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(AFP) South Korean troops fired warning shots Monday as a North Korean patrol approached the heavily fortified border inside the so-called Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that separates the two rivals. There was no exchange of fire and the North Korean patrol

POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform detonated explosives at a high school assembly in the northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday, killing at least 48 students, according to survivors and a morgue attendant.

Scandal, says Pope Francis, is to “profess one way of life – ‘I am a Christian’— and then live like a pagan, who does not believe in anything.” In his homily at Mass Monday morning, the Pope said that Jesus

President Obama on Sunday said the deployment of 1,500 additional American soldiers to Iraq signals a “new phase” in the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State jihadists, one that will help Iraqi forces go on the offensive. On Nov. 7, Pentagon

Last week, a shock poll of Spanish voters found that the Occupy Movement-affiliated “Podemos” (“We Can”), a new radical leftist party, is likely to sweep parliamentary elections. As Podemos snowballs into a formidable organization, facts have begun to surface about

Ali Khamenei, the theocratic despot of Iran, tweeted his nine-step plan to destroy the state of Israel.  On Sunday, he posted the following graphic from his Twitter account, @Khamenei.IR: The Ayatollah argued that Israel must be wiped out because the

Liberia reports a decrease in Ebola cases, but there is one town near the Sierra Leone border that is still fighting the disease. Jene-Wonde is a small town with 300 people, but is the new epicenter of Ebola in the

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials said Sunday that the head of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was wounded in an airstrike in western Anbar province. Pentagon officials said they had no immediate information on such an attack or

(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday a successful China was in the interests of the United States and the world but Beijing had to be a partner in underwriting international order, and not undermine it. Speaking to growing concerns among U.S.

Aaron David Miller, one of the most prominent analysts of U.S.-Israel relations, conducts an extended thought experiment in Foreign Policy today about the possible impact of a Hillary Clinton presidency on the alliance. His conclusion is that Clinton “would indeed

All Roman Catholic priests and nuns who are still in Crimea working with local religious communities have been told they must leave the region by the end of 2014, states a report at Forum 18 News Service. According to the report,

CAIRO (AP) — Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a jihadi organization based in the Sinai Peninsula that has carried out several attacks targeting Egyptian security forces, has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. The announcement reflects the growing regional appeal of

A new report indicates Sierra Leoneans quarantined due to Ebola have been eating rotten rice. At the same time, a new epicenter for Ebola contractions in Liberia has emerged in the small Grand Cape Mount County town of Jene-Wonde. According to

Twenty five years ago yesterday the Cold War official ended. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the West, led by America, triumphed over the murderous ideology of Communism. Two Gulf wars, the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan

Former Navy Seal Robert O’Neill who says he fired the fatal shot that took down Osama bin Laden, in an audio interview aired on CNN, says it does not matter anymore if he is the shooter. “The most important thing

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com China’s Xi Jinping snubs Japan’s Shinzo Abe at Beijing meeting Palestinian violence increases around Jerusalem Israeli lawyers file war crimes complaint in ICC against Mahmoud Abbas ‘Kiss of Love’ demonstrations challenge Hindu nationalism in

Even as he defiantly moves to unilaterally grant legal status to millions of people inside the U.S. illegally, President Obama’s State Department is making sure that such special favors are not meant for everyone. The State Department’s unexplained refusal to

Palestinian terrorist Rasmieh Odeh, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prision in Israel over 40 years ago for her involvement in bombing a supermarket in 1969, was convicted Monday of lying to immigration officials when she applied for

In a welcome challenge to the barbaric gender apartheid practiced by ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the Al-Qaeda offshoots, a group of Kurds in northeastern Syria have issued a women’s right decree which calls for “equality between men and women in all

(AFP) — US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met briefly Monday in Beijing on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit, a senior US official said. The two leaders, who have been engaged for months in a

(AFP) An indigenous court convicted seven FARC guerrillas of murdering two leaders of the Nasa tribe in western Colombia on Sunday, sentencing them to between 40 and 60 years in jail and 20 lashes. The harshest sentence — 60 years

The Muslim Brotherhood’s leading global voice, Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi, called on MuslimsThursday to fight “the greatest battle of liberation” against Israel and the Jews. In an Arabic message posted on his website and translated by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Qaradawi called on Muslims

This article originally appeared in the Daily Mail. A Brooklyn tailor who survived the Holocaust has revealed how he came inches away from assassinating a senior Nazi’s wife – but his conscience saved him from stooping to the level of

BEIJING (AP) — His influence at home quickly fading, President Barack Obama is looking east to China, the opening stop of a three-country tour that will test his ability to play a commanding role on the world stage during his

In a meeting with African bishops Monday, Pope Francis called for more careful instruction for seminarians on dealing with Muslims.  “I think it is important that the clergy receive a more structured training in the seminary in order to carry