
An historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is “getting closer every day,” a senior Orthodox prelate said in an interview published on Sunday.
by Reuters30 Jun 2015, 6:09 AM PST0

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest news on Greece’s financial woes on a day a big repayment to the International Monetary Fund is due and the country’s bailout program with European creditors ends (all times local): 12.32 p.m. The Kremlin
by AP30 Jun 2015, 4:44 AM PST0

Contents: Greece’s chaos continues as banks are closed; Turkey considers invasion of Syria to prevent a Kurdish state; Jordan makes plans for Syria invasion to protect its northern border
by John J. Xenakis30 Jun 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

England’s Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard) says it can do nothing to stop a group of neo-Nazis from carrying out a planned protest in the heavily-Jewish Golders Green community of London on July 4.
by Adelle Nazarian29 Jun 2015, 9:36 PM PST0

Syrians are the key actors in the human trafficking organizations that illegally smuggle migrants across the Aegean Sea, from Turkey into the European Union (EU), reports Hurriyet Daily News.
by Edwin Mora29 Jun 2015, 9:16 PM PST0

Turkey plans to deploy its army into northern Syria in an effort to prevent Kurds there from officially establishing their own state, reports The Daily Beast, citing both pro- and anti-government news outlets.
by Edwin Mora29 Jun 2015, 8:53 PM PST0

The Federal Supreme Court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced a local woman to death for murdering an American teacher in December. She stabbed Romanian-born Ibolya Ryan to death in the bathroom of an Abu Dhabi shopping mall.
by Mary Chastain29 Jun 2015, 8:52 PM PST0

The Tunisian government has reportedly announced that it will close down political parties and associations promoting radical Islam, including a mosque where a gunman who recently killed at least 38 people at a Tunisian beach resort is believed to have been radicalized, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
by Edwin Mora29 Jun 2015, 8:28 PM PST0

Americans were once again given a stern and ominous warning to stay “vigilant” to the threat of terrorist attacks leading up to July Fourth festivities. This warning comes after the recent radical Islamic terrorist attacks overseas in Kuwait, France, and Tunisia were carried out, as well as continued Islamist threats against the U.S.
by Javier Manjarres29 Jun 2015, 7:55 PM PST0

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia’s deputy health minister says the corpse of a 17-year-old man has tested positive for Ebola.
by Breitbart News29 Jun 2015, 7:24 PM PST0

A flammable substance, possibly meant for use in a stage performance, exploded in midair at the Formosa Fun Coast water park in Taiwan on Saturday night, creating an immense fireball that injured at least 510 people, 183 of them badly enough to require intensive care at hospitals, according to CNN.
by John Hayward29 Jun 2015, 6:46 PM PST0

Joshua Wong, 18, a student leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, was assaulted by an as-of-yet unidentified attacker. Wong was out on a date with his girlfriend when the assailant attacked him and his girlfriend outside a movie theater near the site of important protests from last year.
by Michael Lucchese29 Jun 2015, 6:24 PM PST0

A female soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was stabbed Monday at a military checkpoint that stands between Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority-run city of Bethlehem.
by Jordan Schachtel29 Jun 2015, 6:04 PM PST0

Turkish forces are reportedly forcing refugees fleeing the chaos of the Middle East to turn back from the border with Bulgaria. According to reports, as many as 600 refugees, including women and children, are being forced to return to their camps in Turkey now.
by Michael Lucchese29 Jun 2015, 4:10 PM PST0

Kuwaiti authorities have announced that they believe they know that the ISIS-linked suicide bomber who killed dozens of people in a Shia mosque this Friday is a Saudi national. Kuwait’s Interior Minister identified the attack as Fahad Suleiman Abdulmohsen-Gabaa.
by Michael Lucchese29 Jun 2015, 3:14 PM PST0

The first gay Imam Daayiee Abdullah claims the Quran does not specifically mention punishment of homosexuals. His statement comes in light of crackdowns of gay pride rallies in Muslim countries. “Nowhere in the Quran does it say punish homosexuals,” he declared. “And historians have also never found any case of the Prophet Muhammad dealing with homosexuality.”
by Mary Chastain29 Jun 2015, 2:06 PM PST0

The Saudi embassy in Islamabad has been in contact with the Haqqani Network, a Sunni Islamist organization that operates along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and is considered the most lethal and sophisticated group targeting U.S. and Afghan forces, documents released by WikiLeaks reveal.
by Edwin Mora29 Jun 2015, 2:02 PM PST0

Alaa Saadeh, 23, of New Jersey was charged with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State (/ISIS/ISIL) terror group, the Department of Justice revealed Monday.
by Jordan Schachtel29 Jun 2015, 12:32 PM PST0

Less than one year after launching several successful campaigns in the United States, including their notable #CEPDigitalDisruption via Twitter, the Counter Extremism Project officially launched its European counterpart on Monday (CEP Europe) in Brussels.
by Adelle Nazarian29 Jun 2015, 11:30 AM PST0

Celebrating the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul on Monday, Pope Francis drew a parallel between the intense Christian persecution of the early centuries and the persecution faced by Christians throughout the world today.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.29 Jun 2015, 11:21 AM PST0

After Friday’s deadly jihadist attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait, Prime Mister David Cameron has stated that ISIS is an existential threat to the West. Today’s anniversary of the re-establishment of the Caliphate give us good cause to assess the threat to America in this, the first part of a two part piece by Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
by Dr. Sebastian Gorka29 Jun 2015, 11:18 AM PST0

As ordinary Gazans still struggle to rebuild following the 2014 summer war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group has dedicated tons of supplies to refortify and rebuild tunnels that are used primarily to carry out terror attacks inside Israel.
by Jordan Schachtel29 Jun 2015, 10:45 AM PST0

Anne Bayefsky, a Breitbart News contributor who serves as director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, made her voice heard on Monday in response to a UN report which charged Israel with committing war crimes during its war last summer with Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
by Jordan Schachtel29 Jun 2015, 9:23 AM PST0

An explosion has killed Egyptian Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat and injured at least seven more people on Monday morning in Cairo.
by Mary Chastain29 Jun 2015, 9:12 AM PST0

Turkish Islamist government authorities abruptly canceled Istanbul’s annual gay pride parade on Sunday, giving organizers no time to keep attendees from congregating and falling victim to water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets, and other crowd control measures Turkey’s government is calling “proportional” to the threat presented.
by Frances Martel29 Jun 2015, 9:02 AM PST0