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Corruption is like “bad breath,” says Pope Francis, “it is hard for the one who has it to realize it; others realize it and have to tell him.” In an address to a delegation of the International Association of Penal

The latest Gallup poll shows that confidence in the government to handle Ebola has fallen from 61 percent to 52 percent during the last two weeks. According to Gallup, the biggest drops in confidence are along party lines.  For example,

Saudi Arabian Grand Mufti Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh has sounded the alarm about his country’s increasing use of Twitter, which he referred to as a “source of lies” and evil, Al Arabiya reports. The Sheikh said on his television show

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban, and then after her recovery became a prominent activist who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize, directed a message at U.S. President Barack Obama on

Hungary decided to propose a new tax on Internet data transfers as a way to deal with their budget crisis. The tax is 150 forints, equivalent to 62 cents, per gigabyte of data traffic. The move was met with instant

On October 22 four former Blackwater guards received a guilty verdict for the shootings of 31 Iraqis on September 16, 2007. Fourteen Iraqis died and 17 others were wounded in the incident. According to an Associated Press report, the jury

Twenty-one-year-old Yeonmi Park escaped the prison nation of North Korea by sneaking into China and walking with her mother across the Gobi Desert into South Korea. Her journey is laden with the bodies of old friends, relatives, and the thousands

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has reached such widespread international coverage that one New Jersey drug dealer attempted to use it to market his heroin. Forty-seven-year-old Barnabas “Hammer” Davis was arrested this week in the shore town of Toms

This article originally appeared at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It is too early to say that the U.S. strategy against the Islamic State is imploding, but it is scarcely too soon to question whether this is possible.

Praise was heaped Thursday on terrorist Abdel Rahman Al-Shaludi, who killed three-month-old American Chaya Zissel Braun and injured eight other Israelis in a hit-and-run car attack in Jerusalem Wednesday. Both a senior aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and

Lured by local mosques and the Internet, by visions of warriors and victory dancing in their heads, thousands of European Muslims have left the safety of their homes in England, France, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere to join the Syrian

While hardly The DaVinci Code, a new book of recipes published by the elite Swiss Guard promises to reveal “some of the secrets of the Vatican.” The Papal Swiss Guard, the colorful sentries who have sworn to sacrifice their lives,

Pope Francis received the FC Bayern Munich sports club in a private meeting Wednesday, in which he congratulated them for having “played a wonderful game” against Roma the night before, handing the Italian team a 7-1 rout. The team gave

This article originally appeared in the New York Times. Canadian authorities identified the gunman in the deadly shooting Wednesday of a soldier guarding the National War Memorial in Ottawa as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a Canadian born in 1982. Mr. Zehaf-Bibeau, who had a

On Sunday, seven Egyptian soldiers were killed and four wounded by a roadside bomb in the restive Sinai Peninsula. The Egyptian military has been battling a jihadist insurgency since the removal of former Islamist President Morsi, killing hundreds of police

The Egyptian Army arrested the leader of the U.S. designated terrorist organization Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis on Friday in North Sinai, reported Ahram Arabic news. Walid Attalah is suspected of orchestrating the RPG attack in North Sinai last Thursday that killed three Egyptian policemen

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Canada in shock over Ottawa shootings Egypt supports the anti-ISIS coalition in principle only Turkey and Qatar officials meet to discuss Syria strategy Turkey’s military options in Syria are restricted by limited capability Canada

This post originally ran on BBC. Dozens of women and girls from two villages in Nigeria’s north-eastern Adamawa state have been abducted by suspected militants, residents say. The abductions have not been confirmed by the authorities, but residents say they

MOSCOW, Oct. 22 (UPI) — Growth of the Russian economy halted in September, data from its economy ministry indicated Wednesday. The economy grew by only 0.8 percent in the first nine months of 2014, Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev reported, suggesting

U.S. officials confirm that three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun, who was murdered on Wednesday during a vehicular terrorist attack in Jerusalem, was an American. According to a report by the Jerusalem Post: “The girl was thrown from her stroller as a car

(Reuters) – A Mexican mayor and his wife were “probable masterminds” behind the disappearance of 43 student-teachers last month in the restive southwest, the country’s attorney general said on Wednesday. The students went missing on Sept. 26 from Iguala in

Islamabad, October 23 (QNA) – Eight people were killed in firing incident at Hazar Ganji in Pakistan’s Quetta, according to (Radio Pakistan). SP Saryab Imran Qureshi said the victims were shopkeepers who were going back after buying fruits and vegetables

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, an incident that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe and was denounced by critics as an illustration of

BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI–  Few will remember that thirty-one years ago today, the United States received its baptism of fire in the Middle East.  On October 23, 1983, at 6:20 on a Sunday morning, a Mercedes truck smashed through the gates of