After a televised speech last week in which Cuban dictator Raúl Castro declared President Obama’s unilateral actions towards Cuba a victory for “a more prosperous and sustainable socialism,” Castro visited the Cuban National Assembly to declare that, against the United
President Obama’s announcement on Wednesday that the United States would reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba despite, as President Raúl Castro proclaimed, the Cuban government yielding no concessions on human rights or economic freedom, has highlighted a major rift in the American
Paramount among the reasons many oppose normalizing relations with Cuba is the fact that President Obama’s deal with the rogue regime appeared to demand no concessions from Raúl Castro’s government. Cuba only seemed to yield one thing to the American
A document surfaced online this week and has been reportedly circulating in Raqqa, Syria, that alleges to be the official penal code of the Islamic State. The document, translated and confirmed to be from the terrorist group by the Middle
Just one day before President Obama announced sweeping changes that would allow potential American investment in Cuba, the Cuban government apparently had begun preparing itself by announcing new measures that would allow Cubans who work for foreign companies to keep only 8%
Nearly nine months, 6,915 deaths, and 18,603 cases later, the United Nations is ready to take some action on the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced a tour of the stricken West African countries—Sierra Leone, Liberia, and
As Pakistan reels from one of the most harrowing acts of terrorism ever within its borders, a school massacre that left 141 dead, including 132 children, the Taliban culprits have threatened even more violent unless their jihadist “demands are met.” The Sydney Morning
President Obama announced sweeping changes to the United States’ approach to diplomacy with Cuba yesterday, in a statement broadcast simultaneously with a speech by President Raúl Castro in which he declared the changes a step towards “prosperous and sustainable socialism.”
UNION CITY, New Jersey– I am so happy my grandparents did not live to see President Obama’s announcement yesterday that the United States would legitimize the Castro dictatorship. It would have killed them. Unlike most of my peers, my family
“I just want it to go away, to tell you the truth,” says Mark Oberholtzer, a local plumber from the Galveston area in Texas. The “it” in the sentence is seemingly endless phone calls full of angry invective, accusing him
A 25-year-old Chilean national was arrested for using social media programs such as Facebook and WhatsApp to recruit young women to join the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group. The woman, identified as Francis Peña Orellana, had reportedly left Chile when she
The people of Cuba received unprecedented news today, though they were unable to hear of the United States’ reforms in diplomacy with Cuba from President Barack Obama. Instead, they were treated to an address by dictator Raúl Castro, in which
In the immediate aftermath of the release of USAID worker Alan Gross, the White House is set to announce a sweeping set of changes in their policy towards Cuba that includes expansion of travel to the island, permission for telecommunications
The nightmare of Alan Gross, an American citizen arrested for attempting to bring internet access to Cuban Jews, is over. His release from Cuban political prison– during Hanukkah, no less– is a moment to celebrate, but it must not obscure
A far-right populist group in Germany is surging despite condemnation from Chancellor Angela Merkel and much of the mainstream media. The PEGIDA movement, which organized a rally in Dresden this week, opposes the “Islamization” of Europe. PEGIDA, which stands for Patriotic
The fate of a U.S. citizen who illegally crossed the Chinese border into North Korea remains in limbo as the nation lent the man its airwaves for an extensive press conference condemning the American government. Twenty-nine-year-old Arturo Pierre Martínez has
Sydney’s population, still shaken by Monday’s terrorist attack on a Lindt coffee shop in Martin Place that left two innocents and the jihadist gunman dead, have begun to pay tribute to the fallen with a massive shrine of flowers built
The charity Invisible Children, most famous for releasing the wildly popular, and later wildly unpopular, viral video “Kony 2012,” is significantly reducing its operations, and a spokeswoman for the group says it will probably not exist in any form once
“We wanted to have what the civilized nations do,” Col. Nahida Ahmed Rashid, the head of her brigade of the Kurdish YPJ, or female Peshmerga forces, tells the Daily Beast’s Susannah George. Like their male counterparts, the female Peshmerga fighting the
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is under fire from human rights groups, the European Union, and international journalist associations for a mass arrest of 27 newspaper, television, and film workers considered to be critics of the Erdogan government. According to Agence
A former Guantánamo prisoner had been using the cafeteria of Madrid’s largest mosque to recruit Islamist extremists to join the Islamic State in waging jihad in the Middle East, an investigation following his June arrest has revealed. Spanish law enforcement
The Associated Press has followed up their report on a USAID social media project that attracted 40,000 Cuban users with a report on an even more ambitious human rights experiment: a plan by the agency to infiltrate and promote anti-communist
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper announced this week that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, under whose rule thousands of political prisoners were forced into squalid conditions and thousands more were forced to fight in communist wars in Africa, was this year’s recipient
“Piles of bodies, overwhelmed medical personnel and exhausted burial teams” greeted Ebola teams from the capital upon visiting the eastern mining district of Kono, Sierra Leone, reports the Associated Press. With a spike in deaths blamed on dangerous traditional burial
A new manual, allegedly published by the Islamic State’s official publishing house (the Al-Himma Library), provides graphic details on how to properly beat, rape, and fail to impregnate female slaves, offered in a question-and-answer format to curious jihadis. Translated by
