Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a

Maxim, a 20-year-old university student and political activist, refuses to give his last name and masks his face when he appears in public. “People fear the pressure of the security forces in Russia,” he said. “They don’t know who to be scared of, and who is meant to protect them.” “That leads them to be [...]

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A top Pakistani diplomat has said its investigations into the attacks on Mumbai show they were not planned in either Pakistan or the UK. L

Two years ago the UK Ministry of Defence’s Strategic Trends depicted an alarming futuristic scenario in which proletarianised middle-class radicals engage in revolutionary activity and violent ‘flashmobs’ threaten the authorities with lawless disorder. There are growing signs that these predictions may be more prescient than was originally thought. L

U.S. government officials seeking to revamp the financial bailout have discussed spending another $1 trillion (709 billion pounds) to $2 trillion to help restore banks to health, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. L

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A new bill introduced in Congress authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to set up a network of FEMA camp facilities to be used to house U.S. citizens in the event of a national emergency. The National Emergency Centers Act or HR 645 mandates the establishment of

RIGA, Latvia — On a frigid evening this month, more than 10,000 people gathered outside a 13th-century cathedral in this Baltic capital to protest the government’s handling of Latvia’s economic crisis and demand early elections. The demonstration was one of the largest here since the mass rallies against Soviet rule in the late 1980s, and [...]

EU member states are “intensively” monitoring the risk of spreading civil unrest in Europe, as riots over the economic crisis erupt in Iceland following street clashes in Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Greece. L