By Jaime Ortega. The United States for the first time since 1993, has deployed military personnel in Somalia, to help coordinate the operations of local authorities against the Islamist militia Al- Shabab . The Washington Post cited, [...]

  By Jaime Ortega. A week after a Chinese envoy compared Japan with Lord Voldemort, the Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom has also referred to the archenemy of Harry Potter to accuse Beijing of raising tensions amid disputes over [...]

  By Jaime Ortega. The alliance of rebel groups has taken a total of six days fighting with the jihadists of the Islamic Front in Iraq and Syria ( ISIS, as it was announced yesterday from the radical alepine hospital that serves as headquarters [...]

  By Jaime Ortega. Six busloads of police officers were deployed yesterday at 14:00 hours on the streets of the central districts of Altona Hamburg , St. Pauli and Sternschanze .  Held indefinitely by the authorities of the city-state [...]

  By Jaime Ortega.   The ruling Awami League won the general elections in Bangladesh yesterday , under violence including an opposition boycott , calling the elections a ” farce ” as officials said . The Electoral Commission [...]

By Jaime Ortega. U.S. Secretary of State , John Kerry , does not yield to the general skepticism and doubts show by the Israeli and Palestinian leadership. Yesterday in Jerusalem, Kerry was looking forward to an affirmative answer to the framework [...]

    By Jaime Ortega. After praising the figure of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who is on the verge facing imminent death due to a severe impairment , the Secretary of State , John Kerry , began yesterday in Jerusalem [...]

By Baron Baretzky.     WORLD NEWS TOMORROW– The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday more than 130,000 people were killed since the conflict began in the troubled Arab country in March 2011. The crisis in Syria [...]

    By Jaime Ortega. Russians woke up on Monday surrounded with panic at the jihadist resurgence : another suicide bomber blew a trolleybus and claimed 16 lives in Volgograd, the same city where just 24 hours before an attack had [...]

  By Jaime Ortega.   Although the Russian authorities have tightened security in the south , yesterday’s attack does not surprise anyone . The Chechen Islamist leader Doku Umarov , who since 2007 raises the struggle to create [...]

  By Jaime Ortega. Although the threat of any military coup riots seems distant , the Army , with many critics of Erdogan in their ranks, has not hidden the anger with the Turkish government on the drift of recent days . The Turkish armed [...]

  By Jaime Ortega. Escalating violence in South Sudan , has already claimed hundreds of victims  and threatens to turn what was supposed to be a power struggle into an intertribal conflict that could have dangerous consequences for the [...]

    By University of Maryland. Although terrorism touched 85 countries in 2012, just three – Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan – suffered more than half of 2012’s attacks (54 percent) and fatalities (58 percent), according [...]

  By Roshanak Taghavi. When Iran’s foreign minister returned to Tehran this week on the heels of a widely hailed nuclear agreement cosigned by its longtime nemesis, a deep sense of relief permeated the Iranian business community. Although [...]

  By Jaime Ortega. Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich, having slammed the door to the European Union and the streets of Kiev clamoring to leave the political scene , expected an incentive of Moscow. Vladimir Putin , who met yesterday [...]

  By Jaime Ortega.   Michelle Bachelet has once again made history by winning the polls for a second term . With 100% of polling stations , the center-left leader had won 62.1% of the vote, compared to 37.8 % of its rival, Evelyn [...]

  By Jaime Ortega. Alarmed by the rise of Islamic extremists and the chaos of the opposition , the U.S. and UK have decided to suspend all aid to groups fighting the Assad regime in northern Syria. Donors step back for the recent kidnaps [...]

  By Jaime Ortega.   Iranian foreign advisers warn the U.S. about the possibility of incurring into new sanctions and how that may affect future negotiations to their nuclear program. Iran’s foreign minister says the nuclear [...]

  By Jaime Ortega. U.S. Vice President , Joe Biden , said in Seoul that Washington ” will not recognize ” the new air defense zone traced by China, source of tension in Northeast Asia that unleashed protests in South Korea [...]