This morning after his usual prayer of the Angelus Pope Francis commemorated the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and made special mention of the role of his predecessor, Saint John Paul II. On November 9, 1989
Armed police have swooped on four Islamic terror suspects in overnight raids, foiling a suspected imminent attack on tomorrow’s Remembrance Sunday parade which will be attended by HM the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Prime Minister. The raids,
The Spanish radical left has had much to celebrate these days. The Occupy-inspired socialist party, Podemos, is cruising to a crushing electoral defeat of everyone from mainstream conservatives to the country’s official Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). In the midst of
SANAA/DUBAI (Reuters) – An advance into Yemen’s Sunni Muslim heartland by Shi’ite Houthi fighters has galvanised support for al Qaeda among some Sunnis, deepening the religious hue of the country’s many conflicts, with potential consequences well beyond its borders. Yemen’s
The Minneapolis public school system announced a major new district-wide policy for disciplining students: any suspension of a non-white student requires the district superintendent’s approval. The MPS has been stung by reports that students of color are 10 times more
MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iraqi Kurdish forces have blunted but not broken the siege of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a week after arriving to great fanfare with heavy weapons and fighters in a bid to save it from
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour party must “pull together” after reports of serious internal discontent about its leader, Ed Miliband, or risk damaging its chances at a national election next year, the party’s campaign co-ordinator has warned. The centre-left
MCALLEN, Texas — Mexican authorities have announced that the 43 students that had been kidnapped by police were executed, their bodies set on fire and the remains dumped in river. The revelation was made Friday by Mexico’s Attorney General Jose
Not all those who claim to be Christians really are, said Pope Francis Friday morning. Some are Christians “in name only,” he said. “They bear the name of Christians but live a life of pagans.” In his homily at Mass,
A man found a dead newborn girl at a scrapyard in the ELWA Junction in Monrovia, Liberia, umbilical cord still attached. It is unknown if the baby died at the yard or if the girl was already dead. Residents said this
On Thursday and Friday, the socialist government of Venezuela stood before the United Nations Committee Against Torture to answer for more than 5,000 complaints of human rights violations over the last decade—3,000 of which occurred in 2014. El Universal, Venezuela’s
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a new challenge to President Barack Obama’s health care law. The justices said they will decide whether the law authorizes subsidies that help millions of low- and middle-income people afford
A new Gallup poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans agree that a gun makes the home safer, rather than “more dangerous.” This figure is nearly double the percentage of those who said a gun makes the home safer in
This story originally appeared at Business Insider: The United Arab Emirates is flexing its military muscle in a chaotic, post-Arab Spring Middle East. What was once a nation with a limited presence on the international stage is acquiring advanced weaponry,
The Islamic Republic of Iran is reportedly recruiting Syrian Shiite Muslims to fight in a pro-Assad regime “parallel army” under the banner of Hezbollah. Siraj Press reported on Wednesday that one of the goals of the new Hezbollah branch is
The economy added 214, 000 jobs in October. The pace has picked up over the last year, but it is still far short of the 400,000 per month needed to bring unemployment down to acceptable levels. The official jobless rate is 5.8 percent,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com U.S. is doubling number of troops in Iraq, but it’s not ‘mission creep’ The comeuppance election U.S. cannot confirm claim that Russian tanks are entering Ukraine Chechnya refugees now fighting the Russians in Ukraine
Ukrainian authorities claim over 200 rebels were killed in the east amid reports Russia sent 32 tanks, 16 howitzer cannons, and 30 trucks with Russian troops into the Luhansk region in Ukraine. On November 6, Ukrainian forces killed several rebels at Donetsk airport.
