Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced the European Union as “anti-democratic” over the bloc’s criticism of the Turkish government about the police’s heavy-handed response to the protests in the country.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Russia and the United States have decided to encourage all parties involved in the Syria conflict to hold peace talks in Geneva.
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Campaigners have condemned the massive security arrangements for the ongoing G8 summit in Northern Ireland amid peaceful protests.
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President Obama offered a lawyerly defense of the National Security Agency this morning that can be summarized in two words: Trust us."The people involved in America's national security they take this work very seriously," he said. "The last thing they'd be doing is taking programs like this to listen to people's phone calls
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White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough says United States President Barack Obama does not believe that surveillance of phone records and Internet data by National Security Agency (NSA) has violated the US people’s privacy rights.
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In a long-awaited decision with major implications for commercial and academic research, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that human genes that are isolated from the body cannot be patented.
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The most intriguing aspect of the early mayoral election in Moscow is its complete lack of suspense. Almost two weeks have passed since pro-Kremlin Mayor Sergei Sobyanin unexpectedly resigned.
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When William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago, proposed to add a law school to the new university in 1902, he entrusted the project to Ernst Freund, a political-science professor, former practicing lawyer and well-known expert on police power and the free-speech rights of dissidents.
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Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has accused the young NSA spy agency employee that exposed massive American electronic surveillance programs in the country and abroad as a Chinese spy.
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Russia will not permit the enforcement of a no-fly zone over Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesman says following reports that US and its allies are planning such a move.
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New revelations about the alleged reach of the US National Security Agency (NSA)'s surveillance efforts raise serious questions about President Obama's respect for the right to privacy.
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The results of a new poll indicate that scandals have dragged down US President Barack Obama’s approval rating compared to less than a month ago The disclosure in mid-May that the Justice Department had from the spring of 2012 surreptitiously obtained phone records of AP journalists has also put the White House on the defensive.
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US President Barack Obama has come under growing criticism over the country’s massive electronic surveillance bids across America and Europe as European leaders demand more details on the spying efforts from the US government.
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Former US Vice-President Al Gore has sharply criticized the National Security Agency (NSA)’s secret telephone data collection program, saying it is against the country’s Constitution. Former US Vice-President Al Gore has dismissed NSA's secret surveillance program as unlawful.
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Republican Congressman Jeff Duncan has raised questions about the reasons for Internal Revenue Service law enforcement agents’ training with AR-15 rifles after he spotted such practice at a federal law enforcement facility.
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A day after President Obama ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to review the Justice Department’s guidelines regarding interactions with the press, Free Press and a diverse coalition of civil liberties, digital rights and open government groups weighed in on the agency’s treatment of journalists’ sources and information.
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The British government has alerted air carriers around the world not to allow the American NSA whistleblower who exposed top-secret US electronic spying operations to board a flight to the UK.
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When the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum opens next week, a traditional fixture of the event will be conspicuously absent: renowned economist Sergei Guriev.
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The Obama administration has indicated no signs of scaling back its massive domestic surveillance operations despite the public exposure of the secret bid by a former employee of the NSA spy agency.
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A former US lawmaker has expressed concerns that the Obama administration might resort to assassinating NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with a cruise or a “drone missile.”
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The Senate has voted to officially move to debate on immigration reform, but that’s no guarantee of success. There’s still a real chance the bill will die in the Upper Chamber, and that’s before it would go before the House of Representatives and a Republican caucus that’s deeply hostile to either reform, President Obama, or both.
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In a scandal that has yet to receive appropriate attention from the mainstream media, yet another impeachable offense hovers above the head of embattled US President Barack Obama and his comrades in Washington, D.C.Reliable sources are reporting that America faces a historic Pinocchio shortage brought on by a record influx of misrepresentations, denials, fabricated stories, exaggerations and out-and-out lies promulgated by President Obama, DOJ boss Eric Holder, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and a variety of unnamed co-conspirators, all Democrats, in Washington.
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Influential Iowa Republicans say they’re reluctant to offer legal status to immigrants living in the United States illegally, but one local expert says any pathway to citizenship is likely to be “very arduous.”
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A clandestine surveillance program operated by the US National Security Agency directed to electronic communications has been revealed.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended the violent police crackdown on ongoing anti-government protests in the city of Istanbul..
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Mayor Sergei Sobyanin caught many by surprise when he resigned on June 5 and called for early elections.
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In its current form, the Gang of Eight's immigration bill grants permanent legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants without any guarantee of a secure border.
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Having top aides who tend to come down on opposite sides of momentous foreign policy issues fits Obama’s style and from that perspective, US stance on Middle East and Syria is likely to remain the same A few weeks ago, conventional wisdom held that Barack Obama’s second-term cabinet choices were evidence that he envisioned a less interventionist US.
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After 21 years of uninterrupted economic growth, the risk of Australia's economy slipping into recession is growing, analysts say.A fall in commodity prices, expectations for an imminent peak in mining investment, a cutback in government spending and a relatively high Australian dollar are some of the reasons for the growing pessimism.
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The US Congress has demanded Obama administration to answer questions over the government’s recent spying revelations.
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