Hong Kong students announced plans Thursday to hold a week-long strike in response to Beijing’s refusal to grant the semi-autonomous city universal suffrage. Activists in the former British colony had their hopes for genuine democracy crushed after China announced on
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is considering providing arms and training to Kurdish forces to help its fight against Islamic insurgents, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday. Britain has so far carried out aid drops and surveillance and transported military
France suspended the delivery of the first of two Mistral-class warships to Russia “until November” after fierce criticism from its allies given the crisis in Ukraine. Paris agreed in 2011 to build and sell the two advanced helicopter assault ships
Native American and social justice activists will reportedly send a letter to television and radio outlets in every NFL city demanding that “Redskins” be banned. According to the Washington Post, the National Congress of American Indians and the Oneida Nation
You can’t make it up. On Wednesday, the Huffington Post announced that former NFL player Donte Stallworth, a 9/11 truther who also once killed a pedestrian while driving drunk, will cover national security for the outlet. Welcome to the team,
On Wednesday, Mort Zuckerman’s New York Daily News announced that it will no longer refer to Washington’s football team as the “Redskins” and use the team’s logo anywhere in the paper. Zuckerman, the publishing mogul, actually helped Redskins owner Dan
ESPN is keeping it all in the Obama family. The network will reportedly hire Craig Robinson, First Lady Michelle Obama’s brother and President Barack Obama’s brother-in-law, as a college basketball studio analyst months after he was fired from Oregon State. President
NEW YORK (AP) — After a bad-as-can-be start, dropping the first three games, Serena Williams quickly turned things around and stretched her U.S. Open winning streak to 19 matches to get back to the semifinals. Considered the best server in
More than 1,900 people have died in the Ebola epidemic sweeping through West Africa, the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
(Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande raised the possibility on Wednesday of carrying out military action against Islamic State. “The head of state underlined the importance of a political, humanitarian and, if necessary, military response that respects international law,” Hollande’s
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The third U.S. aid worker sickened with Ebola is a Boston-area doctor who decided to return to Liberia after the two others fell ill with the deadly virus, the president of his missionary group said Wednesday.
From David Martosko at The Daily Mail: A key Democratic lawmaker threatened congressional hearings on Tuesday over the Obama administration’s lack of action to confront ISIS, the Islamist terror group responsible for beheading two American journalists and distributing the gory
As CVS sharpens its focus on customer health, the nation’s second-largest drugstore chain will tweak its corporate name and stop the sale of tobacco nearly a month sooner than planned. CVS Caremark said it will now be known as CVS
(AFP) — Cornered against a wall and with a steel hook pushed around his neck, the dog emits a savage howl in a desperate attempt to fight free, but poison will soon be forced into his mouth as Kabul’s cull
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — True innovation in the NFL can be tough. Successful schemes breed imitations and force opponents to adjust. Eventually, even for the soundest of systems, the code is bound to be cracked. Consider the case of
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A top Saudi security official said Tuesday that police had arrested 88 men suspected of being part of an al-Qaida cell that was plotting attacks inside and outside of the kingdom. Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour
NEWPORT, Wales (AP) — The heady “we won the Cold War” days are over. When President Obama and other NATO leaders assemble here Thursday for a key summit meeting, their No. 1 goal will be an old and familiar one:
BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants from the Islamic State group carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June, a leading international watchdog said Wednesday. The incident
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even the red-hot Washington Nationals offense proved no match for Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw pitched eight strong innings for his major league leading 17th win and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Washington Nationals 4-1 Tuesday night.
BAGHDAD (AP) — An international rights group accused the extremist Islamic State group on Tuesday of systematic “ethnic cleansing” in northern Iraq targeting indigenous religious minorities, as well as conducting mass killings of men and abducting women. In a new
(Reuters) – An American doctor working in Liberia has tested positive for the Ebola virus after working with obstetrics patients at a missionary hospital in Monrovia, the Christian organization SIM USA said on Tuesday. The North Carolina-based group did not
This post originally appeared in The Daily Beast: In the wake of ISIS’s latest alleged killing of an American journalist, leading lawmakers from both parties are calling for a bigger role in the U.S. war against the terrorist group. Leading
This post originally appeared in Salon: Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thomas Frieden began a press conference on Tuesday with the warning that “the window is closing” on containing the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. “This
This is part two of the Huffington Post’s Alistair Crook’s analysis of ISIS. We reprint here. BEIRUT — ISIS is indeed a veritable time bomb inserted into the heart of the Middle East. But its destructive power is not as
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has gone from being a fringe force to within touching distance of taking Scotland independent from Britain, its defining purpose, in 15 years. The SNP has driven the campaigns first for a referendum and then
