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Cuba embargo loosened – here’s what has changed

The Obama administration is loosening the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba with a new round of regulations allowing American companies to sell to Cuba on credit and export a limited number of products to the Cuban government. Tuesday’s announcement is President Barack Obama’s third attempt to spur U.S.-Cuba commerce despite… Read More

Police warning ISIS terror attacks imminent

One of the world’s largest international police agencies, Europol, issued a stark warning Monday: Islamic State extremists are expected to attempt lethal attacks on so-called “soft targets” in the West soon. Some two and a half months after suicide bombers and gunmen killed 130 people in Paris, the Europol agency said (using… Read More

Swedish “rape dungeon” doctor on trial

A Swedish doctor went on trial on rape and kidnapping charges Monday after admitting to imprisoning a woman in a home-made bunker in what his defense lawyer said was a desperate attempt to find a girlfriend. Prosecutors said the 38-year-old man had planned the crime for years and may have… Read More

New ISIS video offers chilling details on Paris attackers

A new video released by the Islamic State group purports to show the extremists who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris committing atrocities in ISIS-controlled territory while plotting the slaughter in the French capital that left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded. The group also threatens Britain. The… Read More

Scores of migrants drown in two shipwrecks off Greek coast

At least 41 people, including 17 children, died as two separate smuggling boats sank overnight off of different Greek islands. Dozens of migrants survived the shipwrecks and a search-and-rescue operation was underway Friday looking more survivors. In the first tragedy, a wooden boat carrying 48 people sank in off the… Read More

Who kidnapped Americans in Iraq? Officials say they know

Two powerful Shiite militias are top suspects in the abduction of three Americans last weekend in a southern neighborhood of the Iraqi capital, an Iraqi police commander and a Western security official in Baghdad said Thursday. The Americans were abducted in Dora, a mixed neighborhood that is home to both… Read More

Outrage! North Korea takes American hostage

North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un’s insane regime is at it again. The reclusive communist nation announced Friday the arrest of a U.S. university student for what it called a “hostile act” designed to undermine the authoritarian nation. North Korea’s announcement comes amid a diplomatic push by Washington, Seoul and their… Read More

Kremlin killer! Putin accused of murder

It’s a plot straight from a Bond thriller. Except this time, a British judge says it’s probably real. According to Judge Robert Owen, Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the plan by Russia’s FSB security service to kill a former agent-turned-Kremlin critic who died after drinking tea laced with radioactive… Read More

Muslim thugs destroy Christian holy ground

The war against Christianity has suffered another casualty in the Middle East. Satellite photos have officially confirmed what many Christian leaders and preservationists had feared: One of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world, located in Iraq, has been reduced to a field of rubble by ISIS thugs.  St. Elijah’s Monastery… Read More