A White House official has advised Pyongyang to admit it is guilty of hacking Sony Pictures’ database and pay damages to the film company. Washington dismissed North Korea’s proposal to hold a joint investigation. A spokesman for the White House National Security Council (NSC), Mark Stroh, said Saturday that “If the North Korean government wants to help, they can admit their culpability and... 

Newly-elected Romanian President Klaus Iohannis Shortly after being sworn in as Romania’s new president, Klaus Iohannis has called on politicians to make efforts to uproot corruption in the country. Iohannis made the remarks on Sunday while addressing the Romanian parliament after his swearing-in ceremony. The new president said there is no path for Romania other than becoming a nation “rid of... 

Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, seen here in May 2014 in Brussels, sparked outrage over his ‘fewer Moroccans’ comments. Dutch far-right populist lawmaker Geert Wilders is be tried for inciting “racial hatred” after pledging in March to ensure there were ‘fewer Moroccans’ in the Netherlands, prosecutors said Thursday. ‘The public prosecutor in The Hague... 

A fresh opinion poll shows more British people now demand that the UK abandon its membership in the European Union. According to the French Opinion Way, the British appeared most certain of all that they want to leave the union, with only 37% against breaking ties. The poll showed that 42 percent of British respondents want to leave the EU, while 21 percent are not sure of the answer. Now Paolo Raffone,... 

“The Interview” involves a plot that leads to the fictional assassination of the North Korean leader. US President Barack Obama has threatened to retaliate a cyber attack on Sony Pictures after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) publically blamed it on the North Korean government. “They caused a lot of damage and we will respond. We will respond proportionally… in a place, time,... 

The Israeli intelligence minister describes as an “act of war” a Palestinian draft submitted to the UN Security Council to end Israeli occupation by the end of 2017. “The Palestinians made sure to remove any mention of Israel’s status as a Jewish state from the draft, which means this is not an act of peace, it’s an act of war,” Israel Radio quoted Yuval Steinitz as saying on Thursday. The... 

​American forces were involved in their first ground battle with Islamic State fighters, according to Kurdish media outlet Shafaq News, near the Ain Al-Assad base in the Anbar province of Iraq early Sunday. The report could not be independently verified. US forces allegedly came to the aid of tribal fighters and the Iraqi Army battling Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) militants in the... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow on December 18, 2014. Western nations want to chain “the Russian bear,” pull out its teeth and ultimately have it stuffed, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned. He said anti-Russian sanctions are the cost of being an independent nation. Putin used the vivid metaphor of a “chained bear” during his annual... 

GhostSwimmer is a five-foot long robot resembles a shark, weighs 100 pounds and can operate in various water depths. The United States and Russia are competing in the Navy field by preparing to deploy unmanned submarine drones in international waters amid growing tensions between the two countries. The US Navy’s Pacific Command announced recently that it has successfully completed tests on its GhostSwimmer... 

A chilling report published today by the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) is warning of potentially “catastrophic unknown consequences” relating to President Putin’s issuance to the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) of orders to initiate what is commonly known within the Kremlin as the “Samson Defense” designed to crash the Russian ruble, while at the same time insuring the economic collapse... 

Poly WB-1 China has presented Poly WB-1, a non-lethal ray gun that can be used for crowd dispersal, by making its targets feel like their skin is on fire. The US version of the weapon was shelved due to practical difficulties and the potential public backlash. According to the authoritative Jane’s magazine, the WB-1, presented at the Airshow China 2014 in Zhuhai last month, has a current range of... 

Up to 15,000 people have marched against “asylum cheats” in anti-Islamization rally in Dresden, Germany. The group’s protests are attracting bigger crowds every week since its first rally in October, which gathered just a few hundred people. Nationalist activists carried banners reading “Zero tolerance towards criminal asylum seekers”, “Protect our homeland” and “Stop the Islamisation”. They... 

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. The EU foreign policy chief says Brussels has agreed to impose new sanctions against Crimea, stressing the bloc will not recognize its reunification with the Russian Federation. Federica Mogherini made the announcement on Monday after the first meeting of the EU-Ukraine Association Council in the EU’s de facto capital, Brussels. The new sanctions set to... 

Huawei has announced it is dropping all plans to make future Windows Phone smartphones. The reason is quite simple, it didn’t make any money from manufacturing Windows Phone devices. Huawei’s spokesman went even further, stating that nobody has made any money from the Microsoft’s OS. We guess it is referring to Microsoft’s newest partners (Blu, Lava, Micromax, Prestigio, Yezz,... 

In addition to declaring economic war on Russia, attempting to cripple the largest exporter of natural gas in the world, and arming a fanatical clique of fascists in Kiev, S.2828, dubbed the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, dusts off a Cold War relic. The final paragraph of a summary of S.2828 states: Directs the Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors to submit to Congress a plan for...