At least 50 killed in terror attack at Nigeria college
At least 50 killed in terror attack at Nigeria college
Remaining students flee agricultural school after suspected Islamists launch midnight assault; 30 more civilians killed over past week
Students massacred in Nigeria attack
Tunisian government agrees to resignation plan with opposition
Tunisia’s ruling moderate Islamic Ennahda Party has agreed to resign in order to put an end to the ongoing political deadlock in the North African country.
Tunisia’s ruling Islamists accept plan to step down
Car bomb kills 33 in northwest Pakistan
Obama Talks on Phone With Iran’s Leader, Negotiates With Tehran
“Just now I spoke on the phone with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said. “The two of us discussed our ongoing efforts to reach an agreement over Iran’s nuclear program.”
Netanyahu’s tough talk on Iran may find a less receptive audience
Iran’s President Rouhani Pelted with Eggs for Talking to Obama
Iran’s new President Hassan Rouhani had to confront several dozen of Islamist opposers upon coming back from his trip to New York to take part in the UN General Assembly.
Shoes, eggs & rocks at Rouhani’s airport reception
Iranian president gets mixed welcome in Tehran after his five-day trip to New York, Obama phone call
The Israeli Lobby Sets Out To Defeat Obama on Iran
Israel starts campaign to boost U.S. military aid
Brian Williams’ Iran propaganda
The NBC star tells his viewers that Iranian leaders are ‘suddenly claiming they don’t want nuclear weapons’, even though they’ve been saying it for years
Iran unveils short-range reconnaissance drone
UK seeks full cyber warfare capability, experts
Britain will recruit hundreds of computer experts to defend its vital networks against cyber attacks and launch high-tech assaults of its own, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday.
NSA: Analysts spied on love interests
The National Security Agency has admitted that analysts have abused their authority to spy on love interests on several occasions.
Glenn Greenwald working on new NSA revelations
Dream Team: Scahill, Greenwald Investigating NSA Role in US ‘Assassination Program’
‘The connections between war and surveillance are clear.’
N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
Immune drugs hold hope of “clinical cure” for deadly skin cancer
‘It is time to end the war on drugs’, says top UK police chief
Mike Barton, Durham’s chief constable, says NHS ‘could be used to supply addicts’ and urges drugs policy revolution
On the shifting frontlines of the fight against al-Shabaab
Even as last weekend’s horrific events in Nairobi were unfolding, a brutal and deadly war was being played out hundreds of miles to the north in Somalia
Lee Rigby’s Muslim murder suspects plead not guilty to hacking in London street
Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, the two men who were arrested for hacking to death a British soldier as he walked down London streets in broad daylight, pleaded not guilty in court on Friday.
22 militants killed in Afghan raids in 24 hours: official
Twenty-two militants were killed in operations in Afghanistan, the country’s Interior Ministry said Sunday morning.
Obama Talks on Phone With Iran’s Leader
Obama Talks on Phone With Iran’s Leader, Negotiates With Tehran
“Just now I spoke on the phone with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said. “The two of us discussed our ongoing efforts to reach an agreement over Iran’s nuclear program.” This is the first time leaders from America and Iran have spoken since 1979.
Kerry Shakes Hands With Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif
Female State Dept. employee passes ‘to be respectful of the tradition that they would not shake hands with a woman.’
NSA Chief: ‘Yes’ – Our Desire Is To Collect All US Communications
‘The truth always manages to come out,’ Sen. Wyden promises during hearing on dragnet domestic spying
Journalist Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘Pathetic’ American Media
Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should ‘fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can’t control’
UK detention of Reprieve activist consistent with NSA’s view of drone opponents as ‘threats’ and ‘adversaries’
A top secret NSA document provides context for yesterday’s abusive detention of Baraa Shiban
U.S., Russia agree on Syria U.N. chemical arms measure
Qatar failing on forced labour, says UN agency
International Labour Organisation says Qatar does not properly inspect migrant workers’ conditions despite signing convention
Six-year-old becomes first transgender child in Argentina to change identity
A six-year-old girl, who was born a boy, has become the first transgender child in Argentina to have her new name officially changed on her identity documents.
Marissa Alexander Gets New Trial
A Good Day: Marissa Alexander Gets New Trial
In a rare win for sanity, a Florida appeals court has ordered a new trial for Marissa Alexander, the African-American woman sentenced to 20 years after firing a warning shot into a wall during a dispute with her abusive husband just days after she’d given birth.
