The UK Daily Mail on Sunday reports that British MPs were surprised to hear a visiting Pentagon official declare: “I hate all Iranians.”
Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, made the c
But in a crowded military courtroom seemingly stunned into silence on Thursday, Sgt. Evan Vela all but broke down as he described firing two bullets into an unarmed Iraqi man his unit arrested last May.
In anguished, eloquent sentences, Sergeant V
The Bush Administration is all but set to authorize a campaign of limited, surgical airstrikes against Iranian targets, Hersh reports in the New Yorker's latest edition.
Police in Sierra Leone have ordered all civilians who own any weapon to hand them over to the police within two weeks. [The slaughter will begin in three.]
Snipers were allegedly ordered to kill Iraqis who fell for the trap, in which ammunition and explosives were planted on the street. The three soldiers facing court are also accused of planting weapons on the Iraqis they killed.
Britain is considering laying claim to vast new tracts of potentially oil- and gas-rich territories off the Falkland Islands, a move that has spurred an angry reaction from Argentina.
Frustrated by press leaks about its surveillance work, the National Security Agency convened an series of off-the-record "seminars" to teach reporters about the damage caused by such leaks and to discourage reporting that interferes with th
As President Bush and Sen. John Kerry clashed in 2004 over the direction of the Iraq war, a rising Army star joined the debate. Then-Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, head of a new command overseeing the training and equipping of Iraq's security forces
Los destinos de los pueblos han sido moldeados, entre otras cosas, por sus ideologías económicas—políticas. Fue a finales del Siglo XVIII en que nació una, tal vez la más poderosa, y sin duda la que moldearía los destinos de los países más exitosos d
A Nigerian Editorial Last Week States that the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute both of which are bodies of Congress are Dangers to Democracy.
The former world chess champion Garry Kasparov entered Russia's presidential race on Sunday, elected overwhelmingly as the candidate for the country's beleagured opposition coalition. Kasparov has been a driving force behind the coalition,
More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitization program at the British Library. The program focuses on 19th Century books, many of which are unknown.
Thomas Roach of Sarasota, Fla., is actively campaigning against a bailout for people who bought more home than they could afford on a bet to make easy profits from rising real estate prices.
Iran's parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the US Army "terrorist organizations," in apparent response to a Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran's Islamic Revolutio
Officials from the top of Government to lowly council officers will be given unprecedented power to access details of every phone call in Britain under laws coming into force tomorrow. The new rules compel phone companies to retain information, howe
Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "The party's over" for illicit drug users. "In the next few days, we're going to be back in the bu
He says he couldn't see if the skinheads were wearing Nazi tattoos, so they might have been Russian ultranationalist anti-Semites without being Nazis. But even if so, this is a distinction without a difference: Levin met up with the sort of chaps
A succa located near a neighborhood synagogue was set on fire in Haifa on Saturday night. Several siddurim were thrown out of the succa, one of which had been etched with a swastika.
Rudy Giuliani's decision to push his lead national fundraiser, Anne Dunsmore, out the door has been in the works for close to two weeks, according to Giuliani's insiders, who claim that the candidates himself made the decision to can Dunsmore
Tiny Shirogane post office in a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, with just three clerks and one ATM, might seem far removed from the world of global finance. But when Japan Post is privatized on Monday, the Shirogane office will become part
A US-based private security firm received a contract worth up to $92 million from the Dept of Defense amid hard questions about its involvement in two separate violent incidents in Iraq. "Blackwater has been a contractor in the past with the de
Site of supposed Israeli attack in Syria claims it learned of strike from the news; Syrian vice president: Reports of Israeli attack on WMD facilities are false
Major powers have drafted a list of 14 possible sanctions that could be taken against Iran over its nuclear program, but there is no agreement on any of the measures, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Friday.
A friend of FMNN's and an active international trader says that trading partners at least two major Chinest banks have confirmed that their operative policy is to "sell dollars and buy euros and gold." While this may not be a formal go
Tanya Rider, 33, was upside down, wearing a seat belt, in her crumpled sport-utility vehicle for more than a week while her husband of seven years begged the King County Sheriff's Office to search for her.
Hillary Clinton, taking a cue from Time magazine, has said that she will give every child born in America $5,000. The money will be placed into an account which the child will have access to when he is 18. Mrs. Clinton says the kids could use this