South American Youths Dispatched to Cuba to Incite a Pro-American Revolt
A covert U.S. government project sent young people from Latin America to attempt to incite a political rebellion in communist Cuba, an Associated Press investigation has revealed.The initiative, which...
View ArticleIsrael Withdraws Troops As 72-Hour Gaza Truce Begins
Israel pulled its ground forces out of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and began a 72-hour truce with Hamas mediated by Egypt as a first step towards negotiations on a more enduring end to the month-old...
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Turmoil in the Middle East Is Setting Up Some Strange Bedfellows
The widespread turmoil across the Middle East is making for some very estranging bedfellows. After suffering a major blow during the civil war in Syria, the romance between Iran and Hamas is at full...
View ArticlePlane Carrying Second Ebola Patient Arrives in United States
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A plane carrying a second American aid worker infected with Ebola from West Africa arrived in Maine to refuel on Tuesday and was due to continue to Atlanta so the woman can receive...
View ArticleJapan Fears For Security As Neighbors Build Up Arms
Japan finds itself in a worsening security environment as North Korea pushes ahead with missile development and China and Russia step up military activity in the region, Japan's Defence Ministry said...
View ArticleWill Sanctions on Russia Tip the World Into Recession?
In the summer of 1997, Larry Summers, then the deputy treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, was having a private meeting with a senior Wall Street executive who oversaw his bank’s...
View ArticleGermany's Spy Agency Is Ready To Shake Off Its Second Tier Reputation
“In the CIA people view liaison relationships as a pain in the ass but necessary,” says Valerie Plame, the CIA undercover agent whose identity was infamously disclosed by aides to President George W...
View ArticleThe Secret Serum That Could Cure Ebola
As the Ebola virus continues to spread through West Africa—where the death toll has now reached almost 900—an experimental drug previously untested in humans may offer a cure. The treatment, known as...
View ArticleWhen the U.S. Stops Paying, the Lights Will Go Out in Kandahar, Afghanistan
KABUL/KANDAHAR Afghanistan (Reuters) - When the United States stops funding power generation in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar next year, the lights are set to go out and factories will fall...
View ArticleTime for a New Suez Canal, Egypt Says
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt said on Tuesday it plans to build a new Suez Canal alongside the existing 145-year-old historic waterway in a multi-billion dollar project to expand trade along the fastest...
View ArticleGuantanamo Bay is a Stunningly Expensive Failure
Macho preening does not enhance national security. Nor does lying. Or flushing away hundreds of millions of dollars. But somehow such nonsense has become accepted dogma among America’s political...
View ArticleAfraid of Ebola? Here are 7 Things More Likely to Kill You
With news that the deadly Ebola virus may have reached America’s densest, most populous city yesterday, many Americans are freaking out. And some in the media are fanning the flames because, with...
View ArticleIsrael Tourism Expected to Bounce Back, Official Says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Tourism to Israel, badly damaged by rocket fire from Gaza during an Israeli offensive against Islamist militants in the enclave, should bounce back later in the year, Tourism...
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At Fancy Farm, McConnell and Grimes Battle It Out in Coal Country
The windows were down and the brown GMC Savana van was picking up speed on the highway, headed for the Mississippi River. Except we were going in the wrong direction.“We’re going north,” shouted the...
View ArticleGlasgow Games Fail To Give Scottish Nationalists a Lift Ahead of Televised...
Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games have ended with Scotland united in triumph, doubling its tally of medals since Delhi hosted the tournament four years ago. Now a murkier, more complex contest prepares to...
View ArticlePrincess Fights Ouster from Rent-Controlled Upper East Side Demesne
At its peak, the Ottoman Empire included "most of southeastern Europe to the gates of Vienna, including modern Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania, Greece, and Ukraine; Iraq, Syria, Israel, and Egypt;...
View ArticleChristian Couple Detained for Spying on China/North Korea Border
A Canadian couple who ran a coffee shop near the border between China and North Korea is under investigation by the communist Chinese regime over the suspected theft of military secrets and allegations...
View ArticleU.S. General Killed in Insider Attack at Afghan Military Academy
KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan soldier killed a U.S. general and wounded 14 coalition troops in a machine gun attack at a military training facility in Kabul, a top Western and senior Afghan official said...
View ArticlePalestinian Foreign Minister at the Hague to Seek ICC War Crimes Case Against...
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said there was "clear evidence" of war crimes by Israel during its offensive in Gaza as he met International Criminal Court prosecutors...
View ArticleHere's One Weird Trick For Identifying Narcissists
How do you identify a narcissist?It might be as simple as asking "Are you a narcissist?" according to a study published today in PLOS ONE.Researchers at Ohio State University, Indiana University-Purdue...
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