Colombia Firm Makes Armored Clothes for Kids Factory owner Miguel Caballero said he never thought about making protective clothes for kids until requests came in following the deadly attack on Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut last month.
Colombia Firm Makes Armored Clothes for Kids Factory owner Miguel Caballero said he never thought about making protective clothes for kids until requests came in following the deadly attack on Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut last month. 4 Jan 2013, 2:19 PM PDT
EU Welcomes French Economic Reform Efforts The European Commission welcomed on Friday efforts by France to reform its struggling economy but played down suggestions that it might give Paris more time to meet public deficit targets. 4 Jan 2013, 1:57 PM PDT
China Fines LG, Samsung over Flat Panel Screen Prices China fined South Korean and Taiwanese makers of LCD display screens $56 million on Friday for price-fixing, joining the United States and Europe in a crackdown on the industry. 4 Jan 2013, 1:47 PM PDT
HK Traders Use Roof to Dry Thousands of Shark Fins Hong Kong is the world center of the shark fin industry, accounting for about half of global trade. Environmental campaigners, citing government statistics, say more than 10,200 metric tons of shark fin were imported into Hong Kong last year. 4 Jan 2013, 1:27 PM PDT
Greece Probes Officials in Swiss Tax Scandal: Source The Greek prosecution service has questioned two finance ministry officials close to former socialist finance minister George Papaconstantinou, who is caught up in a tax scandal shaking Greek politics, judicial sources said on Friday. 4 Jan 2013, 11:04 AM PDT
Member of Islamic Jihad Vows to Kill Jews Returning to Egypt They have also made it clear that they will "vigorously" fight against Egyptian Jews attempting to return to Egypt. by AWR Hawkins 4 Jan 2013, 10:58 AM PDT
Venezuela Slams 'Psychological War' over Chavez Health Venezuela accused the international media of waging a "psychological war" over President Hugo Chavez's health to try to destabilize the government and bring down its socialist revolution. 4 Jan 2013, 5:29 AM PDT
Pakistani Girl Malala Discharged from British Hospital The Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education has been discharged from the British hospital treating her, a hospital spokeswoman said on Friday. 4 Jan 2013, 5:26 AM PDT
Hamas Allows Fatah Anniversary Rally in Gaza Tens of thousands of supporters of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party rallied in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Friday in the climax to the party's first anniversary celebrations in the territory since 2007. 4 Jan 2013, 5:20 AM PDT
Russians Mock Kremlin's Depardieu Passport Award Russians reacted Friday with amusement, disbelief and a heavy dose of irony to the news that the Kremlin has granted citizenship to French actor Gerard Depardieu to solve his tax woes. 4 Jan 2013, 5:11 AM PDT
Morsi: Boycott USA, Jews 'Descendants of Apes and Pigs' The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) released a video of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi delivering racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-American remarks . The incendiary rhetoric becomes relevant now that the Obama administration plans to give 200 Abrams tanks and 10 F-16 fighter jets to the Morsi government. by Joel Griffith 4 Jan 2013, 4:49 AM PDT
ACLU Blasts Obama for Signing NDAA On Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2013, sparking a firestorm of liberal outrage. by Wynton Hall 4 Jan 2013, 4:29 AM PDT
World View: Burma (Myanmar) Army Warplanes Strike Kachin Rebels in North Burma's army is escalating clashes with ethnic Karen rebels in northern Kachin state by carrying out air strikes against the rebels, after they threatened to block supply convoys to a government base. by John J. Xenakis 4 Jan 2013, 4:17 AM PDT
Exclusive - 'Corruption Chronicles': Fast & Furious Wreaks Havoc on Both Sides of Border The reckless and deadly Fast and Furious scandal which led to the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry continues to cause carnage in Mexico. by Tom Fitton 3 Jan 2013
