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18 Days to Bring Down a 30-year Autocratic Rule in Egypt

Tweet It is curtains for Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. After 18 days of obduracy, President Hosni Mubarak has resigned. The country’s new vice-president Omar Suleiman announced this, in a brief statement, on Friday. Suleiman said that Mubarak has demitted the office of the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Supreme Council of the armed forces... 

Hosni Mubarak Wants to Smoke a ‘Peace Pipe’ with Egyptian Protestors

Tweet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has signed a decree forming a committee that will oversee constitutional amendments that were discussed during recent talks with opposition members, as the spirited public demonstration enters the third week. Despite Mubarak’s assurance to the youth in Egypt that they will have the right to freedom of speech and... 

Volcanic Eruptions in Indonesia Play Spoilsport during Obama Visit

Tweet President Obama is finally on a one-day visit to Indonesia, after two earlier trips, thwarted because of the controversies surrounding his health reform bill and the second due to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, earlier this year. However, it seems that this 24-hour trip is likely to be cut short by a few hours reportedly due to the after-effects... 

Robert Gibbs Demands Respect, Literally (The White House Eight)

Tweet The White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has had an unbelievable amount of confrontations with so many different reporters. But, when Monday came along and the meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were about to take place, it really was a totally different story. Gibbs actually came to the defense of reporters... 

Obama’s India Trip, $200M a day; White house says Different

Tweet The president of the U.S., Barack Obama is getting pounded by claims that are said to be false. These claims are being written off as bogus, but could Obama’s trip to India really cost hundreds of millions of dollars? These rumors go into a slew of many more including Obama needing to be guarded by 34 U.S. Warships, that he’ll rent 870... 

Lebanon Aid From US Military Delayed

Tweet The U.S. military aid that is going to the Lebanon army has been suspended by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. With this aid being suspended there are now growing concerns about the possible weapons supplied by Americans which could cause a threat to Israel. It appears that the $100 million aid was put on hold out of fear because... 

North Korea fires Artillery off West Coast

Tweet Tensions have been heightened on the Korean peninsula after North Korea fired dozens of artillery rounds into the sea off its West Coast on Monday. The report came from a South Korean military official. YTN cable news channel, is reporting that the rounds were fired soon after a South Korean naval exercise was completed off the west coast at around... 

Nuke-Armed Iran – A Positive Thing? Arab Government Debates

Tweet It might be the first time in history that a lot of the Arabs feel that if Iran was nuclear-armed it might be a very good thing for the Middle East. The Zogby International polls show that at least seven out of ten with the Arabs feels that the US actually poses as a very big threat to Iran. One expert from the University of Maryland Middle East,... 

U.N. Security Council to Put Additional Pressure on the North Korean Authorities

Tweet South Korea has been gaining a lot of attention from the U.N Security Council and the U.S., after the fateful incident of the recent submarine accident. This time, the U.N. Security Council has put additional pressure on the North Korean authorities to let the investigating bodies have a closer angle at the whole picture. This would obviously mean,... 

Recent Attack on the Kandahar Led to Cancellation of Meeting British Troops

Tweet The recent attack on the Kandahar airfield forced William Hague (Foreign Secretary) and Liam Fox (Defense Secretary) to call it quits on the newly scheduled trip to meet the British troops on one of the bases in Afghanistan. The Afghan rebels opened up with a barrage of rockets, bullets and hand grenades on the airfield and also made attempts to...