LONDON/EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Just weeks after seeing their dream of an independent Scotland wiped out in an historic referendum defeat, Scottish nationalists have turned failure into a revival which could transform British politics at next year’s UK general election. The
Palestinians have refined a new form of homicide in recent weeks: driving vehicles into crowds of Israelis. This has the advantage of permitting Palestinian leaders to claim these are merely “accidents” to the Government of Israel while celebrating the attacks
In a meeting with the World Evangelical Alliance Thursday, Pope Francis expressed his hope in greater unity and collaboration between the two faith communities. “If we really believe in the abundantly free working of the Holy Spirit,” he said, “we
DAKAR (Reuters) – The number of Ebola cases is surging in Sierra Leone as the country suffers from a lack of treatment centers, while lack of food and basic goods is forcing some people to leave quarantine areas, the United
British Finance Minister George Osborne urged petrol retailers on Thursday to lower their prices in line with a fall in oil costs, saying he would be watching them carefully to ensure savings were passed on to consumers. The price of
Pakistani police have detained forty-three people believed to have taken part in a mob killing of a Christian couple who allegedly damaged a Koran. According to several reports, the couple was beaten to death by a hundreds-strong mob, who were
In the wake of the Republican electoral wave that saw the success of pro-life candidates, the leader of national pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List is proclaiming that the liberal, abortion-focused “war on women” strategy is dead. At an address
Amnesty International UK campaigns director, Kristyan Benedict, Tweeted on Wednesday that Israel should be compared to the Islamic State, utilizing the hashtag #JSIL, which has been popularized by anti-Israel and anti-Semitic extremist groups. Although Israel is a liberal democracy that
The head of Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency stated this week that the EPA has “nothing to do” with disposing of hundreds of bodies of Ebola victims as communities near the Boys Town crematorium protest that officials have provided little to
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report that says the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) kidnapped and tortured Kurdish children from Kobane in Syria. Four children, aged 14-16, told their stories to the organization after they were held captive for four months.
Organizers of Harvard University’s “Sex Week” event have added a new workshop this year aimed at teaching students the joys of anal sex. Anyone bothered by the workshop is obviously “repressed” and hates gays and women, says one of the
Australia is contracting a private medical firm to operate and staff an Ebola hospital in Sierra Leone, Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced. Various news outlets reported that on Nov. 5 Abbott said Australia would contribute $17 million to fund
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU finance ministers are likely to let Britain pay a hefty new bill to Brussels in interest-free instalments, but rule out any reduction in the surcharge, triggered by historic revisions to national income data, officials told Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s ruling Socialist party wants parliament to recognize a Palestinian state, parliamentary sources said, following similar moves by Sweden and Britain that are meant to overcome an impasse in peacemaking but which have angered Israel. Palestinians seek
LONDON, (Reuters) – Mounting economic uncertainty in Britain hit growth in its services sector much more than expected last month, according to a survey on Wednesday that signalled a significant end-of-year slowdown in the country’s recovery. Wednesday’s Markit/CIPS services purchasing
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is not putting enough pressure on China to stick to its side of a pact on the transfer of Hong Kong’s sovereignty because it is worried about damaging trade links, former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Britain, the United States and France have proposed that Islamist extremist group Ansar al-Sharia in Libya be blacklisted under the United Nations al Qaeda sanctions regime, diplomats said on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. If
(Reuters) – Asian countries are not contributing enough to the global effort to fight Ebola, despite having a wealth of trained medical personnel who could help stop the spread of the deadly virus, World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim
The recent drop in gasoline prices down to a national average of $3 a gallon puzzles in the wake of years of rising costs for consumers. In the midst of another election cycle, the Saudis once again appear to be
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM), Egypt’s most dangerous Islamist entity, has reportedly thrown its weight behind the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group. A statement released by ABM read, “After entrusting Allah we decided to swear allegiance to the emir of the
A Christian couple, 35-year-old Shahzad Masih and his 31-year-old wife Shama Bibi, were burned to death Tuesday morning by a Muslim mob in the south of Lahore (Punjab province), accused of committing blasphemy for allegedly burning pages of the Qur’an.
An inner split within the Democratic Party has gone public, as the race for the post of California state superintendent of public instruction is pitting labor groups, notably the nations’ teachers’ unions, against education-reform supporters. Tom Torlakson, the current superintendent,
