Asia
Is It Nuts to Let Iran Go Nuclear?
On the morning of January 11, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a 32-year-old chemist from Sharif University in Tehran, was riding in a Peugeot 405...
Russia, China Block UN Vote on Syria Regime Change
The governments of China and Russia blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad to hand over power,...
Read moreUN Textbooks in Palestinian Schools Strongly Anti-Israel, Anti-U.S.
Textbooks provided by the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestinian schools have been found to contain strongly anti-Israeli and anti-American...
Read moreChina Announces More Open Gov’t., Less Open Internet
In response to rising citizen demand for government transparency and efficiency, this year China plans to defog the secretive workings of the government...
Read moreReport: Israeli Spies Posed as CIA to Recruit Anti-Iran Terrorists
An explosive report published late last week by the magazine Foreign Policy, citing half-a-dozen current and former U.S. intelligence officers, claimed that spies...
Read moreWith Increasing Conflict in Syria, Talk of “Intervention” Escalates
As Iraq flexes its muscle following the departure of U.S. troops, and as Iran continues to challenge the “international community” relative to its...
Read moreIran Blames United States, Israel for Assassination of Nuclear Scientist
Iranian officials are accusing the U.S. and Israeli governments of assassinating another senior nuclear scientist in Tehran, using a car-bomb terrorist attack as...
Read morePanetta Says No Nukes for Iran Yet, But Calls for Continued Sanctions
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a television audience January 8 that while Iran may be laying the groundwork for nuclear weapons, it is...
Read moreU.S. Impacted by China Food Safety Concerns
China has been hit once more by a food safety crisis, as officials in that country attempt to assure its own people, as...
Read moreMossad Spy Chief: Iran Nuke Not “Existential Threat”
Hysteria over Iran’s alleged nuclear-weapons program has been steadily rising among some U.S. and Israeli officials. But Tamir Pardo (left), the chief of...
Read moreCommunist Chinese Official Warns of More Uprisings Over Government Corruption
A senior communist officer who helped bring an end to a standoff between local government officials and residents of the village of Wukan,...
Read moreChina, Japan Agree to Reduce Reliance on U.S. Dollar
The government of Japan and the communist dictatorship ruling mainland China announced a landmark agreement this week to facilitate trade between the two...
Read morePersecution May End Christian Mideast Presence
Leonard Leo, Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), warned in a video interview with Terry Jeffrey at CNSNews.com that...
Read moreChina’s Economic Implosion Accelerates
On Monday, Gordon Chang, the author of The Coming Collapse of China and regular contributor at Forbes.com, was interviewed on Yahoo’s Daily Ticker,...
Read moreNorth Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Il Dead at 69
North Korea’s official government-controlled media announced that the country’s “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong-Il, died on Saturday at age 69 from “physical and mental...
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