Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Israeli officials have criticized ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan for calling a possible attack on Iran “a stupid idea,” saying he should not share his personal views with others. In his first public appearance since leaving office in early January, Dagan publicly argued against an airstrike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Addressing the Hebrew University... 

Africa Day will be celebrated in Limerick on May 25. Sounds, tastes and visions of Africa will be prominent in Limerick at the end of this month as the city celebrates Africa Day. Minister of State for Trade and Development Jan O’Sullivan, has launched a programme of cultural and community events to mark Africa Day, with events taking place in Limerick, Dublin, and Galway. There are some 1,200 people... 

Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi. Iran’s intelligence minister says the country has reliable information that former head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group Osama bin Laden died of disease some time ago. “We have accurate information that bin Laden died of illness some time ago,” Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting on Sunday. He questioned Washington’s... 

Europol sounded the alarm this week over the prospect that terrorists may seek entry into the European Union, concealing themselves among the waves of migrants fleeing war-torn Libya and other troubled parts of North Africa. The European law enforcement agency also warned that if the expectations of the Arab Spring are not fully realised, radicalisation and an accompanying surge in support for terrorist... 

Entertainer Simon Ledger was singing Kung Fu Fighting as a Chinese man and his mother walked past which later prompted the complaint to the police. A pub singer has been arrested on suspicion of racism for singing the classic chart hit Kung Fu Fighting. The song, performed by Simon Ledger, 34, is said to have offended two Chinese people as they walked past the bar where he was singing. The entertainer... 

French Interior Minister Claude Gueant seeks to ban praying in the street as part of a continuation of recent actions against Muslims in the western European country. Gueant said that he plans to make praying in the streets for Muslims illegal, although all public prayers in France receive government approval beforehand. “Here we have the hypocrisy of the French right. On one side, they authorize... 

Sarkozy and Berlusconi are demanding European deportation pacts with the countries of revolutionary north Africa to send migrants home. Sarkozy and Berlusconi want passport-free travel within the EU suspended as north African migrants flee north. France and Italy have thrown down the gauntlet over Europe’s system of passport-free travel, saying a crisis of immigration sparked by the Arab spring... 

WikiLeaks: Half of the prisoners at Guantánamo were innocent. The newspapers El Pais, The New York Times and Washington Post published on their Web sites Sunday night (24) a series of secret documents that reveal detailed information about the U.S. military base in Guantanamo. The three publications deal with 759 records of 779 prisoners who passed through the prison. Dated between 2002 and 2009,... 

Police warn of possible terror attack during wedding event. Once again, the corporate media rolls out a scary story about Islamists threatening the state, this time represented by the British royal family. “Police are concerned about two extreme groups which are planning protests during the Royal Wedding,” Sky News reports today. Sky News reports that Muslims Against the Crusades has decided to... 

Documents leaked by WikiLeaks on Tuesday (19) prove once again that the “war” in Iraq was a big hoax – concocted by the capitalist powers and amplified by the corporate media. They show that the British government, in collusion with the U.S., discussed the sharing of oil from the invaded country a year before the invasion. The history of the existence of weapons of mass destruction... 

A radical Muslim preacher has been ordered by German authorities to depart the country immediately. The move comes after he attended an Islamist rally in Frankfurt that took place despite the objections of city leaders. Citing security concerns, the authorities said if he doesn’t depart on his own, he could be arrested and forcibly deported. Philips, who was born in Jamaica and raised in Canada,... 

Wolfgang Schäuble enters multiculturalism row, saying problems of integrating Turkish guest workers have grown with third generation. Germany’s finance minister has waded into the country’s simmering row over multiculturalism, saying it had been a mistake to bring in so many Gastarbeiter, or guest workers, from Turkey during the economic boom years of the 1960s. In an interview with the... 

Click on the image to enlarge it It’s not just the iPhone 4 that records your movements, but all iPhones updated to iOS 4+. Two security researchers in the UK have uncovered a disturbing truth. It appears iPhone 4’s everywhere have been tracking their users movements with startling accuracy (unbeknownst to the users) and what is more, the ease at which this information can be deciphered... 

School secretary Julie Gagnon (stage name Samantha Ardente) explaining to a reporter her case. The 14-year-old pupil who outed a school secretary for leading a secret double-life as a adult film star demanded sex from the woman to keep quiet, her legal team has claimed. The Canadian boy was suspended from school in March for creating a fake Facebook page in her name with a racy profile picture of the... 

Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi Yonah Metzger on Sunday called on US President Barack Obama to free Jewish-American spy Jonathan Pollard if he wants Jews to vote for his reelection. Israeli public radio quoted Metzger as saying Obama should free Pollard, who was convicted of spying for Israel, before pushing the Jewish state into peace initiatives. “Obama should prove his friendship with...