(Reuters) – Governments and health agencies trying to contain the world’s deadliest ever Ebola epidemic in West Africa fear the contagion could be worse than reported because suspicious locals are chasing away health workers and shunning treatment. From Guinea, where
BEIJING (Reuters) – A city in China’s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang has banned matches and destroyed more than 20,000 boxes of them as part of efforts to fight terror attacks, a state-run newspaper said. Fukang, which sits near
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russian army officers on Monday of fighting alongside separatists in the east of the country and said Moscow was once more building up its troops on the joint border. A missile that downed a Ukrainian
Ireland’s government recently took steps toward becoming the first EU country to require plain packaging for tobacco products, and the UK would like to follow its lead. In light of recent reports coming out of Australia, the only country to enact
A rocket fired from Gaza knocked out a power line in Israel that supplied electricity to 70,000 Gazans, according to the Israel Defense Forces Spokesman’s Office on Sunday night. The Jerusalem Post reports that the outage was caused by shrapnel
Palestinians began flooding into UN refuge facilities after Israel dropped pamphlets in northern Gaza warning civilians to get away from military targets. About 17,000 Palestinians have sought shelter since Israel began striking back one week ago. According to BBC News,
On July 12 an Atlanta woman took away a carjacker’s gun and shot him while he was “biting and grabbing her.” According to Opposing Views, the woman got into her car and looked up to see suspect Sebastian Fontana walking
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko said Russian soldiers and officers are fighting next to the pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine. At the same time, NATO claimed Russia added more troops along the Ukraine border. “In the past three days a new
Even football broadcasters keep depth charts. Pam Oliver no longer finds herself atop of Fox’s rankings of sideline reporters. The familiar face finds herself bumped by Erin Andrews, the blonde beauty famous for winning the attention of a creepy peephole
This weekend, Californians took advantage of unseasonably warm weather and clear skies to admire the “supermoon,” also known as a perigee moon, which occurs when the moon is unusually close to the earth. CBS13 in Sacramento, reporting on Saturday’s full-moon event,
David Cameron will today announce another £1.1bn in defence spending, just ten days after the new HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier was launched at a cost of £6.2bn. The announcement will come at the Farnborough Air Show and includes “everything
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s lower house of parliament on Monday voted to scrap the country’s controversial carbon tax, setting up a final showdown in the Senate as early as Tuesday to decide the scheme’s fate. Abolition of the carbon tax
PAMPLONA Spain (Reuters) – A bull gored two men after breaking away from the pack and chasing them through the streets of Pamplona in the closing run of the San Fermin festival on Monday. For a week in July hundreds
GIGLIO Italy (Reuters) – Technicians on Monday began a complex operation to refloat and tow away the wreck of the Costa Concordia, two and a half years after the luxury liner capsized off the Italian coast, killing 32 people. The
NARRARI Pakistan (Reuters) – Charities that the United Nations says are linked to militant groups are helping hungry Pakistanis fleeing a recent military offensive as the official number of those seeking aid reached nearly 900,000 on Monday. Bureaucratic mix-ups mean
The working mom of a seven-month-old son alleges that she was detained for an hour by TSA officials at San Diego’s Lindbergh Field as they meticulously scrutinized the bags of breast milk she was carrying. The heavy scrutiny on a
Municipal bond mutual fund investors are panicking this weekend after the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s Legislature passed a new law allowing public agencies to default on their debt. Although part of the United States, Puerto Rico in the 1990s
China on Sunday urged world powers and Iran “to show flexibility” in talks over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme, after officials from both sides said big gaps remained in negotiating positions. “We urge all parties to show flexibility and political
The U.S. government has created a widely popular song about the “death train” to discourage Central Americans from risking their lives in pursuit of the amnesty that they believe awaits them across the U.S.-Mexico border. The Daily Beast reported that
The European Union previously threatened very harsh sanctions against Russia if the violence in east Ukraine did not die down. Now, the EU has decided to target eleven Ukrainian separatists with travel bans and asset freezes, and the men on
