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Pro-Russian forces in Sloviansk have kidnapped eight members of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Vyacheslav Ponomarev, self-proclaimed mayor of Sloviansk, said the people are NATO spies. “As we found maps on them containing information about the

On April 26, 1986, a routine test at the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant went awry, causing the single greatest ecological disaster in history. As Ukraine prepares to observe this grim anniversary, tensions between the state and separatists favoring

(AFP) — Pilgrims and dignitaries from the world over streamed into Rome a day before John Paul II and John XXIII are named saints in the first ever double papal canonisation. In front of the Vatican Saturday, families and groups

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Suicide bombers strike hardline Shia campaign rally in Baghdad Iraq Nigeria’s government under fire over schoolgirl abduction Russian jets fly over Ukraine’s air space Suicide bombers strike hardline Shia campaign rally in Baghdad Iraq

The real purpose of President Obama’s trip to Asia was to fortify an economic and military alliance to counterbalance China’s growing influence in the region. In the preceding weeks, China has shown its displeasure by backing Russia in the Ukraine

“Love of the prophet requires hatred of the Jews,” the Moroccan Muslim cleric al-Maghili (d. 1505) declared, as quoted by Dr. Andrew G. Bostom‘s latest book Iran’s Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi’ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in

The United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) said American crude oil stockpiles rose 3.5 million barrels to 397.7 million barrels last week, the highest level since the 1930s. With the United States now producing over 8 million barrels per day

According the Middle East Media Research Institute, as a result of the Edward Snowden security leaks, Al Qaeda has changed its communication methods and altered its encryption practices to sidestep NSA surveillance. Al Qaeda began using some encryption in 2007 but

Nigerian governors attending a security meeting in the capital, Abuja, agreed that the threat the nation faces from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram is “not a religious war” but still one that has destroyed the lives of Christians and Muslims

Standard & Poor’s downgraded Russia’s credit rating to BBB-, just one notch above junk, and warned that the nation faced a further downgrade in the event of tighter financial sanctions by members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). To prevent

The US is ready to impose more sanctions on Russia, but the European Union is silent. President Obama spoke to EU leaders to push them towards more sanctions as Moscow continues to show more aggression towards Ukraine. Reuters reported Obama

In an unprecedented shift, rich Chinese have now topped Russians as the top foreign buyers of multi-million dollar Manhattan apartments and “Gatsby-esque” Long Island mansions, reports Reuters.  “By far and away, the Chinese are the fastest growing demographic,” Sotheby’s International

The relationship between the US and Russia is almost at Cold War-level, and it does not help that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is ignoring phone calls from U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon

Iranian activists continue to work for increased awareness of the plight of political prisoners in the nation’s Evin Prison, the site of attacks by guards on prisoners earlier this month that resulted in the removal of the nation’s prison chief.

Pro-Russian forces shot down a Ukrainian helicopter in Kramatorsk, according to the Kyiv Post, as Ukraine claims Russia wants to start World War III. At the same time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov offered Ukraine a proposal to help alleviate the tensions

An “interfaith panel” of dhimmis and apologists for Islam has raised objections to the portrayal of jihad and Islam in a seven-minute film that is slated to be viewable at the 9/11 Memorial Museum. They were pleased that the Museum

Authorities in China’s restive Xinjiang region are offering cash to informants who report on neighbours with excessive facial hair, state media has reported. Officials in Shaya county issued a notice offering rewards ranging from 50 to more than 50,000 yuan

XINJIANG, China, April 25 (UPI) —Chinese officials have placed beards on a list of “potential hazards” facing society and have decided to offer a reward to people who inform about the facial hair of others. Officials in Xinjiang are prepared

BERLIN, April 24 (UPI) —A new app called Peppr was launched in Germany this month to connect potential clients with nearby prostitutes using GPS. It is like a cross between the car-ordering service app Uber and the dating app Tinder.

On April 24 Naval Base Point Loma, San Diego, was placed on lockdown when “two enlisted sailors” were caught “playing with plastic pellet guns in their barracks.”  According to 10News.com, “someone reported seeing the sailors pointing what appeared to be

So violent, so bloodthirsty, is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Syria-based jihadist group, that even al-Qaida will have nothing to do with them. But young European Muslims will–and do. Earlier this month, German authorities arrested two men,

President Obama used his visit to Japan to reiterate that the United States is bound by treaty to defend the controversial Senkaku Islands, which China calls the Diaoyu and insists are a sovereign part of China. In response, Xinhua reports the

Acclaimed Peruvian author and Nobel Literature Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa is in Caracas, Venezuela, doing what he says his own government won’t do. “I feel the need to go and demonstrate,” he told Venezuelan newspaper El Universal early this month;

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ukraine joins Crimea’s Tatars in appealing to Turkey and Saudi Arabia Putin seeks to ‘rehabilitate’ the Crimean Tatars Israel cancels peace talks after Palestinian reconciliation Ukraine joins Crimea’s Tatars in appealing to Turkey and

President Obama would save Russian President Vladimir Putin if he was drowning, he asserted during a press conference Friday. ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl asked Obama the question during a press conference in South Korea, and he replied, “I absolutely