(CNN) — Somali pirates released a German cargo ship Saturday that they have held since May, the German Foreign Ministry said. The MV Victoria was able to set sail on its own with all of its crew after being released, a ministry spokesman said. It was not clear whether a ransom was paid. Pirates hijacked the vessel May 5 as it was sailing to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,...Continue reading »
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali gunmen kidnapped 3 foreign aid workers on Saturday in a raid on a Kenyan border town, the latest attack on relief workers, an official and Somali residents said. “The authorities in Mandera (in Kenya) told us that those aid workers had been kidnapped. We’re now going to run after them,” Sheikh Osman, an al Shabaab official...Continue reading »
Barack Obama and Africa How different is his policy? Barack Obama said all the right things about Africa—and left a few ticklish ones unsaid. The tone may shift a bit but the policy will be similar to George Bush’s “DEVELOPMENT depends on good governance.†Said by a white Texan dynast in Ghana, an African country once ravaged by the slave trade,...Continue reading »
Reporters are beginning to piece together an explanation for Sarah Palin’s abrupt resignation announcement that stands in stark contrast to the reasoning Palin offered in her speech. Speaking on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell reported that, according to “people very close to Sarah Palin,” she has “told her supporters that she is out of politics, period....Continue reading »
In the spirit of transparency, the Obama Administration posted on its White House blog a detailed list of who makes what at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. According to the WhiteHouse.gov blog, every administration since 1995 has been required to “deliver a report to Congress listing the title and salary of every White House Office employee.” In January, in one of...Continue reading »
In this handout photo provided by AEG, pop star Michael Jackson rehearses at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/ Kevin Mazur, AEG/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES — Two weeks before he died, Michael Jackson wrapped up work on an elaborate production dubbed the “Dome Project” that could be the final finished video piece overseen...Continue reading »
The King of Pop seemed driven and upbeat in the weeks, even hours, before his death as he rehearsed rigorously for a series of 50 concerts in London that were to begin a late-career comeback. Friends and colleagues said Friday that Jackson appeared in recent months to be rejuvenated by the prospect of performing again. After years of seclusion following a child sex scandal,...Continue reading »
LOS ANGELES —Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop” who once moonwalked above the music world, died Thursday as he prepared for a comeback bid to vanquish nightmare years of sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50. Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at...Continue reading »
PARIS — France wants to study the small but growing trend of burqa wear, with an eye to possibly banning the Islamic garment from being worn in public, the government’s spokesman said Friday. Luc Chatel told France-2 television that the government would seek to set up a parliamentary commission that could propose legislation aimed at barring Muslim women...Continue reading »
By ANNA JOHNSON and ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Gunfire from a pro-government militia killed one man and wounded several others Monday after hundreds of thousands of chanting opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marched in central Tehran to support their pro-reform leader in his first public appearance since disputed elections. The outpouring in...Continue reading »
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s major policy speech Sunday was viewed as a positive forward step by the Obama administration for the fact that it mentioned a Palestinian state — a concept previously ignored and derided by Netanyahu and, even more so, his conservative Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. However, despite the ostensibly more accepting...Continue reading »
Official returns show that Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, won re-election by a landslide. The tally has the incumbent with nearly twice as many votes as his reformist challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi. Mousavi challenged the results, calling them a “charade,” and his supporters accused the government of shutting down cell-phone, text-messaging and...Continue reading »
Jon Stewart committed a lengthy opening segment to President Obama’s speech in the Middle East last night. He explored the expectations of our president at home and abroad, looked a the rhetoric he used both to further the tenuous relationship America has with even its closest allies in the region and the rhetoric he used to ensure that no one thought he was caving...Continue reading »
Have you ever seen Hitler in color? Probably not. For the first time ever LIFE Magazine is publishing a color gallery taken by the fuhrer’s personal photographer, Hugo Jaeger. Hitler Among the Cars Adolf Hitler tours the 1939 International Auto Exhibition in Berlin. Three years before, at another Berlin auto show, Hitler announced that Porsche would design the "People's...Continue reading »
CAIRO (AP) — Quoting from the Quran for emphasis, President Barack Obama called for a “new beginning between the United States and Muslims” Thursday and said together, they could confront violent extremism across the globe and advance the timeless search for peace in the Middle East. “This cycle of suspicion and discord must end,” Obama said...Continue reading »
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Barack Obama began his latest bid to open a dialogue with the Muslim world on Wednesday by seeking the counsel of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s two holiest sites in Mecca and Medina. “The United States and Saudi Arabia have a long history of friendship. We have a strategic relationship,” Obama said...Continue reading »
The recent convert to Islam who allegedly shot and killed a U.S. soldier at a Little Rock, Ark., recruiting booth had ties to a number of global locations linked to extremists, including Yemen, Somalia and Columbus, Ohio, ABC News has learned. Yemen and Somali are known hotbeds for terrorism. Columbus, Ohio, has been an area of domestic concern for authorities who have...Continue reading »
SAO PAULO — A missing Air France  jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into a towering wall of thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean, officials said Monday, fearing that all aboard were lost. The area where the plane could have gone down was vast, in the middle of very deep Atlantic Ocean waters between Brazil and the coast of Africa. Brazil’s...Continue reading »
 Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has emerged. At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee. Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners...Continue reading »
