Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon on Tuesday called for world intelligence agencies to work together against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group. “In order to stop and overcome the Islamic State, we have learnt since 9/11 that there must be
(Reuters) – A small group of people pick through putrefying human remains laid out on plastic sheets by the side of a road in northern Iraq, searching for any trace of missing friends and relatives. Some had brought spades to
Qatari authorities have freed two British researchers held in Doha as they were probing the labour conditions of migrants building facilities for the 2022 World Cup, an embassy spokesperson said Tuesday. Krishna Upadhyaya and Ghimire Gundev, who work for the
(AFP) More than 22 million people live in parts of Africa where conditions exist for the Ebola virus to jump from animals to humans, a bigger area than previously thought, researchers said Monday. While the actual risk of animal-to-human or
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — San Diego’s defense held up well when the offense sputtered. Once the offense showed signs of life, the defense couldn’t hold up its end. Instead of opening the season with a win, the Chargers started it
A highly anticipated preliminary report into what brought down Malaysia flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine will be released on Tuesday, hoping to shed light on the air disaster that claimed the lives of 298 passengers. The air crash team led
The strengthening of Scotland’s independence movement is fanning fierce passions in Spain’s Catalonia region, where noisy demonstrations are planned on Thursday by Catalans who want to break away from Spain. Catalonia’s president Artur Mas set the northeastern region at odds
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Defaced and deserted for decades, Dublin’s World War One memorial garden now marks the rehabilitation of at least 200,000 Irishmen who fought for Britain a century ago – a transformation that angers some. The dispute has come
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest far-right party, which once fueled fears of a neo-Nazi surge, is now in the doldrums. While some other European countries are seeing a rise in the far right, National Democratic Party was last week booted
This analysis by Daniel McGroarty appeared in today’s Real Clear World. We reprint here. Russia in Ukraine, ISIS in Iraq, war in Gaza and nightly riot-watch in Ferguson, Missouri: Could the world possibly handle another crisis? Well, ready or not, here
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A bomb exploded in a Chilean subway station on Monday, injuring at least seven people, the most damaging in a string of bombs planted around the country’s capital this year. Fire Department Commander Ivo Zuvic Garcia
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Somalia rape women seeking medicine on their bases and routinely pay teenage girls for sex, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday. HRW documented 10 incidents of rape and sexual
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Saudi Arabia and Jordan this week to meet with Mideast leaders about confronting threats from the Islamic State militant group. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki (SAH’-kee) said the meetings
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball’s 2015 season is scheduled to start with a Sunday night game on April 5 and the other 28 teams will be slated to open the following day. The regular season is to end
After the Baltimore Ravens cut Ray Rice on Monday, the NFL suspended Rice indefinitely after a shocking video surfaced that showed him knocking out his then-fiancee in an elevator. The NFL had previously suspended Rice for two games after an
Hours after TMZ released a shocking video of Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking out his then-fiancee in an elevator, the Baltimore Ravens terminated Ray Rice’s contract on Monday afternoon. The #Ravens have terminated RB Ray Rice’s contract this afternoon.
Jack the Ripper, one of the most notorious serial killers in history, has been identified through DNA traces found on a shawl, claims a sleuth in a book out on Tuesday. The true identity of Jack the Ripper, whose grisly
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Officials say a wildfire in the backcountry of Yosemite National Park that forced the helicopter evacuation of about 100 park visitors nearly quadrupled in size overnight. The wind-whipped fire had burned through about 4
Just a few weeks ago I wrote about the fact that Al Jazeera America’s real problem isn’t its abysmal ratings as much as it is traction. Sure, the Qatar-owned cable news network has abysmal ratings, but so do MSNBC and
LONDON (AP) — The passenger terminal at Luton Airport near London has been evacuated and incoming flights suspended after a suspicious package was found. The airport says the terminal building was cleared Monday “after a suspicious item was found in
On Monday, TMZ released the surveillance video of what appears to be Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee and knocking her out cold in the elevator at an Atlantic City casino. The video shows what occurred before
On Monday, former Los Angeles Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar defended Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson, arguing that he is not a racist like Donald Sterling and should not have been so quick to decide to sell his team over an
ROME (AP) — Italian officials say three missionary nuns have been found slain in their convent in Burundi. The foreign ministry Monday confirmed the slayings in Kamenge, near Bujumbura, Burundi’s capital. The ministry declined to give details, including exactly when
(Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s proposed countrywide “lockdown” will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease spreading further as cases are concealed, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Saturday.The government plans to order citizens
(AFP) President Barack Obama said in an interview aired Sunday the US military would help in the fight against fast-spreading Ebola in Africa, but said it would be months before the epidemic slows. Obama said that, in its current form,
