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THE SUMMARY execution of North Korea’s second most powerful leader Jang Sung-taek, after a hurried trial by a military court for anti-state activities, has turned the spotlight on a likely power struggle among the leadership of the Pyongyang regime.

A British man has entered the record books as the worlds longest-surviving heart transplant patient.

I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner.

The servant or home helper is the fodder of gossip, a point of permanent distraction for their hirers. 

Maybe the empire thought that we would not honor our word when, during days of uncertainty in the past century, we affirmed that even if the USSR were to disappear Cuba would continue struggling.

The South Centre, an intergovernmental organization of developing countries, has good news about developing economies.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has indicated he would bring a new Iran sanctions bill for a vote.

An international arms dealer is set to serve a 15-year sentence in federal prison for illegally obtaining and selling military hardware in a conspiracy that violated the Arms Export Control Act and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as well…

China has denounced Japan’s new national security strategy, accusing it of military expansion.

International negotiators have failed to agree on whether to invite Iran to peace talks over the Syrian conflict, the UN-Arab League envoy on Syria said.

Two NASA astronauts have begun the first of three quickly planned spacewalks to fix a problem with the International Space Station’s vital cooling system.

The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) economic corridor is a test case for cooperation between India and China in regional development as well as addressing common challenges.

Whilst global warming and increasing pollution have left the words ‘ocean’ and ‘good news’ with very few search results in search engines, a scientist from the University of Toronto has unveiled encouraging data in the journal Nature.

For quite some time the economic development profession has gone global in a rather grandiose way.

Christian militias responding to rampant abuses by Muslim armed groups have committed atrocities against Muslim communities in northern Central African Republic, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

If the police found a dead body in the back of your car, hands tied behind the back, with a hole in the head, and your defense was that the person shot himself, how do you think they would react?

Tennis great Billie Jean King will be one of two openly gay athletes in the U.S. delegation at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Turkey signed an agreement with the European Union Monday that allows EU governments to deport illegal immigrants in EU coming from Turkey back to Turkey, according to Reuters.

I heard a knock on the door of my hotel room. It was Donald.

An abundant, affordable energy resource, coal provides 30 percent of the world’s energy, 41 percent of the world’s electricity generation and factors into 70 percent of the world’s steel production.

The US National Security Agency is considering offering an amnesty to fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden if he agrees to stop leaking secret documents, an NSA official says.

With more than half of all human infections originating in animals, experts say a multi-sectoral, global response to zoonoses – diseases passing between animals and humans – is urgently needed.

A cross-sectional study by investigators from Tokyo University has found that exercising in middle age is a protective factor against sarcopenia and effective in maintaining muscle strength and physical performance.

Iran has halted fraught nuclear talks with the West, saying that Washington has acted contrary to the spirit of a ‘landmark agreement’ established last month.

Patients receiving the widely used anesthesia drug etomidate for surgery may be at increased risk or mortality and cardiovascular events, according to a study in the December issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society…

The CA-II election in Nepal was held successfully, gathering many accolades within the country and among the international community as well.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Asheikh has condemned suicide bombings as grave crimes, reiterating his stance in strong language.

Caroline Kennedy was just 20 years old when she accompanied her uncle, the late Senator Edward Kennedy, to Hiroshima, site of the first U.S. bomb attack that killed 140,000 people on August 6, 1945.

Fifteen people who had been heading to a wedding in Yemen have been killed in an air strike. Local media reported that a drone attack had  been responsible, and the party-goers had been hit instead of an Al-Qaeda convoy.

Quick. What comes to mind when you dream about retirement?