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Sandstorm kills at least 4 in Iran capital
A massive sandstorm and record winds killed at least four people in Tehran on Monday, plunging the Iranian capital into darkness, knocking ...Pro-Russia rebels attack Ukrainian border guards
Hundreds of pro-Russian insurgents assaulted a border command center in a key eastern Ukrainian city before dawn Monday, leading to heavy clashes ...Juvenile Prison: $5 Billion for Child Abuse
Every juvenile prison must be immediately closed and all of its prisoners ...Does War Have a Future?
National officials certainly assume that war has a future. According to aUS soldier freed in Afghanistan, five Taliban prisoners leave Guantanamo
A US soldier captured nearly five years ago in Afghanistan was freed Saturday in exchange for five Taliban inmates held at the ...Suspect arrested over Jewish museum shooting in Belgium
A Frenchman has reportedly been arrested over a suspected anti-Semitic attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that killed four people.UN says Iraqi violence claimed 799 lives in May
A total of 799 Iraqis were killed and 1,409 others injured in violent attacks in May, most of whom civilians, according to ...Department of Ironic Defense
By Tom H. Hastings Like so many other US military bases overseas, the Okinawan locals who oppose the base are told that ...Iran executes man despite international pressure
Iran on Sunday hanged a man said to be affiliated to an exiled opposition group, state media reported, despite international pressure on ...Former guerrilla sworn in as El Salvador president
Former guerrilla commander Salvador Sanchez Ceren was sworn in Sunday as president of El Salvador with the pressing tasks of dealing with ...