Israeli former minister Tzipi Livni faced a warrant for her arrest in Britain. Baroness Scotland announces plans to alter laws after attempts to obtain warrants against Israeli generals for war crimes. The government is determined to protect high-ranking Israeli officials from arrest in the UK, the attorney general said, as it emerged that a further visit by the Israeli military had been cancelled. Speaking... 

Mamoun Darkazanli German prosecutors have launched an investigation over a magazine report claiming CIA agents and employees of a notorious US private security firm had sought to assassinate a German-Syrian terror suspect. Berlin on Monday denied any knowledge of the CIA’s operation, several days after the report’s publication in Vanity Fair just before Christmas. The controversy centers... 

Germany is trying to counter U.S. and NATO pressure to send more troops to Afghanistan by offering to deploy more police trainers, the Financial Times Deutschland said, citing German government officials it didn’t identify. Germany is leading international efforts to train Afghan police and has as many as 120 trainers in the country, the newspaper reported today. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government... 

Islam, the so called “religion of peace and tolerance” banned Christianity… again! Devoted Christians in several areas of Tajikistan faced uncertainty Tuesday, January 5, over the future of their churches after the former Soviet republic introduced a new religion law that the United States has criticized as highly restrictive. The Religion Law, which came into forces on New Year’s... 

Russian President In late December, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev announced that his government intended to develop a new generation of nuclear weapons. Medvedev’s statement came in the midst of ongoing and thus far unsuccessful negotiations with the US over the signing of a new treaty that would replace the recently expired START-I agreement on nuclear weapons. Speaking on television on Christmas... 

Police officers and investigators at the site of the explosion on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. People, police officers and investigators seen at the site of an explosion at the traffic police station on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s Dagestan region, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed car at the police station... 

A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to... 

Russian Army Parading in Moscow The Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, last week issued what has become one of his customary trademark warnings by announcing that Russia will start to build offensive weapons to counter American global aggression. Moscow and Washington are currently in discussions regarding a successor to the landmark Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty which was signed between the... 

The Pakistanis gathered every morning, from 07.30 a.m. to approximately 12.30 p.m., in front of their consulate in Athens are a human sea covering a triangle in the very center of the Greek capital, namely an important part of the streets Loukianou-Ypsilantou-Karneadou. The –Greek- people who dwell in that (ex-residential) area have sent several letters of protest to the mayor of Athens and the... 

Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church, leads prayers at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. Three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in southern Egyptian as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas, killing at least seven people in a drive-by shooting, the church bishop and security officials said. Egypt’s... 

Crime Criminals might be “born to be bad,” genetically and inextricably pre-programmed at birth to engage in violent and other criminal behaviour, accumulating evidence suggests. The concept of a “crime gene,” and the explanation “my genes made me do it,” are gaining in acceptance among many researchers. This development is generating novel challenges in criminal... 

Khazaria, the place where the "Jews" have been invented By Evan R. Goldstein (Jewish staff editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education). This much is known: In the mid-eighth century, the ruling elite of the Khazars, a Turkic tribe in Eurasia, converted to Judaism. Their impetus was political, not spiritual. By embracing Judaism, the Khazars were able to maintain their independence from rival... 

Angry Indians protesting The number of Indian students wanting to study in Australia has slumped by almost 50%, according to figures from the Australian government. The decline follows a year when attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney made headlines in India. They also caused diplomatic relations to sour between Canberra and Delhi. The Indian government issued a travel advisory to students... 

Russian Oil Pipeline Over the next few days, Russia will change the world. It has completed a new oil pipeline and port complex that sets Russia up to become a more powerful oil exporter than Saudi Arabia. The ramifications for Europe and Asia are profound: The shape of the global economy—and the global balance of power—will be altered forever. December 28 was a big day of ceremony in Russia. Prime... 

A3P Launch Marked by Tabletop Outreach Even before the American Third Position was officially launched, the Southern California branch was christening its new outreach-booth along the heavily-trafficked coastline at Huntington Beach. And, not knowing what to expect from their beleaguered countrymen, the young activists were proud to report that their message was incredibly well-received. “We delivered...