HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn into office on Friday, cementing his status as the leading candidate to succeed his 90-year-old boss Robert Mugabe, the country’s sole ruler since independence from Britain in 1980. Mnangagwa, nicknamed
A deadly mortar attack Friday near the Iraqi city of Karbala stoked security concerns as millions of Shiite pilgrims gathered for one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. A medical source in the holy city of Karbala confirmed
VIENNA (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief executive has given Greeks a stark and unusual warning of major problems if they vote the “wrong” way and radicals win an early parliamentary election. Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission,
(Reuters) – Afghanistan does not have enough money to pay salaries this month and has asked aid donors for a bailout before the end of the year, the treasury chief told Reuters on Thursday. “Salaries are our priority,” Alhaj Mohammad Aqa said,
(Reuters) – As the dust settles on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy ‘Occupy’ protests, China is likely to embark on a sweeping but covert campaign across the territory’s judiciary, media and universities to ensure there is no recurrence, activists and politicians say. The surprisingly
(Reuters) – One of the two psychologists who devised the CIA’s harsh Bush-era interrogation methods said on Wednesday that a scathing U.S. Senate report on the torture of foreign terrorism suspects “took things out of context” and made false accusations.
TLC is testing the late-night waters with an all-new sex-themed talk show titled All About Sex. The show will reportedly air for a half-hour following new episodes of the network’s Sex Sent Me to the ER, a series in which actors
PLAINS, Mont., Dec. 11 (UPI) — A dead coyote hung from a tree with a Christmas bow along a Montana school bus route is outraging residents, but police said the display is not illegal. Plains resident Mary Ellen Siegford, who
Lawmakers vow they won’t shut down the government. But many federal employees might be pleased if they did. Only about half of federal employees are happy with their jobs and would recommend their agencies as places to work, a recent
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) delivered these remarks on the Senate floor Friday evening. The U.S. Department of Commerce informs us that “today’s typical 18- to 34-year-old earns about $2,000 less per year (adjusted for inflation) than their counterpart in 1980.”
South Park‘s Wednesday season finale took on some of 2014’s most serious subjects, and in its usual fashion, the show stoked the fires of controversy. From Bill Cosby, to Iggy Azalea’s backside, to the deaths of young black men at
Rosie O’Donnell, an outspoken critic of Israeli military action against Hamas, was reportedly selling custom art of her perspective on the Israel-Palestinian Conflict. The longtime co-host of The View created 30 pieces of “limited edition” art, in a collection she
Actor Dimitri Diatchenko, best known for his roles in Sons of Anarchy and Get Smart, has been charged with killing and eating his ex-girlfriend’s pet rabbit. The actor is said to have taken graphic photos of the entire process and
(Reuters) – Unidentified assailants opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Athens with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in the early hours of Friday, police said, but no injuries or damage were reported. Four people on two motorcycles fired shots at
This article originally appeared in the New York Times: While much of the world has been focused on the rise of the Islamic State, another proto-Islamic state has been waging a campaign of terror while dreaming of a caliphate in
In remote bogland in Ireland, investigators search the ground with radar and a cadaver dog for a victim of the IRA murdered and secretly buried in 1972. They mark out grid areas and put down probes at half-metre intervals for
The UN voiced “serious concern” about the Taliban’s persistent threat after the group killed seven people in two suicide attacks in Kabul Thursday, including one targeting a play at a French-financed high school. The warning comes with the Afghan capital
LONDON, (Reuters) – British construction output suffered an unexpected sharp fall in October, even as growth in preceding months was revised up and handed a slight boost to overall economic growth in the third quarter. Construction output fell 2.2 percent
The British and Irish prime ministers engaged in marathon talks into the early hours of Friday in a bid to break political deadlock in Northern Ireland’s fragile unity government. British leader David Cameron and his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny have
LONDON (Reuters) – Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday he would support an inquiry into whether British spies were complicit in CIA torture of terrorism suspects, if other investigations failed to uncover the truth. Clegg said that while
The Greek government condemned on Friday as a “terrorist assault on democracy” a night-time gun attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens that saw the building sprayed with gunfire but noone hurt. A gunman riding on the back of motorcycle
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe reshuffled his cabinet and appointed replacements for eight ministers sacked in a purge targetting his former deputy’s allies. Newly-appointed Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa — seen as a likely successor to the ageing leader — retained his post
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Georgetown basketball team is the latest to stage an “I Can’t Breathe” protest. The entire roster emerged for the final warmups wearing black short-sleeve T-shirts with the words “I CAN’T BREATHE” in white before Wednesday night’s
(Reuters) – The capital of China’s far western Xinjiang has banned the wearing of Islamic veils in public, the regional government said on Thursday, in a move experts worry could spark more unrest in the troubled region. The restriction comes
LONDON (AP) — Sotheby’s auction house is selling art, books, furniture and a humidor owned by a well-known Briton who traveled the world on high-level diplomatic missions during World War II, met Roosevelt and Stalin and loved a good cigar.
