At least one Ukrainian Donbas Volunteer Battalion member and five pro-Russians were killed when 150-200 pro-Russian forces ambushed them in a battle in Karlivka. Twenty Ukrainians were wounded and many were captured. The Kyiv Post reported: The ambush took place
“Impure Pope: Leave Our Country,” read one sign held up by a protester, former Israeli legislator Michael Ben Ari, objecting to Pope Francis’s visit to Israel this week. The Pope’s arrival–and use of certain holy locations–have sparked both a wave
An al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist group fighting in the Syrian Civil War has reportedly reached Israel’s Golan Heights border with Syria. According to Reuters, the Syrian al Qaeda-linked al Nusra Front rebels have staked their claim to the land. One of the
HANOI (Reuters) – A Vietnamese woman carrying banners denouncing China’s claim to most of the South China Sea died on Friday after setting herself on fire in front of a landmark in the country’s largest city, local government officials said.
Geert Wilders and his right-wing, anti-euro Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) may not have done as badly in Thursday’s elections to the European Parliament as the first exit polls suggested. Reuters reported on Thursday evening that an IPSOS exit poll on
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc–Any fan of the popular West Wing television series remembers when President Bartlett asked his staff in the Oval Office the English translation of this Latin phrase. You’ll also remember that our TV President provided the
UKIP were “stunned” by the success of their strategy to target traditionally working class seats, and “can’t believe Labour didn’t see it coming”. A senior UKIP source has told Breitbart London that 18 months ago the party changed the focus
For the first time in Egyptian history, an Egyptian physician, Dr. Raslan Fadl, will stand trial for the female genital mutilation of a thirteen-year-old girl–not only because he broke the 2008 Mubarak-era law against such practices but because the girl died.
A lavish Italianate estate on the Black Sea, popularly known as “Putin’s Palace” and previously suspected to have been built using illicit funding, was built with money from a major healthcare project on the taxpayers’ dime, according to a report
The data breach at eBay that allowed hackers to gain access to the private information of 145 million accounts may go down as the second-largest online security breach in history, according to a report from Reuters. In October of last
The Taliban appears to be fully engaged in its yearly “spring offensive,” which has been a season where the Islamist entities in the region dramatically ramp up attacks against the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, Taliban insurgents in
Launching a reading list for the summer season, Amazon has released its ranking of America’s most well read cities. Topping the list of most well-read cities over one million residents is San Diego, California. Print and Kindle sales of books,
Libya’s Interior Ministry posted a message on Facebook supporting General Khalifa Haftar, a renegade soldier who has launched an offensive against the Libyan government believed to be responsible for 100 deaths since last Friday. The Minister of the Interior denied
An Amnesty International report released Wednesday details the atrocious conditions in which Syrian refugees in Lebanon find themselves, particularly those in need of urgent medical care. Access to health care is so insufficient that some refugees have to return to
A Durham, North Carolina restaurant with a sign on its front door reading, “No Weapons, No Concealed Firearms,” was robbed at gunpoint on May 19. Gunsnfreedom.com published a photograph of the sign on May 21, making “The Pit” restaurant a
**UPDATE** AFP reports Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov now claims 14 Ukrainians were killed in the fighting. KIEV (Reuters) – At least eight Ukrainian security personnel were killed and 18 wounded in overnight clashes with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine three days
President Obama announced plans to send 80 members of the United States Military to join the search for the kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigerea by Boko Haram. A U.S. official tells the Wall Street Journal that a MQ-1 Predator drone will
A key cost-reducing aim of Obamacare was to reduce expensive emergency room visits by having taxpayers subsidize coverage for the uninsured. However, according to a forthcoming survey by the American College of Emergency Physicians, nearly half of ER doctors report
Anybody who actually follows Italian politics can only watch that Jeremy Paxman interview with Silvio Berlusconi and shout at the screen: “Wrong unf**kable question, Paxo!” And not because of the gimmick Paxman used to make sure this performance – if
(Reuters) – The UKIP party will likely top European elections on Thursday or come a close second, according to opinion polls that suggest a barrage of criticism accusing it of racial slurs and bigotry has failed to put off voters.
Ukraine will vote for a new president on Sunday, May 25, and residents in east Ukraine are facing intimidation and threats as the date draws near. Regions in Donetsk Oblast, including Donetsk and Luhansk, voted for independence from Ukraine on
Newly elected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has officially invited Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Modi’s inauguration ceremony, according to India’s victorious Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BBC reported that this is believed to be the first time an olive
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is under fire for saying that he was “totally comfortable” with passing on his nation’s intelligence information to agencies that may have used the data for drone strikes by the United States on foreign
As news of the Department of Justice’s “Operation Choke Point” continues to come out, the starting point for everything remains a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) assessment lumping together firearm and ammunition sales with pornography and tobacco as “high risk.”
A socialist revolutionary group named after Venezuelan founding father Simón Bolívar is organizing a “revolutionary party” in Caracas to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a group that has ravaged Colombian society and has been designated
