An Amnesty International report released Wednesday details the atrocious conditions in which Syrian refugees in Lebanon find themselves, particularly those in need of urgent medical care. Access to health care is so insufficient that some refugees have to return to
Pastor Saeed Abedini was arrested in Iran in 2012 while on an excursion to build a secular orphanage. He has been under Iranian custody ever since and has experienced beatings so severe Iranian authorities moved him to a hospital in
The Investigative Project on Terrorism, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit research center dedicated to exposing the threat of violent extremist terror around the world, is launching a full-page advertisement in The New York Times warning against censorship by radical Islamist groups.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is under fire for saying that he was “totally comfortable” with passing on his nation’s intelligence information to agencies that may have used the data for drone strikes by the United States on foreign
Pope Francis is preparing to embark on what he calls a “purely religious” trip to Israel and Jordan, accompanied by leaders of the Argentine Muslim and Jewish community. The Pope is expected to pray in Jerusalem and host a mass
A flurry of mysterious debris has startled residents in China’s northeastern province of Heilongjiang, where residents are reporting seeing unidentified flying objects and some even sharing photographs on social media of the strange debris. The Weather Channel reports that Chinese
A socialist revolutionary group named after Venezuelan founding father Simón Bolívar is organizing a “revolutionary party” in Caracas to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a group that has ravaged Colombian society and has been designated
With months of civil unrest, 42 dead, and a consistent effort by Senator Marco Rubio for the United States to stand up for human rights, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has passed a bill urging the United States to sanction
The United States has spent $14 million on combating a fungus known as “coffee rust” that threatens to severely diminish coffee harvests in Latin America this year. The United States Agency for International Development announced a new joint plan with Texas
Last September, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras pledged he would eradicate neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn from the country. In an alarming turn since a series of crackdowns on the party, Golden Dawn’s candidates managed to break double digits in a
The head of NASA, Charles Bolden, denied implications by Russian space program administrators that the nation could deny the United States access to the International Space Station and shut it down. No partner in the international venture is “indispensable,” Bolden
The folks at Wikileaks are irate about the decision at The Intercept to redact the name of a country whose cell phone calls are being mass-monitored by the NSA, according to documents provided by Edward Snowden. That Glenn Greenwald believed there was
Colombian law enforcement is charging the driver of a school bus that burned, killing 32 children on board, with aggravated manslaughter, and investigating the possibility that the driver left the bus’s engine running while refueling the vehicle as the children
Legendary soccer player Pelé is going public with his frustrations with the way his country is preparing to host the 2014 World Cup, calling delays on constructing stadiums “unacceptable” and “an embarrassment” for Brazil, and decrying the “thieves” in politics
The Justice Department and FBI announced Monday criminal charges against five officers of the Chinese military who the United States is alleging are hackers that have committed cyber crimes to steal the trade secrets of American companies including Westinghouse Electric
The Epoch Times has compiled a series of images from Chinese social media which individuals online are claiming to be images of military equipment near the Vietnamese border, including “troops, tanks, trucks, artillery, and armored personnel carriers of China’s military.”
A Chilean activist going by the name “Papas Fritas” (Fried Potatoes) is facing one to five years in prison for allegedly burning $500 million in debt papers belonging to a Chilean for-profit university and displaying the ashes as “art.” Papas
A New Jersey woman banned from writing about her husband and children on Facebook and other public venues in 2011 has lost an appeal based on her First Amendment rights. The appellate judge found the ban sufficiently restrictive, as it
The Israeli government is launching a major plan to boost economic and diplomatic ties and increase tourism in both directions between Israel and the countries of Latin America’s Pacific Alliance: Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Chile, and Peru. The government will
In the midst of an election wrought with accusations of impropriety, opposition presidential candidate Óscar Iván Zuluaga appears in a newly published video discussing campaign strategy with Andrés Fernando Sepúlveda Ardila, a man arrested this month for spying on Colombia’s peace
On Sunday, the Kenyan government attacked what is believed to be an explosions-making compound in Jilib, Somalia, run by the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab. The attack follows a series of bombings in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, that left 12 people
Experts at the Council on Foreign Relations, led by former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell, have been using media reports to track the number of political or religious deaths in Nigeria since 2011. Their research exposes the alarming speed
A wide range of heads of state and global leaders from the United States, Europe, and Africa agreed to a “global and regional action plan” to eradicate the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram in a summit Saturday. The group met
A group of 59 Cuban exiles detained by the Mexican government for alleged immigration violations are claiming Mexico has violated their human rights and are threatening to hunger strike if they are not allowed to seek political asylum in the
Daniel Wani, the husband of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, tells CNN that praying “is all I can do” while he awaits the execution of his wife. Ibrahim, who is currently imprisoned with the couple’s 20-month-old son, was sentenced to hanging
