She has faced a death sentence, one hundred lashes, a medieval jail cell, a series of lawsuits, an unexpected and terrifying arrest at the airport, a subsequent detention, and a non-stop series of lawsuits which have yet to quit. I am talking
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday that there “seems to be a strong possibility” that Israel is guilty of war crimes for Operation Protective Edge, a military operation targeting the terrorist group Hamas in which
BOSTON (Reuters) – Maine Governor Paul LePage blasted the White House on Tuesday for placing in his state eight children who tried to cross the border illegally. The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has been struggling to find shelter
Ukraine officials claim pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jets near Dmytrivka, which is near the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 site. A spokesman for Ukraine’s military did not release a lot of information about the
Italian police arrested five men on Tuesday on suspicion murdering and throwing overboard up to 60 migrants crossing from Libya after a fight broke out on board a fishing boat being used to smuggle men, women and children into Italy.
Take a close look at the photo above. It was taken by a Reuters photographer on March 20, 2013, and is one of the most important photo-ops of the Obama presidency. The caption reads: “U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State militants claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an overnight suicide bombing in a Shi’ite district of Baghdad which killed 33 people, one of the deadliest recent attacks in the Iraqi capital. The hardline Sunni Islamist group
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will introduce new laws to combat female genital mutilation (FGM) including making it compulsory for teachers and health workers to report cases, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday. The government, hosting a one-day London summit
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency For Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced Tuesday that rockets had been found on their premises for the second time in less than a week. UNRWA released a letter condemning the ‘finding’ , and again
Illegal immigrant children who are released with “notices to appear” will likely remain in the country for three to five years while their cases are resolved in a system that is reportedly on the verge of “implosion.” During this period,
Poland will challenge a European Union ban on flavoured cigarettes in the European Court of Justice, saying it will be unfairly affected as one of the EU’s biggest consumers and producers of menthol cigarettes. The ban is part of the
Caracas, July 21 (QNA) – Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro agreed here Sunday to upgrade their countries’ relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership. China and Venezuela are good friends of mutual trust and good partners
Scammers representing fake charities are preying on the families of the thousands of illegal immigrant children who are coming across the U.S.-Mexico border from Central America. According to Reuters, an FBI investigation uncovered numerous instances in which scammers have tried
(Reuters) – The remains of some of the nearly 300 victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane downed over Ukraine were making their way to the Netherlands on Tuesday as a senior Ukrainian separatist leader handed over the plane’s black boxes to Malaysian
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) – Football practices at which middle- and high-school students tackle each other will be restricted in California under a law signed on Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, the latest U.S. effort to minimize brain injuries from
(AFP) The FBI encouraged and sometimes even paid Muslims to commit terrorist acts during numerous sting operations after the 9/11 attacks, a human rights group said in a report published Monday. Aided by Columbia University Law School’s Human Rights Institute,
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday it will hold a public inquiry into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, who accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his murder from his deathbed after he was poisoned in
Bulgarian officials have revealed that the bomber behind the July 18, 2012 attack at the Burgas airport was 25-year-old Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini. Husseini held “dual Lebanese-French citizenship.” According to BBC News, Husseini “blew up a bus in Bulgaria…killing five Israeli
Each week, more illegal immigrants enter Texas than people who are born in the state during the same time period. On Monday’s The Laura Ingraham Show, Dan Patrick, the Texas state Senator who is the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor,
I was lucky to be a college student during the last golden age of music. My Indiana University off-campus apartment reverberated with the sounds of Seattle–Grunge rock. Bands such as Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam dominated my college experience soundtrack.
