Polls show most of America’s Christian evangelicals plan to vote for Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, despite his videotaped remarks about groping women and accusations by a number of women…
continue readingThe spokesman for the Libyan navy says more than 90 migrants are believed dead after their rickety boat was damaged shortly after leaving the Libyan coast. Ayoub Gassim said…
continue readingTwo unknown assailants have attacked an office building in Russia’s St. Petersburg that houses a notorious “troll factory,” a paid and organized group of Internet users led by local businessman…
continue readingTwo Yazidi women from Iraq who were abducted by Islamic State militants in 2014 have been awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought and expression. Nadia Murad…
continue readingTensions between Russia and the European Union have been running high, with deep disagreements over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, economic sanctions against Moscow, and military buildups along both…
continue readingTurkey has issued arrest warrants for 73 military pilots accused of involvement in an attempted coup in July. …
continue readingThe Czech president’s snub of a Holocaust survivor due to receive a state medal in Prague has outraged many of his countrymen. …
continue readingGeorgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has pardoned 168 prisoners. …
continue readingThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) says that three female weightlifters from Kazakhstan have been stripped off Olympic gold medals they won in London in 2012 for failing anti-doping tests. …
continue readingFour Russian citizens of Chechen origin are facing trial in Poland on terrorism charges. …
continue readingQuiet Dunedin, Florida, by the Gulf of Mexico, has the look and feel of a small town. But in the weeks before Election Day, the voters living here may have…
continue readingDonald Trump isn’t just a presence on the presidential end of the ticket this November – he’s also become a key factor in House races across the country that will…
continue readingPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte is leaving Japan without meeting Emperor Akihito as the scheduled meeting had to be canceled because of the death of the emperor’s uncle. Duterte earlier Thursday…
continue readingFinal demolition work began at the “jungle” refugee shelter in Calais, France, Thursday morning after authorities declared the camp empty a day earlier. Workers used large construction equipment and machines…
continue readingAs a collection of forces moves toward the Iraqi city of Mosul, witnesses are reporting Islamic State fighters taking civilians from outlying villages and using them as human shields as…
continue readingA Russian citizen who was sentenced to prison for participating in a mass demonstration against rigged elections in May 2012 has been released upon completing his 3 1/2-year term. …
continue readingYazidi activists Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Basharhave have won the 2016 Sakharov Prize. …
continue readingVenezuela’s political standoff deepened Wednesday as tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in several cities and opposition leaders called for a general strike later this week. At…
continue readingIn Australia, the Chinese are the third biggest migrant group behind the British and those from New Zealand. But the pattern of new settlement has changed in past decades. In…
continue readingU.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday refuted the assessment made this week by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in which he said that trying…
continue readingTwo strong earthquakes hit central Italy Wednesday, causing severe damage to some churches and buildings, but avoiding the catastrophe seen just two months ago when an earthquake killed almost 300…
continue readingWildlife populations across the globe have dropped nearly 60 percent since 1970 and human activity is to blame, according to a report released by conservation groups. The joint report produced…
continue readingRussian arms trader Viktor Bout, who is serving a 25-year prison term in the United States for illegally selling weapons to a Colombian terrorist group, has been transferred to a…
continue readingU.S. President Barack Obama has personally intervened in a dispute between Turkey and Iraq involving the battle against the Islamic State (IS) extremist group, asking Turkey’s leader to coordinate his…
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