President Dmitry Medvedev has spoken out after a telephone conversation with his US counterpart, saying Obama’s comments on Russia’s recent parliamentary elections were “unacceptable”. Speaking to a number of United Russia MPs, Dmitry Medvedev stated that, correctly delivered, thoughts and comments on a country’s electoral process are acceptable – and welcome. But when they are reminiscent... 

Iran plans to put foreign spy drones it has in its possession on display in the near future, according to an informed source close to the Tehran Times. National reporters and foreign ambassadors based in Tehran will be allowed to visit the exhibition. The report was also published on the website of Nasim news agency. The latest domestically manufactured electronic warfare equipment will also be put... 

Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul While the families of US soldiers rejoice this week at the end of operations in Iraq, Thursday night’s debate of potential Republican candidates revealed that just about everyone vying for the GOP nod wants to wage more war. Everyone but Ron Paul, that is. The congressman from Texas challenged the other Republican Party contenders on Thursday night... 

Questions: ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has written to the National Transitional Council over Gaddafi’s death The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has said there are ‘serious suspicions’ that the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a war crime. Luis Moreno Ocampo said he sent a letter to the head of the National Transitional Council asking what the... 

The US Congress decision which forbids the presidential administration from passing over to Russia any data concerning the AMD system without the consent of the Congress will force Moscow to resort to reciprocal measures, says Russia’s envoy to NATO. ­“This decision actually annuls previous proposals, including inviting Russia to maritime tests of American AMD in spring 2012, as well as ruling... 

A Baghdad ceremony marks the official end of the US military mission in Iraq on December 15, 2011. American troops are holding a ceremony in the Iraqi capital city, Baghdad, to mark the official end of the US military presence in the Middle Eastern country, Press TV reports. During the highly symbolic ceremony on Thursday, which according to a US army tradition is called “casing,” the US military... 

Former French President Jacques Chirac A court in France has handed former French President Jacques Chirac a two-year suspended prison sentence after finding him guilty of embezzlement and misuse of public funds. Chirac was tried on Thursday over a party-financing scandal during his 1977-1995 tenure as Paris mayor, AFP reported. Chirac, who did not attend the trial due to doctors’ recommendations,... 

Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal Former Saudi intelligence agency chief Prince Turki al-Faisal has warned that launching an attack on Iran will have ‘calamitous’ consequences. Speaking at Alfaisal University in Riyadh on Tuesday, al-Faisal said the impact of a military strike against Iran will be “calamitous … cataclysmic, not just catastrophic.” Al-Faisal added that the adverse implications... 

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) With the approval from the Oval Office the only thing keeping a terrifying law that will allow for the indefinite detention and torture of Americans from passing, presidential hopeful Ron Paul has finally unleashed on the legislation. Although President Barack Obama had originally insisted that he would veto the National Defense Authorization Act... 

Predator C Avenger Even with the loss of not one, but two multi-million-dollar drones in recent weeks, the head of the US Defense Department says that America will “absolutely” continue stealth jets missions over Iran. Despite these losses, the US Department of Defense is showing no signs of retreat, even if Tehran has insisted that they are well on their well to decoding the top-secret technologies... 

Iraqi protesters burned Israeli and US flags during a rally in Fallujah to celebrate the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Dec. 14, 2011. Thousands of Iraqis have taken into the streets in the western city of Fallujah to celebrate the withdrawal of US troops from the country. Burning US and Israeli flags and carrying photos of Fallujah residents killed by US forces after the 2003 US-led invasion,... 

On the way out? Tourists lap up the sunshine at Naama Bay, Sharm el-Sheikh. Islamist parties want to stop Westerners drinking alcohol and wearing skimpy beachwear Bargain holidays for Westerners looking to get a bit of sunshine and a drink by the pool in the winter could be a thing of the past on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. The Muslim Brotherhood, which won success in the first round of parliamentary... 

US President Barack Obama delivers remarks to troops and military families at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, December 14, 2011. US President Barack Obama has marked the end of the nearly nine-year Iraq war that strained America’s armed forces and damaged to its status worldwide. “It is harder to end a war than to begin one,” Obama said in his speech to about 3,000 soldiers gathered at... 

US troops circling Syria A former official from within the ranks of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is reporting that US and NATO forces have landed outside of Syria and are training militants to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, formerly a translator with the FBI, wrote over the weekend that American soldiers are among the NATO troops that have mysteriously... 

With the mainstream pegging Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney as the top two candidates for the Republican Party’s nod for 2012, Senator Rand Paul urged voters in an Iowa newspaper editorial this week that they shouldn’t be fooled. According to the senator from Kentucky, those frontrunners might be running as conservatives, but they don’t act like them. In an op-ed published December 8 in the Des...