(Reuters) – Mexican police have captured a fugitive former mayor and his wife who the government says were the probable masterminds behind the abduction of 43 student teachers feared massacred in September, officials said on Tuesday. Police working with a
Here is an update how California’s most interesting local government ballot measures fared on Election Day. Measure L, Sacramento: Mayor Kevin Johnson has long been seeking to shift the city to a “strong mayor” model of governance. The controversial measure
While apathy has set in across the Golden State this Election Day, at least in statewide contests, several local ballot initiatives have excited voters in several California communities in particular. Here are ones to watch: Measure L, Sacramento: Mayor Kevin
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A group of aid agencies says that thousands of people in Sierra Leone are being forced to violate Ebola quarantines to find food because deliveries are not reaching them. In order to prevent the spread of
On Friday, a home invader stormed into a Vicksburg, Mississippi house, tied up a daughter and her mother — but the daughter was able to get her hands untied, retrieve a gun, and open fire on the home invader. According to
FREETOWN (Reuters) – A Sierra Leone doctor died on Monday from Ebola, making him the fifth local doctor in the West African state to have succumbed to the hemorrhagic fever that has taken a heavy toll on the country’s medical
(Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s army cleared thousands of protesters from the capital and opened fire at state TV headquarters on Sunday, killing one person, as it sought to restore order following the resignation of President Blaise Compaore two days ago.
(Reuters) – An Iranian-British woman who took part in a demonstration in Tehran against a ban on women attending some men’s sporting events was jailed for a year for spreading anti-state propaganda, Iranian media said. Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, was arrested
(Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine named a leader of their breakaway republic on Monday after a weekend election which was denounced by Kiev and the West and further deepened a standoff with Russia over the future of the former Soviet state.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Nov. 3 (UPI) — A group monitoring terrorist activity in the Middle East says Islamic State militants have seized control of a natural gas field in Homs province in Syria. The Long War Journal reported Sunday that it
(Reuters) – Rescuers pulled 24 bodies from the sea at the mouth of Istanbul’s Bosphorus strait on Monday and rescued seven people after the sinking of a boat carrying migrants including children, the Turkish Coastguard Command said. Tens of thousands
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany wants Britain to remain an “active and engaged” member of the European Union but will not cede on Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to curb immigration from other EU countries, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman said on
DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar has joined the American-led coalition to fight Islamic State, yet the emirate is a haven for anti-Western groups and foreign diplomats have reported seeing cars with Islamic State logos in an affluent bay district. Such ambiguity
LONDON (Reuters) – British opposition Labour party leader Ed Miliband’s approval rating has hit a record low, a poll showed on Sunday, raising further doubts about his ability to unseat Prime Minister David Cameron in a national election in just
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Chancellor on Monday shrugged off a report which said German Chancellor Angela Merkel would abandon her attempts to keep Britain inside the European Union if it pressed ahead with plans to curb immigration from other EU
Amnesty activists heckled President Barack Obama on Sunday at a rally intended to boost support for Democratic Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, who is struggling against opponent Republican Tom Foley. According to The Hill, one of the immigration hecklers wore a
Two weeks ago, President Obama attended a rally for Maryland Governor candidate Anthony Brown. His appearance in Maryland, a state he won by 25 points in 2012, was his first campaign rally of the 2014 election. At the time, Brown
(Reuters) – The scope of Britain’s Islamic finance market is widening with several initiatives from the government and private sector, although the country is about to lose one of its six full-fledged Islamic banks. In June, Britain became the first
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A 29-year-old British banker has been arrested in Hong Kong in connection with the grisly murder of two women, a rare occurrence in a city known for its low homicide rate. Hong Kong police said in
This article originally appeared at The Daily Mail: A British banker has been arrested after a woman’s naked body was found with her throat slashed while a second female corpse was discovered inside a suitcase.Police in Hong Kong said a
The Sutton Trust, an influential education charity, yesterday released a report written by academics at Durham University that praises traditional teaching methods, entitled What makes great teaching? The report’s author, Professor Robert Coe, has led calls for teachers to reject
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A mortar fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel, the Israeli military said on Saturday, the second such incident since a seven-week war in the Palestinian enclave ended in August. Hours after the projectile struck harmlessly,
TORONTO, Oct. 31 (UPI) — Canada has effectively closed its borders to Africans from the three nations grappling with Ebola by refusing to issue visas allowing them to enter the nation. It will no longer offer visas for foreign nationals
Three individuals who have recently returned to San Diego County from West Africa are being monitored for Ebola, but have been labeled as “low risk” and are described as having no symptoms of the deadly disease. According to NBC San
DUBLIN (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Friday he does not believe Britain will leave the European Union as the English are “a reasonable people” and quitting the bloc would be a disaster. Speaking during a trip
Saudi Arabia’s health ministry announced this week that it has detected a surge in cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), after medical facilities confirmed six new cases of the disease within a 24 hour time frame. Reuters reports that
One in seven young adults in Britain has “warm feelings” towards the Islamic State terror group, a new survey has revealed. According to a poll by Populus, 14 percent of under-25s in Britain view the group in a positive light,
Let my rant begin. 1. Your sexy Halloween costume doesn’t offend me. Nor does the one you bought for your kid that looks like a cigarette. I’m not offended. I’m not outraged. And if you are, you might need therapy.
“I’m not celebrating because there is nothing to celebrate,” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says. She and her nation observed her 76th birthday quietly, given the current Ebola crisis in the nation. As gifts, several groups presented the President with
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone that Sunday’s planned elections in eastern Ukraine were illegitimate and would not be recognized by European leaders, a Berlin government spokesman said on Friday. Merkel
By better than a three to one margin, Israelis now consider U.S. President Barack Obama more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israel. According to a Smith Research/Jerusalem Post poll taken Wednesday night, only 16 percent of Israelis believe President Obama’s administration is more
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban froze plans on Friday to impose a tax on Internet traffic, climbing down in the face of massive street protests and warnings from the European Union that the levy was a mistake.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will pay back part of the outstanding debt used to fund World War One next year, when it redeems government bonds first issued almost 90 years ago by then-finance minister Winston Churchill. The finance ministry said
The RNC released a new ad accusing Democrats of leading their own “War on Women” with a series of negative comments about women.
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) – Cloaked in Kurdish flags, thousands of people lined the roads to cheer on a military convoy headed for what was — until recently — an obscure Syrian border town, now the focus of a global war
LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) – British wholesale gas prices for the rest of this year fell on Friday after Ukraine and Russia signed a deal that will see Moscow resume gas supplies to Kiev this winter, while warm UK weather
A month on the streets has given young Hong Kong democracy protesters a taste of life outside the city’s cramped shoebox apartments — and away from the prying eyes of overprotective parents. In this city of high tower blocks and
While the Republican establishment, Democrats, and the mainstream press repeatedly say Republicans have to pass amnesty legislation to appeal to Hispanics, a majority of Hispanics believe a candidate’s position on immigration is not a deal-breaker. An extensive Pew Research Hispanic
Just hours after the U.S. announced it was “deeply concerned” about mounting unrest in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, the army’s General Honore Traore announced the dissolution of the government. Though there have been no reported cases of
Pope Francis has conveyed to the United Nations his “strong support for the rapid adoption of steps that would lead to the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.” He also called for “the reduction of the world’s reliance on armed
