Ireland Faces EU’s Lisbon Treaty Referendum … Again
Irish voters will once again vote in a referendum on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty on October 2, which they last rejected on June 12, 2008 by a 53 percent to 46...
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Free Markets Win Big in German Election
The so-called “Grand Coalition” in Germany is over, with its left-wing party being decimated at the polls. ...
Iran Sends Mixed Signals on Nuclear Program
Speaking two days before Iran is scheduled to meet the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany in Geneva to discuss its nuclear fuel enrichment program, Ali Akbar...
Europeans Blown Away by Govt-Funded Wind Farms
Between 500 and 1,000 protesters gathered last weekend at Mont-Saint-Michel in France to demonstrate against plans to build a wind farm along the Normandy coast. They say it would be a...
Gordon Brown Brokered Prisoner-for-oil Deal
The buck (or the pound, in this case) stops at the desk of perpetually embattled British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. According to numerous reports in newspapers in the U.K. and worldwide,...
Iran Tests Long-range Missiles
Iran’s state-sponsored Press TV news channel announced on September 28 that the nation’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) had test-fired two long-range missiles. ...
Increased Risk of H1N1 From Seasonal Flu Vaccine?
A Canadian study is making waves across the international press after reportedly finding evidence of an increased risk for swine flu infection among people who have taken the seasonal influenza vaccine....
Obama Condemns Iran Over Secret Nuclear Plant
Appearing at a press conference at the Pittsburgh Convention Center with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Group of 20 economic summit on September 25,...
There’s Gold in Them There Shires!
To paraphrase an axiom: "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to use a metal detector and he'll be RICH!" Something like that, anyway. Terry...
Zelaya’s Return to Honduras Incites Protests
Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was forcibly exiled to Costa Rica on June 28 by military forces acting on the orders of the Honduran Supreme Court after he made plans...
McChrystal Afghanistan Report Calls for More Troops
What had previously been suspected from reports leaked from private sources is now official: U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has warned that...
McChrystal Wants More Troops in Afghanistan
A Fox News report on September 16 cited sources that said U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has privately been requesting between 30,000...
Karzai Denies Afghan Vote Fraud, Blames Media
Speaking at his first press conference since Afghanistan's August 20 presidential election, President Hamid Karzai on September 17 denied that massive fraud had taken place to win him a second term...
Japan May Withdraw Support for Afghan War
Yukio Hatoyama took office on September 16 as Japan's new prime minister, following an August 30 electoral victory in which he led the Democrat Party of Japan to victory over the...
Karzai Gets 54% of Afghan Vote, Dispute Continues
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission released figures on September 16 showing President Hamid Karzai with 54.6 percent of the vote in the first complete results reported since the country's August 20 presidential...