Four people died in Donetsk, the disputed Ukrainian region now home to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. The rebels said Ukraine’s government is attempting to take over the city. According to Reuters, Kiev claimed that no one sent
MADRID (AP) — Spanish police have arrested one of Colombia’s most-wanted criminals, a 40-year-old man nicknamed the Rat who is one of leaders of a ruthless drug cartel linked to 400 murders and the shipment of largest amounts of cocaine
(Reuters) – Italy’s navy said it rescued nearly 1,800 migrants in overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean over the weekend, and a merchant ship recovered five bodies from a sinking rubber raft off the coast of Libya. Calmer summer seas have led
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian army tanks were reported to be launching an assault to break pro-Russian rebels’ hold on the eastern city of Donetsk on Monday in the first major outbreak of hostilities in the area since Malaysia Airlines
The Jerusalem Post on Monday reported sources in Khartoum claiming that Israeli forces struck a Sudanese weapons arsenal which held long-range missiles for Hamas. The UK-based newspaper Al-Arab reported that the Sudanese government would not confirm the incident, hoping to cover up
Tel Aviv, Israel– On Sunday, A two-hour humanitarian ceasefire signed onto by both parties and facilitated by the Red Cross, one that was supposed to take place from 1:30-3:30 p.m. local time, was violated by Hamas less than 40 minutes
It has been four days since MH17 was downed in east Ukraine. Yesterday, Breitbart News reported twice that no one knew where the dead bodies were transported. According to journalists at the scene, the bodies are at Torez train station
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the five car bombs in Baghdad that killed at least 27 people in mostly Shi’ite neighborhoods on Saturday. Three of the bombs occurred within ten minutes of each other and the attackers targeted Abu Dashir,
After days of speculation, the pro-Russian forces admitted the black boxes from Malaysia Flight MH17 are in Donetsk. Alexander Borodai, the self-proclaimed Prime Minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic, said the boxes will stay there. “Some items, presumably the black
Malaysia Airlines MH17 was allegedly shot down four days ago, and the site of its impact is still unprotected. Journalists went back to the site Sunday morning, and anyone is allowed to walk the area. Very few armed pro-Russian rebels
Sinn Féin, the political wing of the terrorist Provisional IRA, pulled a pro-Palestinian stunt in the Irish parliament, the Dáil, yesterday during which Gerry Adams, party leader and alleged former IRA leader, manoeuvred members of both government and opposition into
Tel Aviv, Israel — Midday Saturday, a Hamas terror cell attempted to infiltrate Israel through a tunnel network in the Gaza Strip. They were met by Israeli forces, who reportedly exchanged fire with the jihadis and pushed them back underground.
As Obama takes heat from his inaction on the illegal immigration surge across the southern U.S. border, a Washington Post columnist thinks it’s the GOP that needs criticism because lawmakers haven’t been to the border enough times to suit the him.
The Obama administration praised a recent agreement between Mexico and Guatemala that could allow even more migrants to hop on so-called “death trains” to try to unlawfully enter the United States. In fact, the administration may even send Mexico foreign
As the three day meeting for the 6th annual “BRICS” conference of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa comes to a close, the most important accomplishment is the founding of the BRICS Development Bank and a currency stabilization pool
Josh Marshall, publisher of Talking Points Memo, suggested this morning that the separatist “warlord” who may be responsible for shooting down a Malaysian airliner and killing nearly 300 people is, somehow, just like the Tea Party. After a quote noting
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama directed U.S. officials on Thursday to do all they could to support an investigation into what caused a Malaysian jetliner to crash in a Ukrainian war zone and pledged support to the affected
China is cracking down after the CCTV state-owned broadcaster secretly recorded a state-owned bank executive bragging that the bank illegally provides in-house money laundering services for wealthy Chinese nationals to violate currency controls and buy real estate in “world cities”
In this current humanitarian crisis of illegal immigration on our southern border, the American Immigration Control Foundation takes on new relevance. But far from wanting to simply stop immigration, the group wants common sense policies to “prevent our American melting
A Sri Lankan ruling party politician and three accomplices were Friday sentenced to 20 years in jai for murdering a British holidaymaker on Christmas Eve and raping his Russian partner. The Colombo High Court said town council chief Sampath Vidanapathirana
