In an early morning ambush, Islamic terrorists of the radical al-Shabaab group attacked an African Union military base in southern Somalia Friday, breaching the walls by exploding a car bomb and overrunning the base. According to the officials of the
Today the Greek bailout plan comes before the German parliament (the Bundestag), the latest approval hurdle for the third bailout package which nobody believes will work. Ratification of the €86 million rescue deal is expected, notwithstanding yesterday’s comments from Germany’s Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang
Contents: ISIS-linked terrorists sink Egyptian navy ship; Attack on Egypt’s navy boat comes amid plans for Suez Canal expansion; Both Greece and Germany in political disarray after IMF bailout statement
The Russian government has unilaterally moved its nation’s border nearly a mile into Georgian territory through South Ossetia. Not surprisingly, a British Petroleum (BP) oil pipeline is in the region.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush told Yahoo News that he supports the Obama administration’s move to allow transgender individuals to openly serve in the U.S. military.
Doctors and staff at a Japanese university dissected at least eight U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) while they were still alive during World War II, acknowledges a museum at the university, the Daily Mail reported.
The Slovenian band Laibach—an industrial rock outfit who have repeatedly been accused of fascist sympathies in their decades-long history—have received permission from the oppressive regime of Kim Jong-Un to perform in Pyongyang. They will be the first foreign band of their kind to grace such a stage in North Korea.
About 8 in 10 Americans think the United States should either increase sanctions on Iran or keep them at their current level, found an Associated Press-GfK poll conducted on the eve of the nuclear deal that Tehran reached with the U.S. and five other world powers.
More Ramadan ritual slaughter: four Marines were shot dead in cold blood Thursday in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and one police officer was wounded.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press is reporting that Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, the alleged killer of 4 Marines in Chattanooga, is from Kuwait. A man with that same name graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2012 with a degree in engineering.
The president of the Centre for Strategy, Military and Security Studies in Syria told the Daily Mail the all-female Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) group, Al-Khansaa Brigade, is expected to attempt attacks on Christian sites in Europe.
Wendy Sherman, the chief negotiator for the United States in the recently agreed upon nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, has admitted that President Obama’s guarantee of “anytime, anyplace access” to Iran’s several nuclear facilities was more rhetoric than reality.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had strong words for British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond at a joint news conference in Jerusalem on Thursday, telling him that western powers had failed to achieve a deal that prevented Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
There was speculation Wednesday that the International Monetary Fund’s disapproval of the European Union bailout package for Greece would stiffen resistance in the Greek Parliament against it, but in the end, they voted in agreement with what Reuters describes as “sweeping austerity measures demanded by lenders to open talks on a new multibillion-euro bailout package to keep Greece in the euro.”
The United States will be heavily represented at the workshop, with its eleven politicians making up nearly 20 percent of the total participants. There will be no one participating from some of the countries with the worst record of polluting the environment, including Russia, China and the former Soviet Republics.
LOS ANGELES, California — Two head rabbis at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles issued a joint statement condemning the nuclear accord between Iran and the P5+1, invoking history to remind Western leaders that they are repeating the mistakes of the past in trusting the tyrannical Iranian regime.
Twelve migrants from central Africa stand accused of kidnapping and attempted robbery at a refugee centre in Sicily. The group of 18- to 30-year-olds allegedly stormed the centre’s administrative offices before locking up the manager and a co-worker in order to steal “pocket money”
Hungary today announced that a fence intended to stem the flow of migrants along its border with Serbia will be completed by December. The combined efforts of military personnel, the unemployed and prison inmates have already broken ground on the temporary solution to the
Lord Weidenfeld, an influential British publisher who was helped by Christians to escape Nazi-occupied Austria during his youth, has set up a fund to help save Syrian and Iraqi Christian refugees from the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
By all accounts, the Pope is a man who cares deeply for the world’s poor. But he is less sound when it comes to matters of history and economics.
Following a similar initiative covering the entirety of Chad, the nation of Cameroon has imposed a ban on the Islamic burqa in the nation’s northern territories, which have been the target of repeated attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, who often use the burqa to disguise explosives.
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack on an Egyptian navy craft which left it adrift and burning, but not sunk as claimed. The clash took place at sea on the Egyptian – Palestinian border, with remarkable images
A radio soap opera launched in Sierra Leone in January to spread awareness of how to properly defend against Ebola was renewed this week for a third season after the series, funded by a national bank, proved a smash hit.
The free movement of migrants across the European Union is being challenged by the Czech Republic. Tomas Haisman, director of the Interior Ministry asylum and migration policy section, told journalists in Prague today his country wants a say in the choice of
What happens when serious economic sanctions are lifted from a nation with a thirst for weapons and big plans for using them? A bonanza for arms dealers, that’s what.
Police faced massive riots in Greece on Wednesday night as Parliament accepted the terms of a debt deal significantly more stringent than that rejected via referendum on July 5. Mass arrests of nationals from Australia, Ukraine, France, and Italy– but not Greece– occurred.
