By Jaime Ortega. David Cameron the British Prime Minister said that his country and Russia can overcome their differences on Syria, while Moscow has warned the West of arming the Syrian opposition. At the regional level, the Arab [...]

By Jaime Ortega. Hasan Rohani, the only moderate reformed candidate in Iran’s presidential elections, maintains a wide lead over his five rivals and slashing into a first-round victory in the first interim partial results released by [...]

  By Jaime Ortega.    The World Bank (WB) has slightly lowered its global growth forecast for 2013 to 2.2%, two tenths less than in January, followed by an increase progressively to 3% in 2014 and 3.3% in 2015.   The cited growth [...]

By Jaime Ortega. Snowden Supported Centrist Senator Ron Paul. Edward Snowden, a young 29-year-old has pushed Barack Obama against the ropes in what is already the worst crisis of his presidency, with multiple political and diplomatic implications [...]

  By Jaime Ortega. The president of China, Xi Jinping, and the president of United States, Barack Obama, met last night and announced the birth of “a new model of relations” between the two leading world powers to avoid conflict [...]

    By Jaime Ortega. The U.S. government accessed in late April the call logs of all Verizon customers: One of the largest telephone companies in the country. This was unveiled on Thursday by the British newspaper ‘The Guardian’, [...]

    By Jaime Ortega.   China is trying to strengthen ties with Caribbean nations to foment and deepen cooperation in fields as infrastructure, mining, agriculture, forestry and fishery. President Xi Jinping from china met with [...]

  By Jaime Ortega. Emerging countries are driving their markets on fifth gear and the U.S. is hitting third. The Director of the International Monetary Fund and Capital Markets IMF, José Viñals, said that in the global economy there are [...]

      By Jaime Ortega. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, says Japan does not accept the recent statement by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that Japan must return territories stolen during World War Two. Li Keqiang [...]

      By Jaime Ortega. Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of military police during in-processing to the temporary detention facility at Camp X-Ray of Naval Base Guantanamo Bay (Reuters [...]

    By Jaime Ortega. The Paris prosecutor terrorism agency has launched an investigation after the stabbing of a soldier in the west of the capital, as reported by the Nanterre prosecutor, Robert Gelli. The alleged assailant fled after [...]

By Jaime Ortega. Tremors have been felt all across Russia and in Europe, following a major 8.2 earthquake in the Sakhalin region. Panicking Muscovites began calling security services, and some decided to leave their homes. The residents informed [...]

    By Manuel J. Laserna.   [JURIST] The House of Commons of the UK Parliament [official websites] voted 366-161 on Tuesday to approve the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill [HC Bill 3]. The legislation was introduced in [...]

By Jaime Ortega.     The Riots Dozens of supporters of the right-group English Defence League (EDL) congregated a few hours after the murder at Woolwich Arsenal doors chanting anti-Muslim slogans. Several of them clashed with riot [...]

By Jaime Ortega.   “It passes!” committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy exalted moments after the vote, which followed days of marathon hearings and meetings to consider more than 200 amendments to the bill. The Senate Judiciary [...]

By Jaime Ortega. .  Julian Assange. On Sunday, Julian Assange was interview by Jordi Évole in LaSexta, a Spanish broadcast network. The controversial founder of WikiLeaks, who is being held at the Embassy of Ecuador in London since last [...]

  By Jaime Ortega.    A series of blasts have rocked the Iraqi capital and its neighborhood killing many people and wounding dozens – the deadliest wave of violence in eight months. The news comes after eleven people were killed [...]

By Jaime Ortega.  THE HAGUE, May 15 (Xinhua) –Dutch politicians on Wednesday expressed their dissatisfaction about the additional Dutch contribution of up to 500 million euros (644 million U.S. dollars) to the European budget this [...]

   By James M. Dorsey.  Synopsis   The recent commando raid on a prison by Indonesian special forces provoked renewed debate about the need to further reform the military and subject it to civilian justice – 15 years after the end [...]

    By James M. Dorsey.   Prince Faisal rushes off the pitch   Soccer, alongside minority Shiite Muslims and relatives of imprisoned government critics, is emerging as a focal point of dissent in Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich kingdom that [...]