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 news certain to rattle Israeli society, several cabinet ministers inside Israel’s government claim that President Obama has formally notified Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. may plan a major break in relations with the Jewish state. The U.S. would reportedly
World-renowned Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, known by many simply as “Coach K” delivered a scathing critique of President Obama’s military strategy against the Islamic State. Coach K spoke to the Association of the United States Army, explaining his disagreement
(AFP) A Spanish nurse who was the first person to catch Ebola outside of Africa fought back tears as she left hospital on Wednesday after being cured of the deadly virus. Romero’s eyes occasionally welled up with tears as she
(AFP) Two Saudi Arabian policemen and two suspects were killed in a security operation after an anti-Shiite attack killed five people in the kingdom’s east, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. An exchange of fire occurred between security forces and
Nov 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. delegation to the United Nations informed members of the Security Council on Tuesday that it will circulate a draft resolution establishing an international sanctions regime for conflict-torn South Sudan, a U.S. official said on
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian man rammed a minivan into a crowded train platform in east Jerusalem on Wednesday and then attacked people with an iron bar after leaving the vehicle, killing one person and injuring 13 in what authorities
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Thousands of people in Sierra Leone are being forced to violate Ebola quarantines to find food because deliveries are not reaching them, aid agencies said. Large swaths of the West African country have been sealed off
BOECKWITZ, Germany (AP) — Friedrich-Wilhelm Lenz was only a toddler when the wall went up that split his family’s 75-hectare (185-acre) farm in two — dividing the cow stall and even a restaurant on the land. It was 1952, and
Australia is contracting a private medical firm to operate and staff an Ebola hospital in Sierra Leone, Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced. Various news outlets reported that on Nov. 5 Abbott said Australia would contribute $17 million to fund
With a deadline for a nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the five Western powers less than three weeks away, the New York Times is breathlessly reporting that Iran has “tentatively agreed to ship much of its
A Russian Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) fighter Abu Muhammad Ar-Rusi justified the massacres committed by the terrorist group because Islam’s Prophet Muhammed killed many people. The message in the video is directed to Muslims “who speak Russian.” “You accuse us of
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Pakistan mob lynches Christian couple over alleged blasphemy charge Jordan recalls Israeli envoy as violence increases in Jerusalem Pakistan mob lynches Christian couple over alleged blasphemy charge Site of the brick kiln where the
Russia dismantled a memorial that was erected in 2013 to the late Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs in a St. Petersburg square, citing the need to abide by a law combating “gay propaganda.” The decision came, following Jobs’ predecessor Tim
ANQUI, China (AP) — Far from the Ebola hot zone, the sewing and gluing machines at a factory in China have been whirring more than usual to produce crucial yellow suits that protect the front-line medics more than 11,000 kilometers
Cardinal Raymond Burke has said he is at the service of Pope Francis, has no personal animosity towards him, and those who claim the American cardinal is an opponent of the Pontiff are trying to discredit him. The head of
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report that says the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) kidnapped and tortured Kurdish children from Kobane in Syria. Four children, aged 14-16, told their stories to the organization after they were held captive for four months.
Being a bishop “is not a position of prestige, or an honorific post,” Pope Francis said Wednesday. “The episcopate is not an honor, it’s a service, and that is how Jesus wanted it,” he said. “There should be no place
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russian troops approach Ukraine’s border, threaten port city Mariupol Russia uses Hungary to put ethnic Rusins in play against Ukraine Hezbollah leader brags about Syria war despite spillover into Lebanon Russian troops approach Ukraine’s
For years, many of us have described Islamist terrorists as “barbarians.” And for years, we have been attacked as “racist Islamophobes” for doing so. What exactly is a “barbarian?” A barbarian is someone who finds joy in inflicting
The joy parishioners feel this week that the Church of the Holy Innocents was saved from the chopping block is tempered by the fact that the priest who had a hand in saving it was transferred last spring by New York’s
On November 3, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said one million armed volunteers have joined Iraqi forces to fight ISIS. According to Iraqi News, Abadi said the number was so great that it presents a problem of trying to integrate them
In what appears to be a coordinated strategy to inflict a humiliating blow against President Obama on election day, 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (known as ISIS or ISIL) and their Al Qaeda allies (Jabhat al-Nusra) launched
Syrian rebels who had been trained and armed by the United States defected to the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria over the weekend and surrendered their weapons, according to various reports. The moderate Syrian rebels who were stormed by the al-Qaeda
(Reuters) – Asian countries are not contributing enough to the global effort to fight Ebola, despite having a wealth of trained medical personnel who could help stop the spread of the deadly virus, World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim
Turkey has angered its military by allowing a group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces to enter the besieged border town of Kobani in Syria, through Turkish territory, and join other Kurds already battling Islamic State jihadists, Al-Monitor reported. Kobani
