yet they overwhelmingly think that their voice is not
Harry Dexter White: senior Treasury official, Soviet agent and agent of influence — One question I continue to be asked is what motive could possibly have driven the tiny band of anti-American-Betrayal extremists in their “disinformation campaign”–Jed Babbin’s phrase–against the book (debunked here) and their
A commentator at PressTV, one of Iran’s state-run news networks, has declared Nazi Germany on equal moral footing to its US, UK, and “Zionist Jew” opponents during WWII. PressTV’s Brandon Martinez vented his disgust that many were upset following revelations
Germany is at a crossroads. It still fails to stand up for its economic success for reasons more to do with guilt for its Nazi past than for sound economic rationale. Most economists – and indeed the eccentric globalist George
Iran will not accept “nuclear apartheid” but is willing to offer more transparency over its atomic activities, President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday ahead of new talks with world powers. Iran and the P5+1 group of nations will start hammering out
Tonight, tens of millions of Europeans will go to the polls to make one of the most important decisions facing the continent: who will win this year’s Eurovision Song Contest? For those who are unfamiliar with how it works, every
Greeks are determined to use their votes in the European elections but are rapidly losing faith in Europe according the BBC. The corporation sent a reporter to talk to ordinary Greeks in the city of Thessaloniki, where unemployment is running
In 2012, the AP apologized for firing war correspondent Edward Kennedy for reporting the end of WWII on May 7, 1945 in defiance of military censors accommodating Stalin’s wishes to announce the German surrender on May 8. — Notice the media huzzas for
Pro-Russian forces in Donetsk and Luhansk decided to go ahead with the planned referendum for Sunday, May 11 despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s request for the vote to be delayed. From Reuters: Denis Pushilin, a leader of the self-declared separatist
Today, May 8, marks the 69th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. Though the war would continue against Japan in the Pacific for many more months, the unconditional surrender of Germany at the Allied headquarters in
A writer for the Huffington Post has admitted vandalising a UKIP poster in Birmingham. In an article published today, Bill Drummond, who describes himself as an artist, proudly posted photos of himself defacing the poster and justified his actions by
In accepting the “Ambassador for Humanity” award from Steven Spielberg and the USC Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles Wednesday evening, President Barack Obama recounted his 2009 trip to the concentration camp of Buchenwald–the camp his maternal grandfather helped liberate–with Nobel
One of the world’s most eminent climate scientists – for several decades a warmist – has defected to the climate sceptic camp. Lennart Bengtsson – a Swedish climatologist, meteorologist, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg
NEW YORK (AP) — Nancy Strumwasser, a high school teacher from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, always thought she’d have two children. But the layoffs that swept over the U.S. economy around the time her son was born six years ago
Germany suggested new Geneva talks between Ukraine, Russia, the European Union, and the US, but Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov immediately dismissed any chance of another meeting after Ukraine refused to allow the pro-Russian forces to participate. Russia claims Ukraine
The “People’s Donetsk Republic” and Luhansk plan on a referendum on Sunday, May 11, even though the Associated Press reported there are “no visible preparations for the vote.” Germany and the United States lashed out at the referendum, while Russia
Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told German citizens to leave south and east Ukraine and discouraged further travel to the country. He claimed the country is on the brink of war, which is the first time a western country described
Is Camp Stanley, an Army weapons depot located southeast of Boerne, Texas (near San Antonio), the secret home of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) weapons stash known as the “Midwest Depot”? The Midwest Depot is allegedly where the CIA has
On Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with President Obama to discuss the ongoing situation in Ukraine, Russia’s aggression, and US-EU trade relations. The two heads of state united behind the idea of imposing additional sanctions on the Kremlin. “We will not
It was the headline that buzzed ’round the world: “China poised to pass US as world’s leading economic power this year.” Okay, so China is now #1. We are now #2. Let’s ask ourselves: Does it really surprise us that
Wikileaks appears to have inadvertently disclosed on its Twitter account Thursday that the group had intended for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to remain in Russia since his departure from the United States – a declaration that disputes earlier claims
The Chinese government is blaming suicide bombers tied to religious extremists for a bombing in the northwestern region of Xinjiang this week that killed three and injured dozens. The explosion followed a knife attack by a group of individuals at
Retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Lovell admitted during a House Oversight hearing Thursday that saving the Americans under attack in Benghazi might have been possible, but he added they would never know for sure. Lovell was in command of the
