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.
Grace Mugabe, the wife of longtime Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe, has announced that she intends to succeed her 90-year-old husband who has ruled over the country for thirty-four years. Some of Mugabe’s critics sarcastically refer to the First Lady as
Official Islamic State media entities have been promoting a video titled “School of Jihad,” which shows children, some younger than ten, being taught how to behead and torture “infidels” and learning how to properly handle automatic rifles. “Cubs” of the
The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) has loudly condemned the killing of Nathan Cirillo in Ottawa by a suspected jihadist this week, laying a wreath at the National War Memorial where he was killed and expressing anger at the
A suicide bomber killed 26 Egyptian soldiers on Friday, wounding 25 in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into an army checkpoint near El-Arish. Egypt has seen an increase of terrorist attacks in the last couple
Bentley, the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel belonging to Dallas nurse Nina Pham, has tested negative for Ebola. The dog will remain under quarantine for the full 21-day period customary for human beings, as Pham will reportedly be released from the hospital
The governments of Iran and Russia have announced a joint effort to enhance their military operations against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). Militaries from both countries will be working with Iraqi commanders. “Over 60 military experts from Russia and Iran created
On October 22, Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers was the good guy who used a gun to end the terror attack on Canada’s Parliament. On October 23–when he showed up to carry out his Parliamentary duties as usual–he was the hero whom
Anti-Israel activists in South Africa placed a pig’s head in the kosher meat section of a Woolworth’s grocery story in Cape Town, rendering all of the meat inedible for Jews who keep kosher. The action by the Congress of South
An al-Shabaab court in southern Somalia stoned to death 18-year-old Hasan Ahmad Ali for rape. The al-Qaeda-linked group abides by strict Sharia law in areas they control, mainly in the Lower Shabelle area in the south. The judge convicted Ali
(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Friday of making the world a more dangerous place by imposing a “unilateral diktat” in international diplomacy and denied Russia wanted to build a new empire. In a speech laced
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State militants used chlorine gas during fighting with security forces and Shiite militiamen last month north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said on Friday. The use of chlorine gas as a weapon adds a new concern to
(Reuters) – Russia still has troops in eastern Ukraine and retains a very capable force on the border despite a partial withdrawal, NATO’s military commander said on Friday. “We’ve seen a pretty good withdrawal of the Russian forces from inside
WASHINGTON (AP) — Islamic State militants are raking in money at a remarkable rate, earning about $1 million a day from black market oil sales alone, a Treasury Department official said Thursday. David Cohen, who leads the department’s effort to
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Authorities and ordinary Canadians sifted through confounding shards of a gunman’s life seeking to understand what motivated the man to storm the nation’s seat of power. The emerging portrait of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau is a fragmented one:
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced that his nation is committed to strengthening its laws regarding terrorism and national security. PM Harper said his cabinet would ensure that plans are in the making, and hoped that laws would be passed
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Ron Wyden says the CIA is trying to blunt the impact of an upcoming Senate report examining the harsh treatment of al-Qaida detainees by insisting on censoring the pseudonyms used for agency officers mentioned in the
DAKAR/NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Leroy Ponpon doesn’t know whether to lock himself in his flat in Monrovia because of the deadly Ebola virus, or because he is gay. Christian churches’ recent linking of the two have made life
(AFP) A commercial flight took off from Beijing for North Korea on Friday, despite travel agencies saying they had been told the isolated state would close its borders to foreign tourists over Ebola fears. The Air China flight departed Beijing
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is preparing to transfer a military detainee in Afghanistan for criminal trial in Virginia, U.S. officials said Thursday. The move would mark the first time a military detainee from Afghanistan was brought to the
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen said Thursday he was boosting his donations to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to $100 million. Allen, who has made earlier donations to the health effort, said his latest pledge would include
NEW YORK (AP) — An emergency room doctor who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa has tested positive for the virus, becoming the first case in the city and the fourth in the nation.
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali reported its first case of Ebola late Thursday, marking a major setback for West African efforts to contain the deadly virus that now has affected six countries in the region and left nearly 5,000 dead.
The father of the man accused of killing a Canadian soldier at the War Memorial in Ottawa and then unleashing a fusillade of bullets in Canada’s Parliament Hill before being fatally shot Wednesday appears to have fought alongside anti-Gadhafi rebels
Transgender military personnel from a number of American allied countries met in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss what they say are the benefits of allowing open transgenders in active military service. Organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, the conference