According to KVIA.com, an ABC affiliate in El Paso, Texas, more than 450 legal immigrants were sworn in as official United States citizens Friday; KVIA asked some of them their opinions on the current immigration crisis. The general sentiment among
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro may be facing a mutiny within his own party. After chiding longtime Chavista politicians for expressing a lack of confidence in his leadership, Maduro is now facing mass protests by Marxist groups within the country who
A Ukraine shell landed on a Russian border town of Donetsk in the Rostov region and killed one person. Moscow told Kiev there will be “irreversible consequences” for the action. “At about 09:02 from Ukraine into the territory of the
The BBC is reporting Ukraine forces are storming Luhansk and Sabivka in the east. Pro-Russian leader Igor Strelkov said helicopters are landing inside Luhansk. “Heavy fighting is under way on the outskirts of Luhansk,” Strelkov said. “The enemy has thrown
After watching the 2012 election, three California technologists, Garrett Johnson, Chris Abrams, and Aaron Ginn founded Lincoln Labs because they knew that when it came to political technology, conservatives could not sit back and wait for others to begin applying the
The Hill reports that using immigration reform as a 2014 campaign issue has become a dead end for Democrats, who are avoiding the subject as they run for Congress. Part of the problem for Democrats is that the very group
The $288 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System was rocked on July 10 when it was learned that former CEO Federico Buenrostro had cut a plea bargain with the Justice Department to turn “state’s evidence” regarding steering $14 million in placement
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Gaza tunnels make Israeli ground offensive dangerous but necessary Health workers flee from West Africa as Ebola epidemic spreads Gaza tunnels make Israeli ground offensive dangerous but necessary Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza is
BAGHDAD/KIRKUK (Reuters) – Kurdish forces seized two oilfields in northern Iraq and took over operations from a state-run oil company on Friday, while Kurdish politicians formally suspended their participation in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government. The moves escalated a feud
MURRIETA — Murrieta Border Patrol agents have begun using online communication services, including Skype, to continue to process illegal aliens held in Texas detention centers. Border Patrol sources told KFI Radio’s Steven Gregory that Murrieta agents can process up to
In a July 10 piece, Reuters writer Steve Holland thought he saw Obama “dropping” his usual “political decorum” by directly attacking Republicans this month. However, since the day he entered the White House, this President has made a career of
Ukraine took over Slaviansk from pro-Russians and now there are fights between the rebels as they continue a downward spiral in the east. One man in a battalion told the Associated Press he would not listen to the leader of
The government of Spain’s Catalonia district is moving forward with plans to ban “burqas and other face covering attire” in public. The Catalan government says this is necessary “for reasons of public safety.” According to The Local, the ban “has
An Egyptian cleric formerly known as the “preacher of the revolution” during the revolt against President Hosni Mubarak warned Egyptian television viewers this week that Muslim Brotherhood sheiks have issued a fatwa permitting “anal jihad” for terrorists far from their
Egypt, the country once leading mediation between Israel and Hamas during the 2012 Gaza conflict, is taking a passive approach to the current Operation Protective Edge. Rather than inserting itself as a peacemaker, the country is opening its borders to
Rather than feel the need to leave the country or cancel plans to visit due to the dozens–soon to be hundreds–of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel to indiscriminately kill civilians, members of Florida’s Jewish community say the assault “makes
The privatisation of Britain’s Royal Mail was blighted by a fear of failure and poor advice from banks, a committee of MPs has said. The UK’s formerly state-run postal service was sold for £2bn in October last year, priced at
Beijing, July 11 (QNA) – Eleven people, including eight children, died when a minivan bus transporting kindergartners fell into a pond, Chinese news agency (Xinhua) reported. It said the the accident happened late Thursday in a mountainous region near Hunan’s
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is seeking permission from U.S. regulators to test its delivery drones near Seattle, as part of a rapid expansion of a program that has sparked widespread debate over the safety and privacy implications of drone technology.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – With Argentina meeting Germany in the World Cup final, the Vatican on Friday brushed aside talk of soccer rivalry between Argentine Pope Francis and his predecessor Benedict, a German. In response to the intense media speculation
