The release of a report on the myriad human rights violations in China has triggered an equally detailed rebuttal from the communist regime, which on Friday accused the United States of “widespread human rights abuses,” including the government shutdown, “private
Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, Yuval Steinitz, is demanding that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) release all of the information it gathered about Iran’s potential nuclear weapons program, according to the Jerusalem Post. The demand follows a report by Reuters that
LOCKPORT, Ill., Feb. 27 (UPI) —Police in the Chicago suburbs said a man faces charges for taking his tiger cub out on the town, including inside a bar. Lockport police said John Basile — who keeps wolves, mountain lions and
BEIJING, Feb. 28 (UPI) —Police in China recently arrested 1,094 people who were accused of online baby trafficking and rescued 383 babies, the Ministry of Public Security said. The arrests of four major online baby-trafficking groups led to the rescues
I received an email yesterday from “The Network of Spiritual Progressives,” a group run by the left-wing Rabbi Michael Lerner and devoted to spreading love a peace throughout the world. The Spiritual Progressives can be counted on to join anti-war
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine, Feb 28 (Reuters) – The United States told Russia to demonstrate in coming days that it was sincere about its promise not to intervene in Ukraine as armed men stormed the regional parliament and hours later others seized
Gunmen seized the Crimea airport, less than 24 hours after gunmen seized government buildings in Simferopol. Witnesses told the Interfax news agency that the 50 or so men were wearing the same gear as the ones who seized government buildings
A Russian flag is currently flying over the Parliament of Crimea, a southern province of Ukraine located on a peninsula and home to increased tension between the new Ukrainian government and Russian allies. The seizure of government buildings follows clashes
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio issued a “moratorium” on charter schools almost as soon as he arrived in office, and now he is making good on his promise to limit parents’ choice of schools. The New York Post
Ukraine’s parliament convened on Thursday and approved the new cabinet after they ousted former president Viktor Yanukovich on February 22. The new government, comprising more than 20 ministers, is headed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a former foreign and economics minister. He
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s pledge to cut annual net migration to below 100,000 was undermined on Thursday after figures showed the net flow of migrants coming into Britain rose by 37 percent to 212,000 people in the year to
Deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych said on Thursday said he still considers himself to be Ukraine’s head of state but asked Russia to ensure his personal security. “I still consider myself to be the legal head of the Ukrainian state,”
Ed Miliband could announce within the next two weeks that the Labour Party are preparing to do a u-turn on Europe by pledging to hold a referendum on Britain’s continued EU membership if they win the next election, according to
A Member of Parliament has called for the threshold for strike action to be raised after a strike by tube workers caused two days of chaos in London. The RMT and TSSA unions held 48 hours of industrial action on
The U.S. Department of Justice has not only successfully sued Apple for arguably non-existent anti-trust violations in the e-book market. It has even demanded – and gotten – a court-appointed “monitor” placed inside the company to supervise the company’s pricing
Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed Venezuelan protest leader Leopoldo Lopez, said this week she believes Venezuela has become a “dictatorship.” “As a woman, as a wife and as a mother, I am convinced we are living under a dictatorship,” she
In the first showdown between Breitbart Texas and Battleground Texas, the embattled pro-Wendy Davis organization has reversed its position. The group now admits the behavior it recently defended as being legal is discontinued within the organization due to the practice’s
The last six months have witnessed a tsunami of two things that do not bode well for freedom in California–the enactment of multiple draconian gun control laws coupled with the release of life-sentence prisoners at a “record pace.” In other
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has to contend with numerous protests against his regime a day, a miserable and oppressed populace and nightly videos of his national guard assaulting protesters uploaded to social media. He’s hoping a carnival will make up
The world’s largest bitcoin trading exchange shut down on Tuesday, sparking a massive sell-off that calls into question the long-term viability of the nascent virtual currency trade. “This is extremely destructive,” risk-management expert and former Federal Reserve Bank Examiner Mark
BRUSSELS, Feb. 26 (UPI) —NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday there will be no international forces in Afghanistan unless a bilateral security agreement is signed. Rasmussen said Afghan leaders and international force commanders would meet Thursday to discuss planning
Pope Francis may have delighted leftists with his depiction of the inequalities of capitalism, but there is also some unhappiness with his reluctance to engage those who openly oppose the Catholic Church. What has been difficult to understand is that
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s violent repression of student protesters has been so egregious that socialist members of his own party are turning against him. A longtime Party member and governor of one of the more afflicted regions of Venezuela called
More than one hundred of Venezuela’s most prominent beauty queens have founded a group to protest the government’s inability to stop and, in many cases, propensity to foment violence in their country. “Misses4Peace” released a video with messages attacking the
Ukraine’s interim president Oleksandr Turchynov warned separatism and infighting put a united Ukraine at risk. Kiev is facing retaliation from the Crimean peninsula and disagreements within the opposition. Parliament hoped to have a new government by the 25th, but pushed
