Article by WN.com Correspondent DallasDarling Until Raphael Lemkin, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe who became a Polish-Jewish jurist at Nuremburg, formulated a term to describe "the intentional destruction of national groups on the basis of their collective identity,"(1) "genocide" was merely "a crime without a name."(2) But because of Lemkin's intellectual activism and courage to intervene, he persuaded the global community to linguistically adopt a new word: genocide. Later, the United...
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has restricted access to Twitter hours after Prime MinisterRecep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “root out” the social media network where wiretapped recordings have been leaked, damaging the government’s reputation ahead of local elections. Many users...
Jessica Berman Paleontologists have identified the remains of a previously unknown, bird-like species of dinosaur that roamed North America nearly 70 million years ago. The giant feathered creature belongs to a group of plant- and meat-eaters found in Central and East Asia. It looked...
PARIS (Reuters) - Former French presidentNicolas Sarkozy has attacked the phone-tapping conducted by magistrates investigating him, breaking his silence on the subject to liken the actions to those of the "Stasi" police of former Communist East Germany. In a letter to be published in Le Figaro...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast's government plans to hand over a former youth leader who is wanted on charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, the justice minister said Thursday. Charles Ble Goude, who also had been charged in Ivory Coast, has denied playing...
Four gunmen who stormed a hotel used by foreigners in the Afghan capital Kabul have been killed in a shootout with security forces. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack at the Serena...
Oscar Pistorius is selling the house where he killed Reeva Steenkamp to raise money for his legal bills. The athelete known as the Blade Runner has not returned to the upscale Pretoria villa since the day he shot his girlfriend in a bathroom over a year ago and "cannot contemplate ever returning to...
MOSCOW, March 20 (RIA Novosti) – The RussianForeign Ministry on Thursday imposed sanctions against nine senior US officials in retaliation to US visa bans and asset freezes. The White House authorized sanctions on Monday against Russian officials “who are most directly involved in...
