The four major Russian Navy fleets will hold a joint exercise in late January in the Mediterranean and Black seas. It will be the biggest such event in decades. ­Commands for the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea and Pacific fleets have been preparing for the exercises since December of last year, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced. Warships detached for the event are currently sailing to those... 

President Barack Obama wasn’t lying when he said he’d raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans if reelected — but it won’t be just the top wage-earners who will be handing over more to Uncle Sam in 2013. Under a last minute Capitol Hill agreement expected to avert the much-feared ‘fiscal cliff’ disaster that has dominated politics in recent weeks, working Americans across the board will... 

A startling Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Obama was informed by White House medical personal shortly after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s [photo top right] return to the United States that her health prognosis was “grim” as her likelihood of survival was “diminishing by the hour.” As we had previously reported in our... 

The situation in the U.S. city of Detroit is critical. The city is dying out at an alarming rate. Currently, the financial condition of the former center of the American automotive industry is so bad that senators are seriously considering the possibility of dissolution of the city and distribution of its assets among other cities of the State of Michigan. In mid-December of 2012, Senator Rick Jones... 

The Euro logo outside the headquarters of the European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main Germany. Manufacturing sectors in France and other eurozone countries have entered 2013 in a downward trend as new data shows a decrease in demand of orders. Contractions of manufacturing in the eurozone in December included all top four economies in the bloc, according to Markit’s manufacturing Purchasing Managers’... 

After Republicans dropped their demands for additional spending cuts the House approved legislation meant to avert the ‘fiscal cliff’. The representatives lined up 257 to 167 in favor of the bill. ­Earlier, the House Republicans expressed their opposition to the measure to avert the ‘fiscal cliff’ in its current form. GOP leaders were considering an amendment that would add some $330 million... 

The Russian State Duma may adopt a law prohibiting foreign nationals from working at Russia’s state-owned TV channels. The proposed law came as a reaction to the statements made by well-known journalist Vladimir Pozner on Channel One. In his show, Pozner criticized both the “Magnitsky Act” and the retaliatory law approved by the State Duma and the Federation Council (at the time... 

A Thursday evening shooting in the west side of Chicago marked a milestone for the Windy City: for the first time since 2008, the city can likely claim 500 homicides in a single year. With still a few days to go until the new year, 40-year-old Nathaniel T. Jackson became the five-hundredth person killed in Chicago, Illinois since the start of 2012. In 2011, the city saw only 435 homicides. Superintendent... 

The Mayan calendar that many say predicted the end of the world this December of 2012 was a little off. Actually, it was quite late. In truth, the world ended approximately two decades ago. Oh, we are still physically here and breathing. But what are we? Who are we? Is this really the phenomenon that we call living? We had a fairly balanced world. We had progress in human relations, respect for the... 

A US Air Force Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle Japan is considering plans to deploy US spy drones over the East China Sea to monitor a group of islands disputed by both Tokyo and Beijing. Japan’s Kyodo News said on Monday that the Japanese Defense Ministry was making arrangements to introduce the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft in order to boost surveillance of its waters near the islands, known... 

Borei class nuclear submarine Vladimir Monomah at the “Sevmash” shipyard before its launch in Severodvinsk. Super-modern, powerful and almost noiseless Russian nuclear submarine Vladimir Monomakh has been put in water to become the third ship of the Borei project. The cruiser is about to begin sea trials and mooring to become fully operational in 2013. ­Vladimir Monomakh was laid down at Russia’s... 

Federal detectives won’t need a warrant to eavesdrop on the emails and phone calls of Americans for another five years. President Obama reauthorized an intelligence gathering bill on Sunday that puts national security over constitutional rights. President Barack Obama inked his name over the weekend to an extension of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, a George W. Bush-era legislation that has allowed... 

A former high ranking member of the British Defense Ministry has publicly predicted that humans will make alien contact in the year 2024, the same year that a revolutionary high powered telescope is projected to be completed. The Examiner reported that: “Former British Defense Ministry UFO project leader Nick Pope has boldly predicted that aliens will reveal themselves to humans no later than 2024,... 

Porton Down Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Wiltshire, Britain. The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is conducting top-secret tests in its Porton Down military research base in Wiltshire using animals that are exposed to disturbing and cruel experiments, it has emerged. After raising concerns about the facility in parliament last month by Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, junior defence... 

Selenium is an important chemical that may protect cells against chemicals, pollution and the negative effects that the environment may have on human health, as indicated by Mohamadian Shahzad, a Persian specialist in nutrition and dietetics. “Selenium is considered a substance with high antioxidant properties and is important in preventing human cancer,” said Mohamadian. Similarly, he...