Terrorists plan to 'blow up oil tankers and hijack cargo ships' passing through Gibraltar to wreak havoc on global economy

• al-Qaeda chiefs have reportedly instructed militants to target Gibraltar Strait
• Thousands of gallons of oil pass through Mediterranean waters every year 
• Plot involves blowing up tankers with explosives…

Scientists' hidden links to the GM food giants: Disturbing truth behind official report that said UK should forge on with Frankenfoods

• Government advisory body presented an 'independent' report on Thursday
• It was used to support a bid to speed up the use of GM food in the UK
  
  
• But in fact all…

Spanish royal's property impounded in corruption case

A judge in Spain has ordered properties belonging to the king's son-in-law to be impounded amid a corruption scandal that has embarrassed the royal family.

4 November 2013 Last updated…

US to deploy 200 troops to Jordan to curb Syria violence - Hagel

Published time: April 17, 2013 20:50 

Edited time: April 18, 2013 02:37

The US will deploy 200 troops to Jordan in the coming weeks in a bid to support that country’s defenses, Washington says, as the Syrian crisis escalates.

The Wednesday statement came from US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in…

EU losing 1 trillion euros a year to tax dodging

(Reuters) - Tax dodging causes the European Union to lose around 1 trillion euros of income each year, the president of the European Council said on Friday as he announced that EU leaders would…

Arkansas ExxonMobil oil spill even worse than thought

Published time: April 11, 2013 16:16 

Edited time: April 11, 2013 18:43

An Arkansas state attorney general has announced that the ExxonMobil pipeline rupture that has leaked thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas is “substantially larger” than initially believed, but that the size of the leak still remains unknown.…

UN passes ‘landmark’ Arms Trade Treaty, despite key abstentions

Published time: April 02, 2013 20:13

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted to adopt the first ever treaty regulating international arms trade. Nonetheless, abstentions from major exporters and importers may limit its effectiveness.

154 countries voted for the treaty in New York, while Iran, Syria and North Korea voted against, and 23 countries…

'Monsanto Protection Act' slips silently through US Congress

Published time: March 26, 2013 01:34

The US House of Representatives quietly passed a last-minute addition to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for 2013 last week - including a provision protecting genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks.

The rider, which is officially known as the Farmer…

Silence of the Homelands: Why is DHS stockpiling guns and ammunition?

Published time: March 23, 2013 09:01

The Department of Homeland Security has plans to buy enough ammunition to fight the equivalent of a 24-year Iraq War – on US territory – and even US congressmen don’t understand why.

Smack in the middle of the smoking gun-control debate, and despite deep spending cuts…

Obama’s cybersecurity plan: Monitor more of the Internet

Published time: March 21, 2013 22:06 

Edited time: March 22, 2013 06:22

President Barack Obama’s plan to protect the United States’ critical infrastructure against cyberattacks is accelerating quickly as more private sector businesses are signing on to share information with the federal government.…

Guantanamo Bay has become money pit - former prison official

Published time: March 22, 2013 05:02

Former Guantanamo prison official Ret. Col. Morris Davis has discussed with RT how the once 'temporary' facility has become a money pit as repair costs and yearly maintenance bills begin to pile up.

'Obama’s financial spy plan moves US towards Orwellian police state'

Published time: March 15, 2013 14:25

The Obama administration’s financial spying plan, which if enacted will grant spy agencies access to US citizens’ finance data, is a shocking attack on personal freedom, independent journalist Charlie McGrath has told RT.

The planning …

'Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress

Published time: March 14, 2013 17:38

Should Congress approve a proposition included in an agriculture bill up for vote this week, biotech companies like the Monsanto Company could win yet another victory in Washington.

The US House of Representatives is expected to weigh in on the Agricultural…

Thousands of Spain’s horses head for the slaughterhouse as economic crisis results in abandonment

By Agence France-Presse

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 2:34 EDT

In Spain’s boom years, they were a rich family’s status symbol. Now abandoned as a result of the economic crisis, horses are plodding in their tens of thousands to the slaughterhouse.…

Thousands rally against the Troika in Brussels

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California seizes guns from owners - and it might become a national model

They told me little Rebecca was dead - but I believe she was stolen to order by Spain's evil baby snatchers

• Ruth Appleby's daughter died shortly after her birth at a Spanish hospital
• Ruth believes baby Rebecca, born 1992, was stolen and sold for adoption
  
  
• Thousands 'stolen and sold' by group of nuns, doctors and officials
  
  
• The…

Teenage sex slave raped 90 times in one weekend despite authorities saying she wasn't at risk

• Girl gave evidence to committee despite still being 'deeply traumatised'
• CSJ report claims efforts to tackle slavery in a state of crisis
• More than 1,000 adults and children trafficked into or within UK in 2011/12
  
  

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