White House Sees 'No Evidence' Of Putin Pulling Out From Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says there is "no evidence" that Russia has withdrawn troops from its border with Ukraine. The comments from White House spokesman Josh Earnest came shortly after...
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Russians Miss The Soviet Empire: Poll
A majority of Russians think it's a real shame the USSR isn't around anymore, according to a survey released by Pew Global Research on Thursday. Out of a sample of 1000 people polled last month, 55...
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These Photos Show What Years Of Ruthless War Do To A City
Green buses carrying hundreds of worn-out fighters left the city of Homs on Wednesday as part of a temporary truce between the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the insurgents fighting them....
View ArticleAssad's Forces Take Syria's Homs After Years Of Fighting
By Marwan Makdesi HOMS, Syria May 8 (Reuters) - Syrian forces took full control on Thursday over Homs, a city once associated with scenes of joyous pro-democracy crowds but now famed for images of ruin...
View ArticleEU Sees No Evil in Egypt
Egypt's next president could not have made himself clearer. In two sessions of television interview that marked the start and mostly likely the end, too, of his election campaign, the former general...
View ArticleNigerian Schoolgirls Face Boko Haram and National Education Crisis
What schoolgirls have experienced in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State over the last few weeks is tragic and heartbreaking, and it only compounds the education and learning crisis that Nigeria already...
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Survivors Face 'Long Road' To Recovery 6 Months After Typhoon Haiyan Slammed...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Six months after the strongest typhoon to hit land killed his mother and tore down much of their house in the eastern Philippines, Sofronio Cervantes wants to return home —...
View ArticleMegamouth Shark Captured Off The Coast Of Japan Is One Of Only Several Dozen...
There was something large and extremely rare lurking in the waters off the coast of Japan -- until the deep sea creature was pulled from a fishing trap last month. The megamouth shark was put on...
View ArticleEgyptian TV Anchor Finds 'Syria Conspiracy' In Simpsons Episode
According to one Egyptian TV anchor, the uprising in Syria was cooked up years before the Arab Spring, and an old episode of The Simpsons serves as the evidence. On Sunday, the host of Tahrir TV's "In...
View ArticleCuban Exiles Arrested In Havana For Allegedly Planning 'Terrorist Actions'
HAVANA (AP) — Four Cuban exiles from Miami are being held for planning "terrorist actions" against military targets on the island, Havana authorities said Wednesday in announcing the first such arrests...
View ArticleGovernment Begins Emergency Water Rationing In Venezuela Amid Drought
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — In deeply polarized Venezuela even the rain can set off political fighting. As the country's dry season extends longer than normal, the water level at one of the three...
View ArticleTeaching John Stuart Mill in Iran: A Conversation With Political Scientist...
Norman Finkelstein is of course best known for his work on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--his books, lectures and media interviews on the subject over the last three decades--and for the...
View ArticleColin Pillinger Dead: Space Scientist Behind Failed Probe Dies At 70 (VIDEO)
LONDON (AP) — Colin Pillinger, an ebullient space scientist who captured the popular imagination with his failed attempt to land a British probe on Mars, has died. He was 70. Pillinger's family said...
View ArticleDemocrat Urges Benghazi Panel Boycott: Would Be 'Select Committee On Talking...
WASHINGTON -- The House is set to approve on Thursday the new select committee to probe the Benghazi attacks, but a Democrat who thinks his party should boycott the panel is arguing that the committee...
View ArticleWhat Really Divides Northern and Southern Europe?
Fabrizio Tassinari is Head of Foreign Policy at the Danish Institute for International Studies and non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Berlin. He is the...
View ArticleStunning Video Shows London In 1924 And 2014 Simultaneously
The times are a-changin. Last week, London-based director Simon Smith followed the footsteps of Harry B. Parkinson and Frank Miller through their 1924 film "Wonderful London." Lining up the shots from...
View ArticleBoko Haram Are Not Muslims but the Enemy of All Muslims
The dreadful kidnap of 257 schoolgirls from a secondary school in Nigeria has shocked and dismayed the world, rightly so. More than 300 girls were kidnapped at gunpoint by terrorist group Boko Haram,...
View ArticleThis Truck That Turns Into A Helicopter Is Basically Out Of 'Transformers'
If "Transformers" were real, this is probably something close to how they'd look. Advanced Tactics, a military contractor, created this half-vehicle, half-helicopter with an eye to U.S. military use....
View ArticleReince Priebus: Democrats Politicized Benghazi
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is accusing Democrats of politicizing the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The Washington Examiner reports Priebus' planned...
View ArticleRussia Flexes Military Muscle On Victory Day Amid Ukraine Unrest (PHOTOS)
Whipping up both fear and hope in Ukraine, Russia put on a massive display of military muscle on Friday for a holiday celebrating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. At the "Victory...
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