President Obama tells the Univision, Latino audience to, “Punish our enemies and reward our friends.” On Monday, October 25, Obama asked for a Latino upsurge in voting number for the upcoming election on November 2nd. “If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to... 

Indoneisa has admitted it's soldiers tortured a Papuan man Indonesia has admitted that its soldiers had tortured Papuan men seen in an online video being beaten and humiliated, and promised a thorough investigation. The soldiers applied a burning stick to the genitals of one of the unarmed detainees and threatened another with a knife as they interrogated them over the location of a weapons cache,... 

A pilot for ExpressJet Airlines refused to submit to a full-body scan in Memphis on Saturday, saying the technology amounts to “virtual strip searching.” Detained by airport security, he now may lose his job. Here’s his heroic first-hand account. Michael Roberts says he has been reporting for work in Memphis for 4 1/2 years without incident until Friday, the first time that the Transportation... 

It may not be politically correct to say it, but most Americans think the country’s gotten too PC and see that as a problem. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of Adults believe America today has become too politically correct, while just 23% say the country is not politically correct enough. Eleven percent (11%) say the balance is about right. Some people think that... 

Row: Jacinta Lal raised eyebrows at the Wellington leg of the MissIndiaNZ contest where some of the audience accused her of not being Indian enough. Her stunning looks won her a coveted title in New Zealand’s Miss India contest. But Jacinta Lal, 21, was today at the centre of a huge row after she was accused of not looking Indian enough. The blue-eyed blonde, whose father is Fijian-Indian and... 

The Irish Nobel peace laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire at the Israeli supreme court yesterday. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who tried to break Gaza blockade, loses appeal against deportation. Israel today expelled an Irish Nobel peace laureate and pro-Palestinian activist who was barred from the country for trying to break the naval blockade of Gaza. Máiread Corrigan Maguire was placed on an early morning... 

Australia may pressure Sweden to prosecute Julian Assange or others linked to his whistleblower website WikiLeaks if planned releases of military documents outlining the Iraq and Afghanistan wars pose a risk to serving forces. Attorney-General Robert McClelland warned Mr Assange, who is an Australian citizen but runs his rogue website from Sweden, that he could not ”from the comforts of his... 

Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders appealed for freedom of expression Monday as he went on trial for alleged hate speech at a time when his popularity and influence in the Netherlands are near all-time highs. Prosecutors say Wilders has incited hate against Muslims, pointing to a litany of quotes and remarks he has made in recent years. In one opinion piece he wrote “I’ve had enough... 

South African right-winger and former Rhodesian SAS soldier Willem Ratte and 10 others were arrested for possession of illegal firearms, Mpumalanga police say. Police arrested the men on a farm in Balmoral near Witbank on Thursday afternoon. “We don’t have much information at this stage. The 11 were arrested for being in possession of unlawful firearms and ammunition,” police spokesman... 

A conservative student in Florida says he has the evidence that implicates a public college administrator who last week ordered members of Young Americans for Freedom to leave a campus event after they displayed Heritage Foundation research papers. Palm Beach State College activities director Olivia Morris-Ford, a Facebook fan of President Barack Obama and filmmaker Michael Moore, booted the conservative... 

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stepped out of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s shadow long enough on Tuesday to fire Moscow’s larger-than-life mayor, rattling a political establishment that until now has accepted Putin as the nation’s undisputed authority. The mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, has ruled Russia’s biggest and wealthiest city since 1992 with an authority that would have... 

Though the administration is also on the verge of getting broad powers to destroy the entire Internet on national security grounds, President Obama is also seeking Congressional approval for a bill that would grant him virtually limitless power to wiretap online communications as well. The bill would require every single online service with even a peripheral capability of allowing for communication... 

Pirates seize cargo ship off Somalia’s coast with 12 Ukrainians onboard. The European Union’s anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have hijacked a cargo ship carrying steel bars and wires off the coast of Somalia. The force said in a statement that the MV Lugela sent a distress call to its Greek operator Saturday when pirates attacked it about 900 nautical miles east of the Somali pirate... 

Advocates for separation of church and state are urging cancellation of a Christian concert at a U.S. Army base but base officials say the event will be held. “Rock the Fort” — scheduled for Saturday at Fort Bragg, N.C. — is being sponsored by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which said on its Web site the concert would be a “clear presentation of the Christian... 

Arizona voters will decide in November whether to ban state and local governments from discrimination or preferential treatment based on race, ethnicity and sex. The state constitutional amendment doesn’t use the term “affirmative action,” but there is no disputing that is what Proposition 107 is aimed at eliminating. Such programs generally give preferences to minorities. Proponents...