A patient with “Ebola-like symptoms” is being treated in a Washington, D.C., hospital on Friday, two days after Thomas Eric Duncan became the first person on American soil to be diagnosed with the contagious disease. According to NBC Washington, the
With the diagnosis of Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan as Ebola Patient Zero, one thing is clear: The TSA can stop Dasani water bottles from accompanying passengers on airlines, but the feds aren’t willing to impose similar restrictions on, say,
Australian officials are worried that the Khorasan group, an Al Qaeda organization which has itself to attacking the West, has been training Aussie jihadis in the arts of bomb making and other terror tactics. The report worries that there are
Recently elected Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi addressed the Global Citizen Festival’s 60,000+ crowd in Central Park, New York City this past weekend. Modi, who was joined on stage by actor Hugh Jackman, was received with raucous applause after
On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan stood at the very spot on the northern coast of France where forty years before Allied soldiers had stormed ashore to liberate Europe from the long night of Nazi tyranny. As an audience
(Reuters) – Al-Qaeda linked Islamist militants in the Philippines said on Thursday they will kill one of two German captives on Oct. 17 unless their demands are met. Rebels from the Abu Sayyaf group captured the two Germans sailing on
(Reuters) – Britain has named Alex Younger, a career spy who helped lead London’s counter-terrorist defence of the 2012 Olympics, as chief of its MI6 Secret Intelligence Service – Britain’s most prestigious intelligence job. An economics graduate and former soldier,
Just two years after a lavish ceremony to celebrate the centenary of Austria’s “model” law on Islam, the law is set to be overhauled to ban Muslims from receiving foreign funding and pave the way for a standardised German language
(Reuters) – An American freelance television cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for the Ebola virus and will be flown back to the United States for treatment, the network said on Thursday in an online report.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Oct. 2 (UPI) — Robert Serra, one of Venezuela’s promising young lawmakers, was found shot to death along with his partner, Maria Herrera, at their residence Wednesday night. The couple was “vilely killed here in their house, a
BAKERSFIELD, CA — A legal group representing nut farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, hoping to reverse a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision from March that upheld a
A United Nations report released Thursday highlighted a “staggering array” of crimes perpetrated by the Islamic State terrorists group (ISIS/ISIL) and its associates, including the targeted killings of civilians, kidnappings, rapes of women and children, the desecration of religious places,
BAKERSFIELD, CA — Kern County Agriculture Commissioner Ruben Arroyo is wary, but upbeat. “It’s hard to say what the future holds,” Arroyo said. “If we don’t get rain this year, the wells will run dry. People won’t have water for
Secretary of State John Kerry is asking authorities in Hong Kong to show “restraint” as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warns that the protests are “illegal” and says, “All countries should show respect for China’s sovereignty.” According to BBC News,
PIMCO has acknowledged that $23.5 billion of investors’ cash was withdrawn last month. It is my estimate that at least $19 billion or more of the liquidations followed legendary Pacific Asset Management (PIMCO) bond manager Bill Gross out the door after he left
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control finds that gay men, who make up only two percent of the U.S. population, constitute 52 percent of Americans with HIV. The CDC report also noted that 63 percent of those
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Wednesday that Moscow had a duty to temper pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, a spokesman for the German government said. “The German chancellor
A Somali-American will serve 30 years in prison for plotting to detonate a massive car bomb at a crowded 2010 Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. Mohamed Mohamud, 23, was arrested in November 2010 after repeatedly trying to detonate the bomb,
(Reuters) – The death toll from the world’s worst Ebola outbreak on record reached 3,338 people out of 7,178 cases in West Africa as of Sept. 28, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. It said the total number of
The Islamic State’s goal of eradicating Christianity from its ancient home in northern Iraq is nearly complete, report Christian officials remaining in the area. According to one Vicar, last week marked the first time in millennia that Christians did not
Iraq’s most popular television show is Terrorism in the Grip of Justice on public station Al Iraqiya on Friday nights. Over 9 million people tune in every Friday to watch victims confront terrorists in person. FRANCE 24 went with the
