The Swedish Foreign Minister says Belarus has expelled his country’s ambassador to Minsk “for being too supportive of human rights.” “Outrageous. Shows nature of [President Aleksandr Lukashenko] regime,” Carl Bildt wrote in his twitter micro-blog on Friday. “We have said that the new Belarus ambassador to Sweden is not welcome and have asked two other diplomats to leave,” the minister... 

Texas Congressman Ron Paul says the US is “obsessed with” keeping Iran under illegal sanctions, while pushing for furthering the embargoes in, what he calls, an “act of war” against the Islamic Republic. Addressing Congress on Wednesday, Paul accused Washington of “marching into a determination to have another war.” “When you put on sanctions on a country, it’s an act of war... 

Iran prepared for strike on nuclear facilities in September or October. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told top Iranian military chiefs to expect “war within weeks,” at a recent war council meeting, according to Israeli news outlet DebkaFile. “While retaliation had been exhaustively drilled in regular military exercises in the past year, Khamenei ordered the biggest fortification... 

Rebels from the Syrian opposition clash with the Syrian army forces in the restive northern city of Aleppo on July 25, 2012. Syrian troops have stormed armed groups’ command center in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 150 terrorists fighting against the government. According to reports coming from Syria, the army attacked a rebel-held school in Aleppo’s Salahuddin district, which was... 

An MP who represents the United Russia majority party has prepared legislative amendments that would make the Russian ruble the only valid currency in the country, and put an end to dependency on the US dollar and the Euro. Yevgeniy Fyodorov described the initiative in an interview with the Izvestia daily newspaper. He promised that the proposed bill would be made public in autumn, and declined to... 

Mitt Romney has spent nearly a week shaking hands abroad while conducting a foreign policy trip that has managed to somehow spark some of the most uncomfortable roadblocks of his campaign. In Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday, things didn’t get better. Right on the heels of having remarks made in London and Jerusalem eaten up and chewed out by the press, an appearance on Tuesday added another line to the... 

German Chancellor Merkel attends a session of German parliament (Bundestag). Support has sharply declined for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decisions regarding the eurozone’s spiraling debt crisis, a survey suggests. The poll, conducted by YouGov and printed in the Monday edition of Bild newspaper, found only 33 percent in favor of Merkel’s stance, Reuters reported. The steep erosion in domestic... 

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered masses of riot gear equipment to prepare for potential significant domestic riots at the Republican National Convention, Democratic National Convention and next year’s presidential inauguration. The DHS submitted a rushed solicitation to the Federal Business Opportunities site on Wednesday, which is a portal for Federal government procurement requisitions... 

Admiral Chabanenko, Russian destroyer arriving at Havana’s harbor. Russia is planning to expand its military muscles in some of Moscow’s soviet-era ally countries including the Latin American country of Cuba, Asian country of Vietnam and the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles. According to the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Moscow is holding talks with the some countries outside of... 

While US politicians boast strong ties with Israel, CIA officials suggest Israel is one of its biggest counter-intelligence threats. With spyware that rivals that of American agencies, it is extremely difficult to detect the extent of its spying. In a CIA ranking of the world’s intelligence agencies and their willingness to help the US fight the War on Terror, Israel fell below Libya. Speaking to... 

Peter Sutherland’s global migration forum brings together 160 nations to discuss policy Anyone who doubts that there is a deliberate plan to destroy Europe should carefully read this BBC news story, which reports: “The EU should do its best to undermine the homogeneity of its member states, the UN’s special representative for migration has said. Peter Sutherland told peers the future prosperity... 

S-300V and S-300VM anti-aircraft long distance missile systems President Putin has said Russia is not planning to enter a new arms race, but urged senior officials to develop the nuclear arsenal further, along with Russia’s own air and space defenses, so that no one in the world doubts their effectiveness. Putin was speaking at a special meeting on the state weapon program that took place in the... 

On Wednesday, Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve was overwhelmingly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The vote was 327 to 98. You would think that a bill with such overwhelming support would easily become law. But it won’t, because Barack Obama and the Democrats plan to kill it. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has already said that the Senate will not even consider the bill.... 

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf meets with King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud at Royal Palace. A report has unveiled that Saudi officials are trying to strike “a secret deal” with Pakistan to buy nuclear weapons from the Asian country. Citing the recent meeting between King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in Jeddah, United Press International... 

Following the shooting spree in a Colorado cinema, Russian legislators have drafted a bill which would allow public use of firearms. The law’s sponsors hope to curb crime rates, while opponents say legal air-guns already cause enough damage. ­The principle behind the drafted bill allowing the private use of handguns is “my home is my castle,” so any invasion of private space could be met with...