Cuba’s former revolutionary leader Fidel Castro Cuba’s former revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has appeared in public for the first time in months, challenging the rumor mill that he is on death’s door. Commercial director at the Hotel Nacional, Yamila Fuster, told The Associated Press on Sunday that the 86-year-old politician dropped off a Venezuelan guest on Saturday afternoon, and then... 

A grim report issued today by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov states that all Russian nuclear forces and Airborne Troops (VDV) have been ordered by President Putin to extend their full combat alert status put into place by former President Medvedev last November (2011) [watch video HERE] to counter NATO’s missile defense system. According to this report, Putin issued this extraordinary order... 

Provisional figures released by Greece’s national statistics authority have shown the country’s deficit and public debt for 2011 are worse than estimated. According to provisional data published by ELSTAT statistics agency on Monday, the 2011 deficit stood at 9.4 percent of gross domestic product and the public debt at 170.6 percent. “The revisions as regards the debt ratios are primarily... 

NASA scientists reported on Thursday that the robot Curiosity will study the recently discovered bright particles on the Martian surface after it was ruled out that they could be from any cables of the ship that carried the android. In October, it showed transmitted while collecting samples of Martian soil. Scientists at the U.S. space agency NASA (by acronym) announced that the robot Curiosity will... 

In October 2012, a team from state owned Russian TV channel Rossiya 1 came to France for a reportage. As representative sites, they chose Paris and Saint-Ouen. They saw a lot of hawkers, Roma beggars, Muslims praying in the streets and drug dealers. Their conclusion, the country is invaded by foreign people and its now becoming a colony of its former colonies.  Read More »

Alleged terrorist plotters (from the left) Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali, both 27. A British court has been told that an al-Qaeda inspired group including up to 8 bombers were planning “another 9/11” in the UK, local media reported. Woolwich Crown Court heard that a Birmingham-based Jihadist group, whose chieftains received training in Pakistan, had plans to induce “mass deaths”... 

A NATO base may appear in Moldova, near the border of the breakaway Transdniestrian Republic. Officials representing the Transdniestrian authorities say that the information is true. Their counterparts in Moldova do not deny the news either. Russia stated clearly that it would recognize Transdniestria, if Moldova decided to unite with Romania. Is the conflict about to unfreeze? The situation around... 

There was a time when the Turkish-led Ottoman Empire ruled over a large chunk of Europe. Now some believe the Turks want to bring back those old glory days. The Turkish government has embarked on a mosque-building campaign throughout Germany. One new Turkish mega-mosque, the Cologne Central Mosque, has Germans on edge. When construction on the facility is completed, it will be Germany’s largest... 

Soldiers of the 4th Brigade Air Defense (NORAD) air and space defense forces (ASD) during the deployment of the Launcher antiaircraft missile system S-400 “Triumph” at a site in the Moscow region The Russian military will deploy state-of-the-art air defense systems along its southern border by the end of the year, the Defense Ministry announced. “In accordance with the Southern Military... 

Conversion: Dr Ebon Alexander claims he had an out-of-body experience whilst in a coma When it came to the after-life, Eben Alexander used to be just like most scientists — a firm non-believer. By his own account only ‘nominally’ a Christian, the 58-year-old, Harvard-educated neurosurgeon knew too much to have time for the tales of out-of-body experiences that patients would sometimes describe... 

Protesters clash with riot policemen during a demonstration in Madrid, Spain. Spain is considering a law that aims to ban photographing, filming or reproducing images of the country’s members of police and state security forces while they are on duty, officials say. Spain’s Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said that the government is considering the ban on capturing, playing back and processing... 

A little-known plant with a truly bizarre name is now making headlines as a cancer killer, with the compound of the plant vanishing tumors in mice with pancreatic cancer. Known as the “Tripterygium Wilfordii” or Lei Gong Teng sometimes called “Thunder God Vine”, the Chinese plant is actually integrated into Chinese medicine and has been used for ages in remedying a number of... 

Russia plans to spend 101.15 billion rubles on nuclear weapons in 2013-2015, the head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma Vladimir Komoyedov said. “The budget provisions under “The Nuclear Weapons Complex” section in 2013-2015 will amount to 29.28 billion rubles, 33.3 billion rubles and 38.57 billion rubles respectively,” Komoyedov said, Vechernaya Moskva reports. The... 

The SV Estelle welcomes on board Greek pro-Palestinian activist Vassilis Pissias and a Greek left coalition Syriza party deputy on October 16. A Gaza-bound Swedish ship carrying aid to Palestinians has “come under attack” by Israeli naval forces, a spokeswoman for the group says. The Israeli forces attacked Estelle, a Swedish-owned ship under the Finnish flag, on Saturday in the international... 

A grim report prepared by the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia (HCR) circulating in the Kremlin today is expressing growing fears about our world’s ability to feed itself after yesterday’s massive dust storm destroyed an estimated 150 million tonnes of topsoil from the United States regions of Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, a scene not witnessed since the shocking Great Depression event known...