The Islamic Republic of Iran busted a spy racket linked with the US intelligence agency CIA and arrested 30 people for operating an internet network to gather secret data. In 2006, America's Central Intelligence Agency,...

16 March 2010 European Union finance ministers are holding a two-day meeting in Brussels March 15-16 to discuss a bailout package for Greece under conditions where growing divisions are emerging between European partners on how...

16 March 2010 A long-time US military official used Pentagon funding to establish a private intelligence and assassination network in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to a report Monday in the New York Times. The network...

US steps up pressure on Israel The United States has stepped up pressure on Israel over its plans to build more settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem, despite an apology from the Israeli prime minister...

Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill MilitantsUnder the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track...

Participants at an otherwise informative discussion on "Iran at a Crossroads" at the Senate on Wednesday seemed at pains to barricade the doors against the proverbial elephant being admitted into the room - in this...

Johannesburg – You see it the moment you walk off the plane: a mammoth soccer ball hanging from the ceiling of Johannesburg International Airport festooned with yellow banners that read, "2010 Let's Go! WORLD CUP!"...

UNHCR said Friday it was extremely worried about the worsening situation for civilians in Somalia, where fresh outbreaks of relentless and indiscriminate fighting are ravaging Mogadishu and other areas of the country. "We are especially...

A revolution makes a difference. For the corporate media, however, what happens to people's lives and dignity goes by the boards, focused as they often are on stories aimed at casting Venezuela as a pariah...

The Mexican government is moving ahead with an ambititous new plan to surround the Lacandona Forest in Chiapas, Mexico, with oil palm plantations; while disguising the forest around the plantations with various eco-tourism sites. In...