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.
There are many important lessons to be learned from the spectacle of a drunken man at the Udawalawe National Park in Sri Lanka picking a fight with an elephant, chief among them: do not pick fights with an elephant. Particularly an elephant already known to have killed someone, as onlookers warn in this video.
A nun in her 70s was gang-raped by a group of bandits Saturday when she tried to prevent them from robbing a Christian missionary school in eastern India, police said, the latest crime to focus attention on the scourge of sexual violence in the country.
Israelis head to the polls on Tuesday, Mar. 17 to elect a new parliament, a new Knesset. There are a total of 120 seats up for grabs, which will be divided proportionally among all parties that manage to pass the minimum threshold of 3.25%. The resulting government will be formed after the ceremonial President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, chooses a candidate for prime minister to assemble a coalition (61 seats or more). Here are five other important facts to know about Israel’s election.
Putin’s disappearance may be part of a major Moscow political crisis; Fears grow of violence between Kadyrov’s security forces and Putin’s FSB
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi sat down with the Washington Post for a wide-ranging interview, covering a plethora of issues in which his country remains deeply involved, including the struggle against the Muslim Brotherhood and global jihadi terrorism and Egypt’s promising relationship with the state of Israel.
Guilty pleas were entered in Miami today from two Pakistani-born brothers, described as naturalized U.S. citizens, accused of plotting to carry out a “lone wolf” jihad bombing in New York City in 2012.
A German court fined Nasser El-Ahmad’s father and two uncles after they attempted to kidnap and marry him off to a Lebanese girl against his will. He also claimed his relatives tortured him over his homosexuality.
Foreign mercenaries, primarily from South Africa, are reportedly assisting the Nigerian military in their fight against terrorist group Boko Haram, which is now officially allied to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
The U.S. Navy has until Monday to respond to Chaplain Wesley Modder, who says the Navy’s attempt to remove him from the military for alleged anti-gay statements is unlawful.
Admiral William Gortney, the commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, warned the Senate Armed Services Committee that Russia is a threat to America’s safety.
The latest communique from the Islamic State, alleged to contain the voice of spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, specifically mentioned attacks on Paris would come before the conquest of Rome.
WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK), a retired Army lieutenant colonel and Iraq war veteran, told Breitbart News that he is “very concerned” about the growing Iranian influence in Iraq where Iranian-backed Shiite militias are fighting the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
On Thursday, the European Parliament voted to approve its “Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2013 and the European Union’s policy on the matter,” which declares both same-sex marriage and abortion to be fundamental human rights.
In an exclusive interview Wednesday, the second anniversary of his election to the papacy, Pope Francis spoke on a wide range of topics, many of which revolved around Mexico. He said that “the devil doesn’t forgive Mexico because there [the Virgin Mary] revealed her Son,” referring to the appearances of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, was upset on Thursday that Republican Senators wrote a letter to him and Iran’s leadership, stressing that they possessed certain constitutional powers that could not be usurped during nuclear negotiations with the state-sponsor of terror.
Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization, announced that it would hold a Q&A session on Twitter using the hashtag #AskHamas today. It quickly turned into a disaster for Hamas when its feed was flooded “with negative comments”– and the session does not even start until 1PM ET.
A religious group in Malaysia has issued an official complaint against a young girl whose photo holding a dog at an adoption drive is now making the rounds on social media.
With its support of the Baghdad government and the wrong rebels in Syria, the US Administration is doing the unthinkable: strengthening the spread of Tehran’s control in the Middle East and at the same time also helping the Sunni extremists to grow in power.
Turkish education officials are pulling a textbook from grade schools featuring a children’s story in which hyenas dismiss the idea of women being freely able to choose their own careers for fear that they will “not even want to start a family.”
The trial of surviving Boston Marathon jihadi Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has included much discussion of the boat he was hiding in when the police took him down. Tsarnaev wrote a message on the inside of the boat, which is somewhat difficult to read because it is punctuated with bullet holes and bloodstains.
A man in Malawi was arrested this week for attempting to murder a 16-year-old albino boy. Authorities say attacks against people with albinism have risen in the past year, as witch doctors claim potions made with the body parts of albinos can change the fate of those willing to pay to kill them.
Russians on social media have begun circulating rumors that President Vladimir Putin is ill or dead, after Moscow postponed a meeting with Putin and the Kazakh and Belarusian presidents on March 12. Russian government spokesmen have denied all rumors, claiming Putin is doing well, but the rumors persisted after a Kazakh official also claimed Putin was ill.
Muslim children living in Chad after fleeing the rampant violence in their native Central African Republic are forced, in one refugee camp, to learn the Quran at the crack of a whip, facing lashes for violations varying from mistakes in recital of the Quran to simply not reciting the words loudly enough.
In Tanzania, over 200 witchdoctors and soothsayers have been arrested for murdering albinos in order to sell their body parts.
The government is under fire from its own MPs for being ‘blind’ to the threats Britain faces from abroad and refusing to commit to spend two per cent of GDP on defence. MPs including former Army captain John Baron accused
