China’s military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made public on Thursday. Portions of a National Ground Intelligence Centerstudy on the lethal effects of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons revealed that the arms are part... 

Obama’s $450 billion employment package to save ONE job: his! Struggling President unveils plan to cut tax for middle class but who pays? Facing a barrage of criticism over his handling of the economy, President Obama last night unveiled a massive $450bn plan to combat the country’s unemployment crisis – and try to save his own job. In a rare address to a joint session of US Congress... 

Fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi Fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has vowed that he will continue resisting and will defeat revolutionaries that control most of the country as well as NATO forces. Gaddafi, whose whereabouts remain unknown, made the remarks in a phone call to Syria’s Arrari Television station on Thursday, Reuters reported. The defiant dictator slammed reports of his... 

Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Ron Paul, R-Texas got in a verbal argument during a break at a Republican presidential candidates debate at the Reagan Library Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011, in Simi Valley, California. Unfortunately we were not able to find out what they were arguing about but presidential candidate Rick Perry looked pretty upset and maybe even a little aggressive with... 

Dictator Robert Mugabe has been in power since 1980 Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer which has spread to other organs, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. The cable, published by whistle-blower site Wikileaks, cites central bank governor Gideon Gono as saying Mr Mugabe’s doctors had urged him to quit. The cable, written in 2008 by the US embassy in Harare, also... 

Lt. General Ismail Hakki Pekin, the head of the Intelligence Department of the Turkish General Staff. Lt. General Ismail Hakki Pekin, the head of the Intelligence Department of the Turkish General Staff, has been arrested pending trial over an alleged plot to overthrow the government. Pekin was arrested on the order of a Turkish court on Monday, AFP reported. In an apparently related development, 22... 

American Predator drone firing two Hellfire missiles. Local fighters say they have shot down a suspected United States operated aerial vehicle in the south of Somalia near the capital, Mogadishu. Press TV reported. Al-Shabaab fighters say the drone crashed into the sea after it was hit near the lower Shabelle region in Merka town, located south of the capital. The fighters say six other drones have... 

The Dutch monarchy faces a vote in parliament this week which could remove its remaining political powers, stripping Queen Beatrix of her role as head of state and reducing her public functions to purely ceremonial ones. As well as being head of state, the Dutch monarch has traditionally been president of the influential council of state, and has regularly over the years become actively involved in... 

A Libyan rebel points his rifle at a man accused of being a mercenary fighting for Muammar Gaddafi. Many have been arrested and accused of fighting for dictator, but claim they were press-ganged. Earlier this year, as revolution and siege ground Tripoli to a halt, Mehdi Hassan knew where to look for work. He would drive his taxi to a roundabout in the south-west of the capital and wait for foreigners... 

It seems that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warmed to the role of Napoleon. The events in Libya have infatuated him. Gaddafi has not been toppled yet, but Sarkozy already threatens Iran. “Its military nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventive attack against Iranian sites that would provoke a major crisis that France wants to avoid at all... 

A recent Haaretz report says that Turkish officials told Hurriyet Daily News that Turkish navy will strengthen presence in eastern Mediterranean Sea to stop Israeli ‘bullying’. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said in an interview with public television that “There is no risk of a naval confrontation, I don’t think for a moment that Turkish war-ships will escort... 

Muammar Gaddafi has issued a statement condemning rebels as collaborators. A defiant Gaddafi denounced rebels as ‘traitors’, and said tribes loyal to him would never surrender to ‘collaborators’. A defiant Muammar Gaddafi has issued his latest apocalyptic statement, urging his surrounded followers to “keep fighting” and promising to turn Libya “into a hell”. In... 

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has hit out at a High Court decision that ruled an asylum deal with Malaysia was unlawful. Ms Gillard called the ruling “deeply disappointing” and said the court had “rewritten the Migration Act”. Under the deal, Australia would have sent 800 asylum-seekers to Malaysia and would have received 4,000 refugees in return over four years. But... 

Accused: Powell brushed off Cheney's claims that he tried to undercut President Bush's policies in Iraq. An aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell has hit out at Dick Cheney, saying the former Vice President fears being ‘tried as a war criminal’ Powell’s long-time aide and chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson told ABC news Cheney, ‘Was president for all... 

Sets up collision course over issue of Palestinian statehood. In a further jolt to U.S. influence in the Middle East, China is expected to vote in favor of Palestinian statehood when the 66th United Nations General Assembly takes up the issue next month, according to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Chinese President Hu Jintao told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an exchange of notes last...