Bilderbergs Hold Annual Meeting in Greece
The highly secretive Bilderberg Group held its 2009 annual meeting from May 14 to 17 at a luxury resort in Athens, Greece. As...
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Afghans Deny Zalmay Khalilzad to Have Top Kabul Post
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has denied a speculative report appearing in the New York Times for May 19 that Zalmay Khalilzad, who was...
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Critics Rebuke Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI gave a speech at Israel’s Yad Veshem Holocaust Memorial this past Monday, during which he paid tribute to the Jewish...
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European Union Fines Intel $1.45 billion
The EU's European Commission imposed a fine of 1.06 billion Euros ($1.45 billion) on Intel Corporation on May 13, allegedly "for violating EC...
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Mexican Violence, Gun Controls
On the CBS television show Face the Nation on April 12, in an interview with Bob Schieffer, Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States...
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Obama Renews Sanctions on Syria
After months of initiatives and statements from the new Obama administration indicating it intended to reverse U.S. policy and reopen relations with Syria,...
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Papal Visit to Jordan Prompts Diverse Muslim Response
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Amman, Jordan, on May 8 at the beginning of an eight-day Holy Land pilgrimage. Besides Jordan, the pope’s...
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Spreading Christianity in Dar al-Islam
If our military is any indication, it just may be true that there are no atheists in a foxhole. The armed forces have...
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Pakistan Cracks Down on Taliban
Pakistani fighter jets and helicopters struck Taliban positions in the country's Swat Valley on May 7 as the military continued its offensive against...
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Radio Broadcaster Michael Savage and Others Banned From U.K.
The United Kingdom released a list of the names of 16 people not allowed into the U.K. (apparently six more people are banned,...
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Pakistan: Sanctuary for Taliban, al-Qaeda
Back in February, Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, predicted that the additional 17,000 U.S. troops scheduled to...
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Duffy Is New Poet Laureate, but No Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson may be turning in his grave. The author of some of the most exalted poetry in the English language, such...
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Geert Wilders Not Welcome in Denmark
It appears as if another country is afraid of Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders because of his outspoken views about Islam and his film...
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North Korean Threat Grossly Overblown
In the midst of an economic crisis and worries over a global epidemic, North Korea’s creaky totalitarian state continues to occupy headline news....
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Demise of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers May Be Near
The long-running war in Sri Lanka, the impoverished Indian Ocean nation suspended like a tropical teardrop below India’s southern tip, appears to be...
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