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Obama Cites Immanuel Kant
"For thousands of years, the people of this land have journeyed from tribe to principality to nation state to reformation and enlightenment. Renowned as the land of poets and thinkers, among them Immanuel Kant, who taught us that freedom is the unoriginated birthright of man and it belongs to him by force of his ...
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Obama Im Actually Going to Take Off My Jacket
"In fact, it's so warm and I feel so good that I'm actually going to take off my jacket and anybody else who wants to, feel free to," said Obama said. "We can be a little more informal among ...
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Berlin Speech 200000 for Obama in 2008 Only 6000 Today
The stage for the president's speech is set up on the East side of the Brandenburg Gate, in the old East Berlin. The sun is pounding down and there are around 6,000 invited guests according to German authorities. There are bleachers set up either side of the square, with a big two storey riser facing the stage which has a row of bullet proof glass and 12 US, German and EU flags and the ...
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Pelosi Hid Behind the Skirt of Her Own Bassinet
former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi . When challenged about the difference between late-term abortion and the killing of babies who survived late-term abortions at the hands of the convicted murderer Dr. Kermit Gosnell, Pelosi hid behind the skirt of her own bassinet. Rather than answer the question, she invoked her five children and declared any discussion of abortion "sacred ground" ...
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Viral Video Puts Russian Post Office On The Back Foot
videos of traffic accidents recorded in Russia have become something of a YouTube sensation. A new video from Russia, however, features an incident of a different kind. The footage shows what appears to be an employee not so gracefully throwing boxes of mail packages outside of a train car at the Novosibirsk main railway station Recorded by a phone camera and uploaded on June 17, the ...
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U.S. Defends Peace Talk Efforts With Taliban As Kabul Responds Coolly
Muhammad Naeem (right), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan, speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha on June ...
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Michelle Obama visits Holocaust memorial in Berlin
BERLIN - First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha visited the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, amid tight security.According to Uwe Neumaerker, director of the memorial, Michelle Obama and her daughters spent about half-an-hour Wednesday morning visiting the sea of 2711 steles that make up the memorial, which was designed by American-Jewish architect Peter Eisenman and opened to the ...
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NSA boss defends surveillance
General Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, looks at his notes during testimony before a US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on recently disclosed NSA surveillance programmes, at the US Capitol in ...
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Fresh hope for couple held captive
Cape Town - A local NGO believes it can not only pinpoint where two South African hostages are being held in Yemen, but can also negotiate their safe ...
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Commons Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans is rearrested over three more claims of indecent assault by young men
New allegations: Commons Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, pictured arriving at Preston police station today before he was told he faces three new claims of indecent ...
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A childs IQ can be determined by how much weight it gains in its first month of life
Children who gain more weight, and whose heads grow quickly, during the first month of life tend to have a higher IQ when they start school, the study ...
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Is Facebook about to add video to its Instagram app
Rumours suggest that Facebook is about to add video features to its photo-sharing app Instagram and will announce the changes at a conference later this ...
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Nigel Farage sprayed with a bottle of Coke by a protester as another visit to Scotland ends holed up in a pub
The Coke attack came just a month after Mr Farage was forced to seek refuge in a pub after being surrounded by protesters during an earlier campaign trip to ...
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How to avoid those dinner party squabbles Sit your guests around a circular table and NOT a square one
King Arthur had the right idea - seat people on a round table and they are less likely to be argumentative and more likely to feel 'they belong', new research ...
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Afghanistan to boycott peace talks with Taliban
HamidKarzaisaid he will not meet the Taliban unless the United States steps out of the negotiations and the militant group stops its violent attacks on the ...
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Award-winning war correspondent Michael Hastings dies in Los Angeles car crash
The award-winning American war correspondent Michael Hastings, 33, died in a car crash in Los Angeles. Described as a "fearless journalist", the news of his death was announced by his employer ...
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Defense officials Four US troops killed in Afghanistan
The Afghan Taliban have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four US troops on the same day that peace talks between America and the group were ...
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Militants Breach U.N. Compound in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, Somalia ...
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UN compound in Somalia attacked
Security agents arrive to secure the United Nations compound following a suicide bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu, June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Omar Faruk MOGADISHU - Islamist militants carried out their first major assault for years on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, dealing a blow to fragile security gains that have allowed a slow return of foreign aid workers and ...
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Three Die In Dutch Liquid Manure Tank
Three men have died after becoming trapped in a manure tank in a rural part of The Netherlands. A fourth was taken to hospital in a critical condition. De Telegraaf said that one victim was the 26-year-old youngest son of the farm owner. The detail was attributed to a neighbour who was involved in the rescue. He added that a 29-year-old man from Joure and a 42-year old man from ...
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Immigration reform helps cops
>Editor's note: George Gascón is the district attorney of San Francisco, and the former chief of police in San Francisco and Mesa, Arizona(CNN) -- Members of the law enforcement community must sound their voices in support of comprehensive immigration reform for the sake of public safety and for the sake of our country. I write this as a former police chief in Mesa, Arizona, who ...
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Listening to terror calls Worth it
>Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst and a director at the New America Foundation. David Sterman is a graduate student at Georgetown University's National Security Studies Program.(CNN) -- Sometime in late 2007, Basaaly Saeed Moalin, a cabdriver living in San Diego, began to have a series of phone conversations with Aden Hashi Ayrow, one of the leaders of ...
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Saving human trafficking victims
>Editor's note: Yury Fedotov is the executive director of the U. N. Office on Drugs and Crime.(CNN) -- Thirteen-year-old Anjali didn't just pack her bags and run away to the circus, she signed a 10-year contract with a circus master after fleeing from long hours of domestic servitude in Nepal. Taken to India, she then endured years of appalling and dangerous working conditions for no ...
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Opinion Elephant slaughter surges
>Editor's note: Mark Quarterman is the research director of the Enough Project, a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity.(CNN) -- The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse, some of the region's most notorious armed groups are ...
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Orders top $100 billion as Ryanair gives Boeing a boost
1 of 6. President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Ray Conner (R) and Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary share a light hearted moment as they pose during a signing ceremony at the 50th Paris Air Show, at the Le Bourget airport near Paris, June 19, ...
Mexico Feature
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Mexico has more to it than drugs and immigration
As Mexico’s image suffers damage abroad due to increasing levels of violence related to the drug crack-down by government, it may be helpful for Mexicans to remember that there is more to their country than drugs and immigration problems with the US. Some facts may be surprising and even shocking, especially to foreigners.
Mexico has been in the news frequently of late as the government carries out a crack-down on drug cartels and organized crime, the country’s murder rate is up, journalists have been killed for investigative reporting on drug gangs and our image internationally has generally been diminished by the tunnel vision of international news providers. Read more
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