Fri, Jun 5th, 2009 | Most Viewed, Politics, Top Stories, U.S. |

WASHINGTON – A retired State Department worker with top secret security clearance and his wife have been indicted on charges of spying for Cuba over the past three decades. The indictment unsealed Friday in Washington says Walter Kendall Myers and his ...Read More

Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela in the coming months

Sun, Nov 22nd, 2009 | World |

Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela in the coming months CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months. Chavez read aloud a letter to the 83-year-old former Cuban leader during a televised speech Saturday night, saying "Venezuela awaits ...Read More

Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to Venezuela

Sun, Nov 22nd, 2009 | Top Stories, World |

Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to Venezuela CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months. Chavez read aloud a letter to the 83-year-old former Cuban leader during a televised speech Saturday night, saying "Venezuela awaits you." ...Read More

Couple Plead Guilty in Cuba Spying Case

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | U.S. |

WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired State Department worker and his wife have pleaded guilty in federal court to spying for Cuba over three decades. The retired worker, Walter Kendall Myers, and his wife, Gwendolyn, both in their 70s, were caught in ...Read More

Couple pleads guilty in Cuban spying case

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

WASHINGTON -A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a three-decade-long plot to spy for Cuba have pleaded guilty in federal court. Walter Kendall Myers and wife, Gwendolyn — both in their 70s — were caught in an undercover ...Read More

Trial begins for Maui man accused of spying

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | U.S. |

HONOLULU - A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testified in federal court Thursday. But the forensic psychologists who evaluated Noshir Gowadia of Maui ...Read More

Chinese cyber-spying grows against US: report

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Most Viewed |

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's government appears increasingly to be piercing U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to gather useful data for its military, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday. "A large body of both circumstantial and forensic evidence strongly ...Read More

Human Rights Watch: Cuba: Raúl Castro Imprisons Critics, Crushes Dissent

Wed, Nov 18th, 2009 | World |

Obama Should Replace Failed Embargo With Effective Multilateral Policy (Washington, DC) - Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention, ...Read More

US rights group finds abuses rife in Raul's Cuba

Wed, Nov 18th, 2009 | World |

WASHINGTON—Human Rights Watch says conditions in Cuba have not improved under Raul Castro and in some ways are worse than they had been when his brother Fidel was president. In a report, the group accuses Raul Castro's government of creating "a ...Read More

Iran Sentences 5 To Death Over Post-Election Protests

Tue, Nov 17th, 2009 | World |

Iran Sentences 5 To Death Over Post-Election Protests TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday. The five apparently include three death sentences announced ...Read More

Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to trade summit

Sat, Nov 14th, 2009 | Top Stories, World |

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez is inviting former Cuban leader Fidel Castro to next month's meeting of the regional ALBA trade bloc being held in Havana. Chavez says Castro is well enough to attend the conference in mid-December. Venezuela's leftist ...Read More

Castro as commentator on US politics

Fri, Nov 13th, 2009 | World |

HAVANA — Think you're obsessed with President Barack Obama and the many challenges he faces at home and abroad? Well, you're not alone. Fidel Castro appears to have a fascination with the American leader that would make Obama Girl jealous, writing obsessively ...Read More

Cambodia charges Thai man for spying on Thaksin visit

Fri, Nov 13th, 2009 | Top Stories, World |

SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AFP) – Cambodian police said Friday they had charged a Thai man with spying on fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, further inflaming a diplomatic crisis between the neighbouring countries. The spy row blew up as Thaksin played a relaxed ...Read More

Thai man arrest for spying in Cambodia

Thu, Nov 12th, 2009 | World |

PHNOM PENH, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Police Authority has arrested a Thai engineer for allegedly spying for Thailand and sent him to court, police official said on Friday. "We have already sent him to court and the court will deal ...Read More

Iran accuses US hikers of spying after straying across border

Mon, Nov 9th, 2009 | Most Viewed, Top Stories, World |

Iran accuses US hikers of spying after straying across border Three American hikers who crossed the border from Iraq into Iran in July were today accused of spying by Tehran. The move could set up the Americans – who relatives say were hiking and strayed across the border – as ...Read More

Iran prosecutor: 3 Americans accused of spying

Mon, Nov 9th, 2009 | Top Stories, World |

TEHRAN, Iran - A senior Iranian prosecutor accused three Americans detained on the border with Iraq of espionage on Monday, the first signal that Tehran intends to put them on trial. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for the ...Read More

Detained Americans Accused of Spying

Mon, Nov 9th, 2009 | World |

TEHRAN, Iran (Nov. 9) - A senior Iranian prosecutor accused three Americans detained on the border with Iraq of espionage on Monday, the first signal that Tehran intends to put them on trial. The move could set up the Americans — ...Read More

Fidel Castro says eased US travel rules to Cuba has caused more cases of swine flu on island

Sat, Oct 31st, 2009 | World |

HAVANA - Fidel Castro has found something to sneeze at in Washington's decision to ease visits by Cuban-Americans to his island: He says more Americans mean more swine flu. The 83-year-old ex-president wrote in state-controlled newspapers on Saturday that many of ...Read More

No bail for federal scientist accused of spying

Thu, Oct 29th, 2009 | U.S. |

No bail for federal scientist accused of spying WASHINGTON - A judge on Thursday ordered a U.S. space exploration scientist accused of attempted espionage to stay behind bars, after prosecutors said he claimed to have passed secrets to Israel. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson decided there was too much of ...Read More

Castro’s sister says she worked with CIA

Tue, Oct 27th, 2009 | World |

MIAMI - One of Fidel Castro's sisters says in a memoir released yesterday that she collaborated with the CIA against her brother, starting shortly after the United States' failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. Juanita Castro, 76, initially ...Read More

Fidel Castro's Sister Says She Worked With CIA

Mon, Oct 26th, 2009 | World |

Fidel Castro's Sister Says She Worked With CIA Juanita Castro, sister of former Cuban President Fidel Castro, says she collaborated with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency against her brother's rule in the 1960s. She made the revelation to a Spanish-language television channel (Univision-Noticias 23) in Florida Sunday in a ...Read More