Mexican Troops Kill 12 from Zetas Cartel Twelve more dead human beings’ dead bodies were added to the approximate 60,000 that have died in Mexico’s War since 2006. The recent deaths occurred in the Mexican interior state of Zacatecas. by Brandon Darby 3 Jan 2013
Report: Drug-Resistant Malaria Strain May Cause 'Global Nightmare' Warning that “drug-resistant malaria threatens millions,” NBC News warns of a possible deadly global nightmare in which the antimalarial drug artemisinin is showing signs of severely reduced effectiveness against malaria in low-income populations in Thailand. by Brandon Darby 3 Jan 2013
Tehran Governor Orders Shutdown over Pollution Schools, universities and government offices in the Iranian capital will be closed on Saturday for the second time in a month because of high air pollution, Tehran governor Morteza Tamadon said Thursday. 3 Jan 2013
Google Chairman Heading to North Korea Google's intentions in North Korea are not clear. Two people familiar with the plans told The Associated Press that the trip was a "private, humanitarian mission." 3 Jan 2013
French Minister Pushes for Censorship of 'Hateful Tweets' French Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem wants Twitter to help enforce censorship standards she believes ought to be universal. by AWR Hawkins 3 Jan 2013
Top Cop Kidnapped in Libya's Benghazi The acting head of the criminal investigations department in Libya's second city Benghazi has been kidnapped at gunpoint, officials told AFP on Thursday. 3 Jan 2013
Pakistan: US Drones Kill Senior Taliban Figure Two U.S. drone strikes on northwest Pakistan killed a senior Taliban commander who fought American forces in Afghanistan but had a truce with the Pakistani military, intelligence officials said Thursday. 3 Jan 2013
World View: Taliban Murders of Pakistan Health Workers Brings Measles Surge Taliban and other al-Qaeda-linked militant terrorist groups have been critical of the activities of such organizations because they provide education for girls, and because they provide polio and measles immunization vaccinations, which the Taliban claims is a secret plot to sterilize Muslims and prevent more Muslim children. by John J. Xenakis 2 Jan 2013
Exclusive - 'Corruption Chronicles': WH Alternatively Leaks, Hides OBL Raid Secrets President Obama’s reelection campaign trumpeted the killing of Osama bin Laden. In the hopes that a planned movie on the raid would provide a “boost” to his campaign, the Obama administration provided secret and inappropriate access to information about the raid to the creators of the new film, "Zero Dark Thirty". by Tom Fitton 2 Jan 2013
Report: Hugo Chavez On Life Support in Cuba Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is reportedly in a medically induced coma and is being kept alive via life support. by AWR Hawkins 2 Jan 2013
Egypt: New Constitutional Provision Allows President Morsi to Prosecute Critics ... satirist Bassem Youssef is being investigated by Egyptian prosecutors after being "accused of undermining [President Morsi's] standing" via the use of satire. And one of the "leading independent newspapers" in Egypt claims it is also being investigated because Morsi accused it of "publishing false news." by AWR Hawkins 2 Jan 2013
Indian Minister Pens 'Lovey-Dovey' Bollywood Song India's communications minister, already a poet in his spare time, has found another outlet for his creative ambitions: penning a slushy love song for a new Bollywood film. 2 Jan 2013
Spain Posts Official 3% Inflation in December Spanish consumer prices rose by 3.0 percent over the year to December as a sales tax rise hit shoppers in the pocket, provisional figures showed Wednesday. 2 Jan 2013
Iran Claims Shooting Down Two Additional US Drones Iran on Wednesday said it had shot down two US-made RQ-11 reconnaissance drones in the past 15 months, adding to a ScanEagle drone and RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft it already claims to have captured. 2 Jan 2013
Israel: Egypt Border Fence Near Completion Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Wednesday that the final section of a security fence along the border with Egypt's barren Sinai should be finished by the end of March. 2 Jan 2013
Thai 'Scavengers Club' Turns Trash to Treasure The scheme's 800 members include 35 households of scavengers along with other local people who heard about the shop in an area of eastern Bangkok and now bring their recyclables to trade. 2 Jan 2013
