Soldiers, Federal policemen and firefighter remove debris, and look for victims of a blast at the headquarters of state-owned Mexican oil giant Pemex in Mexico City, February 1, 2013. The death toll from a powerful explosion, which had hit the headquarters of Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex in Mexico City, has risen to 32 from an earlier figure of 25. According to a statement released by... 

About 500 000 children would be left without insurance and the poorest Americans could be fined under President Obama’s new health care law because of a loophole that the administration and Congress failed to fix. Lawmakers passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010 without taking care of a loophole that would make it impossible for low-income families to purchase health care for their themselves or... 

British Foreign Secretary William Hague claims the Israeli regime’s violation of Syria’s airspace in the air raid on a Syrian army research center is a “reaction” to the Syrian crisis rather than a breach of the country’s sovereignty. “I’m not going to give any condemnation of Israel, rushing to any criticism,” Hague told the BBC. In a clear attempt to whitewash the Israeli aggression,... 

An Armenian presidential candidate from the Union for National Self-Determination party has been shot and wounded in the center of Yerevan, the country’s capital. The attempt on Paruyr Hayrikyan’s life may delay the election. ­Following the incident, the 64 year-old Hayrikyan was rushed to the Saint Gregory the Illuminator medical center with two gunshot wounds, in the shoulder and in the... 

Syria’s state television says the Israeli regime is deploying military forces on the Syrian border. The move comes a day after an Israeli airstrike reportedly targeted a defense research center near the Syrian capital city of Damascus, killing two people and injuring five others. On Thursday, Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s aerial assault on its neighboring... 

Syria has filed an official complaint to the United Nations over an Israeli airstrike on a military research center near Damascus. The move followed a threat from Iran that Israel would face “serious consequences” for the attack. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Tel Aviv would face repercussions for the Israeli airstrike against a military research center in Jamraya,... 

Riots have been raging along Egypt’s coast line in the cities of Cairo and Port Said. Mobs of angry protesters have gathered to voice their grievances against Islamist President Muhammed Morsi and to mourn their dead. Though Egyptian President Morsi had issued a state of emergency and city wide curfews the chaos continues to escalate. The head of the Egyptian military, General Abdel-Fattah el Sissi,... 

Spainards protesting against austerity cuts on November 15, 2012. While Spanish Prime Minister is set to present new measures to help the economic recovery, the National Statistics Institute (INE) has reported that the country’s gross national product (GDP) has contracted by 1.37 percent in 2012. According to the report released by the INE on Wednesday, the Spanish GNP fell 0.7% from the third quarter... 

North Korea has allegedly been placed under martial law and its ruler Kim Jong-un has ordered the army to “prepare for war”, a South Korean daily claims. ­The North Korean leader issued a series of orders to his top defense and security officials on Saturday to conclude preparations for a new nuclear test, the Seoul based Korea JoongAng Daily alleges citing an unnamed source. The source reportedly... 

Chubby North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong Un has plenty of food while the people are starving to death and to the point of being driven to madness and cannibalism. A starving man in North Korea has been executed after murdering his two children for food, reports from inside the secretive state claim. A ‘hidden famine’ in the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae is believed... 

The US Senate has approved Senator John Kerry as the next secretary of state by a wide majority. On Tuesday, the Senate voted 94 to 3 in favor of President Barack Obama’s nominee for the post, after the chamber’s Foreign Relations Committee endorsed the Kerry nomination earlier in the day. Republicans and Democrats praised the 69-year-old as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton,... 

Argentina and Iran signed a document on the establishment of a special commission, which will investigate circumstances of the explosion of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires in 1994. Israel was outraged with the move and demands explanations from Argentinian President Kirchner. Argentina’s position is simple: if you are looking for justice, why not use all means to succeed. A car bomb... 

The top Republican and top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sent a joint letter late Monday to Attorney General Eric Holder posing pointed questions about the prosecution of Internet pioneer and political activist Aaron Swartz. Swartz committed suicide this month after fighting federal hacking charges for two years. The letter from Issa and Cummings is the first clear bipartisan response... 

Israel has boycotted the UN human rights forum over fears of scrutiny of its treatment of residents of the occupied territories. Israel is now the first state in history to win a deferment of the periodical review of its human rights record. Tel Aviv has refused to send a delegation on Tuesday to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva for the Universal Periodic Review procedure where UN... 

This particular solar flare was formed on the 23rd of January, according to NASA. NASA announced this week that a solar flare occurred following a magnetic storm, which occurs when these particles come into contact with the magnetosphere. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA for its acronym in English) reported Friday that a solar flare is traveling to Earth at a speed of about...