BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s disgraced former domestic security chief, Zhou Yongkang, looks set to be expelled from the ruling Communist Party at a key meeting next week, sources said, possibly paving the way for his formal prosecution. Zhou is the
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said he wanted to cut inheritance tax so that it is only paid by the very rich, the Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday. Cameron, who faces an election in May next year
On Tuesday, former Charlotte, North Carolina Mayor Patrick Cannon will face sentencing after admitting to taking at least $50,000 in bribes from strip club mogul David “Slim” Baucom and federal agents. Cannon, a Democrat, will become the first chief executive
Vatican — Opposition increases in Rome as gays celebrate, traditional Catholics fret, bishops complain, and no one seems to be able to explain exactly what the document released Monday means for the Catholic Church. Late Monday night, experienced hands with
As Ebola screening begins at major airports in the United Kingdom, Ebola experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) meeting in Geneva have revised their assessments of the death toll upward, and estimate there could be 50,000 new cases by
LONDON (Reuters) – Less than a month after Scots spurned independence, separatists said on Tuesday that British Prime Minister David Cameron was betraying Scotland by reneging on pledges to grant more spending powers to the Scottish parliament. In a last-ditch
(Reuters) – A U.S. national was shot dead and another wounded in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Tuesday, police said, in what appeared to be the first killing of a Westerner in years in a gun attack in the kingdom.
Human trials of a potential Ebola vaccine, created by the Public Health Agency of Canada, began on Monday, with hopes that the much-needed drug can be mass-produced and shipped to affected West African nations within a few months. According to the Associated
The left is celebrating the recent decision against Wisconsin’s voter ID laws by Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner, the “conservative” jurist and author, as if it represents a turning point in the debate. It certainly might–though not on the
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two gunmen shoved their way into a radio studio and opened fire on a local activist, killing him while he was broadcasting, prosecutors in the Mexican state of Sinaloa said. It was the first on-air killing
MCALLEN, Texas — Mexico’s Guerrero state continues to descend into anarchy as protesters continue their daily revolts demanding the whereabouts of 43 students who were kidnapped by police. In the most recent turn of events, protesters torched furniture, vehicles and
BELGRADE (Reuters) – In his 1949 memoir Eastern Approaches, British officer Fitzroy Maclean wrote of standing on top of Belgrade’s fortress and watching the Nazis retreat across the River Sava, leaving the capital to the Red Army and Yugoslav Partisan
LONDON (Reuters) – The sister of a British man held hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants fighting in Iraq and Syria has urged his captors to resume contact, saying that all communication with those holding him had ceased. Journalist John
Despite widespread support for Kurdish fighters resisting the advance of Islamic State in Iraq, the National Union of Students has failed to pass a motion expressing solidarity with the Kurdish people because they consider the ongoing conflict with ISIS to be
(Reuters) – Mizanur Rahman laughs when he recalls the de-radicalisation programme he was sent on in 2008 after he was released from a British jail where he had served two years for inciting violence against British and American troops. “I’d
In a scathing letter calling for the resignation of Madrid’s regional health chief Javier Rodríguez, the husband of a nurse auxiliary who contracted Ebola from a patient in Spain asserts that his wife received only half an hour of training
The government of Qatar has a senior al-Qaeda operative on its payroll, despite the United States’ designation of the individual as a terrorist, The Telegraph reports. In his role at Qatar’s Ministry of Interior, Salim Hasan Khalifa Rashid al-Kuwari has allegedly
A Gallup poll finds that 65% of Democratic voters remain confident their party will maintain control of the U.S. Senate–a position that may spell shock and disappointment if new statistical projections prove accurate. According to Gallup, Americans as a whole
In the Obama-era, the Democrat party has become overly dependent on minorities, single women and young voters. Without abnormally high turnout among these voters, Democrat candidates face long odds on election night. Unfortunately for Democrats, these are the least reliable
A Dallas nurse who cared for Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan — not his family or friends — has contracted the virus. Why health-care professionals are feeling especially alarmed. The announcement that a second case of Ebola has been diagnosed
The nation’s largest union and professional association of nurses said it will rise up in protest if hazardous-material suits are not in every hospital soon. “I’m angry about this,” said RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United. “We want
(Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Saturday Iraqi security forces were in full control of Baghdad but that the embattled Syrian city of Kobani was a very difficult problem. Hagel told a news conference in the Chilean
(AFP) France said Friday its forces had “destroyed” an Al-Qaeda convoy in Niger carrying a large amount of weapons from Libya to Mali.
LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of health workers in Britain will strike on Monday to protest against a pay freeze, the first walk out over pay in the country’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) for over thirty years. The government has
LONDON (Reuters) – Mizanur Rahman laughs when he recalls the de-radicalization program he was sent on in 2008 after he was released from a British jail where he had served two years for inciting violence against British and American troops.
