Putin wollte den Antwortbrief von Patruschew nach Washington bringen lassen.
Am Freitag hatte Putins Sprecher Dmitri Peskow aber mitgeteilt, dass die russische Seite es möglicherweise nicht schaffen wird, die Antwortbotschaft bis Patruschews US-Visite vorzubereiten.

Das US-Außenministerium wird laut seinem Sprecher Patrick Ventrell keine Stellung zu Informationen darüber nehmen, dass der CIA-Mitarbeiter Benjamin Dillon im Januar 2013 aus Russland ausgewiesen worden war.

The Daily Telegraph has decided not to name the individual because nobody was available for comment at the embassy.

Even as ground zero burned in those first terrifying days after Sept. 11, Congressional leaders from both parties rejected a Bush administration proposal for an authorization to go to war against all international terrorists. Instead, Congress passed a tailored resolution, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, against “those who planned, authorized, committed or aided” the Sept. 11 attacks: Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

The hearing made clear that the Obama administration’s long insistence that it is deeply legally restrained under the AUMF is misleading and at a minimum requires much more extensive scrutiny. It also made clear that the SASC’s oversight of the basic legal regime for DOD operations has not been (until yesterday) serious.

The war in Afghanistan may be winding down. But the Pentagon’s chief of irregular warfare still sees a war against al-Qaida that will last decades, all over the world — a prospect that prompted astonishment and constitutional debate in the Senate.

Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes.

Twelve years after Twin Towers fell, US lawmakers question whether law granting president broad powers to target terror still appropriate

While investigations are going on all over Italy into the 22 people that left a comment about Napolitano on this blog, I’ve discovered that the President is in agreement about the abolition of article 278, laying out the crime of “vilipendio” {public insult} against the President of the Republic.

Candidate Obama promised a different kind of culture in Washington, but it‘s looking similar to the Bush era

The boat was donated to the monarch by a business group, but has led to embarrassment as it costs 20,000 euros just to refuel, according to the Spanish media.

Twenty two agents with Catalonia‘s anti-riot police have been formally charged with causing serious injuries to a young man during a general strike on March 29, 2012 when they allegedly fired rubber bullets at demonstrators in Barcelona.

However, Spain‘s National Intelligence Center suspects that Ziani was working for Moroccan intelligence and posed a threat to national security. The Interior Ministry signed off on the deportation order based on his promotion of radical ideology.

The supreme Court of Cassation on Friday called on the Constitutional Court to review Italy‘s contested election law.

Karima El Mahrough, the former nightclub dancer known as ‚Ruby Heartstealer‘ at the center of a sex scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi, told a Milan court on Friday that during after-dinner parties at ex-premier‘s Arcore villa she saw showgirl Marystelle Polanco dressed as „Obama and as Ilda Boccassini, with a toga (magistrates robe) and red wig“.

That man happens to be Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey. He‘s a pretty important guy in a pretty important part of the world, and he had all sorts of things to say about Middle East policy and Syria that may have been worth listening to. But, apparently, no cable news executive thought that American viewers could handle all that foreign stuff, especially when it had to be translated. Fortunately, they had a solution: ignore him completely.

Whenever Erdogan started talking, they cut away. Whenever Obama started talking, they raced back. This happened over and over again, on every network.