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 Thursday, Swedish intelligence reportedly picked up a distress call from an unknown vessel in its waters off Stockholm. The call, in Russian, may have been from a Russian submarine. The Russians have denied having any naval assets in the area.
(AFP) Sweden’s armed forces chief warned Tuesday it could use force to bring to the surface a suspected Russian mini-submarine its navy has been hunting for days. Battleships, minesweepers, helicopters and more than 200 troops have scoured an area about
(Reuters) – Rape and other forms of sexual violence by all sides in South Sudan’s civil war have become so widespread that a 2-year-old child was among the victims, the U.N. special representative on sexual violence in armed conflict said
This article originally appeared in The Daily Beast. Contact tracing–tracking down an Ebola patient’s immediate circle–is doable in the West. But in West Africa, with limited transportation, fuel, and health workers, it’s daunting. “Contact tracing” sounds like something that would
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Hong Kong leader suggests that the poor shouldn’t be allowed to vote Violent rioting breaks out in Sierra Leone town over Ebola case Health officials promote new ideas to curb Ebola deaths Hong Kong
(AFP) — Two people died in a riot in Sierra Leone sparked when health workers struggling to contain the Ebola epidemic tried to take a blood sample from an elderly woman, doctors told AFP on Wednesday. A machete-wielding mob clashed
WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea’s reclusive government abruptly freed an American man Tuesday, nearly six months after he was arrested on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, but Pyongyang refused to hand over two other U.S. citizens who
DENVER (AP) — Three teenage girls from suburban Denver may have been trying to join Islamic State militants in Syria after stealing their parents’ money and flying to Germany, authorities said Tuesday. The girls — two sisters, ages 17 and
A video has surfaced showing what is believed to be Islamic State militants stoning a woman to death after accusing her of committing adultery. The “honor killing” was shockingly led by the woman’s father. The woman is heard begging her
Australian teen Abdullah Elmir, 17, threatened Prime Minister Tony Abbott in an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) video. He calls himself Abu Khaled and tells Australia, Britain, and the United States nothing can stop the terrorist group. It is the first time
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee does not think it is necessary to reconvene Congress and hold emergency hearings on the Ebola mission in West Africa, despite comments by two top generals raising concerns about the safety of
Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung claimed Sunday that local democracy protests raging for over a month are, “not entirely a domestic movement, as external forces are involved.” American businessman Mark Simon has been thrown into the eye of this
WASHINGTON (AP) — American detainee Jeffrey Fowle has been released from North Korea, nearly six months after he was taken into custody on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, the State Department said Tuesday. Two other Americans who
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has released a video claiming American-made weapons meant for air drop to Kurds in Syria were accidentally dropped to ISIS instead. The Daily Beast reports that the video was posted on YouTube with the title “Weapons
On Tuesday, Rwanda announced all visitors from United States and Spain will be screened for Ebola. The new system was implemented just a few days after a New Jersey school banned two students from Ebola-free Rwanda. “On October 19, the
The latest polling finds that Australians are overwhelmingly in support of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s plan to have a “robust” confrontation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at this year’s G20 summit, hosted by Australia. According to a Newspoll in The
Pope Francis “favors change on the disciplinary rules on access to sacraments for divorced people who remarried outside the Church,” declared an article in the Huffington Post Monday. The fact that Pope Francis has never said this does not seem
The “Miss Hitler” pageant was canceled after Vkontakte, Russia’s Facebook, deleted the page. George Lobushkin, VKontakte’s head of public relations, told Vocativ the group was deleted “due to calls to violent actions.” The contest encouraged women from Ukraine and Russia to
Teen Yazidi sex slaves under control of the Islamic State; North Korea’s torture camps for “re-education” of political dissidents; electric shock torture in the prisons of Uzbekistan— the world is teeming with a wide variety of human rights violations. But this
“Everything is fire, killing, bombarding, from Libya to Syria to Iraq to Yemen, to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain… it’s not a spring,” Archbishop Thomas Meram told Vatican Radio. It is hard to say whether there is hope for justice and equity
Islamic State fighters have moved within close proximity to the Yazidi population stranded on Mt. Sinjar. On Monday, the militants overtook two Yazidi villages after volunteer militiamen fled due to sustained incoming gunfire. The limited Yazidi volunteer defense forces said
“We need to STOP announcing fake deaths numbers,” writes the editor of the largest newspaper in Sierra Leone, Dr. Sylvia Blyden, in the Awareness Times. The paper had previously accused the government of fudging the math on the Ebola death
The Chinese government reportedly has at its disposal a team of 300,000 Internet propagandists, whose sole mission is to promote the Chinese Communist Party line. Sina Weibo, China’s equivalent to Twitter, has recently banned any mention of the phrase “50
The Metropolitan Opera in New York City has doubled-down on its decision to produce the anti-Semitic The Death of Klinghoffer by setting up a Klinghoffer mini-website to defend and promote the controversial show. http://klinghoffer.metopera.org responds to the massive backlash against
This article originally appeared in The Daily Beast: The Qat plant, a staple in Middle Eastern cities, has become popular in China for its mild buzz–but the government says it’s a dangerous gateway drug. It’s a common sight in this
