The United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention strongly condemned Iran for jailing American pastor Saeed Abedini. He is currently serving his second year of an eight year sentence because he practiced his Christianity in the Muslim
Syria, which had claimed to have destroyed all of its chemical weapons production facilities, has revealed a previously undeclared research and development facility and a ricin-producing laboratory. Reuters reports that, according to diplomatic sources, Syria detailed three new facilities to
On September 18, nearly 1,000 Chinese soldiers entered India’s Ladakh Chumur sector. Chinese President Xi Jinping was also visiting India on September 18. According to The Times of India, Indian Army sources indicate the Chinese troops “moved inside the Line
(Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said al Qaeda will struggle to recruit members in the world’s second-most populous nation and he praised Indian Muslims for their commitment to fight for the country. Al Qaeda announced the formation of its
This article was originally posted at Watchdog.org A high-profile academic center used federal funds to promote anti-Semitism on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles, a watchdog says. The university’s Gustav E. von Grunebaum Center for Near East
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a new program giving illegal immigrants free access to the city’s zoo, its museums, and other attractions in order to cajole them into signing up for a new city-wide ID program that would
(Reuters) – Soon after being shoe-horned into the top ranks of Zimbabwe’s ruling party, the wife of ageing leader Robert Mugabe has gained a PhD in orphanages, seen as the latest sign that she may be destined for high office.
Twenty-seven-year-old Shurina Rose Wiah, Miss Liberia 2009-2010, died this week after not eating for a week as she suffered from a year of malnutrition and depression following the death of her sister. Despite allegedly not exhibiting any Ebola symptoms, her
When asked about comparisons of his Hamas terror organization to the Islamic State (IS), Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Ambassador to the US Maen Areikat told Fusion’s Jorge Ramos, “Any analogy between Palestinian factions and these forces of darkness is completely
Both gunmen and suicide bombers stormed the campus of Nigeria’s Kano Federal College of Education on Wednesday, killing 13 people and injuring 34 others, authorities reported. While no group has taken credit, the attack has all the signatures of the jihadist
Everyday working class folks are taking it in the neck while the companies that lay them off are reaping huge profits and winning hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare. Is that the logline for Oliver Stone’s latest sequel,
Partly out of fear, partly out of frustration, Lebanese assistance to Syrian refugees is waning. Bordering on Syria, Lebanon fears incursions from jihadist groups like the Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front of the al-Qaeda network. The Syrian conflict could
LONDON (Reuters) – British financial markets placed a raft of late bets that Scots would vote “No” to independence on Thursday, pushing the pound and Scottish-based stocks higher in the final hours of polling. Since a poll almost two weeks
Doctors in the rebel held north of Syria fear tainted measles vaccinations killed 36 children. The United Nations provided the shots in the rebel-held north. The children in Jirjanaz and Maaret al-Nouman showed symptoms only an hour after they received
Six Egyptian police officers were killed by a roadside bomb near the border town of Rafah in the Sinai Peninsula Tuesday morning. According to ABC News, the Egyptian Interior Ministry and a security official said the attackers hid the bomb
(Reuters) – Islamic State fighters have seized 16 Kurdish villages in northern Syria in a major advance towards the city of Ayn al-Arab at the border with Turkey, a Kurdish military official and a group that tracks the civil war said on Thursday.
It sounds mad, but a toss of the coin could, technically, decide the fate of the United Kingdom and Scotland. Oddly enough, even with polls as close as they currently are, the Edinburgh Agreement signed by David Cameron and Alex
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(AFP) A healthy British volunteer became the first person to receive a new vaccine for the Ebola virus in a trial at the University of Oxford on Wednesday. The testing began as Britain announced it would increase aid to Sierra
The leaders of the world’s two most populous countries joined forces today for the first of a three day summit designed to improve their troubled, but hugely important relationship. India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi is playing host to
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the non-partisan government watchdog, has issued a new report that identifies 1,036 Obamacare plans that cover abortion on demand at the expense of taxpayers through subsidies, a fact that confirms the provision in the health
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may visit Beijing as his first foreign trip since assuming power in 2011. According to Reuters, the Chinese Ambassador to South Korea, Qiu Guohong, signaled the possibility on September 17. Qiu spoke of the
Bill de Blasio, the left-wing mayor of New York City, is set to address the Labour Party conference in Manchester next week. De Blasio became the first Democrat mayor of New York since 1993 last year when he won a
(Reuters) – Turkey’s military is drawing up plans for a possible “buffer zone” on the country’s southern border, where it faces a threat from Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, Turkish media quoted President Tayyip Erdogan as saying on Monday. The government
EDINBURGH, United Kindgom – Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has written to the head of the Civil Service to demand an inquiry into a leak at the Royal Bank of Scotland. The leak was of information that showed the bank
