Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi. Iran’s intelligence minister says the country has reliable information that former head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group Osama bin Laden died of disease some time ago. “We have accurate information that bin Laden died of illness some time ago,” Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting on Sunday. He questioned Washington’s... 

Is the far-right making a comeback? You might think so reading some of the headlines this week. “Behind the migrant row, Europe keeps shifting to the far-right,” warns Time magazine. “Finland leads rise of the far-right in Europe,” according to The Daily Telegraph. The Irish Times went with the same theme, editorialising, “As similar nationalist parties have done recently... 

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, who is described as 'the actual president of Iran' by allies of the country's supreme leader. Iranian power struggle between president and supreme leader sees arrests and claims of undue influence of chief of staff. Close allies of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers... 

The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange in an exclusive interview to RT (formerly known as Russia Today) called Facebook the greatest espionage tool in history. According to Assange, Facebook automatically collects confidential data of the registered site users, and later this information is transferred to the U.S. intelligence. The founder of the WikiLeaks said in a television interview that Facebook... 

Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. missile attack close to the Afghan border has killed at least 15 people. Friday’s drone attack was the first reported strike since Monday’s pre-dawn U.S. commando raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Authorities say the attack targeted a compound in North Waziristan, a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaida militants on the border with... 

Moscow has greeted the reconciliation between the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas groups with enthusiasm, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokesperson, Aleksandr Lukashevich. ­“On May 4, 15 Palestinian movements, including the two largest, Fatah and Hamas, signed an inter-Palestinian reconciliation agreement. Based on this, a transition government of independent “technocrats”... 

A new national poll indicates the race for the Republican presidential nomination remains wide-open, with none of the probable or potential GOP White House contenders above 20 percent, according to a new national poll. […] What about the showdown in November 2012? According to the poll, taken before the announcement of Osama bin Laden’s death, President Barack Obama has an edge over all the... 

The Fox News-led GOP debate last night in South Carolina gave the first formal glimpse of the emerging 2012 GOP presidential field, though more thought was perhaps spent on the presumptive (selected & vetted by the establishment) big name contenders who have yet to enter or debate. Congressman Ron Paul was perhaps the most well-known face next to a field otherwise unseen in 2008. With him... 

Lady Gaga’s new controversial music video manages to enrage the Catholic Church and almost every devout Christian as she openly declares her love for the man who betrayed Jesus Christ, Judas. In this song, she has the role of Mary Magdalene and The Boondock Saints star Norman Reedus who played the role of a Catholic activist in the two movies The Boondock Saints, now played a role as Judas... 

A view of the Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. For the first time since the outbreak of Japan’s nuclear crisis, workers have been able to enter the quake and tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi power plant. On Thursday, Japanese workers entered the reactor No.1 at the battered Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the facility’s operator Tokyo Electric... 

As many as 8,000 Syrians are missing in the country after security forces intensified home raids and detentions on anti-regime protesters since Friday, according to a human-rights group, and others have been released following what it describes severe torture. But the regime’s continued use of force to squash the protest movement has instigated a new set of voices—among them students in Syria’s... 

DPNI members Leaders of several nationalist groups have created united organization called “the Russians,” the former head of the banned Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) has said. ­According to Dmitry Demushkin, earlier this week the political council of the new organization elected the leadership and decided issues of the management. The new union’s immediate goal is to facilitate... 

Sarkozy tells L'Express: "France will face up to its responsibilities on ... recognition of a Palestinian state". France may recognise a Palestinian state later this year Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, said in an interview with a leading weekly magazine. “If the peace process is still dead in September, France will face up to its responsibilities on the central question... 

Romania has agreed to host US missile interceptors on Romanian territory. Russia has issued a warning after Romania agreed to host the US missile system site at a Soviet-built base in the country’s southern town of Deveselu. Moscow warned that the deployment of US interceptor missiles on Romanian territory comes without considering the talks between Moscow and Washington on the issue. Earlier... 

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House. The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound as further doubts emerged about the...