Sympathetic Merkel to Give Little Ground to Cameron Over EU Reform on Visit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will give little ground on Wednesday as British Prime Minister David Cameron seeks her help in curbing EU migration, insisting that free movement of workers is crucial...
View ArticleAirAsia Jet Tail Found, Increasing Hopes of Finding Black Box
The tail of a crashed AirAsia jet has been found on the sea bed about 30 km (20 miles) from the plane's last known location, Indonesia's search and rescue agency said on Wednesday, a breakthrough that...
View ArticleBoehner Survives Conservative Challenge and Is Re-Elected As U.S. House Speaker
John Boehner narrowly won a third term as House of Representatives speaker on Tuesday, surviving a stiff challenge from 25 conservative Republicans that may signal a growing split in the party as it...
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12 Confirmed Dead in Shooting at Paris HQ of Satirical Magazine
Police have confirmed that at least 12 people have been killed in a shooting at the Parisian headquarters of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, saying that 10 journalists and two policemen...
View ArticleThe Saudi Role in Sept. 11 and the Hidden 9/11 Report Pages
Since the early days after the Sept. 11 attacks, when news emerged that most of the airline hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, dark allegations have lingered about official Saudi ties to the terrorists....
View ArticleTurkish Leftist Group Claims Responsibility for Attack on Istanbul Police
The Turkish far-left group DHKP-C has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack at a police station in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district on Tuesday that killed one officer and wounded...
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Edward Snowden’s Helpers
David Miranda is many things—a boisterously proud, gay Brazilian; an outspoken civil liberties evangelist; a freshly minted university graduate; and the spouse of Glenn Greenwald, the American...
View ArticleIn Pictures: Charlie Hebdo Attack
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View ArticleWatch Bill Gates Drink Water That Was Human Excrement Five Minutes Earlier
Bill Gates is turning human waste into drinkable water with the help of a sewage treatment machine developed using funds from the Gates Foundation. The machine, called the Omniprocessor, has been...
View ArticleTweeting From the Final Frontiers
Once upon a time, astronauts who flew to space and mountain climbers who scaled peaks returned home with tales of their adventures. Now, social media has vanquished the anxious wait for story time and...
View ArticleCuba: More Political Prisoners, but U.S. Policy Marches Onward
There are more Cuban political prisoners today than when President Barack Obama announced his deal with the Castro brothers, on December 17.Part of that deal was supposed to see 53 Cuban political...
View ArticleGerman PEGIDA Group Says Paris Shooting Shows Islamist Threat
Germany's new anti-immigration movement seized on Wednesday's deadly attack by militants on a Paris magazine, saying it highlighted the threat of Islamist violence it has been warning...
View ArticleEurozone Officially Enters Deflation for First Time
The Eurozone has slipped into deflation, official figures have shown on Wednesday, with prices in the euro area in December 0.2% lower than a year earlier.The data falls way below the European Central...
View ArticleLithuania Publishes Survival Manual in Case of Russian Invasion
Lithuania’s national defence minister Juozas Olekas unveiled a new public information book entitled ‘How to act in extreme situations or instances of war’ at a press conference on Tuesday evening,...
View ArticleTony Blair ‘Could Face War Crime Charges’ As Result of Iraq Inquiry
Former UK prime minister Tony Blair could face war crimes charges as a result of the long-anticipated Chilcot report into the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a Liberal Democrat peer told the House of Lords on...
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Parisians Mourn Charlie Hebdo Victims as Hunt for Gunmen Continues
Updated | A manhunt for the three gunmen who murdered 10 staff members of satire magazine Charlie Hebdo and two police officers continued into the night in Paris Wednesday, as Parisians turned out to...
View ArticleNo Warrant Needed to Track Cellphones in Public Places, FBI Says
It is well known that law enforcement agencies sometimes use “stingrays”—devices that mimic cellphone towers—to collect everything from cell users’ locations to their call logs. But the details of such...
View ArticleAfter Paris Attack, Kerry’s French Ties Don’t Look So Bad
In the wake of the terrorist attack on Paris-based satirical magazineCharlie Hebdo, Secretary of State John Kerry took to the microphones to do something expected: He condemned the attacks.But Kerry...
View ArticleNAACP Chapter Bombing in Colorado Springs Deliberate: FBI
A homemade explosive Tuesday blew up outside the Colorado Springs, Colorado, chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in what the FBI has called a deliberate...
View ArticleProtests Hit Netherlands in Wake of Paris Attack
Fabien Gruau heard about the shooting via a French news app; it quickly sent him into shock. The native Parisian knew one of the victims, cartoonist Tignous, and had met him at different festivals and...
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