How Israel Hid Its Secret Nuclear Weapons Program Posted: Friday, April 17, 2015
NSA and FBI fight to retain spy powers as surveillance law nears expiration With about 45 days remaining before a major post-9/11 surveillance authorization expires, representatives of the National Security Agency and the FBI are taking to Capitol Hill to convince legislators to preserve their sweeping spy powers.
Assange agrees to be interviewed at London embassy WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to be questioned over rape allegations at Ecuador's London embassy. The development could break a five-year deadlock in the case.
How Israel Hid Its Secret Nuclear Weapons Program An exclusive look inside newly declassified documents shows how Israel blocked U.S. efforts to uncover its secret nuclear reactor.
Eduardo Galeano on Haiti
Saudis Face Defeat in Yemen and Instability at Home
UN chief calls for immediate cease-fire in Yemen
No power, no fuel, no water, no food. That's Yemen right now The Saudi bombing campaign over Yemen has destroyed power transmission lines, taking out much of the country's electricity. In the capital, Sanaa, there's been no power for many days and nights.
Al-Qaeda Captures Yemen Airport, Oil Terminal Local Tribes Hope AQAP Will Give Airport to Them Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been the chief beneficiary of the Saudi war against Yemen's Houthis so far, as it has distracted the Houthis from fighting against them, and freed up AQAP forces to amass huge gains in the southeast.
Al Qaeda Is Beating the Islamic State Get ready for the clash of caliphates
Americans face harrowing escapes from Yemen, says U.S. envoy in Djibouti
Al-Shabab recruiting in Kenyan towns
Somali Shebab university massacre gunmen were Kenyans: report
Kenya 'begins construction' of Somalia security barrier
Iraq PM says Yemen could stoke regional war, slams Saudi operations
Iraqi PM warns Isis could become unstoppable as key city threatened
Iran urges India, China and Russia to counter NATO missile system Iran has announced its readiness to cooperate with Russia, China and India on the issue of NATO's missile shield and related threats from the military bloc, the head of its defense ministry said in Moscow.
Syrian Rebels Caught in 'False-Flag' Kidnapping In August 2013, when the U.S. government almost went to war in Syria over a Sarin attack, suspicions that it was a rebel "false-flag" were ridiculed. But new disclosures about a rebel role in kidnapping NBC's Richard Engel several months earlier show the rebels knew such propaganda tricks, says Robert Parry.
NBC News Alters Account of Correspondent's Kidnapping in Syria NBC News on Wednesday revised its account of the 2012 kidnapping of its chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, saying it was likely that Mr. Engel and his reporting team had been abducted by a Sunni militant group, not forces affiliated with the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
Noam Chomsky: We're facing a new Cold War The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes
"Operation F**k Putin" Hits a Wall, as the Russian Economy Returns to Growth Despite the low oil prices and the sanctions and the provocations and the constant vilification in the western press, Russia just puts its head down, and keeps on keeping on.
Direct line with Vladimir Putin Putin annual Q&A session 2015
Russia blames U.S. for security crises and turmoil in Ukraine
US 'crossed all imaginable lines' forcing Ukraine to do its bidding – Russian Def. Min.
Pro-Russian journalist shot dead in Ukraine A UKRAINIAN journalist known for his pro-Russian views has been shot dead in Kiev a day after a pro-Russian politician was found dead.
History of Ukraine Told by Assassinated Ukrainian Writer Oles Buzina Is this the Ukrainian democracy the West wants to see?
Murders of pro-Russian lobbyists increase tension in Ukraine standoff
America's Weaponising of Ignorance The contract killing of two opposition figures in Kiev this week is stark evidence that the country under the Western-backed regime is descending into a fully-fledged state of chaos and criminality.
Putin condemns Kiev over 'blockade' of east Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin says Ukraine's government is "cutting off" defiant rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine through an economic blockade.
Russia criticizes Canada for sending troops to Ukraine
Putin accuses US of isolating Russia, treating it as 'vassal' state
Minister: 40% of Venezuelans to Have Public Housing by 2019
Anti-Immigrant Violence in South Africa Leaves 5 Dead
10 Nigerians killed as xenophobic attacks spread in South Africa
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