(Reuters) – Two Americans suffered light injuries when a U.S. consulate vehicle came under attack in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat on Wednesday morning, the U.S. embassy said. The embassy statement gave scant details of the attack but an Afghan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department recommended Tuesday that Americans leave Libya immediately and warned U.S. citizens against any travel to the North African country. The department also said that due to security concerns and limited staffing it was only
A pregnant Pakistani woman has been stoned to death by her own family in front of a high court after she married against their wishes. The Daily Mail reports that around 20 members of the woman’s family, including her own
(Reuters) – Britain’s major cinema chains have banned all adverts on the Scottish independence referendum after customers inundated them with complaints, the Guardian reported late Tuesday.
Oh boy. The hits keep coming at Brazil concerning the 2014 World Cup. Health officials pulled expired food from England and Italy’s hotels. The food included fish, butter, and ham. The largest confiscation took place at Italy’s hotel, the Portobello
A similar situation to that in Ukraine is occurring in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. Thousands of demonstrators marched into the pro-Russian president’s building and demanded his resignation. Reuters reported: Several thousand opposition supporters had gathered in the capital
Japan is introducing a new holiday to the calendar: Mountain Day, a day for “opportunities to get familiar with mountains and appreciate blessings from mountains.” It will be Japan’s 16th holiday, the most of all G8 countries, though Japanese workers
LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Charles warned business leaders on Tuesday to take action against climate change or watch the world continue on a path to destruction – the latest forthright comment from the heir to the British throne in a
From meeting with the mayor of Seattle, or Israel’s minister of foreign affairs to the NBA commissioner, the Rev. Al Sharpton or Russian band Pussy Riot, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio appears to prefer conducting a great deal of public
The South Korean foreign ministry has stated that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed that North Korea’s apparent increase in nuclear activity poses a threat to the entire region. China, North Korea’s only ally in the region, has previously aimed
HOUSTON, Texas–The clear winner in the 2014 Republican Primary and runoff election is the grassroots effort spawned by the Tea Party, no matter what candidates win. Every candidate on the ballot has shaped their campaign around illustrating their support of
(AFP) US forces will complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2016, 15 years after the September 11 attacks, President Barack Obama was to say Tuesday. The United States invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban regime in Kabul
On May 26 an American doctor who was in eastern Pakistan as a volunteer was shot and killed in front of his wife and 3-year-old son. The gunman shot Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar “at least ten times.” According to The
The German wife of British eurosceptic leader Nigel Farage revealed Tuesday she fears his pub-loving lifestyle is taking its toll on his health, and defended her role as his taxpayer-funded secretary. Kirsten Farage, wife of the leader of the UK
Venezuela’s hospitals are amputating limbs at an alarming pace, as economic shortages under Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government have triggered a scarcity of medical equipment necessary for a number of procedures. Hospitals, a new report shows, are lacking everything from latex
This article originally appeared in The New York Times BRUSSELS — An angry eruption of populist insurgency in the elections for the European Parliament rippled across the Continent on Monday, unnerving the political establishment and calling into question the very
A leading Muslim charity is under investigation amidst allegations that it promoted intolerance towards the Jewish community and called for adulterers and gay people to be stoned to death, according to the Telegraph. The Charity Commission is said to have
In the aftermath of Elliot Rodger’s knife and gun attacks in Santa Barbara, Alpha Phi sorority has placed two good guys with guns outside their front door. According to the LA Times, the good guys are armed security guards in
(Reuters) – Vietnam and China traded accusations on Tuesday over the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat not far from where China has placed an oil rig in the disputed South China Sea, as tensions fester between the two countries over the giant drilling
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Nigeria backs out of deal to recover Boko Haram’s abducted schoolgirls Attacks on schoolgirls spread to Balochistan in southwest Pakistan Jordan bluntly expels Syria’s ambassador Nigeria backs out of deal to recover Boko Haram’s
The government of Jordan has declared Syria’s ambassador to their country, Bahjat Suleiman, persona non grata and requested he leave the country. The decision, according to a statement from the Jordanian foreign ministry, follows a series of insults to the
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A volunteer American cardiologist was shot dead in Pakistan on Monday, a member of his minority Ahmadi community said, the latest attack on a group which says it is Muslim but whose religion is rejected by the
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Pope Francis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traded words on Monday over the language spoken by Jesus two millennia ago. “Jesus was here, in this land. He spoke Hebrew,” Netanyahu told Francis, at a public meeting
The Chinese State Council has announced that it is limiting the number of cars allowed on the streets of Beijing, and over the next several years, it plans to discard more than five million vehicles nationwide that fail environmental standards.
This article originally appeared in The Independent Waiting on the platform of King’s Cross station on 4 June 1916 Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener – Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, suppressor of the Boers, governor of Egypt, slayer of the Sudanese
