Pope Francis spoke about the devil once again Thursday morning, stressing that “he is not a myth” and that “we have to fight him.” The Pope spoke these words during his homily at morning Mass, celebrated in the chapel of
(Reuters) – Iraqi security forces said they advanced to within 2 km (1.2 miles) of the city of Baiji on Wednesday in a new offensive to retake the country’s biggest oil refinery, besieged since June by Islamic State militants. Backed
(AFP) Syrian government aircraft dropped barrel bombs on a camp for displaced people in the northwestern province of Idlib on Wednesday killing at least 10 people, a monitoring group said. The strikes came as a car bomb wounded at least
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The bodies of 150 members of an Iraqi Sunni tribe which fought Islamic State have been found in a mass grave, security officials said on Thursday. Islamic State militants took the men from their villages to the
BRUSSELS/KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine and the European Union have agreed that the EU’s executive arm will serve as guarantor in any agreement for Russia to supply Ukraine with gas, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Thursday. Russian Energy Minister
LONDON (Reuters) – British energy company Scottish Power, owned by Spain’s Iberdrola, said it might scale back the capacity of an offshore wind farm it plans to build off the English east coast because the government’s subsidy budget is too
LONDON (Reuters) – A former Libyan Islamist commander won the legal right to sue Britain for damages over the years of torture he says he suffered at the hands of Muammar Gaddafi’s henchmen after being illegally handed to Libya by
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday urged Qatar to plough more of its vast oil and gas wealth into infrastructure projects across Britain during an official visit from the Gulf state’s emir. Cameron asked Sheikh Tamim bin
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is confident it can get its 2.1 billion euro (1.6 billion pounds) bill from the European Union reduced, Chancellor George Osborne said. European finance ministers are due to discuss the bill, which Britain has called “unacceptable,”
Kaci Hickox, the nurse who returned from Africa after working with Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone to treat Ebola victims, blustered that Maine had better rescind her quarantine by Thursday or she will sue. Hickox, 33, told NBC’s Today,
An Ontario, Ohio school board member urges all American parents to “follow the money” on Common Core. Richland County’s Marianne Gasiecki warns that state departments of education are intent on undermining “local control” laws when it comes to opting out of the new
The new Vatican stamp for Christmas 2014 will be issued on November 21, and reproduces an oil-on-canvas painting by the Argentinean artist Raúl Soldi, located in the Santa Ana de Glew chapel outside Buenos Aires. This year’s Christmas stamp has
Sierra Leone’s Ebola cases are showing no sign of slowing down, no thanks to significant negligence by some working to clear Ebola-stricken areas. The Member of Parliament representing eastern Kailahun, Mustapha Braima, told Parliament that ambulance drivers in the region
Liberian officials are reporting a reduction in Ebola cases as the United States completes Ebola Treatment Unites (ETUs) across the country. Officials claim twelve out seventeen ETUs promised have been completed. But as their cases decrease, Sierra Leone’s streets remain
An Israeli aid agency has been quietly operating in Iraq, providing emergency relief for Iraqi Kurds. Recently, in the Kurdish city of Dohuk, IsraAID, the Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid, supplied beds, blankets, and food to over 1,000 families,
GENEVA (Reuters) – Liberia may be seeing a decline in the spread of Ebola, with falls in the number of burials and new admissions as well as a plateau in laboratory-confirmed cases, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. “Do
(Reuters) – The United States is increasing security at government buildings in Washington and other cities because of continuing terrorist threats and last week’s attack on the Canadian parliament, the Homeland Security Department said on Tuesday. A U.S. official said
The World Health Organization (WHO) certified this week that more than ten thousand people worldwide–10,141, to be exact–have officially been declared Ebola patients. Of these, almost half (4,922) have died from the disease, and the public health giant warns these estimates
(Reuters) – Thousands of mourners packed a church and lined adjacent streets in industrial Hamilton, Ontario, on Tuesday for the funeral of the soldier shot dead in last week’s attack on the nation’s seat of government. Corporal Nathan Cirillo, 24,
(Reuters) – On watch for a possible Taliban attack, Afghan forces on Tuesday patrolled the perimeter and manned guard towers of a vast military base deserted by U.S. and British forces in a volatile southern province. A day after foreign
(Reuters) – Radical Islam poses a critical security threat toGermany, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere warned on Tuesday, saying the number of people capable of staging attacks in the country stood at an all-time high. Besides the risk posed by
LONDON/EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron rejected on Wednesday a proposal by the Scottish National Party (SNP) that the United Kingdom should only quit the European Union after a future referendum if a majority in each of its four
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A mudslide triggered by monsoon rains buried scores of workers’ houses at a tea plantation in central Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and leaving more than 250 missing, an official said.
