Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:10:04 +0000

Wall Street Journal: The European Commission proposed Wednesday to suspend €495 million ($602.2 million) in European Union budget funds for Hungary in 2013 unless it acts quickly to cut its deficit.

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:40:47 +0000

Robert McDowell at the Wall Street Journal: On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet.

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:20:16 +0000

WorldNetDaily: Part of Obama’s apparent war against U.S. energy independence includes a foreign-aid program that directly threatens my state’s sovereign territory. Obama’s State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin.

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:49:49 +0000

AP: Three Iranians detained after accidentally setting off explosives in Bangkok were planning to attack Israeli diplomats . . .

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:47:30 +0000

Breitbart: Soros warned against addressing the crisis with spending cuts, urging the injection of funds instead.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:57:13 +0000

News from The Associated Press: Egypt's military-backed prime minister says Cairo will not halt its crackdown on foreign nonprofit groups despite what he calls threats to cut off aid from Western and Arab countries.

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:34:14 +0000

BBC News: wenty-five of the EU's 27 member states have agreed to join a fiscal treaty to enforce budget discipline.

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:07:20 +0000

News from The Associated Press: South Korea allowed members of a private group to accompany aid to North Korea for the first time Friday since leader Kim Jong Il died last month.

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:23:04 +0000

News from The Associated Press: Egypt has banned the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and a number of other Americans from leaving the country as tensions rise over moves by Egyptian authorities to restrict the work of international rights organizations.

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:15:22 +0000

News from The Associated Press: Several popular Polish websites are planning to go dark for an hour Tuesday evening to protest the government's plan to sign an international copyright treaty.

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:43:08 +0000

Bloomberg: Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a telephone call yesterday, told Obama “Canada will continue to work to diversify its energy exports,” according to details provided by Harper’s office. Canadian Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver said relying less on the U.S. would help strengthen the country’s “financial security.”

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:09:23 +0000

News from The Associated Press: An aide to Iraq's most prominent Shiite cleric is urging politicians on both sides of the country's sectarian divide to end a government crisis, as fears of civil war rise a month after the U.S. military withdrawal.

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:00:47 +0000

Pat Buchanan at Townhall: Before some agent provocateur pushes us into war with Iran, Congress should debate the wisdom of authorizing President Obama, or anyone else, to take America into her fifth war in a generation in the Middle and Near East.

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:54:10 +0000

News from The Associated Press: Demonstrations against Romania's harsh austerity measures took place across the country again on Wednesday, with protesters demanding the government's resignation.

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:43:44 +0000

The Independent: Lord Wallace of Tankerness QC restated the UK Government's view that the "Scottish Parliament has no power to deliver a referendum on independence".

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:17:22 +0000

The Christian Institute: Britain’s Security Service, MI5, has been included in a lobby group’s top 100 employers for homosexuals for the first time.

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:19:42 +0000

News from The Associated Press: The number of Internet users in China has surged past 500 million as millions of new Web surfers go online using mobile phones and tablet computers, an industry group reported Monday.

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:53:29 +0000

CNBC: Standard & Poor's will cut the credit ratings of Italy, Spain and Portugal by two notches and downgrade France and Austria by one notch, a French newspaper said Friday, without citing its sources.

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:01:42 +0000

News from The Associated Press: Thousands of mourners chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran's nuclear program.

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:04:38 +0000

CSMonitor.com: Evidence of a covert war against Iran's nuclear program is mounting. Yesterday's assassination of an Iranian scientist tied to the program is just the most recent data point in the last year that indicates an accelerating effort to spread fear and slow the country's nuclear work.

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:30:19 +0000

The Hill: Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), brushed off criticism of his group's plan to allow for new Web domain endings in an interview with The Hill on Wednesday.

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:06:20 +0000

JPost: Clinton flatly denies US involvement "in any kind of act of violence inside Iran," calls Hormuz threats "provocative, dangerous."

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:34:50 +0000

NY Times: A bomber on a motorcycle killed a scientist from Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site and his bodyguard-driver on Wednesday during the morning commute in Tehran, Iranian media reported, in an assassination that could further elevate international tensions over the Iranian nuclear program and stoke the country’s growing anti-Western belligerence.

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:10:45 +0000

News from The Associated Press: The World Economic Forum warned Wednesday that the financial crisis that has gripped the global economy for the past few years is fueling resentment that could lay the seeds for a rising tide of protectionism, nationalism and social unrest.

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:19:14 +0000

The Guardian: Alex Salmond has revealed he plans to stage his independence referendum in the autumn of 2014 after he resisted UK government demands to set an early date for the historic poll.

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:09:22 +0000

News from The Associated Press: Britain's government says it will give Scotland the power to hold a binding vote that would give it independence from Britain, turning back centuries of history.

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:35:26 +0000

VOA News: an announced on Monday it had sentenced a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen to death for spying for the CIA, creating fresh grounds for hostility with Washington at a time when Tehran has responded to new U.S. sanctions with military threats.

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:10:14 +0000

Robert Wright at the The Atlantic: This is sheer conjecture; Ron Paul is no expert on Iran. But now someone who does have relevant credentials has weighed in, and the picture he paints is disturbingly reminiscent of the one Paul painted. It suggests we may be closer to war than most people realize.

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:17:18 +0000

Bonian Golmohammadi at the : Huffington Post: On December 15-16, governments, international agencies and civil society groups met to discuss hundreds of recommendations on sustainable development in preparation for the June 2012 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development. Focuses ranged from creating green jobs, to improving food security, achieving universal energy access, bettering water resource management, and addressing shark finning and marine pollution.

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:38:36 +0000

NCPA Policy Digest: Considering that the United States has a 17.75 percent share in the IMF, these lending commitments put the U.S. taxpayer at risk for an almost $20 billion loss should those countries be unable to repay the IMF.

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:59:12 +0000

Religion Clause: Reuters yesterday reported on controversy that is being caused by the entry of the large U.S. investment banking firm, Goldman Sachs, into the Islamic finance market.

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:38:22 +0000

Bloomberg: The West is using cultural means to divide China (PRCH), which needs to be alert to this threat, President Hu Jintao said in a Communist Party magazine.

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:09:38 +0000

Catholic Culture: An unidentified buyer has purchased the internet address "vatican.xxx," raising the possibility that a pornographic site could occupy that space on the web.

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:42:11 +0000

The Washington Post: The spokesman of Egypt’s ultraconservative Islamist party told Israeli Army Radio in unprecedented remarks broadcast Wednesday that the group is not opposed to the country’s historic peace treaty with Israel.

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:06:38 +0000

Gordon G. Chang at National Review Online: Beijing has, for decades, been buying the loyalty of the North’s generals and admirals faster than Kim Jong Il could purge them. Now that Kim is resting under glass in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, the Chinese are going to own all the flag officers they need.