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.
A report issued this week by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights tells UN Member States that “sexual orientation and gender identity” are new categories of non-discrimination in international human rights law, though not to include same-sex marriage.
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Frontier police forces in northern France are complaining of the huge strain they are working under caused by migrants attempting to reach Britain. Numbers released earlier this week show they have detained 18,170 migrants in or around Calais already this year,
Interpol released Red Notices for two former FIFA officials and two executives on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and corruption.
More than 10,000 Islamic State jihadists have been killed throughout the U.S.-led air campaign that began in Iraq in August of last year and was extended to Syria the following month, said U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday.
South Korean officials announced on Wednesday that they can confirm the existence of five new cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, commonly called MERS.
The Bashar al-Assad regime launched airstrikes to help its purported enemy the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) advance in and around Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, the U.S. Embassy in Syria wrote on its official Twitter account.
Virtually everything Islamist activists in the United States claimed about Tuesday’s fatal shooting of terror suspect Usaama Rahim in Boston appears to have been debunked within 24 hours.
German officials confirmed that hackers have managed to obtain access to the internal server of the German Bundestag, the national legislature. The breach occurred two weeks ago. Details remain unclear about what data the hackers took and how sensitive the data is.
State Department spokesperson Marie Harf and White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes have launched an unprecedented effort to discredit, discount and deny the Times story that reports that “Tehran’s stockpile of nuclear fuel increased about 20 percent over the last 18 months of negotiations.”
Russian Internet users, apparently manipulated by the Kremlin, began conspicuously surfacing online after Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. These paid “trolls” work all day to flood online articles and social media with praises towards Russian President Vladimir Putin and condemnation of the West.
An alleged Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) supporter was fatally shot Tuesday in the Gaza Strip by Hamas security forces who have launched a crackdown against radical jihadists in the disputed territory, according to various news reports.
Al-Shabaab, a Somali terror group, has been making waves in a big way in Kenya over the last several days.
Ahmed Saleem, a Muslim youth coordinator and former CAIR community organizer, was arrested along with 100 others in a sting operation on a child sex ring in Florida, police said in a conference on Tuesday.
A Russian father told the media he believes his 19-year-old daughter fled to Turkey to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in the latest edition of its propaganda magazine, indicated that it could purchase a nuclear weapon in Pakistan, take it to Nigeria, and then smuggle it into the U.S. through Mexico by using existing trafficking networks in Latin America.
As Turkey nears its national election on June 7, the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has managed to spark a national conversation regarding the material out of which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s toilet is made. Erdogan has sued the party’s leader to the tune of 100,000 Turkish Lira for claiming that members of his incumbent party enjoy the luxury of golden toilets.
Former South African President F. W. de Klerk, who shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela for his role in steering South Africa from apartheid to democracy, has protested the way the current South African government is treating minority Afrikaners. In a speech at the Voortrekker Monument–an important Afrikaner symbol–De Klerk said that Afrikaners had been made to feel overly guilty for the past, and argued that apartheid had not been a “crime against humanity.”
Lloyd Levin and Michael Bonner, principal advisors behind the Oscar-nominated Paul Greengrass-directed films United 93 and Green Zone, have optioned film rights of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s memoir.
NORTHERN IRAQ– The battle against ISIS in Iraq has come to a “standstill” as the United States and other Western nations provide insufficient weapons support for Kurdistan, while providing the Iraqi army with advanced weaponry that has fallen into the hands of ISIS.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders said Wednesday he plans to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on Dutch television after Parliament refused to display them.
A communist organization in Spain has been filtering Spanish citizens into Iraq and Syria to fight with the communist Kurdish PKK against the Islamic State. The fighters, most serving as snipers protecting Kurdish and Yazidi areas, assert that they have a responsibility as communists to “further the advancement of this region’s proletariat.”
Boko Haram has released a new video under the Islamic State in West Africa moniker, in which they display the alleged remains of a Nigerian military jet and claim the Sambisa Forest raid last month did little to weaken their operation.
A Muslim father has been jailed for more than two years after he indulged in racist tirades at two schools, and physically assaulted a headteacher. Mohammed Liaqat, 34, was branded a “bully” and banned from going near four schools in the
The former leader of France’s Front National (FN) political party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, announced yesterday that he is suing the party he founded over 40 years ago. The MEP is contesting his suspension from the FN, now led by his
