Young black males around the country are graduating at much slower rates than their white counterparts, according to a national educational study released Tuesday. The graduation rates for black males in Oakland mirrors the national numbers in this report. But this is a problem Oakland educators are working diligently to solve. There is a crisis in Oakland schools. The graduation rate for black students... 

700 Roma gypsies living in France face deportation by the end of August. The French government has announced plans to deport 700 Roma gypsies as Romania warns about the possibility of a xenophobic backlash. “I am worried about the risks of populism and xenophobic reactions in a context of economic crisis,” Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said in an interview with Radio France... 

Top Iranian military official Brig. Gen. Ali Shademani A senior Iranian military official says Iran will take full control of the Strait of Hormuz should Washington opt to launch aggression against Iran. “The country’s armed forces which are under the (Islamic Revolution) Leader’s command are in the highest state of preparedness.” head of the Operations Department of the Joint... 

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (r.) and the National Urban League's Marc Morial watch as PIMCO's Bill Gross speaks during the Obama administration's Conference on the Future of Housing Finance in the Cash Room of the Treasury Building in Washington, Tuesday. The Obama administration turned its focus on what to do with mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Obama administration... 

Washington, United States of America – According to the Ron Paul forums on his website he ( Ron Paul ) will run for the president of the United States in 2012. The message said “Ron Paul WILL BE running in 2012 barring unforseen circumstances”. Ron Paul ran for president in 2008 but his popularity was not there yet, after Obama people realised that Ron Paul was the “real change”... 

Emergency coordinator for the New York Housing Authority, and key 9/11 eyewitness, Barry Jennings has passed away with controversy about WTC7 still hot as the BBC hit piece and NIST report have been released to counter Jennings exclusive testimony of explosions inside Building 7. Jennings passed away at age 53 from circumstances not yet disclosed. A spokesperson for the Housing Authority has now... 

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran will announce good news on nuclear energy in near future. “We have messages about new nuclear achievements which will be announced within the next few months,” IRNA quoted Salehi as saying on Wednesday. According to the Iranian official,... 

Palestinian groups said the images showed the Israeli occupation was "corrupting" A former Israeli soldier has been sharply criticised for posting images of herself on Facebook posing next to Palestinian prisoners. Eden Aberjil had put the images in an album on the site entitled “The army: the best days of my life”. Army officials have condemned her behaviour as “shameful”... 

TONY Abbott believes it is “far from certain” Australia will become a republic in his lifetime, after Labor signalled a new push on the issue. Julia Gillard today declared she wants Australia to become a republic when the Queen dies, and plans to lead a national debate on the form the republic would take. The Prime Minister said today that despite being a republican, she understood... 

Global youth unemployment has hit a record high following the financial crisis and is likely to get worse later this year, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said Thursday. The report from the ILO says 81 million out of 630 million 15-24 year olds where unemployed at the end of 2009, some 7.8 million more than at the end of 2007. Thursday marks the first day of the UN International Youth... 

Shipping containers pile up at a new container port in Wuhan, China on March 27. After three decades of spectacular growth, China passed Japan in the second quarter to become the world’s second-largest economy behind the United States, according to government figures released early Monday. The milestone, though anticipated for some time, is the most striking evidence yet that China’s ascendance... 

A grim Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) report prepared for Prime Minister Putin states that a British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also known as MI6) ‘hit team’ was behind the assassination Matthew Simmons [photo top right] who was one of the United States top oil experts and the most outspoken critic of the US and BP’s handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak catastrophe. According... 

Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Ariz. Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Ariz., one of four Arizona counties contiguous with the U.S-Mexico border, said Friday that the U.S. Border Patrol has pulled back from parts of the border in his and neighboring counties because manning those areas has become too dangerous. “And you frankly have Border Patrolmen–and I know this from talking... 

A French-language TV journalist, Hugues-Denver (HEWE’) Akassy that he called himself as, has been accused of a number of crimes against the New York women. Earlier, in the last month, he was indicted for exploiting three women. In the first case, he raped a Russian tourist in a park, whom he met at Time Warner Center. In other case, he was found prowling on the fire escape of a woman claiming... 

A couple embrace, with buildings shrouded in smog in the background, in central Moscow, August 15, 2010. Acrid smoke from forest and peat bog fires which blanketed Moscow until early last week returned to the Russian capital Sunday as wildfires are still burning around the city. The concentration of carbon monoxide in Moscow air on Sunday morning was more than five times higher than the usual level...