Urban warfare training drills are taking place across the country as top analysts as well as officials predict a potential “summer of rage” across Europe and America as civil unrest from the economic fallout builds.
Earlier this month, 150 U.S. troops from the U.S. Special Operations Command whizzed around the streets of New Orleans in [...]
Latvia’s economy has shrunk at the fastest rate since the early 1990s, when it split from the Soviet Union, the statistics office has estimated.
Gross domestic product (GDP) fell 10.5% in the last quarter of 2008 from the same period a year earlier.
The Latvian economy had been booming for several years, driven by consumer demand, [...]
North Korea has announced that it is preparing to launch a rocket carrying a communications satellite, but without giving an indication of a date.
It said the launch would mark a great step forward for the communist state.
Correspondents say the statement is Pyongyang’s clearest reference yet to what neighbours believe may be the imminent test [...]
It only seems like Barack Obama has been president forever. Actually, as of today, he’s been in office for exactly one month. Granted, with 47 months to go in his term, it’s too soon to render a verdict on the Obama presidency. But surely a few early reflections on the Obama Revolution in Washington [...]
March 23, 1775
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining [...]
London — A commonly prescribed drug for blood pressure can eliminate phobias and post traumatic stress for good, say researchers.
Merel Kindt and her colleagues at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, have revealed that this drug is called the beta blockerpropranolol.
The researcher points out that people who experienced traumatic events-like rape and car crashes-showed [...]
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA PARTNERS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY’S READY KIDS PROGRAMNation’s Leading Youth Organization Encourages Parents, Teachers to Educate Children to ‘Be Prepared’
The Boy Scouts of America has announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Ready Kids, a family-friendly program designed to increase the level of citizen [...]
Javier Solana, the European Union’s high representative for the common foreign and security policy, has arrived in Minsk on a one-day official visit for talks on closer cooperation.
Dr. Solana is scheduled to meet with Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Foreign Minister Syarhey Martynaw, opposition leaders, including former presidential candidate Alyaksandr Milinkevich, and representatives of civil society organizations, [...]
As analysts warn of looming banking failures in central and eastern Europe, the European Union’s new member states are plunging into a more profound identity crisis. It is not only their financial systems that are under strain – their entire growth model is in doubt. A sense of helplessness and disillusionment could translate into [...]
President Obama was hit with another wave of grim financial news yesterday, amid signs that his Administration is in danger of being overwhelmed by the scale of the economic crisis.
As he outlined a $75 billion (£52 billion) plan to halt home repossessions across America, evidence emerged of the enormous struggle Timothy Geithner, the Treasury [...]
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