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At least one Ukrainian Donbas Volunteer Battalion member and five pro-Russians were killed when 150-200 pro-Russian forces ambushed them in a battle in Karlivka. Twenty Ukrainians were wounded and many were captured. The Kyiv Post reported: The ambush took place

“Impure Pope: Leave Our Country,” read one sign held up by a protester, former Israeli legislator Michael Ben Ari, objecting to Pope Francis’s visit to Israel this week. The Pope’s arrival–and use of certain holy locations–have sparked both a wave

On May 20 China’s President Xi Jinping called for “the creation of a new Asian structure for security cooperation…that includes Russia and Iran and excludes the United States.” Xi was speaking “to a meeting in Shanghai of the Conference of

TOKYO, May 23 (UPI) — A new brand of Japanese cookie is not exactly being marketed in a subtle way. The makers of “F-cup cookies” claim that women who eat them will see an increase in breast size. The cookies

An al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist group fighting in the Syrian Civil War has reportedly reached Israel’s Golan Heights border with Syria. According to Reuters, the Syrian al Qaeda-linked al Nusra Front rebels have staked their claim to the land. One of the

The level of sophistication taken to build the bomb that wounded hundreds at the Boston Marathon last year, including the use of fireworks and Christmas lights, has led prosecutors to believe the Tsarnaev brothers may have had accomplices or previous

HANOI (Reuters) – A Vietnamese woman carrying banners denouncing China’s claim to most of the South China Sea died on Friday after setting herself on fire in front of a landmark in the country’s largest city, local government officials said.

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin announced Friday that Russia will recognize the outcome of Ukraine’s presidential vote this weekend but voiced hope that Ukraine would halt its military operation against separatists in the east. In Kiev, Ukraine’s leader urged

BEIRUT (AP) — A mortar shell struck a large tent in southern Syria where supporters of President Bashar Assad had gathered for election campaigning, killing at least 21 people and wounding scores, opposition activists said Friday. State media reported the

This week, students at DePaul University are being asked to get involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and vote on a non-binding resolution that asks the university to divest from companies that do business in the Jewish State. But for some Jewish students

Microblogging site Twitter has blocked dozens of tweets and accounts in Pakistan after officials asked for access to “blasphemous” and “unethical” content to be stopped. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) submitted at least five requests from May 5 to 14

“I shouldn’t have done it. I should have been more focused on the caller and less focused on the interviewer,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said of his controversial wink and smile at a grandmother named Gloria who called into a

BERLIN, May 22 (UPI) — A German court ruled that at the end of a relationship, all intimate material should be destroyed if it is requested by one or both of the parties. The ruling came after a woman brought

It’s been slightly more than two weeks since the Holy See stood in the dock before the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva and was told the Church may be in violation of international laws against torture. On Friday, the

For the first time in Egyptian history, an Egyptian physician, Dr. Raslan Fadl, will stand trial for the female genital mutilation of a thirteen-year-old girl–not only because he broke the 2008 Mubarak-era law against such practices but because the girl died.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An anti-bailout party in Greece is leading in opinion polls before this weekend’s local government and European elections, and is vowing to scrap international agreements that rescued the country’s economy from bankruptcy at the cost of

A lavish Italianate estate on the Black Sea, popularly known as “Putin’s Palace” and previously suspected to have been built using illicit funding, was built with money from a major healthcare project on the taxpayers’ dime, according to a report

Front National candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen suggested this week that France’s immigration problems could be “solved in three months” by “Monsieur Ebola,” suggesting that an outbreak of the deadly disease would reduce the immigrant population in the country. According to

Portions of a top-secret Defense Intelligence Agency report on the damage done by Edward Snowden’s leaks has been obtained and published by The Guardian. The information was obtained “in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed earlier

The Taliban appears to be fully engaged in its yearly “spring offensive,” which has been a season where the Islamist entities in the region dramatically ramp up attacks against the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, Taliban insurgents in