Ukraine’s Cabinet has survived a vote of no confidence initiated by opposition MPs in the Verkhovna Rada. The decision was announced as thousands of opposition supporters rallied outside the parliament building. Only 186 MPs voted for the motion, well short of the simple majority of 226 needed for it to pass. Ahead of the vote, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov gave a speech in parliament,... 

Foreign-backed militants operating inside Syria have kidnapped 12 nuns from a convent in the Christian town of Ma’loula. According to local authorities on Tuesday, the militants took the nuns to the nearby town of Yabrud after they stormed the convent on Monday. There is no word on the fate of the nuns, but militants are usually known to kill people they kidnap. The militants fighting against... 

In another blow to the Constitution, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case by Amazon and Overstock.com challenging a law that requires online retailers to collect sales tax in states where they have no physical presence. The Supreme Court refusal to hear the case will allow state governments to tax online retailers and turn online retailers into de facto tax collection agencies. The... 

British Prime Minister David Cameron The European Union has described British Prime Minister David Cameron’s bid for a free trade deal between China and the 28-nation bloc as “premature.” “We believe that it is premature at this stage to discuss a free trade agreement with China,” said Alexandre Polack, a spokesman for the EU executive, on Monday. The spokesman added that the EU and... 

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Detroit, Michigan is indeed eligible for bankruptcy protection, giving the go-ahead to the once booming Motor City to move forward with plans to restructure more than $18 billion in debt. Amid reading excerpts from a lengthy decision of more than 140 pages, United States Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes announced during Tuesday morning’s historic hearing that he... 

The names of nearly three-quarters of a million individuals have been secretly added to watch lists administered by the United States government, but federal officials are adamant about keeping information about these rosters under wraps. A report by the New York Times’ Susan Stellin published over the weekend attempted to shine much-deserved light on an otherwise largely unexposed program of federal... 

The United States and Israel, both supporters of the insurgency in Syria, have been overwhelmed by the ongoing crisis in that country, an analyst tells Press TV. “…I feel that at this time, Syria has been such a disaster in terms of public relations for America and for Israel,” Mark Glenn said in a Sunday interview. “The whole world knows what took place there, that this was not some grassroots... 

Three high school students are still dumbfounded after they were arrested this past Thanksgiving eve while waiting for a school bus. The Edison Tech high school students were on their way to a basketball scrimmage as part of a group of about a dozen teens who had been instructed by their coach to wait for the bus in downtown Rochester. A Rochester police officer arrived when he saw the group of teens... 

An Italian right-wing politician has been fined for organizing a protest against the wearing of Islamic veils for women. On Monday, Daniela Santanche, a leading member of the conservative Forza Italia party of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was handed a 100-euro fine and a four-day jail sentence for not warning police about the action. The punishment was subsequently converted into a 1,100-euro... 

An Indian spacecraft bound for the Red Planet has left Earth’s atmosphere, set for a 300-day mission to Mars. The probe will cost $72 million, and the spacecraft should reach its destination on September 24, 2014. The spacecraft is called the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also known as Mangalyaan, and will cruise some 680 million kilometers. The probe has completed six orbits around Earth before Sunday’s... 

The global intelligence company Stratfor (Get tomorrow’s intelligence, not yesterday’s news.) recently published a series of 2014 predictive articles for its most exclusive clients which, in essence, warned that the United States would, by the end of next year, “cease to exist in all but name only” due to three looming threats: 1.) A potential false flag attack by America’s oligarchy... 

Russia has presented a new humanlike robot, which may be delivered to the International Space Station to perform 90 percent of risky operations in open space instead of cosmonauts. The SAR- 401 prototype was revealed to journalists at the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Moscow Region’s Star City on Wednesday. The robot was developed in 2013 and is currently being tested terrestrially,... 

The traitors cower in fear at the sight, as thousands upon thousands of Greeks are in the center of Athens as we speak tonight, shouting: HELLAS SHALL BE VICTORIOUS! Reuters Journalist Puppet, Harry Papachristou Reports: “But the poor turnout of just a few hundred sympathisers showed Golden Dawn is still struggling to recover from the action of the authorities.” Supporters of Greece’s far-right... 

The decision by the Central Bank of China to no longer accumulate foreign exchange reserves in dollar has infuriated the United States, an analyst says. Finian Cunningham made the remark in a Sunday column for Press TV amid escalation of tensions between US and China over Beijing’s enforcement of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). “The escalation of military tensions between Washington... 

NASA is bravely venturing into new scientific territory with a plan to start growing plants on the moon no later than 2015. The experiment is designed to yield important knowledge about life’s long-term chances in space – including for us. The initiative comes courtesy of the Lunar Plant Growth Habitat team – a small group of scientists, students, volunteers and contractors – who plan to install...