Tefere Gebre, executive vice president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), acknowledged publicly that a newly-built immigrant services center in Jersey City would be just the ticket to bring in more votes for Democrats.
(Reuters) – London’s Battersea Power Station redevelopment project has secured a sharia-compliant syndicated loan of 467 million pounds ($754 million), a step towards developing Britain as an Islamic finance centre. The loan, one of the largest Islamic transactions ever conducted
SANLIURFA Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iraqi peshmerga fighters arrived in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday en route for the Syrian town of Kobani to try to help fellow Kurds break an Islamic State siege which has defied U.S.-led air strikes. Kobani, nestled
U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow asked on Monday whether the Obama administration is preparing to allow 34 million new immigrants into the United States over the next five years. In a letter to Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus, Kirsanow
Maine Ebola nurse and staunch Obama supporter Kaci Hickox is now refusing to place herself under voluntary temporary quarantine to make sure she is free of the Ebola virus, her lawyer says. Last Friday New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced
During an October 27 Congressional debate Representative Tim Bishop (D-NY-01) said his Republican challenger Lee Zeldin’s position that more good guys with guns will stop bad guys with guns was proven wrong at Fort Hood, where Bishop says “there were
On Monday, Australia temporarily suspended immigration for people from West African nations ravaged by Ebola. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that “Immigration Minister Scott Morrison told parliament on Monday Australia had suspended its immigration program, including its humanitarian intake, from
A state court has found an 81 year-old man guilty of manslaughter, after he shot a teenage gang member who had threatened him with a gun, dragged him off his crutches, and robbed his home. The robbery, which took place in
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Israel announces plans for 1000 new settlements in East Jerusalem Poland to move thousands of troops east in reaction to Russian threat Israel announces plans for 1000 new settlements in East Jerusalem A view
According to Pope Francis, priests devoted to the ministry of exorcism “manifest the Church’s love and acceptance of those who suffer because of the devil’s works.” Francis wrote these words in a message addressed to Father Francesco Bamonte, the president
This article originally appeared at Foreign Policy: They stand in the front row at public beheadings and crucifixions held in Raqqa, the Islamic State’s stronghold in Syria. They’re used for blood transfusions when Islamic State fighters are injured. They are
(Reuters) – Time Warner Inc’s pay TV network HBO is preparing to cut 7 percent of its staff in the United States or about 150 jobs.
SYDNEY Oct 28 (Reuters) – Australia has issued a blanket ban on visas from West African nations affected by the Ebola outbreak to prevent the disease reaching the country, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said, becoming the first rich nation to shut
Last week, 28 European leaders met at a summit in Brussels to reach a climate deal that would build on previous targets of a 20 percent cut in greenhouse gases, a 20 percent boost in the use of renewable sources,
A Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputy and POP (or problem-oriented policing) officer who was shot and killed on Friday, allegedly by a twice-deported Mexican illegal alien, was remembered by his community on Sunday. A candlelight vigil was held in honor of
Capitola, California’s Yardarm Technologies has developed a new microchip for law enforcement handguns that tells law enforcement command centers an officer’s location and when an officer draws and/or fires a gun. It may also be able to alert dispatchers as
Taiwanese Foreign Minister David Lin has just returned to Taipei after attending the beatification of Pope Paul VI on October 19. The Holy See is the last state in Europe to maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, and one of