News that the first case of Ebola in the U.S. had been identified and isolated in Dallas has caused widespread concern, given the severity of the disease and previous assurances by President Barack Obama himself that it was “unlikely” that
Cybersecurity experts believe the Chinese may be using “a computer virus” to spy on the iPhones of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong. The virus “spies on Apple Inc’s iOS operating system for the iPhone and iPad.” According to Reuters, Lacoon
Amid polemics featuring prominent Catholic cardinals, another bishop has stepped forward supposedly speaking for Pope Francis regarding the question of admitting divorced and remarried Catholics to Holy Communion. “The Pope himself told us that a person married in the Church
(Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed on Wednesday when shells hit a school playground and a public transit mini-van in a nearby street in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, underscoring the fragility of a ceasefire between separatists and government
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — An American man recently sentenced by North Korea to six years of hard labor says he is digging in fields eight hours a day and being kept in isolation, but that so far his health
(Reuters) – Turkey signaled it may send troops into Syria or Iraq and let allies use Turkish bases to fight Islamic State, as coalition jets launched air strikes on Wednesday on insurgents besieging a town on its southern border with Syria. The government sent a proposal
(Reuters) – U.S. troops and tanks will deploy across the three Baltic states and Poland in the next two weeks on a mission designed to deliver an unmistakeable message of NATO resolve to Moscow. The “Ironhorse” armored cavalry unit, with around
The Conservative to Ukip defection announcement have come thick and fast throughout the Conservative party conference in Birmingham this week, as Ukip piles on the pressure before next year’s general election. And today is no different. In a few hours
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the body’s consideration on Tuesday of censoring the word “Redskins” on the public airwaves. “There are a lot of names and descriptions that were used over time that are inappropriate
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (UPI) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s departure from the world stage for nearly a month has been traced to ankle surgery, a report said. Kim fractured both ankles and had surgery in Pyongyang, North Korea’s
(Reuters) – Islamic State militants are changing tactics in the face of U.S. air strikes in northern Iraq, ditching conspicuous convoys in favor of motorcycles and planting their black flags on civilian homes, tribal sources and eyewitnesses say. They reported fewer
The Obama administration’s efforts to combat Ebola in west Africa by sending 3,000 military personnel to Liberia and Sierra Leone have begun, and while residents appear grateful and optimistic about the efforts, both infection and death tolls appear to be
Until now, a common understanding of the details surrounding Iranian Dr. Ardeshir Hosseinpour’s death was that he was reportedly assassinated in 2007, and presumably at the hands of Israel, which had hoped to slow-down Iran’s nuclear program through clandestine operations.
Iranian courts have decided to uphold a death sentence by hanging for Rayhaneh Jabbari, a woman found guilty of murdering a man who attempted to rape her. New reports indicate that the hanging will be postponed, however, from its originally
On Monday, Breitbart News reported that the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals effectively blocked new election integrity laws in Ohio designed to target voter fraud. On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court effectively reversed that decision and allowed Ohio’s
(Reuters) – The European Union has accused Ireland of giving Apple Inc. state aid by letting the iPhone maker shelter profits worth tens of billions of dollars from tax, in return for maintaining jobs. European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told the Dublin
(Reuters) – At least eight people were killed by a 5.1 magnitude earthquake that hit rural southern Peru over the weekend, emergency authorities said on Sunday as the search for victims continued. The quake late Saturday night in Paruro province, in the
(AFP) Bangladesh police said Monday they have arrested a British citizen suspected of entering the country to recruit militants for jihadist groups overseas such as the Islamic State organisation. Officers said Samiun Rahman, a 24-year-old Londoner of Bangladeshi origin, was
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire during a protest on the Ethiopian Embassy grounds on Monday, according to a video of the incident, but no injuries were reported. A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said it had detained a