US Syria plans face setback as key rebels break from coalition
US-Backed Syrian Rebels Form New Alliance With Al-Qaeda Affiliate
Homemade sarin was used in attack near Damascus – Lavrov
Russia has enough evidence to assert that homemade sarin was used on August 21 in a chemical attack near Damascus, the same type but in higher concentration than in an Aleppo incident earlier this year, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said.
Dominican Republic’s Ruling Strips Many of Citizenship
The Dominican Republic’s top court on Thursday stripped citizenship from thousands of people born to migrants who came illegally, a category that overwhelmingly includes Haitians brought in to work on farms.
71 Still Missing as Questions Grow on Kenya Mall Attack
Who Started the Fire? Kenya Struggles to Get its Story Straight
Al-Shabab’s Nairobi Mall Rampage Tied to “Disastrous” U.S. Meddling in Somalia
Kenya has begun three days of mourning for at least 67 people killed in the siege of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. The death count could still rise if more bodies are found in the rubble of the mall’s three floors. The Somali militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it retaliation for Kenyan military intervention in Somalia.
Kenya mall attack: dozens more bodies believed buried under rubble
Intelligence source tells Guardian that one attacker remains engaged in conflict with security forces
Threat Inflation 6.0: Does al-Shabab Really Threaten the U.S.?
Sometimes you read a news story that brilliantly illuminates just what is wrong with the basic U.S. approach to national security these days. Case in point: today’s New York Times story headlined “U.S. Sees Direct Threat in Attack at Kenya Mall.” Of course we do. When was the last time something bad happened somewhere and the U.S. government didn’t see it as a threat?
Is Al-Shabab Trying to Pull the US Into A Military Quagmire in Africa?
Tony Blair: long-term problem of extremism needs to be confronted
Envoy to Middle East says religion needs to be put ‘in its proper place in politics’
Charles Taylor’s 50-year sentence for Sierra Leone war crimes upheld
Former Liberian president to be jailed in UK for supporting rebel leaders who committed atrocities in Sierra Leone for ‘blood diamonds’
Iran President’s Speech at UN General Assembly
“Militarism and the recourse to violent and military means to subjugate others are failed examples of the perpetuation of old ways in new circumstances.”
Rohani: Israel must join non-nuclear treaty
Iranian president says Israel must join Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. ‘No nation should possess nuclear weapons,’ he adds
Now’s the time to strip Israel of its WMDs
AIPAC gears up for war with Obama
Why Netanyahu Spurns an Iran Deal
To understand Netanyahu’s posture one needs to realize that it is not only, or maybe even primarily, about a possible Iranian nuclear weapon. It is partly a matter of heading off any rapprochement between Iran and the United States, which would weaken the Israeli claim to being America’s sole reliable and important partner in the Middle East.
Russia Must Stop U.S. Aggression
Russia’s dream is coming true: The peace-loving people of the world support Moscow’s plan for resolving the Syrian crisis. What’s more, Group of 20 member states have split into two camps. The majority, headed by President Vladimir Putin, favor a peaceful resolution and the minority, led by U.S. President Barack Obama, advocate military intervention.
NSA Spied on MLK, US Senators and Other Vietnam War Critics, Documents Show
Agency’s self-proclaimed ‘disreputable if not outright illegal’ practices threaten civil liberties then and now, critics warn
US intelligence chiefs urge Congress to preserve surveillance programs
Officials refuse to say in Senate testimony whether cell site data had ever been used to pinpoint an individual’s location
U.S. officials dodge questions on scope of surveillance
FBI Plays the Role of Domestic Spy And Spy-Enabler, Says New Report
Glenn Greenwald to Haaretz: Why Whistleblower Snowden Came to Me
“My Mother Was Killed By A U.S. Drone”
It was clear that this was no abstract instance of collateral damage. As a father of four, I am haunted daily by the stories of children being injured or killed by drone strikes.
Obama and the Usual American ‘DAM’ Exceptionalism – Delusion, Arrogance and Mendacity
Bragging Rights – Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the Twenty-First Century
American Exceptionalism Revisited
Baghdad Market Blasts; 58 Killed, 109 Wounded
Venezuela’s leader Maduro blames axed UN trip on ‘plot’
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro skipped a visit to the United Nations citing “threats” against him.