The rise in the number of kidnappings poses a greater threat to Baghdad’s security than the Islamic State group, the Iraqi capital’s top security official said on Tuesday. Dozens of kidnappings are believed to take place every week in Baghdad,
On Wednesday, Breitbart News editor-at-large Ben Shapiro released a new video delving into the grand jury testimony in the case of Officer Darren Wilson – and finding that “the community of Ferguson, Missouri did make this problem up.” Shapiro points
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Cosby was sued Tuesday by a Southern California woman who claims the comedian molested her in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she was 15 years old. Judy Huth’s sexual battery lawsuit
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking isn’t known for his appearances on the silver screen, but if he could star in a film, he believes his trademark automated voice would make him perfect for the role of a Bond villain. “My ideal
In thelatest turn of events regarding the Sony hacking scandal, Fusion released an op-ed late Monday of ananonymous email containing a spreadsheet of Sony PicturesEntertainment’s 17 top executives and their salaries. The spreadsheet, which hasn’t been confirmed by Sony, depicts
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities detained a wife and suspected son of the leader of the Islamic State group several days ago, and she is being questioned, two senior Lebanese officials said Tuesday. A military official said the woman and
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president announced a security shakeup Tuesday, firing his Interior Minister and accepting the resignation of the national police chief, in the wake of a series of deadly attacks by Islamic extremists from neighboring Somalia. President
BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi government on Tuesday reached a deal with the Kurdish local authorities in the country’s north to exchange oil from the autonomous region for a nearly 20 percent share of the national budget, officials said. The
Syria’s civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group told AFP on Tuesday, adding that most were fighters from the two sides.
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian government has for the first time acknowledged that the country will fall into recession next year, battered by the combination of Western sanctions and a plunge in the price of its oil exports. The economic
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will allow Northern Ireland to set its own level of corporation tax in a move which could help Prime Minister David Cameron to hold on to power after May’s national election, the Financial Times reported on
An experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus has provoked only mild side effects in volunteers in Switzerland, a Geneva hospital said Tuesday. “To date, no major side effects have been observed after the injections,” the Geneva University Hospital (HUG)
Just a few weeks ago Prince Charles, a man sometimes criticized for being too supportive and praising of Britain’s Muslim community, made a passionate speech calling for the Islamic world to stop persecuting its Christian minorities. It was entirely coincidental
Poland has warned British Prime Minister David Cameron against his plans to reform European Union migration rules to curb the number of arrivals, saying this was an “absolute red line”. Cameron last week unveiled proposals including delaying access to benefits
This article originally appeared on CNBC: Saudi Arabia, and its fellow members of OPEC, may have just launched an oil war. At the conclusion of its December conference, held in Vienna on Thanksgiving Day, OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, decided
Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, released an army general and two other captives Sunday paving the way for peace negotiations to resume in Cuba. The talks between Colombian government officials and the Marxist guerrillas were
(Reuters) – Islamist militants beheaded a Tunisian policeman after he was kidnapped near the Algerian border late on Sunday, officials said on Monday. The government has tightened security as it prepares for a presidential election runoff this month between incumbent
(AFP) Maoist rebels killed 13 police and wounded another 12 in an ambush in central India on Monday, a senior officer said.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s president is considering awarding a posthumous medal to a young woman killed after defending two teenage girls from male harassment. German news agency dpa reported Sunday that President Joachim Gauck was mulling the honor amid an
(AFP) A suicide attack at a funeral in northern Afghanistan on Monday killed at least nine people, officials said, underlining nationwide insecurity as NATO troops end their 13-year war this month.
(Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants, who arrived on motorcycles throwing bombs, raided a mostly Christian town in Nigeria’s northeast after nightfall on Saturday, residents and a military source said. Residents said scores of people had been killed in the
BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic extremists struck two state capitals in northeastern Nigeria on Monday, with twin blasts at a crowded market and the destruction of a police base. Rescue workers were trying to evacuate the dead and wounded
Viewers love the Netflix series “House of Cards,” about a scheming politician clawing his way to the top in corrupt Washington, DC. But taxpayers in Maryland might not enjoy the show quite as much when they realize they’re footing part
This article originally appeared in Reuters. (Reuters) – Dental hygienist Jennifer Reynolds was always self-conscious about her looks, never took selfies and felt uncomfortable being tagged in photographs posted on social media. The 34-year-old from Costa Rica who lives in
This story originally appeared at ABC News: The FBI on Sunday issued the strongest warning to date about possible attacks by the ISIS terrorist group against the U.S. military inside the homeland, officials tell ABC News. In a joint intelligence bulletin issued