Bill Backs US Adoptions of North Korean Orphans The US Congress has approved a bill which aims to make it possible for Americans to adopt orphaned North Korean children. 2 Jan 2013
Northern Ireland Bomb Plots Against Police Thwarted A car bomb was found in the family car of a Northern Ireland law enforcement officer. The bomb was discovered by the officer and destroyed in a controlled explosion. Another bomb was found near a Belfast police station the following day. by Brandon Darby 2 Jan 2013
Iraq Explodes into Violence at 2012's End In one of the worst outbreaks of violence since Barack Obama abandoned the freedom-seeking Iraqi people in December of 2011, 54 people were killed and over 169 injured within the final two weeks of 2012. by Brandon Darby 2 Jan 2013
Hezbollah Joining Cartels in Mexico's War The Mexican Drug War has killed an estimated 60,000 people since 2006, but the violence has stayed out of the minds of most US citizens. That is about to change as Islamic extremist groups setting up shop in Mexico. by Brandon Darby 2 Jan 2013
Senate Report on Benghazi Confirms Obama's Core Belief On Monday, the Senate released its Special Report on the Terrorist Attack at Benghazi. The report is not definitive; there is much information that has yet to be released and/or investigated, but there is one preeminent fact that pervades the entire document and is a damning indictment of the Obama Administration: its refusal to acknowledge that Islamic terrorism is thriving. by William Bigelow 2 Jan 2013
There Would Still Be Soviet Union if Sen. John Kerry Had His Way As President Obama continues to seem focused on putting Senator John Kerry (D-MA) forward for Secretary of State, it's worth asking what kind of world Kerry desires to see. How will he handle our enemies and what will he say to our friends? by AWR Hawkins 2 Jan 2013
World View: Al-Qaeda Prepares for War in Northern Mali Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and affiliate Ansar Dine are now in almost complete control of northern Mali, a region as large as France, and is entrenching itself to prepare for a war by external forces attempting to eject it. by John J. Xenakis 2 Jan 2013
'Border Has Never Been More Secure': Hezbollah, Cartels Working Together In November, Breitbart News reported Hezbollah’s growing influence in South America. The terrorist organization is now expanding to the north, teaming up with dangerous Mexican drug cartels and engaging in weapon trafficking in and out of Mexico. These weapons may include guns from gun-walking operations by the US government. by Mary Chastain 1 Jan 2013
Report: Iran Re-thinking Support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad While Iran continues to espouse support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the surface, there are serious undercurrents within the Iranian leadership which portend an about face on this position. by AWR Hawkins 1 Jan 2013
Pope Attacks Capitalism in New Years Speech Pope Benedict said in his New Year's message on Tuesday he hoped 2013 would be a year of peace and that the world was under threat from unbridled capitalism, terrorism and criminality. 1 Jan 2013
Adviser to Egyptian President Morsi: Israel Will Cease to Exist by 2020 Erian says this will be part of the process of ridding Palestine of occupiers, and that "all those who occupied it will return to their homelands." by AWR Hawkins 1 Jan 2013
Lil Kim's New Year Address: Time to Fix NKorea's Economy Kim's first New Year's speech, delivered on state TV, was peppered with rhetoric, with calls for boosting the military's capabilities and making the science and technology sector world class. But other passages in the speech were also an acknowledgement of the poor state of the country's economy that has long lagged behind the rest of the region. 1 Jan 2013
Hamas PM: Israel 'Cancerous Tumor' Even as the United States makes overtures toward legitimizing terrorist group Hamas – failing to protest visits to the Gaza Strip from international leaders was the first step in that legitimization during the recent Gaza rocket war – Hamas’ Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is on a rhetorical rampage again. by Breitbart News 1 Jan 2013
