We've seen the threats against Iran before
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Here we go again with the Iran hysteria. It is tempting to think this time will be just like previous periods of sabre rattling against Iran. But there are significant new dangers. The Arab Spring, Israel's position, changes in the regional and global balance of forces, and national election...
A year after uprising, militias hold true power in Libya as government struggles for authority
Star Tribune
Star Tribune
TRIPOLI, Libya - One militia controls the airport. Others carve up neighborhoods of the Libyan capital into fiefdoms. They clash in the streets, terrifying residents. They hold detainees in makeshift prisons where torture is said to be rampant. As Libya on Friday marks the one-year anniversary of...
Angry Karzai confronts Pakistani leaders over Taliban talks
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- An angry Afghan President Hamid Karzai confronted the Pakistani leadership Thursday, demanding that it produce Taliban officials for peace talks and underscoring the distrust between Kabul and Islamabad, which stands in the way of a deal to end the decade-long Afghan conflict....
U.N. General Assembly backs call for Syria's Assad to step down
The Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Beirut— Opposition activists reported dozens more people were killed in Syria on Thursday as the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the Syrian government's "systematic violations of human rights" and backed a plan calling for President Bashar Assad to...
Honduras fire inmates not convicted
Fox News
Fox News
COMAYAGUA, Honduras -- The prisoners whose scorched bodies were carried out piece by piece Thursday morning from a charred Honduran prison had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to an internal Honduran government...
Countdown to war with Iran must be halted
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Global pressure can end years of nuclear brinkmanship. THE standoff over Iran's nuclear program is close to spiralling out of control. Israel, which sees Iran as the worst threat to its existence, has canvassed the attitudes of US military and intelligence leaders to a military strike. Israel is...
Assad proposes referendum in strifetorn Syria
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian opposition leaders and the West have scorned a new offer by President Bashar al-Assad to hold multi-party elections, as his troops mounted more attacks on rebel-held areas. Assad promised a referendum in two weeks' time on a new constitution leading to elections...
Libyan militias accused of torturing detainees
The Guardian
The Guardian
Amnesty International reports armed militias threaten the security of Libya with at least 12 detainees tortured to death since September Rebels armed with anti-aircraft guns at their base near Beni Walid. Amnesty International reports they now rule much of Libya Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/AP...
Death toll from Honduras prison fire reaches 377
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Tegucigalpa - A prison fire in northern Honduras has left at least 377 inmates dead, authorities said late Wednesday, as inmates accused the guards of leaving them locked in their cells. Most of the victims suffocated to death...
Afghanistan and US in 'secret Taliban talks'
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
The US and Afghan governments have begun secret three-way talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said. "There have been contacts between the US government and the Taliban, there have been contacts between the Afghan government and the Taliban, and there have been some contacts...
Iran Touts Uranium Enrichment Advances
Chosunilbo
Chosunilbo
Iran hailed its advanced nuclear capabilities Wednesday by unveiling what it says are a new generation of centrifuges to speed up uranium enrichment and its first domestically produced fuel rods. The semi-official Fars news agency reported Wednesday that the new carbon fiber centrifuges have been...
Greece and the World's New Spartan Conscripts
WorldNews.com
WorldNews.com
Article be WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Greece's up-and-down seesaw battle over its debt deal and severe austerity laws conjures up an ancient past when children were considered to be the property of the Spartan state. Like Chole Hadjimatheou reported from Athens in the BBC World Service, due...
Bleak Report on the Afghan War
Middle East Online
Middle East Online
An analysis by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, which the US Army has not approved for public release but has leaked to Rolling Stone magazine, provides the most authoritative refutation thus far of the official military narrative of success in the Afghanistan War since the troop surge began in early 2010. In...
US welcomes peaceful rise of China: Obama
The Siasat Daily
The Siasat Daily
, February 15: While setting a firm tone for future relations between the two world powers, US President Barack Obama Tuesday told visiting Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping that the US welcomes peaceful rise of China. "We believe that it's critically important that the United States and China...
