Search-and-rescue operations are under way off the coast of Hawaii after two Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters on a nighttime training mission collided, with six people aboard each aircraft.
Germany is expected to train a Yazidi force in northern Iraq to seize back their homeland from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), German television channel N24 reports.
Europe is expected to establish a new police unit that will scan the Internet for Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) propaganda and shut down the jihadist group’s social media accounts, news outlets report.
A patrol boat allegedly opened fire on a raft carrying about 130 migrants off the coast of Libya on Monday, killing one and leaving another injured. According to witnesses from the raft, members of the Libyan military patrol were attempting to rob the passengers, but when they resisted, the militia answered with several rounds of gunfire.
It is not too many centurions, particularly 100-year-old-plus writers, whose vision of the world is as relevant today as it was when first shared with the public over half a century ago. It is this vision of Orwell, the X-ray view through the cant, platitudes and lies to that ugliest of human drives, the lust for powers absolute, that still distinguishes the British writer, born 112 years ago this week on June 25, 1903. He was only 46 when he died on January 21, 1950. It is his frightening acuity that keeps him not only in the pantheon but even within the orbit of contemporary consciousness.
According to statistics from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the number of veterans who have to wait a month or longer for services in VA hospitals has grown by nearly 50 percent over the last year. As of June, over seven percent of patients at VA hospitals had to wait a month or longer to receive medical care.
A new video purportedly released by the Islamic State (IS/ISIS/ISIL) terror organization shows the group employing brutal execution methods to kill its prisoners.
Yang Xiaoyun, a 65-year-old retired schoolteacher, traveled 1,500 across China to the Yulin Dog Festival, where she bought 100 dogs with $1,000 and saved them from being dismembered alive, cooked, and served with lychees to celebrate the summer solstice.
Two teen girls interrupted afternoon prayers at a mosque in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, with explosives, killing between ten and 30 people. The girls are believed to have been sent by Boko Haram, and one of the girls allegedly pulled away from the attack, ensuring that only she was killed.
A pamphlet from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) surfacing on Twitter and allegedly floating around ISIS-controlled territories is advertising a Koran-recital contest for men, offering Yazidi sex slaves as grand prizes to the most well-versed in the religious text. It expires on June 27.
Thousands of Greeks rallied in Athens’ Syntagma Square on Monday demanding their government find a solution to their debt crisis that would allow Greece to remain in the Euro. The protest highlights the persistent demand from the Greek people that they remain within the Eurozone, even as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ negotiation tactics put that reality in jeopardy.
The European Union extended sanctions on Russia until January 31, 2016, as the crisis in Ukraine continues to worsen. EU spokeswoman Maja Kocijančič said the group hopes the sanctions will push Russia to comply with the Minsk peace agreement.
One of Al Jazeera’s senior reporters, Ahmed Mansour, was released by German authorities on Monday after he was initially arrested Saturday at the request of Egyptian officials.
As you can tell from the byline on this story, I’m part Greek, which is why I’m currently lifting your wallet while we have this conversation. No offence to my Hellenic brothers and sisters, but we don’t exactly have a reputation for financial honesty.
Wellington, New Zealand (AP)– Pitcairn Island, a tiny speck in the Pacific that’s home to just 48 people, has passed a law allowing same-sex marriage — but has no gay couples wanting to wed.
In an off-the-cuff encounter with young people in Turin over the weekend, Pope Francis took weapons manufacturers to task, suggesting that Christians should have no involvement with the weapons industry.
Buried under “crippling local government and corporate debt”, the Red Dragon’s current debt restructuring plan amounts to “little more than creative financial-engineering.” Lombard believes that China still has the ability address the nation’s debt-bomb, but the fuse is now burning.
The Supreme Court of Mexico ruled on Friday that the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman is discriminatory and unconstitutional.
It seems Vladimir Putin’s expansionist foreign policy is no more than a reflection of public opinion in Russia, as new research shows he remains extremely popular among Russians despite foreign opposition. Surveys undertaken by the Pew Research Centre on public
British Muslims are not flocking to join IS because they feel it is a religious duty. Instead they embrace jihad because they want sex, according to a UK preacher. Former Islamist Alyas Karmani said that the young Muslims feel isolated in
Contents: Report: Greece’s debt crisis being kicked down the road; Afghan Taliban strikes Afghan parliament in Kabul; Afghan Taliban close to seizing the city of Kunduz
Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott doesn’t just talk tough on terrorism – he acts on it. On Wednesday his conservative coalition government will introduce new legislation stripping dual nationals of their Australian citizenship if they are involved in terrorism. He also
Apparently he’s back. The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) disgraced former head who was forced to step down and had to relinquish his candidacy for the French presidency against fellow socialist Francois Hollande, has joined Twitter.
Asghar Bukhari, a British radical Islamist who co-founded and works for the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK (MPACUK), has doubled down on his claim that Israeli intelligence broke into his house, stole one of his shoes—without taking anything else—and left the premises.
According to Anthony Lake, the executive director of The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), children in South Sudan face brutal violence in their everyday lives as the world’s newest country continues to fight a civil war.
On June 19, a Puerto Rican commonwealth court abolished the territory’s registry and licensing requirements for firearms, thereby making the Second Amendment the only requisite necessary to carry firearms openly or concealed.