India Rapists Face Death Penalty The six Indian men arrested for the brutal gang rape turned murder of a young 23-year-old female student are now facing the death penalty. India erupted in protests over the way the government handled the attack and over how the government handles sexual assaults in general. by Brandon Darby 1 Jan 2013
Egypt Investigates Satirist over Morsi 'Insult' Egypt's state prosecutor ordered on Tuesday an investigation into a claim that popular satirical show host Bassem Yousef insulted President Mohamed Morsi, a judicial source said. 1 Jan 2013
Only Half of Students' Free iPads Survive Year at British School Last year, the Honywood Community Science School in Coggeshall, Essex, had a brilliant idea to help student learning: hand out free iPad2 tablets. So, at massive cost to the British taxpayer, they fulfilled their vision, giving iPad2s to 1,200 students. The students were allowed to take the devices home with them. by Breitbart News 1 Jan 2013
Syria Ushers in New Year with More Violence Syrians woke up to air strikes near Damascus on New Year's Day as Aleppo airport was closed after repeated rebel attacks, casting doubts on diplomatic drives to end the 21-month conflict. 1 Jan 2013
Islamic Militants Kill 5 Female Teachers in Pakistan Gunmen in northwest Pakistan killed five female teachers and two aid workers on Tuesday in an ambush on a van carrying workers home from their jobs at a community center, officials said. 1 Jan 2013
State Department Made 'Grievous Mistake' over Benghazi: Senate Report The State Department made a "grievous mistake" in keeping the U.S. mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly alarming threat assessments in the weeks before a deadly attack by militants, a Senate committee said on Monday. 1 Jan 2013
World View: 2013 Forecast- Financial Crisis and China Threat In 2004, I identified the "Six most dangerous regions in world", and I did a little computation to estimate the probability of a regional war that might spiral into world war, and I came up with a probability of 22% each year. I don't think that computation was particularly valid, but it illustrates the point that in 2004 I expected the worst to be at least a few years in the future. by John J. Xenakis 1 Jan 2013
Cold Kills Over One Hundred in Ukraine in December Ukrainian authorities have revealed at least 133 people have died in December due to sustained freezing temperatures that have dipped as low as -9 degrees Fahrenheit. More than 500 people have been hospitalized due to the cold in the past week. by Brandon Darby 31 Dec 2012
Russian Foreign Minister: Assad Will Not Step Down from Syrian Presidency Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "has no intention of stepping down and it would be impossible to try to persuade him otherwise." by AWR Hawkins 31 Dec 2012
Obama Owns Hagel, Nominated or Not Rumor has it that President Barack Obama may not have given up his plan to nominate former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as Secretary of Defense after all, and that Hagel’s nomination may in fact be imminent. The fact that Hagel is even still under consideration is a signal that Obama is not worried about Hagel’s weakness on Israel, his reluctance to confront Iran, and his enthusiasm for a smaller military and weaker America. by Joel B. Pollak 31 Dec 2012
Obama Yawns As Syria Uses Chemical Weapons, Crosses 'Red Line' Rebel forces in Syria report that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is now using chemical weapons on them. Moreover, intelligence operatives from the West have confirmed those reports as well. But there has yet to be a peep out of the Obama administration over it. by AWR Hawkins 31 Dec 2012
Report: Israeli Doctors Treat Obama's Grandmother U.S. President Barack Obama's step-grandmother, Sarah Onyango Obama, received emergency eye surgery from Israeli doctors in an Israeli-run hospital in Equatorial Guinea last week, the Times of Israel reports. by Breitbart News 31 Dec 2012
New Army Handbook: 'Ignorance' And 'Lack Of Empathy' Cause of U.S. Deaths A new draft of a 75-page Army handbook for troops heading to Afghanistan says that American cultural insensitivity is to blame for the 63 attacks this year by Afghan soldiers against the U.S.-led coalition forces who are training them. by Wynton Hall 31 Dec 2012
