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.
In their meeting this weekend, Pope Francis told Turkish President Erdogan that what is needed now is a worldwide condemnation of Islamic terrorism “from the Muslims themselves.” They need to distance themselves from ISIS and say: “That is not who
Former Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter appears to be considered the favorite to replace Chuck Hagel, the outgoing Pentagon chief, according to numerous reports surfacing today. As the new Defense Secretary, Carter would be taking charge of the U.S. operations
(Reuters) – Former Pentagon official Ashton Carter emerged on Tuesday as the expected nominee to replace Chuck Hagel as U.S. defense secretary, sources familiar with the situation said. One source said Carter, a former deputy secretary at the Department of
“Ten of millions of persons” presently suffer from “physical, economic, sexual and psychological exploitation,” Pope Francis said Tuesday. He declared that this “modern slavery–in the form of trafficking in persons, forced labor, prostitution, and organ trafficking–is a crime ‘against humanity.’”
Sinai-based jihadi terror group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM), which now calls itself the Islamic State in Sinai, or Sinai Province (of the Islamic State), claimed late Sunday that it was responsible for killing 58-year-old Texas native William Henderson, who was
Today marks 70 years since the day the Greek Communist Party first attempted to seize control of Greece by force. Though they were defeated, Marxism has remained a prominent force in Greece – and is primarily responsible for the economic
Two sisters in India are being lauded for hitting and attacking two men on a bus that approached them with lewd comments, while fellow passengers warned the girls not to resist their harassment lest they be attacked with acid. The
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers have condemned China for blocking a parliamentary fact-finding trip to Hong Kong. The Chinese government has prevented representatives of Britain’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee from going to Hong Kong as tensions rise over ongoing pro-democracy
In a recent interview, Pope Francis’ right-hand man for the reform of the Roman curia said we can expect serious downsizing of the offices that make up the Vatican bureaucracy. Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, the Honduran coordinator of the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com World Food Program terminates aid to 1.7 million Syrian refugees Syrian refugees increasingly threaten regional stability World Food Program terminates aid to 1.7 million Syrian refugees Syrian refugee camp Some 1.7 million Syrian refugees,
This article originally appeared on CNBC: Saudi Arabia, and its fellow members of OPEC, may have just launched an oil war. At the conclusion of its December conference, held in Vienna on Thanksgiving Day, OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, decided
The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to miss multiple significant deadlines for isolating Ebola patients in West Africa, which, experts note, means that “there are still going to be many people who catch the disease and many people who die
The Jewish State is fighting wars for its very survival against barbarous, genocidal foes like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. But far outside the Middle East, ferocious battles are being fought on the campuses of the world’s great Universities for Israel’s
Nearly 8,000 people have resigned from the Lutheran Church in Finland after Parliament passed a law Friday allowing same-sex marriages and the leader of the official state church endorsed it. The Finnish Parliament legalized gender-neutral marriage by a vote of
Al Qaeda jihadists, possibly using plans organized by a Khorasan group bomb-maker, are planning what the Sunday Express called a Christmas “spectacular” in a report released by the British newspaper this week. Citing anonymous sources including a “well-placed security insider,” the report suggests that
Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago-based studio was targeted in a foiled terrorist truck-bomb plot in 2009 devised by an illegal alien, an individual who was waving an Islamic State flag from his car when he was arrested, and two of the FBI’s
Leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian terror group in control of Gaza, announced Sunday that the unity government it had established with Fatah last spring is now over, reports The Jerusalem Post. Fatah is the leading secular Palestinian political party in
Conditions for openly gay and lesbian Russians have become so dire that America is experiencing a surge in the number of LGBT Russians seeking asylum in America from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tyranny against them. Several asylum-seekers spoke with the
Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, released an army general and two other captives Sunday paving the way for peace negotiations to resume in Cuba. The talks between Colombian government officials and the Marxist guerrillas were
(Reuters) – Islamist militants beheaded a Tunisian policeman after he was kidnapped near the Algerian border late on Sunday, officials said on Monday. The government has tightened security as it prepares for a presidential election runoff this month between incumbent
(AFP) Maoist rebels killed 13 police and wounded another 12 in an ambush in central India on Monday, a senior officer said.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s president is considering awarding a posthumous medal to a young woman killed after defending two teenage girls from male harassment. German news agency dpa reported Sunday that President Joachim Gauck was mulling the honor amid an
(AFP) A suicide attack at a funeral in northern Afghanistan on Monday killed at least nine people, officials said, underlining nationwide insecurity as NATO troops end their 13-year war this month.
