European countries should ease off their austerity and adopt more growth-friendly policies, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Monday as he kicked off a series of meetings with the region’s top leaders. America’s biggest trading partner and the world’s largest economic bloc has entered the fourth year of its debt crisis, which has plunged many […]
European countries should ease off their austerity and adopt more growth-friendly policies, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Monday as he kicked off a series of meetings with the region’s top leaders. America’s biggest trading partner and the world’s largest economic bloc has entered the fourth year of its debt crisis, which has plunged many […]
Oil and gas companies have already leased 17,000 acres of land in California through the federal government — and they’re aiming to get more in the 1,700 square-mile region.
Oil and gas companies have already leased 17,000 acres of land in California through the federal government — and they’re aiming to get more in the 1,700 square-mile region.
Once thought to have been designed to bar consensual gay sex, the Crimes Against Nature law has resurfaced in Virginia once again after Virginia’s attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli asked the Fourth Circuit to reconsider the case. Up until March of this year, the state of Virginia had an anti-sodomy law, which a […]
Once thought to have been designed to bar consensual gay sex, the Crimes Against Nature law has resurfaced in Virginia once again after Virginia’s attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli asked the Fourth Circuit to reconsider the case. Up until March of this year, the state of Virginia had an anti-sodomy law, which a […]
Activists are responding to expanded U.S. drone strikes with a new market that provides practical fashion for protection from thermal imaging — a line that not only is effective in combatting the drone culture, but also makes a political point. Earlier this month, the fashion world was exposed to the newest product on the market […]
Activists are responding to expanded U.S. drone strikes with a new market that provides practical fashion for protection from thermal imaging — a line that not only is effective in combatting the drone culture, but also makes a political point. Earlier this month, the fashion world was exposed to the newest product on the market […]
Former President Nelson Mandela was discharged from a hospital on Saturday after an improvement in his health following treatment for pneumonia, the South African presidency said. The statement from the office of President Jacob Zuma said there had been “a sustained and gradual improvement” in the condition of 94-year-old Mandela, who was admitted to a […]
Former President Nelson Mandela was discharged from a hospital on Saturday after an improvement in his health following treatment for pneumonia, the South African presidency said. The statement from the office of President Jacob Zuma said there had been “a sustained and gradual improvement” in the condition of 94-year-old Mandela, who was admitted to a […]
Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to the Middle East on his third trip there in just two weeks in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Kerry departs Saturday for Istanbul, the first leg of a six-nation trip that will see him travel on to Europe and East Asia. From there, […]
Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to the Middle East on his third trip there in just two weeks in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Kerry departs Saturday for Istanbul, the first leg of a six-nation trip that will see him travel on to Europe and East Asia. From there, […]
Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader, has warned longtime ally North Korea that it should not risk a war which could “affect more than 70 percent of the world’s population.”
In a rare written commentary piece in Cuban state media, Castro, 86, described the situation on the Korean peninsula as “incredible” and “absurd.”
Saying he was speaking as a friend, Castro wrote that Pyongyang — with Kim Jong Un at the helm — had shown the world its technical prowess and now it was time to remember its duties to others.
“If war breaks out there, the people of both parts of the peninsula will be terribly sacrificed, without benefit to all or either of them. Now that [North Korea] has demonstrated its technical and scientific achievements, we remind her of her duties to the countries which have been her great friends, and it would be unjust to forget that such a war would particularly affect more than 70 per cent of the population of the planet.”
He said North Korea’s declaration of war this week and threatened nuclear attack on the US constituted “one of the gravest risks of nuclear war” since the Cuban missile crisis, Reuters wrote.
Castro led Cuban during the 1962 crisis, when the US and Soviet Union nearly went to war over the placement of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, 90 miles south of Florida.
The LA Times cited analysts as saying that North Korea was not capable of carrying out a nuclear strike, but that the escalating threats had raised tension and diverted global attention.
Castro also warned the US over its role in the crisis.
“If a conflict of that nature should break out there, the government of Barack Obama in his second mandate would be buried in a deluge of images which would present him as the most sinister character in the history of the United States. The duty of avoiding war is also his and that of the people of the United States.”
Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader, has warned longtime ally North Korea that it should not risk a war which could “affect more than 70 percent of the world’s population.”
In a rare written commentary piece in Cuban state media, Castro, 86, described the situation on the Korean peninsula as “incredible” and “absurd.”
Saying he was speaking as a friend, Castro wrote that Pyongyang — with Kim Jong Un at the helm — had shown the world its technical prowess and now it was time to remember its duties to others.
“If war breaks out there, the people of both parts of the peninsula will be terribly sacrificed, without benefit to all or either of them. Now that [North Korea] has demonstrated its technical and scientific achievements, we remind her of her duties to the countries which have been her great friends, and it would be unjust to forget that such a war would particularly affect more than 70 per cent of the population of the planet.”
He said North Korea’s declaration of war this week and threatened nuclear attack on the US constituted “one of the gravest risks of nuclear war” since the Cuban missile crisis, Reuters wrote.
Castro led Cuban during the 1962 crisis, when the US and Soviet Union nearly went to war over the placement of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, 90 miles south of Florida.
The LA Times cited analysts as saying that North Korea was not capable of carrying out a nuclear strike, but that the escalating threats had raised tension and diverted global attention.
Castro also warned the US over its role in the crisis.
“If a conflict of that nature should break out there, the government of Barack Obama in his second mandate would be buried in a deluge of images which would present him as the most sinister character in the history of the United States. The duty of avoiding war is also his and that of the people of the United States.”
