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.
On Monday, Argentine authorities announced that gadfly prosecutor Alberto Nisman had apparently committed suicide in his secured apartment. Nisman has long alleged that the Iranian government had a hand in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people.
Editor’s note: this article first appeared on the BBC website In the heart of Europe in 2015, the killing of cartoonists and journalists for allegedly insulting God still comes as a shock, despite the rising number of such attacks in
Thousands gathered in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday to protest the latest issue of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
The continuing flare-ups on Saudi Arabia’s northern border with Iraq has led some to believe that the Islamic State is set on an eventual push towards the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
Alberto Nisman, an Argentine prosecutor accusing President Cristina Fernández Kirchner of aiding Iranian terrorists to facilitate a trade deal, was found dead Sunday night with a gun at his side. He was slated to testify Monday on his accusations before the nation’s Congress.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) will launch their very own TV channel to broadcast propaganda 24/7 and recruit new members.
Following the cancelation of a march that was increasingly a regular weekly occurrence in Dresden, Germany’s anti-Islamist PEGIDA movement are calling for supporters in that city to line their windows with candles and flags, as well as organizing marches in other cities.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has invited world leaders, including Armenian President Serzh Sarkysian, to participate in festivities to be held in Turkey to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli on April 24. Coincidentally, that is the very day when Armenians are preparing to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks.
Following the deaths of two French police officers during the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attack and another officer death during an attack the following day, French police are demanding more guns and guns that are more powerful.
As a backdrop for his marriage proposal to his boyfriend, Vito Cammissano, NFL defensive end Michael Sam chose Saint Peter’s Square in Vatican City.
Saudi Arabia officials arrested the man who filmed the brutal video of a woman beheaded in public in Mecca. The swordsman murdered Myanmur woman Laila Bint Abdul Muttalib Basim as she screamed her innocence.
Miss Lebanon may lose her title over selfie with Miss Israel; Lebanon on edge after Israeli air strike kills Hezbollah commanders; Europe, under intense financial pressure, expected to start quantitative easing
Britain’s former Chief Rabbi has reported that anxiety among the Jewish population is at a “record high” following the hostage taking and murder of customers at a Kosher bakery in Paris by a Muslim extremist. It comes as Home Secretary
Bishop Mylo Vergara of Pasig expressed deep gratitude and joy for Pope Francis’ visit to the Philippines, noting that Francis is a man of surprises, but that he, too, was surprised.
DRESDEN, Germany – A planned rally against the creeping Islamisation of Europe has been called off following a terror threat to assassinate its organiser, leading police to ban all meetings and congregations in the city today. Breitbart sources suggests that
Pope Francis left the Philippines Monday morning bound for Rome after a 4-day visit to the country that culminated yesterday with the largest Mass in history, attended by 6 to 7 million people.
The former Portuguese colony of Macau took in $45 billion in gambling revenues in 2013, up 20% from the prior year and nearly seven times the action on the Las Vegas strip. But in the last six months, China’s President Xi Jinping has devastated the “Monte Carlo of the Orient” as he accelerates his anti-corruption campaign against vast layers of entrenched officials. Xi hopes his purge will deflect blame away from the Communist Party as China suffers its worst economic crisis in two decades.
Human trafficking, especially of females, is a major problem in Asia. The latest incident in India proves the situation is only getting worse.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s Shin Bet security service says it arrested the first known Islamic State (ISIS) cell operating inside the country.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Revolutionary Court interrupted Christmas when officers raided the home of an Assyrian pastor in Tehran and arrested everyone in attendance. Pastor Victor Bet-Tamarz and another man remain under arrest; the others were reportedly freed.
Yevgeny Savostyanov, head of Russia’s Coordination Council on Intellectual Property Protection, quit after he witnessed a major crackdown on cultural “matters of public interest” within Russia. He criticized Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky in an open letter before he left.
Top Iranian and Hezbollah commanders were killed in an Israeli helicopter strike on Syria’s Golan Heights, according to Lebanese and Turkish media outlets.
A few years ago the New York Times ran a story about North Korean farmers selling their daughters for food to Chinese men. New stories are coming to light about Burmese women being sold on the Chinese market. The Chinese
The testimony of a sobbing 12-year-old girl, a survivor of drugs and prostitution, stirred Francis Sunday morning, moving him to set aside his prepared text to talk for over half an hour off the cuff. The young girl, Glyzelle Palomar,
Paris, France – On Boulevard Richard Lenoir, a few metres from the former office of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper, a small crowd gathers around the spot where French policeman Ahmed Merabet was killed by attackers as he tried to stop them from fleeing the scene of their mass murder.
