Iskander missile Russia proceeds from the necessity to maintain its strategic defense potential, says Russia’s Ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin. ­Russia’s primary interest is in protecting its citizens, says the NATO envoy. “We cannot afford to trade on the security of our citizens,” Rogozin said. “So if anyone puts an eye on it or casts a doubt on it, counter measures should certainly... 

Locked up: Gulnaz is in Kabul's Badam Bagh jail, serving out her sentence with her rapist's child An Afghan woman raped by her cousin’s husband has revealed how she is faced with a horrific dilemma – marry him or spend the next 12 years in jail. Gulnaz was aged just 19 when she was convicted by a court of adultery, even though she tried to prevent the attack. Now she is in Kabul’s... 

Call it the Meme Movement. This Sprayer Cop Meme Movement is very similar to the famous Looter King Meme Movement when a man from New Orleans was looting beer in the middle of the Katrina event. Whatever degree of success achieved by the Occupy protests, it’s largely been based on its old-fashioned, off-line demonstrations. They’ve been decidedly physical, as in, non-virtual- staking out... 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the US and Israel against an attack on Iran, cautioning that such a move would mean “a very serious mistake”. Such an attack “could bring very unpredictable results … military intervention only creates a great number of victims,” Lavrov said, speaking at a Moscow press conference to the Interfax news agency. An Israeli attack... 

Italian citizens are planning to file a collective lawsuit against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, holding him accountable for the mismanagement of public money, Press TV reports. Thousands of Italians have already signed the petition collected by a class action committee in Milan and more signatures will be collected in other cities in the coming days, Press TV correspondent reported on... 

Talks between Merkel and Cameron lay bare fundamental differences over plan for euro. An anti-British backlash gathered pace in Germany yesterday as David Cameron and Angela Merkel struggled to disguise the gulf between them on how to tackle the eurozone crisis. The Prime Minister returned from talks in Berlin with the German leader having made little progress in agreeing emergency action to stop... 

France has joined Turkey in calling for greater international efforts to exert pressure on Syria to stop its bloody crackdown on protesters, as at least 15 more people were reported killed Friday. At the same time, Syria made its first response to a proposal by the Arab League to send a delegation of more than 500 military and civilian observers to the country, but critics said it appeared to be a... 

Danny Danon The “All for Peace” radio station in Israel has been shut down by the nation’s Communications Ministry following claims that they were violating the law by illegally criticizing the far-right coalition government. The Communications Ministry said the Hebrew-language broadcasts were illegal because they were “economically damaging” to other local radio stations, and said that since... 

China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin China has expressed opposition to the new unilateral sanctions imposed against Iran by some Western states, warning that they would “exacerbate” the situation. “We believe pressuring and sanctions cannot fundamentally solve the Iranian nuclear issue. On the contrary, they will complicate and exacerbate the issue and intensify confrontation,”... 

Russia’s Phobos-Ground interplanetary space station, the connection with which was lost soon after launch on November 9, showed a sign of life. A European station received a signal from the Russian spacecraft on Tuesday night, Gazeta.ru website reports. The ESA’s station in Perth, Australia, made contact with the probe with the link holding from 20:25 GMT to 21:11 GMT, Interfax reports. The... 

The Thamen al-Hojaj war games began late on November 18 in Iran's eastern regions. The rapid-response units of Iran’s anti-aircraft system deploy the country’s most up-to-date and domestically-built reconnaissance equipment that use various frequency ranges and missiles, says an Iranian military spokesman. Iran’s army carried out “timely and covert” operations against the... 

There have been no official comments by the U.S. authorities on the exposure of CIA spy networks in the Middle East. Several dozen spies working for the CIA in Iran and Lebanon have been caught, ABC News said, citing U.S. officials with connections to the intelligence community. According to an exclusive ABC report on Monday, “the spies were paid informants recruited by the CIA for two distinct espionage... 

British futurologist Ian Pearson believes that people will not need to have sex already in 2030. To experience orgasm and other pleasant sensations that occur during sex people would only have to apply microchips on their skin. The chips will record the signals from the central nervous system received during sex and then simply play them again any moment, when needed. The scientist is certain that... 

America’s middle class is disappearing as growing income inequality creates more families in areas either mostly rich or poor, a report says. Around 44 per cent of families live in middle-income neighbourhoods – down from 65 per cent in 1970, the Stanford University study shows. Meanwhile a third of families in the U.S. now live in either rich or poor areas, which has more than doubled on... 

While the mainstream media begins to set their sights on Newt Gingrich as he surges in the polls in recent weeks, the latest numbers out of Iowa reaffirm that fellow Republican candidate Ron Paul has a real chance in the race. Results from a poll conducted by Bloomberg News earlier this month placed Paul, a medical doctor and libertarian icon, in a statistical tie for first place among the current...