Israel’s navy arrested seven Palestinian fishermen off northern Gaza on Wednesday, officials on both sides said, with the army claiming their boats had strayed beyond the permitted fishing limit. “The Israeli navy arrested seven fishermen from one family in Sudaniya
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s security service says up to 150 people have left the country to join IS militants in the Middle East. Anders Kassman, chief operating officer of the SAPO security service, on Wednesday said the agency has confirmed
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian air force has destroyed two of three jets seized and reportedly test flown over Aleppo by the Islamic State group last week, according to the country’s information minister. Omran al-Zoubi told Syrian TV late
Iraq’s Kurdish regional parliament will hold a session on Wednesday to vote on deploying peshmerga security forces to aid Syrian Kurds battling jihadists from the Islamic State group, a senior lawmaker said. The planned vote raises the possibility that the
The father of British photojournalist John Cantlie has died, a fortnight after making a impassioned appeal to Islamic State militants to release his son, the family said on Wednesday. Paul Cantlie died on Thursday aged 80 from “complications following pneumonia”,
The wife of a British man found with his throat slashed and dumped in a ditch on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali has admitted ordering the killing, police said Wednesday. Robert Ellis, 60, who was also an Australian passport holder,
WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea’s reclusive government abruptly freed an American man Tuesday, nearly six months after he was arrested on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, but Pyongyang refused to hand over two other U.S. citizens who
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Madison Bumgarner and the San Francisco Giants put a sudden stop to the Kansas City Royals’ perfect postseason roll. Bumgarner pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning, Hunter Pence homered early and the Giants showed
DENVER (AP) — Three teenage girls from suburban Denver may have been trying to join Islamic State militants in Syria after stealing their parents’ money and flying to Germany, authorities said Tuesday. The girls — two sisters, ages 17 and
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks before Election Day, most of the nation’s likely voters now expect the Republican Party to take control of the U.S. Senate, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. And by a growing margin, they say
Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung claimed Sunday that local democracy protests raging for over a month are, “not entirely a domestic movement, as external forces are involved.” American businessman Mark Simon has been thrown into the eye of this
WASHINGTON (AP) — American detainee Jeffrey Fowle has been released from North Korea, nearly six months after he was taken into custody on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, the State Department said Tuesday. Two other Americans who
This article originally appeared in The Daily Beast: The Qat plant, a staple in Middle Eastern cities, has become popular in China for its mild buzz–but the government says it’s a dangerous gateway drug. It’s a common sight in this
The Dallas hospital at the center of the U.S. Ebola crisis has changed its story about an alleged glitch in its electronic medical records (EMR) system that it originally claimed prevented doctors from seeing that Thomas Eric Duncan informed his
The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG) launched a free app on Monday called “ICG Safety App” following the recent death of camera assistant Sarah Jones on the set of Midnight Rider. Jones, formerly represented by ICG, was killed in a train
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says another of its staffers has died in the Ebola outbreak. A statement by UN Women on Monday said Edmund Bangura-Sesay, a local driver for their office in Sierra Leone, died Saturday. This
This article was was written by Howard W. Foster and originally posted by The National Interest. The Chicago Department of Public Health, like its counterparts in all major cities, is quite open about the availability of taxpayer-funded care for pregnant women who
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was taken away in a police van with barred windows Tuesday to start serving a five-year prison sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Delivering her sentence, Judge Thokozile Masipa cited the “gross negligence”
LONDON (Reuters) – British government borrowing rose more than 10 percent in the first half of the financial year, giving Chancellor George Osborne little scope to offer sweeteners to voters before a parliamentary election in May. Osborne said in March
BOGALUSA, La., Oct. 20 (UPI) —The Louisiana Senate race may be decided by a matter of feet. That is, 36 feet, or the width of Sen. Mary Landrieu’s home in Washington, D.C. At a campaign stop in Bogalusa, La., on
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday it was authorizing spy planes and armed drones to fly surveillance missions over Syria “very shortly” in order to gather intelligence on Islamic State (IS) militants. Britain announced the deployment after Turkey said
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong officials and student leaders will hold talks Tuesday to try to end pro-democracy protests that have gripped the southern Chinese city for more than three weeks, though chances of success are slim given the
The anti-EU UK Independence Party released an anthem on Monday which became the number one downloaded song on Amazon.co.uk. Recorded by former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read, the Afro-Carribean style “UKIP Calypso” by The Independents praises the anti-immigration party and
Around one in 10 flights may be cancelled at Britain’s biggest airport Heathrow on Tuesday due to stormy weather, an airport spokesman said. The tail end of Hurricane Gonzalo, which caused damage in Bermuda this week, is set to arrive
A Tokyo court has ordered Facebook to disclose the IP addresses used by fake accounts that were posting revenge porn, a lawyer said Tuesday, in the first such case in Japan. In response to the order the US-based social networking
