An estimated 600 former soldiers and police officers turned out on the streets of Seoul in this latest rally to demand revenge against the North for last week’s artillery attack. The North Korean shelling of a small island that killed four people has prompted outrage among South Koreans, many of whom see their own government’s response as weak. [Jung Jung-Ho,... 

The truth about the unseemly way in which the US State Department has been behaving should not have gone public, insists Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who today called the revelation of these facts “an attack on the international community.” The Obama Administration has expressed outrage at what amounts to the revelation of a growing number of crimes committed... 

As predicted, the Swiss People’s Party (which actually fights for the interests of the Swiss People) has won its latest battle. Foreigners who commit serious crimes or benefit fraud will be automatically deported. The law passed with 52.9% of the vote. Leftists, who love both crime and destroying Western countries, were predictably upset. For example, Marcelo... 

This map is from 2007 but the situation hasn't changed much since then. A new UN report on Tuesday warned that Africa’s urban population was set to triple in the next 40 years. It also said that the development would put massive pressure on governments and infrastructure across the continent. The report entitled, ‘The State of African Cities 2010: Governance,... 

Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan's order to stop using ethnic descriptions has been described as 'political correctness gone mad. POLICE say a ban on using ethnic or religious words to describe offenders is obstructing investigations. The police union has labelled the policy, a direct order from Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan, as “political... 

Provisions in Dream Act qualify undocumented for fed money. Want to know how the lame ducks in Congress plan to “cut” federal spending – which seemed to be a dominating theme of the 2010 elections? They’re proposing a plan to take upwards of $44 billion a year from taxpayers and hand it over to illegal aliens who are in the United States so they can... 

Unless something is done to reverse the flight of ethnic Russians from the republics of the North Caucasus, a commentator in one Moscow newspaper says, that region will ultimately be lost to Russia because “a Caucasus without ethnic Russians can mean only one thing: a Russia without the Caucasus.” In Friday’s “Segodnya,” Aleksey Sidorenko argues that Russian... 

Jesse Jackson isn’t the only activist that can use corporate boycotts for political purposes. Starting next year, the huge Tea Party organizer FreedomWorks will urge supporters to punish huge corporations like General Electric and Johnson and Johnson for backing President Obama’s progressive agenda. In an exclusive review for Whispers of their plan, FreedomWorks... 

The South African government’s efforts to redress the wrongs of apartheid by buying farms from willing white owners and giving them to blacks has been a failure, with many of the new owners having little experience to make a success of it. The policy has also stirred racial tensions. Reporting from Greylingstad, South Africa — Michael Zulu trundles a wheelbarrow... 

Mr. Bloom being "escorted" out A British member of the European parliament was thrown out of a debate on Wednesday, after quoting Nazi slogans in German in the chamber. ‘Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer (One People, One Kingdom, One Fuehrer),’ said Godfrey Bloom from the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which wants Britain’s exit... 

Jem Stansfield travels to the Solar Furnace Research Facility in Southern France. He witnesses the incredible power generated by highly concentrated sunlight. Sunlight, focused intensely enough that it can (and does) burn any material on earth. Just how hot does it get in that ring of fire sunshine? Over 6,300 degrees Fahrenheit. VN:F [1.9.13_1145]please wait...Rating:... 

A 4 November satellite image shows the site of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility. Defence minister hints at deploying US weapons on his country’s soil for first time since 1991 after news of North Korean plant. South Korea’s defence minister today raised the possibility that US nuclear weapons could be deployed in his country for the first time in... 

A Kolkata slum dweller talks on a mobile in India, where the phones have become more affordable. Council of elders feared women would use phones to arrange forbidden marriages. An Indian village has banned unmarried women from using mobile phones for fear they will arrange forbidden marriages that are often punished by death, a local official said today. The Lank village... 

A group of tea party activists are firing back at a gay conservative group, claiming that they don’t speak for the movement. Last week, POLITICO reported on a letter that GOProud and several tea party activists sent to GOP congressional leaders urging them to pursue fiscal issues over social ones. Now, another group of tea party activists released their own letter... 

According to information in a new report coming out of Syracuse University’s TRAC, re-entry into the U.S. by unauthorized immigrants was the crime most prosecuted by federal authorities. In August there were 13,122 federal criminal prosecutions, and illegal re-entry accounted for 2,139 of those prosecutions. August’s information was the most recently released from...