WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The “Big Cairo Fire” destroyed 30 banks and major companies, 13 hotels, 310 stores, 92 bars, 40 movie theaters, eight automobile showrooms. Not last week but 61 years ago. And the arsonist was the same -- the Muslim Brotherhood.
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Was Adolf Hitler born too early? That is, could a 21st-century Hitler have prevailed in imposing Nazism upon the world where a 20th-century Hitler failed?
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Next year Scotland will vote in a referendum on independence from Britain, amid a well-orchestrated campaign of sentimental nationalism which could lead to a shrunken Britain.
By RYSZARD CZARNECKI, UPI Outside View Commentator
WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- We have seen failures of the United Nations in protecting refugees. If the world stands by and watches, the same could happen to Iranian refugees in Iraq.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama wants private banks to use depositor and investor funds to write 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages at affordable rates. He won't admit those goals and others imposed by Congress require the federal government to guarantee mortgages and banks against failure.
LONDON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The West has long shaken hands with despots in the Middle East in the name of stability and order and this continues with the change of presidents in Iran.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The Syrian civil war has seen the re-emergence of al-Qaida as a revolutionary movement. Terrorism and the Internet are part of its weapons system.
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Huma Abedin -- wife of candidate for New York City mayor and disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. -- is confounding political analysts.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Commerce Department is expected Tuesday to report the June deficit on international trade in goods and services was $43 billion.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Republicans are from Venus and U.S. President Barack Obama is from Mars. Nothing better demonstrates this than their stances on taxes, spending and jobs.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Continued bombings, repeated terrorist attacks and spiraling daily casualties in Iraq have given rise to grave concerns in the international community.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department will report Friday the U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in July, down from 195,000 in June, and the unemployment rate will slip a notch to 7.5 percent.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Egypt appears to have turned the clock back to the Mubarak era. The military is the kingmaker while Muslim Brotherhood leaders are imprisoned and the organization is being driven underground.
By BRUCE M. RICKERSON, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- By all indications, perhaps one of the most critical decisions -- membership for Ukraine -- the European Union will ever make is coming down to the wire.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 31 (UPI) -- Slow economic growth and increasing inequality are ripping the social fabric of the United States -- vanquishing the dreams of working families, saddling the young with onerous student debt and frustrating retirement plans.
HERNDON, Va., July 30 (UPI) -- After heading the Department of Homeland Security for four years, Janet Napolitano announced she will depart in September. Wishing her well, U.S. President Barack Obama claimed the "American people are safer and more secure thanks to Janet's leadership in protecting our homeland against terrorist attacks."
BERGERAC, France, July 29 (UPI) -- For the past two years, Europe has been gripped by the prospect of Grexit, a forced withdrawal by an impoverished Greece from the euro currency. Maybe Europe was looking in the wrong direction. Brexit, a voluntary British withdrawal, now seems ever more likely.
ARLINGTON, Va., July 26 (UPI) -- The international community is seeing a drastic shift from putting boots on the ground to solve problems and is maximizing leverage gained from having eyes in the sky.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is on the campaign trail to sell his economic program directly to voters -- over the head of a reluctant U.S. Congress. He says it's all about jobs but it's just politics as usual.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush (C) points to the crowd as he stands on the first tee box at the 2013 Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio on October 3, 2013. UPI/Brian Kersey
