Frances Martel

The economic situation in Venezuela has grown so dire under socialist President Nicolás Maduro that the federal government announced a plan to install a mandatory fingerprinting system in supermarkets, which would prevent individuals from buying “too much” of any one

West Point, an impoverished neighbored in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, awoke on Wednesday morning to find that it had been quarantined due to the spread of the Ebola virus. The reaction to being locked in by riot police was a swift

The spread of the Ebola virus out of Guinea and into Sierra Leone has been traced back to one woman in a remote border village who advertised herself as an herbalist with magical powers that could defeat Ebola. Through encounters

The family and freelance employer of slain photojournalist James Foley received a “vitriolic” email from the Islamic State last week declaring their intent to kill Foley, GlobalPost President Philip Balboni said at a press conference yesterday. A week before the

In what is widely being regarded as a strong rebuke of the jihadist terror group Islamic State, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, has called fundamentalist Islamism “the number one enemy of Islam” and warned Imams against convincing

Amid the news that two patients– one in New Mexico and one in California– are currently being tested for Ebola in hospitals due to matching symptoms, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that there have been

A mysterious report in one of South Korea’s largest newspapers claims that the North Korean government fears that China will “betray” them, and as a result has moved a large number of tanks and other armored vehicles to the border

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group dedicated to following the developments on the ground in the Syrian Civil War, tells Reuters that the jihadist terror group, the Islamic State (IS), has expanded by “at least 6,300” jihadists in

A sad array of failed states, quasi-failed states, and successful tyrannies have boldly come out against the United States for law enforcement action taken to curb violent looters and rioters in Ferguson, Missouri. The list includes such iconic human rights

American journalist James Wright Foley, believed to have been abducted in Syria in 2012, became the subject of a harrowing propaganda video released Tuesday in which Islamic State jihadists beheaded him to “send a message” to the United States. In

The small minority of Iraqi Yazidis – a religious minority of Kurdish ethnicity singled out by the terrorist group the Islamic State for extermination – is ready to move on from Iraq. After mass killings, starvation, enslavement, and a history of being the

As international media focus on the harrowing plight of Iraq’s Yazidi people as they attempt to escape genocide at the hands of the Islamic State terrorists, much has been made of the suffering of the thousands taking refuge on Mount

The Chinese government is cracking down on a group known as the Church of Almighty God, which believes a woman exiled in the United States is a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Chinese state media announced the arrests of nearly 1,000

The Indian government has established a special Ebola care and quarantine facility at Delhi Airport, designed for patients with Ebola symptoms, but it is mindful that most who enter the country with similar symptoms are eventually diagnosed with malaria, typhoid

When two Christian charity workers arrived in the United States from West Africa for treatment to combat Ebola, many wondered why that transfer was chosen–and why, specifically, Emory University in Atlanta had chosen to treat them. In conversation with NPR,

As the Ebola virus continues to take a devastating toll on West Africa, the rest of the world has begun taking extra precautions to fight the disease should it appear on their soil. Reports from the Spanish Ministry of Health

With the world on high alert as West Africa continues to struggle against the wages of the Ebola virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning affected countries to take extra precautions in containing the threat to their region. In response

The World Health Organization is strongly urging countries affected by the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa– Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Nigeria– to screen individuals leaving the country for the virus at airports, seaports, and border crossings. The warning,

The United Nations Security Council took proactive measures Friday to condemn the genocidal behavior of the jihadist terror group the Islamic State, blacklisting six individuals believed or confirmed to work with the terrorist group and threatening sanctions against those with

The growing spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria remains serious enough to keep the nation in an official state of emergency, with thousands concerned that the virus will spread like it has in other West African nations. In what

The siege of northern Iraq against the nation’s ethnic and religious minorities by jihadist terror group Islamic State threatens to significantly alter the composition of the nation and write yet another chapter on genocide in human history. The threat is

It is near impossible to imagine a Western representative collapsing on the legislature’s floor in tears or publishing unflattering hospital photos in the aftermath of a crash. Vian Dakhil, Iraq’s only Yazidi member of Parliament, has become internationally acclaimed for

With the World Health Organization announcing that the number of Ebola cases globally has neared the 2,000 mark AND the death toll nearing half of that, the government of Sierra Leone is implementing a centuries-old tactic to keep villages contaminated

In a special event dedicated to support for anti-Israeli elements in Gaza, the Venezuelan government announced that María Gabriela Chávez, the daughter of late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, would be making her political debut as an ambassador to the United