(Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday it was imposing travel restrictions on “a number of Venezuelan government officials” who it said were involved in human rights abuses. “While we will not publicly identify these individuals because of
Plans announced by British Prime Minister David Cameron to cut benefits to jobless immigrants may be illegal. On Tuesday the European Commission said it will examine the plans closely to see they comply with European Union law, which is superior
Al-Qaeda is increasingly funding terror operations thanks to at least $125 million in ransom paid since 2008, largely by European governments to free western hostages, the New York Times reported. The payments totalled $66 million in 2013 alone, according to
Thus far, 1,201 people have been infected with the Ebola virus in Africa. Of that number, 672 have died, making this outbreak the largest one in history. American officials estimate that this outbreak will last all the way into October,
A woman being treated for Ebola in a Sierra Leone hospital died after family members forcibly removed her from the hospital to bring her to a trusted traditional herbalist. The incident is causing alarm in medical communities fighting the Ebola
Daily Beast columnist Dean Obeidallah believes conservatives “love seeing Arabs get killed.” Using his Twitter account late last week, Obeidallah asked and answered his own question in the affirmative: — Do conservatives defend Netanyahu bc they share same values or
Obamacare has proven again to be the biggest legislative failure in history, with last week’s ruling that its subsidies are illegal. These subsidies induced some 5 million Americans to sign up for Obamacare, but are prohibited by law as held
(AFP) A top-ranking North Korean military official has threatened a nuclear strike on the White House and Pentagon after accusing Washington of raising military tensions on the Korean peninsula. The threat came from Hwang Pyong-So, director of the military’s General
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – At least 30 people were killed overnight and Tuesday morning in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi during heavy clashes involving war planes and rockets between government special forces and Islamist fighters, medical sources said. Read the
In the past few weeks, the Obama administration’s oft-repeated contention that “the border is more secure than ever” has been exposed for the fraud it always was. While the invasion by tens of thousands of so-called “unaccompanied illegal alien children”
LOME, Togo (AP) — The West African airline that transported a passenger sick with Ebola last week says it’s now suspending flights to the two cities hardest hit by the disease. A statement from Asky Airlines said Tuesday that it
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s military pounded targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country needed to be prepared for a long conflict in the Palestinian enclave, squashing any hopes of a swift end
(Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown and Mexican environmental officials signed a pact on Monday aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an agreement that could eventually expand the market for carbon credits. The six-page memorandum of understanding calls for cooperation
On Monday, Nebraska Republican Senate nominee Ben Sasse urged President Barack Obama to fly to Central America and directly–and unambiguously–tell Central Americans that America will not give migrants amnesty if they make it across the U.S.-Mexico border. “The American people
On Monday, Oklahoma Republican Governor Mary Fallin called on President Barack Obama to end the secrecy surrounding the transfer of illegal immigrant juveniles to states across the country and accused the Obama administration of intentionally burdening states to use their
The Huffington Post’s extremist speech giver and ‘Political Director’ Mehdi Hasan has gone to great lengths today to try and dispel what he claims are pro-Israeli myths about the current conflict between Israel and Hamas. Of course, Hasan is hardly
The Islamic State, which advocates public stoning for adultery, has opened a “marriage bureau” for women who want to wed its fighters in territory they control in Syria and Iraq. The jihadist group’s office is operating from Al-Bab, a town
(Reuters) – The prosecutor’s office in Georgia has filed criminal charges against former President Mikhail Saakashvili in what the opposition says is a political witch-hunt by the ex-Soviet republic’s new leaders. Dozens of former officials, including a former prime minister,
As Israel conducts its Operation Protective Edge to stop Hamas’ rocket and terror attacks from Gaza, another “Freedom Flotilla” is being organized in Turkey purportedly to bring humanitarian aid to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian coastal enclave–with the protection of the Turkish
On July 27, the District of Columbia Attorney General’s office said it “will seek a stay” regarding federal Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr.’s July 26 ruling striking down D.C.’s ban on carrying handguns in public. Breitbart News reported that Scullin
The British government has announced a major climbdown on fracking by bringing in strict new rules on where it can take place. The Daily Mail says that shale gas extraction will be all but banned in National Parks and other
A Pakistani mob has killed a woman and two of her granddaughters after a member of their religious sect was accused of posting “blasphemous” material on Facebook. The dead, who include a seven-year-old girl and her baby sister, were Ahmadis,
DONETSK/KIEV (Reuters) – After pro-Russian rebels took 720 kg of explosives, 360 detonators and almost 1 km of wiring, the Skochinskiy coal mine, an ageing stalwart of the economy in Ukraine’s Donbass region, was put out of action. Fierce fighting
Boston.com reports that estimates vary from hundreds to thousands of people who attended an anti-immigration rally in Boston outside the State House on Beacon Hill on Saturday. CBS Boston estimated the number of protesters in the hundreds, but Jeff Kuhner,
Background checks for gun purchases in New Mexico began surging amid the gun control talk that followed Sandy Hook, and the surge has yet to subside. According Albuquerque’s KOAT 7, following Adam Lanza’s heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary and
