Despite a promise during peace talks that they would not engage in any terrorist activity during the course of the nation’s presidential election, reports have surfaced of at least three different incidents of attempted terror attacks by the Revolutionary Armed
The South Korean foreign ministry has stated that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed that North Korea’s apparent increase in nuclear activity poses a threat to the entire region. China, North Korea’s only ally in the region, has previously aimed
The Chinese government has not taken well to charges by the United States government that several of its military officials have been hacking into American corporations with the purpose of stealing trade secrets. In an aggressive report, mostly relying on
Information on the whereabouts of the man at the head of a family-owned business responsible for the Sewol ferry that sank in April, killing 288 people, will now net an informer $500,000 from the South Korean government. Yoo Byung-eun and
Venezuela’s hospitals are amputating limbs at an alarming pace, as economic shortages under Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government have triggered a scarcity of medical equipment necessary for a number of procedures. Hospitals, a new report shows, are lacking everything from latex
The Russian government appears to not yet have gotten over the victory of Austrian bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. President Vladimir Putin, speaking at a dinner in St. Petersburg, condemned the singer for putting
The government of Jordan has declared Syria’s ambassador to their country, Bahjat Suleiman, persona non grata and requested he leave the country. The decision, according to a statement from the Jordanian foreign ministry, follows a series of insults to the
Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, an Iranian billionaire arrested for allegedly perpetrating a $2.6 billion dollar bank fraud, was hanged on Saturday after a swift court decision to impose the death penalty. The decision was so sudden Khosravi’s lawyer told Iranian media
The Chinese State Council has announced that it is limiting the number of cars allowed on the streets of Beijing, and over the next several years, it plans to discard more than five million vehicles nationwide that fail environmental standards.
Transgender activists and LGBT advocacy groups have turned against drag icon RuPaul for his use of words like “shemale” and “tranny” on his program RuPaul’s Drag Race. In an interview with Marc Maron, RuPaul dismissed the criticism as a product of
Colombians took to the polls this weekend and elected a right-wing opposition candidate backed by former President Álvaro Uribe, but not by enough to prevent a run-off vote. Óscar Iván Zuluaga will once again face President Juan Manuel Santos on
Former Chinese mining magnate Liu Han and his brother have been sentenced to death in China for allegedly running a corrupt “mafia-style” organization that “carried out a vast number of criminal activities,” including murder. Liu has denied all such charges.
Former Pentagon Spokesman J.D. Gordon has seen the facilities at Guantánamo Bay and can attest personally to the fact that the al Qaeda operatives being detained at the naval base received better and faster care than veterans in the United
Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison in New York for attempting to launder millions in bribes from Taiwan through American banks, one year after being extradited to the United States for
The Russian government is planning to sign a contract to build up to eight new nuclear reactors in Iran, according to sources close to the negotiations speaking to Reuters. The news follows reports that Russia had planned to build two
The Somali jihadist group Al Shabaab is threatening the nation of Kenya with an increased terror presence in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, vowing to kill one Kenyan girl “for every Somali girl” killed in anti-terror initiatives in Somalia. In a
“Impure Pope: Leave Our Country,” read one sign held up by a protester, former Israeli legislator Michael Ben Ari, objecting to Pope Francis’s visit to Israel this week. The Pope’s arrival–and use of certain holy locations–have sparked both a wave
The level of sophistication taken to build the bomb that wounded hundreds at the Boston Marathon last year, including the use of fireworks and Christmas lights, has led prosecutors to believe the Tsarnaev brothers may have had accomplices or previous
“I shouldn’t have done it. I should have been more focused on the caller and less focused on the interviewer,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said of his controversial wink and smile at a grandmother named Gloria who called into a
A lavish Italianate estate on the Black Sea, popularly known as “Putin’s Palace” and previously suspected to have been built using illicit funding, was built with money from a major healthcare project on the taxpayers’ dime, according to a report
Front National candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen suggested this week that France’s immigration problems could be “solved in three months” by “Monsieur Ebola,” suggesting that an outbreak of the deadly disease would reduce the immigrant population in the country. According to
As the Colombian presidential election scheduled Sunday inches nearer, the candidates continue to flesh out their opinions on fighting the FARC, a terror group that nearly turned the nation into a failed state in the 1990s. Óscar Iván Zuluaga, the
Six dancers arrested in Iran for uploading a video of themselves dancing without the mandatory hijab on YouTube to Pharrell’s hit “Happy” have been released after a tweet from President Hassan Rouhani supporting them. The group, according to reports, were
A Basque terrorist whom authorities lost track of in 2008 after being sentenced to 3,000 years in prison in Spain for the murders of 25 people has resurfaced in Venezuela. Spanish television station Antena 3 published images of José Ignacio De Juana
Libya’s Interior Ministry posted a message on Facebook supporting General Khalifa Haftar, a renegade soldier who has launched an offensive against the Libyan government believed to be responsible for 100 deaths since last Friday. The Minister of the Interior denied
