US government has been sued by 2 civil liberties groups for listing respected scholar Anwar Al-Awlaki, who is a US citizen, on the CIA list of “Kill or capture”. On Monday, The Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have filed the lawsuit. They stated in their lawsuit that unless Al-Awlaki comes [...]
The whistleblower organization Wikileaks has a document classified CIA to ask what would happen if foreign countries began to see the U.S. as an “exporter of terrorism”. The document was prepared by the CIA “red cell”, a unit responsible for preparing the analysis papers adversarial perspective. It notes that some Americans have traveled overseas to [...]
Digging out the graves of 1915, a ruling was introduced to stop the teaching of literature in the State of Massachusetts about the Armenian genocide that killed nearly 1 million people. This ruling has been upheld by the US appeals court saying that the law will not allow genocide denial actions to take place. American [...]
In a largest plan after the cold war to swap spies by US and Russia, the US is deporting 10 people who spied for Moscow in exchange for four people convicted of spying in Russia. A judge in New York ordered the immediate deportation of the 10 convicted for spying for Russia in US after [...]
Stressing that Iran’s Nuclear Weapons programmes are a major threat to world peace, the US president has signed a bill that if approved will impose some of the toughest sanction on Iran. Till date the UN has been lenient, but now the US president is all set to target the Islamic republic in Iran. The [...]
An Indian-origin girl child of six years has her name figured on the U.S. terror watch list, preventing her to fly in any plane in US. Alyssa was stopped from boarding a flight recently from Cleveland to Minneapolis, when her name popped up on the terror watch list of the US Homeland Security Department. The [...]
General David Patraeus will be taking his post as the new commander of the international military presence in Afghanistan. The US senate has appointed the general unanimously and he will be replacing Commander General Stanley McChrystal. The US government has taken this step as the departing general had made disparaging remarks about Barack Obama’s administration [...]
King Abdullah will be traveling to the White House to meet the US president Barack Obama. They would discuss various issues affecting Middle East Peace like Israel Palestinian Peacemaking efforts, The United Nations Nuclear Standoff against Iran and economic cooperation. The meeting will also include the recent developments in Afghanistan and they will focus on [...]
Porforio Lobo, who is the Honduran President has expressed his fears of being the target of a new coup that is being planned by some of the most influential businessmen in Honduras. According to him, just like the former president Manual Zelaya he would also be removed from power by the supporters of Zaleya, as [...]
The G8 summit meeting expresses criticism on the support for various nuclear programs by North Korea and Iran. Although a major part of the meeting focused on global economic crisis for the two days of their summit program. The summit meeting was held in the Huntsville which is a Canadian town as they considered various [...]
