Syria’s government said Sunday that Islamic State militants slaughtered 300 people in an “appalling massacre” committed in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour in daylong attacks that saw the extremists make significant advances in the contested region. The state-run SANA news agency said that most of those killed in Saturday’s attacks were elderly people, women […]
United Kingdom threatens to BAN Donald Trump?
British lawmakers are due Monday to debate a call for U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be banned from the U.K. over his remarks about Muslims — though the government is unlikely to bar the divisive Republican Party contender. More than 500,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Trump to be blocked for […]
Terrorists seize three Americans in Iraq
A desperate hunt is underway for three Americans civilians, who were reportedly kidnapped this weekend by men many believe connected to terrorists in Baghdad. Iraqi security forces have fanned out across Baghdad neighborhoods Monday morning looking for the three United States citizens, closing streets and conducting house-to-house searches. An Iraqi government intelligence official told the […]
Savage terror attack by ISIS leaves 7 dead
Attackers set off suicide bombs and exchanged gunfire outside a Starbucks cafe in Indonesia’s capital in a brazen assault Thursday that police said “imitated” the recent Paris attacks and was probably linked to the Islamic State group. All five attackers and a Canadian and an Indonesian died in the midmorning explosions and gunfire that were […]
Thousands more foreign refugees to be admitted into US
President Obama’s plan to allow 10,000 Syrian migrants into America has already drawn fire after two were recently caught trying to join – or rejoin – ISIS. Now, conservatives are in an uproar after the the Obama administration has announced plans to expand the United States refugee program again and let in thousands more foreign […]
Sudden avalanche kills three in high school ski group
An avalanche in the French Alps struck a high school ski group Wednesday afternoon, killing at least three people, according to French officials. France’s National Gendarmerie said a search-and-rescue operation was launched in the Deux Alpes ski resort using sniffer dogs and a helicopter. French authorities in the Alps region confirmed that two high school […]
Search for Malaysia flight 370 leads to fascinating discovery
The undersea search for the Malaysian airliner that vanished almost two years ago has found a second 19th century shipwreck deep in the Indian Ocean off the west Australian coast, officials said Wednesday. A sonar search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 found what appeared to be a man-made object on Dec. 19, […]
Whale of a disaster! 80 pilot whales beach themselves in India
More than 80 whales have washed ashore on India’s southern coast, officials said Tuesday. The short-finned pilot whales began washing up on beaches Monday evening, said M. Ravi Kumar, the top government official in the southeastern port town of Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu state. Rescuers took at least 36 of the mammals back to sea, […]
South Korea fires shots at North Korea after drone crosses border
South Korea on Wednesday fired 20 machine gun warning shots after a North Korean drone briefly crossed the rivals’ border, officials said, the first shots fired in a Cold War-style standoff between the Koreas in the wake of the North’s nuclear test last week. The North Korean drone was flying dozens of meters (yards) south […]
England getting a new national anthem?
Will England bid goodbye to “God Save the Queen”? British lawmakers agreed Wednesday to consider replacing the royalist song that serves as England’s anthem at sporting events. “God Save the Queen” is the national anthem of the United Kingdom — made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — and is played at the […]
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