According to the Los Angeles Times, the Italian weekly magazine Panorama reported on Wednesday that the NSA intercepted phone calls going in and out of the Vatican. Panorama magazine said the NSA intercepted calls in and out of the Rome residence where cardinals stayed before the papal conclave. Among them was Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, […]
For the first time in its history, the US Congress is to hear directly from a family of survivors of an American drone strike in Pakistan. A Pakistani school teacher and his children will be the first drone victims to testify before the United States Congress on Tuesday. 9-year-old Nabeela Rehman is the survivor of […]
On Thursday, Caroline Kennedy appeared before the foreign relations committee to offer her qualifications to become U.S. ambassador, an appointment she said had special significance this year on the 50th anniversary of her father’s presidency. NBC’s Harry Smith reports. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
John McCain has taken a page out of Vladimir Putin’s book just one week after the Russian president posted a biting op-ed in the New York Times, writing his own piece for the Russian news site Pravda. McCain accused Putin of ruling through violence, intimidation and repression in a searing response to Putin’s own editorial […]
At least 19 people have died and 17 others were injured in an apparent Taliban attack targeting the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan. Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi, the governor of Herat province, told the AP news agency that the attack began at about 6am local time (2am GMT) on Friday with a powerful car bomb […]