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Liberia Orders Cremation of Ebola Victims

Liberia Orders Cremation of Ebola Victims

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The deadly scourge of Ebola means people here no longer shake hands when greeting each other. In taxi cabs where people used to cram onto the laps of others, drivers now can carry only four people

Iraq Air Force to Back Kurds Fighting Islamists

Iraq Air Force to Back Kurds Fighting Islamists

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called upon his country’s armed forces to help Kurdish forces battle a Sunni militant offensive in northern Iraq that has caused tens of thousands of people from the minority Yazidi community

Israel Kept Hezbollah out of the War

Israel Kept Hezbollah out of the War

To borrow a phrase from Sherlock Holmes: the “dog that didn’t bark” in the Gaza conflict (thus far, anyway) was Hezbollah. The Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite militia has rockets and tunnels that equal or surpass the Hamas arsenal, and in 2006

Uganda Strikes Down Anti-Gay Law

Uganda Strikes Down Anti-Gay Law

An anti-homosexuality law in Uganda has been struck down by the nation’s constitutional court. The law had instituted penalties for gay relationships that included sentences as long as life in prison for “aggravated homosexuality” and jail sentences of seven years

China: 96 Killed Last Week in Xinjiang

China: 96 Killed Last Week in Xinjiang

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media released a detailed casualty count Sunday for last week’s violence in the western province of Xinjiang, with 37 people and 59 attackers killed in the deadliest unrest in months that authorities blame on ethnic

50-Year Anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident

50-Year Anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident

There will be no celebrations today for the fifty-year anniversary of the August 4, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The aftermath of the Incident still divides America today. At 11:00 p.m. Vietnam time, Commander John J. Herrick on the destroyer

Netherlands Bans ISIS Flag After Anti-Semitism Surge

Netherlands Bans ISIS Flag After Anti-Semitism Surge

In anticipation of an anti-Israel rally organized for Sunday in Amsterdam, the government of the Netherlands added the flag of the terrorist group Islamic State to its list of banned political hate paraphernalia. Flying the flag in the nation will

22 Killed in Day of Clashes over Libyan Airport

22 Killed in Day of Clashes over Libyan Airport

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A day of militia fighting over control of the international airport in Libya’s capital killed 22 people, the country’s interim government said Sunday, part of the worsening chaos gripping the country. Libya is seeing its worst

Iraq Jihadists Seize Another Town from Kurdish Forces

Jihadists raised their black flag in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on Sunday in a second straight day of advances against Kurdish forces, forcing thousands of displaced people back on the road. The Islamic State’s capture of Sinjar raised

Israeli Soldier Thought Captured Is Declared Dead

Israeli Soldier Thought Captured Is Declared Dead

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Sunday that an Israeli soldier it previously believed had been captured by Hamas fighters in a Gaza ambush had in fact been killed in battle that day. The soldier’s purported capture Friday had

Strong Quake Kills at Least 175 in Southern China

Strong Quake Kills at Least 175 in Southern China

BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake in southern China’s Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing at least 175 people and injuring more than 1,400. About 12,000 homes collapsed in Ludian, a densely populated county located around 366

State Department's Rebuke of Egypt Undermines War on Terror

State Department's Rebuke of Egypt Undermines War on Terror

CAIRO, Egypt– Last Thursday, during a press briefing in Washington, DC, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf accused Egypt of using military weapons “against their own people.” Badr Abdel-Atti, spokesman for Egypt’s Foreign Ministry, fired back, describing the comments as “sheer

Protocols of the Elders of Hamas

Protocols of the Elders of Hamas

I was at the UN Security Council hearing on the war in Gaza on Thursday as a guest of Ambassador Eugene Gasana of Rwanda who held the Security Council presidency through July.  I heard the regular condemnations of Israel for being

Syria Troops Kill 50 Islamic State, Al-Nusra Jihadists

Syria Troops Kill 50 Islamic State, Al-Nusra Jihadists

At least 50 jihadists from the Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front groups were killed overnight by Syrian troops backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters near the Lebanese border, a monitor said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the jihadists