Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, Germany’s top security official, is interested in speaking with NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, about alleged surveillance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone. The possibility that the U.S. has been listening in on...
For the 22nd year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly closed ranks in a vote to condemn the U.S. commercial, economic, and financial embargo against Cuba. The final tally was 188-2, with three abstentions. Only Israel sided with the U.S. Since U.N....
If you’re a woman in the ultraconservative Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, hopping in your car to run down to the grocery store is not something you do. Until today, that is. Activists have been promoting October 26 as the day female citizens get behind the wheel and defy...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is suspicious that U.S. intelligence agencies might be listening in on her cell phone conversations and that, if true, it would constitute a “… serious breach of trust.” White House spokesman Jay Carney was quick to say that the...
Nobel Prize committee officials released their choice(s) for winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday. James Rothman, 62, of Yale University, Randy Schekman, 64, of the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Thomas Sudhof, 57, of Stanford University, will...