Bomb Hits Prosecutor's Office in Libya's Benghazi An improvised bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the public prosecutor in the Libyan city of Benghazi causing material damage but no fatalities, a security source said. 31 Dec 2012
Iran 'Stages Cyber Warfare Drill' Iranian forces have carried out what they called cyber warfare tactics for the first time as the Islamic republic's naval units staged manoeuvres in the key Strait of Hormuz, media reports said on Monday. 31 Dec 2012
Bandits in Syrian Opposition Behead Christian, Feed Him to Dogs As I wrote on Dec. 9, while Obama was taking a 'wait and see' approach to Syria insurgents, those affiliated with Al Qaeda flooded the ranks of the Syrian opposition. Even supporters of the Free Syrian Army describe these men as "bandits" -- as "rogue elements" within the Free Syrian Army that carry out "atrocities." by AWR Hawkins 31 Dec 2012
World View: Iran, Turkey Trade Accusations as Relations Deteriorate After centuries of wars, Iran and (Ottoman) Turkey signed the Qasr-i Shirin Accord in 1639, which drew today’s Iran-Iraq and Iran-Turkey borders. For over 400 years, Iran and Turkey have respected one another and, no matter what kind of regimes governed them, recognized each other as experienced and established states and adhered to a code of conduct that restrained their competition for influence and power and prevented the use of force, and even restrained their language about each other. by John J. Xenakis 31 Dec 2012
Hillary Clinton Hospitalized with Blood Clot Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital Sunday after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month. 30 Dec 2012
Venezuela VP: Chavez Suffers 'New Complications' Hugo Chavez has suffered "new complications" following his cancer surgery in Cuba, his vice president said Sunday, describing the Venezuelan leader's condition as delicate. 30 Dec 2012
Top Ten Worst John Kerry Foreign Policy Mistakes Sen. Kerry has been on the wrong side of nearly every foreign policy issue for the past 40 years. His “experience” is much like that of supposed foreign policy guru, Vice President Joe Biden: a long track record of grievous mistakes. Here are Kerry’s top ten worst. by Joel B. Pollak 30 Dec 2012
Despite Gun Control, Dutch Shooting Rampages Becoming Common Two men were shot dead in Amsterdam after a shooting spree involving automatic weapon fire. Dutch authorities have released little information on the incident. Amsterdam’s mayor, Eberhard van der Laan, called the automatic weapons shooting spree a “wild west situation.” by Brandon Darby 30 Dec 2012
Venezuela Deports Alleged French Assassin Venezuelan authorities have deported a French citizen after accusing him of being an agent of the French government sent to assassinate Hugo Chavez. by Brandon Darby 30 Dec 2012
Yemen: Al-Qaida Offers Bounty for US Ambassador Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has offered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa or an American soldier in the country. 30 Dec 2012
Pakistan Militants Kill 41 in Mass Execution, Attack on Shi'ites Pakistani militants, who have escalated attacks in recent weeks, killed at least 41 people in two separate incidents, officials said on Sunday, challenging assertions that military offensives have broken the back of hardline Islamist groups. 30 Dec 2012
Israel Indicts Ex-minister Lieberman Israel's Justice Ministry filed its indictment against former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in a Jerusalem court on Sunday, charging him with breach of trust and fraud in a case that could further harm his political career. 30 Dec 2012
World View: H1N1 Swine Flu kills nine people in the West Bank There have been 187 recent recorded cases of H1N1 swine flu in the northern West Bank, and nine Palestinians have died. by John J. Xenakis 30 Dec 2012
Report: Women in Cuba, Kazakhstan, Pakistan Better Off than U.S.? The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently released its annual Global Gender Gap Report. Faculty from Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley collaborated on the project which ranks Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Philippines ahead of the United States as “role models in dividing their resources equitably between women and men.” by Joel Griffith 30 Dec 2012