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He was held captive in Afghanistan for over five months. A Japanese journalist, who never thought he would get out of the prison alive, now has quite a story to tell.
Kosuke Tsuneoka managed to get a message out of the prison, via Twitter, after one of his captor’s asked him how to use his new [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Terry Jones was just another Florida preacher. Now, Jones is becoming a household name as his controversial plan to burn copies of the Quran has sparked protests around the Nation and the World. The latest person to weigh in is General David Petreus, commander of American Forces in Afghanistan.
Petreus released [...]
Mexican authorities have captured Edgar Valdez, the leader of one of the feuding drug cartels. Valdez, nicknamed “the Barbie” because of his light skin and blue eyes, was fighting for control of the Beltran Leyva cartel, and is wanted in the United States and Mexico with rewards offered by both governments of approximately $2 million.
The [...]
Eruptions continued for a second straight day at Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung.
The volcano has been inactive for over 400 years, and the sudden eruptions of the past two days have shot enough ash into the that local plane traffic has been diverted and some 30,000 people have had to be evacuated from their homes on the [...]
A series of terrorist attacks stretched across 13 cities and towns in Iraq, killing at least 55 and wounding more than 250.
The city of Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, experienced the worst casualties. A suicide bomber in a car killed 19 people and wounded 90 more by blowing up his vehicle between a police [...]
Central Intelligence Agency officials said the Al-Qaeda’s Yemeni off shoot is now viewed as a bigger threat than the central Al-Qaeda group being pursued in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
This is the first time since September 11th, 2001, that any group besides Osama bin Laden’s was considered the largest threat to American security.
The warning [...]
The Taliban ordered A young couple that had eloped in Northern Afghanistan to be executed by stoning on Sunday.
According to reports from Taliban sympathetic sources, the execution was carried out by the couple’s family and neighbors, and by hundreds of other villagers in Kunduz Province.
The couple was apparently defiant as their sentence was read, insisting [...]
A Saudi Arabian Judge has asked surgeons at two hospitals to consider performing surgery that would punitively damage a man’s spinal chord rendering him paralyzed.
The request comes as an act of enforcement of sharia law, a law frequently practiced in Saudi Arabia, whereby following ancient practice an eye is taken for an eye.
The man in [...]
The last combat brigade of American troops deployed in Iraq left on Thursday. The actual pull out began even earlier, with today marking their crossing into Kuwait.
This leaves approximately 56,000 American soldiers in Iraq, still short of the goal set by President Barack Obama. The President had pledged to cut down to 50,000 troops in [...]
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called for the cessation of the British Monarchy after the reign of the present Queen Elizabeth II ends.
Gillard’s centre-left Labor party has been long known to favor the idea of a republic over the continued rule of the Windsor family. Though Gillard admitted that Australia had “deep affection” for [...]
