Several armed groups, including the March 23 Movement (M23) rebels (members of which are seen above) are active in the eastern Congo. Violent clashes have broken out between the army forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo and militants in the eastern regions of the country. Residents of the Nyamilima region in the eastern province of North Kivu said the army forces engaged in heavy fighting with... 

Sir Bob Russell, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament Another member of the British parliament has nearly been sacked for comments his party describes as ‘a denigration’ of the Holocaust, local media reported. Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament Sir Bob Russell questioned Zionist regime’s treatment of Palestinians in an address to the House of Commons on Monday. “On the assumption that... 

In the wake of NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s recent revelations, the Obama administration may be willing to backtrack on some of its more notorious surveillance policies, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) told reporters. The long-time member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that privacy and civil liberties advocates could be on the verge of “making a comeback” due to the blowback caused... 

United States Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano resigns from her federal role on Friday in order to head the University of California school system. Following an initial report from Reuters suggesting Sec. Napolitano was set to resign, the Los Angeles Times reported early Friday that the former two-term governor or Arizona will exit her role with the Obama administration in lieu of job... 

Communists of Moldova announced the possibility of a “velvet revolution” in the country. This fall Moldova is to sign an association agreement with the European Union and further distance itself from Russia. In this situation, a “peaceful” revolution seems quite real. Could that be that someone wants to destabilize the situation through raising the Transdniestrian issue once... 

Just a week ago (4th of July), the Google-owned company Motorola released its first ad announcing the hotly rumored Motorola X smartphone flagship which is said to revolutionize the smartphone industry, in Apple iPhone-style. Not only that, but Google decided to build the highly expected Motorola X in the US, Texas, a former Nokia factory which was acquired by Google’s Motorola. This will be... 

Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) A prominent U.S. senator has called on the administration of President Barack Obama to attack Syrian “airfields, airplanes and massed artillery.” The influential chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin (D-Mich.) who has returned from a fact-finding trip to the Middle East, also expressed support for... 

US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden Fugitive US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden says the United States and Israel created the Stuxnet computer virus to sabotage Iran’s nuclear energy program. In an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel published on Monday, Snowden, who has been holed up in a Moscow airport since June, said the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Israel... 

Syrian refugees, driven out of their country by the war, are trying to cross the Turkish-Greek border to seek asylum in the European Union. It is obvious that Greece cannot accept all those in need, therefore, the Greek authorities take a tough stance with respect to illegal immigrants. However, people still flee, drowning in the Aegean Sea and in the Maritsa River at the border with Turkey. A Syrian... 

As Brazil awaits Washington’s response on reports that US spy agencies also conducted surveillance on Brazilian companies and citizens, its lawmakers are urging the nation’s president to cancel her October visit to the White House. Brazilian politicians have called on President Dilma Rousseff to adopt a tough position against Washington and cancel her official meeting with US President Barack... 

Chinese demonstrators carry Chinese national flags and shout slogans during a protest against Japan’s “nationalizing” of the Diaoyu islands, also known as Senkaku in Japan, in Wenzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province on September 18, 2012 Tokyo is increasingly under threat from an emboldened China and an unpredictable North Korea, a Japanese defense paper says. Accusing China... 

Britain has blocked talks between the US and the European Union on the US spying on the EU saying the bloc has no authority to discuss Americans’ methods to safeguard their national security. The EU and the US were to form two working groups on intelligence and espionage and on data privacy and the US National Security Agency’s Prism program and sit down for talks in Washington on Monday for talks. However,... 

A 70 year old citizen was mobbed by bullies- he is now currently hospitalized in critical condition after suffering severe head injuries and internal bleeding. The fact that these marauders only target Golden Dawn, and have yet to attack a single target of the Memorandum/Troika, shows who they are in service of. A group of approximately 100 Anarchist “ANTIFA” (“Anti-Fascists”) wearing helmets,... 

Egypt is on the verge of a civil war, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday as tensions continued to escalate in the North African country between the supporters and opponents of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. “Syria is already engulfed in a civil war and, no matter how sad it may sound, Egypt is also moving in the same direction. It would be good, if the Egyptian people avoided... 

The Labour Party is proposing a new rule that would give electorates the ability to prevent men from contesting a seat for the party. New Zealand Labor Leader David Shearer is now disapproving of his party’s idea of a “man ban”, for male contenders looking for a seat in office. Shearer commented on the ordeal today, saying that he did have “absolutely support” for the idea of more females...