(Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Saturday Iraqi security forces were in full control of Baghdad but that the embattled Syrian city of Kobani was a very difficult problem. Hagel told a news conference in the Chilean
(AFP) France said Friday its forces had “destroyed” an Al-Qaeda convoy in Niger carrying a large amount of weapons from Libya to Mali.
LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of health workers in Britain will strike on Monday to protest against a pay freeze, the first walk out over pay in the country’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) for over thirty years. The government has
LONDON (Reuters) – Mizanur Rahman laughs when he recalls the de-radicalization program he was sent on in 2008 after he was released from a British jail where he had served two years for inciting violence against British and American troops.
On the October 12 broadcast of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, host Ari Shapiro discussed Iran’s appeal as a tourist destination with Iranian-born, U.K.-based writer Kamin Mohammadi. While Mohammadi is no regime puppet–she was vocal in her opposition to the 2009
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Greece is not yet giving European leaders sleepless nights again, but as the euro zone’s problem child approaches the end of its second international bailout, political uncertainty in Athens is set to test the currency area’s resilience.
North and South Korea exchanged fire across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) after South Korea allowed demonstrators to release balloons “containing leaflets” condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. According to BBC News, North Korea fired at the balloons, and South Korea
The staff working at Carlos III Hospital in Madrid are extremely unsatisfied with the government’s handling of the spread of the Ebola virus from a patient to an auxiliary nurse. At a public event yesterday, staff were seen yelling “go
(Reuters) – Thousands of people most likely will be massacred if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a U.N. envoy said on Friday, as militants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that
ZMapp, it’s the Ebola virus drug that could be key in beating back the spread of the deadly disease sweeping across Western Africa and now trickling into Spain and the United States. Though the initial few doses of the experimental
North Korea’s state media said on Saturday high-level talks with the South were now all but scrapped due to the launch of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets from the South a day earlier. The two Koreas traded heavy machine-gun fire across their
A man on board a flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic yelled “I have Ebola!” shortly before the plane landed. While authorities determined that the exclamation was a “joke in poor taste,” medical personnel in full protective gear
Nearly 200 New York airline cabin cleaners walked off the job at LaGuardia Airport in protest over the Obama administration’s refusal to temporarily halt airline travel from West Africa into the U.S. “We are always with feces and near garbage,”
A report based on campaign memos on Senate candidate Allison Lundergan Grimes’ (D-KY) position on guns shows that her pro-gun statements are canned, that she supports “strengthening background checks,” and has an unstated position on “closing the gun show loophole.”
(AFP) A priest kidnapped by Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in northwestern Syria was released Thursday, the Franciscan Order said, days after his abduction alongside 20 other Christians.
After Douglas Carswell’s historic win in yesterday’s Clacton by-election, the Reuters news agency says that Prime Minister and Conservative Leader David Cameron now faces a serious challenge in dealing with UKIP. With British voters becoming increasingly disillusioned with the mainstream
(Reuters) – Fears that the Ebola outbreak will spread globally rose on Thursday with the deteriorating health of an infected Spanish nurse, a British man who died in Macedonia being tested for the virus and more demands by U.S. lawmakers
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s president on Friday urged China to move toward a more democratic style of development, reiterating his strong support for pro-democracy demonstrations in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong. Ma Ying-jeou used his speech at Taiwan’s National Day celebrations to
A top Democratic pollster thinks Hispanic voters may sit out the 2014 midterm elections because President Barack Obama did not enact his executive amnesty by the end of the summer. Pollster Celinda Lake told The Hill that Democrats face “a big uphill
Thousands of Iowans are now facing double-digit health insurance premium hikes due to Obamacare. On Wednesday, the Des Moines Register reported that the state’s insurance commissioner has approved Des Moines-based Wellmark to hike its rates between 11.9% and 14.5%. The
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced in its most recent update that over 8,000 individuals in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea have contracted the Ebola virus. A breakdown of the numbers shows almost 1,000 documented new cases of Ebola
Majorities of Americans want a travel ban on flights from countries ravaged by the Ebola virus and do not want U.S. troops sent to Africa to help fight the disease. An NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll taken a day before Thomas Eric
“Catholics shouldn’t speak as if we were agnostics, or too embarrassed to talk about God,” said Australian Cardinal George Pell to a roomful of journalists Wednesday night. “Our job is to keep God in the news,” he said. The event
(Reuters) – China is on the hunt for a Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media said on Thursday, after the animal roamed across the border, likely in search of food. The tiger, named Kuzia, was
GLASGOW Scotland (Reuters) – Since partnering with Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives in 2010, the junior party in Britain’s first coalition government since World War Two has watched its opinion poll ratings slump. The Liberal Democrats have been hammered in
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Ukraine warned the European Union on Wednesday not to accept pro-Russian rebels carving out a de facto state and said that unlike other “frozen conflicts” in the former Soviet Union it could destabilize all of Europe. Foreign
A new poll reveals that Americans are more worried today about Ebola than they were at the height of the H1N1, Swine Flu outbreak in 2009 with one fifth of respondents worried that they could contract the deadly African virus.
On October 7, Marine Corps General John F. Kelly said it will be “Katie bar the door” and “mass immigration into the United States” if Ebola reaches Central America. Kelly was speaking to the National Defense University in Washington DC.
Canadian Supermodel Coco Rocha posted a creepy video on Instagram to announce that she and her husband of four years are expecting their first child. In the video, Rocha wears a nude leotard as she gazes at the floor while looking pale
Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who became the first person to test positive for Ebola on U.S. soil, has died, according to multiple news sources citing a statement from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. Reuters, NBC News, and
Bishops gathered in Rome this morning for the Vatican synod on the family and heard a remarkable testimony from a Catholic woman from the African country of Côte d’Ivoire, whose husband of 52 years is a Muslim. “For us, as
(Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday that he was ordering a crackdown to prevent radical Islamist preachers entering the country, amidst rising tension with the Muslim community following a series of security-related raids. Abbott, who recently
(Reuters) – An attack by Hezbollah on Lebanon’s border with Israel which wounded two Israeli soldiers was a message that the group remained ready to confront its old foe despite its engagement in Syria’s civil war, the group’s deputy leader said. The
(Reuters) – Hong Kong pro-democracy protests that brought tens of thousands on to the streets last week dwindled to a few hundred on Wednesday after activist leaders agreed to talks with the government which are all but certain to go
OTTAWA, Oct. 8 (UPI) — Canadian legislators, led by a Conservative majority, voted Tuesday to approve a combat role in Iraq, joining the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State. The motion passed 157-134, giving Prime Minister Stephen Harper the authority
Muslim Brotherhood-linked and Sinai-based jihadi group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) released a video this weekend showing the beheading of three Egyptians. The militants in the video accused the individuals of being Israeli spies. “These are your sons, continuing to harvest
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – A ship carrying radioactive concrete that had to shut down its engine in the North Sea after its funnel caught fire was stable on Wednesday and being towed to the northeastern coast of Scotland, the British coastguard
MCALLEN, Texas — A raid of two ranches in the state of Jalisco turned into a first for Mexican authorities when they uncovered a drug cartel’s underground weapons factory. The Attorney General’s Office in the state of Jalisco along with
(Reuters) – Four people have been hospitalized in Spain to try to stem the spread of Ebola after a Spanish nurse became the first person in the world known to have contracted the virus outside of Africa, health authorities said
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Tuesday that the Syrian border town of Kobane is on the verge of falling to jihadists, saying a ground operation was needed to defeat the militants. “The terror will not be over… unless
