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San Francisco – Lockdown: Apple Could Make It Even Tougher To Hack Phones

San Francisco – Lockdown: Apple Could Make It Even Tougher To Hack Phones

  San Francisco – Suppose the FBI wins its court battle and forces Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the San… Read More ›

Cuba’s Ramon Castro, brother to revolutionary Fidel Castro, dies

Cuba’s Ramon Castro, brother to revolutionary Fidel Castro, dies

Havana, Cuba – Ramon Castro has died at age 91. The older brother of Fidel, 89, and Raul Castro, 84, knew little renown, as he declined… Read More ›

Swedish teen rescued from ISIS speaks: ‘It was really a hard life’

Swedish teen rescued from ISIS speaks: ‘It was really a hard life’

A 16-year-old Swedish girl rescued from ISIS territory in northern Iraq by Kurdish special forces has given a television interview explaining how she came to… Read More ›

Plane crashes in Nepal midway through 19-minute flight; 23 feared dead

Plane crashes in Nepal midway through 19-minute flight; 23 feared dead

All are feared dead after a Tara Air plane carrying 23 people — two of them babies — crashed Wednesday morning in mountainous northern Nepal… Read More ›

Obama eyes pending Syrian ceasefire with caution

Obama eyes pending Syrian ceasefire with caution

Jordanian king lauds US involvement in region during meeting with president over aid for refugee crisis   WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sounded a cautious… Read More ›

80-year-old American detained in Iran, family says

80-year-old American detained in Iran, family says

Baquer Namazi, first American jailed since January prisoner swap, held in Evin prison, wife says; son also jailed in Iran   WASHINGTON (AP) — Family… Read More ›

Kerry urges no new Iran sanctions as Khamenei backs anti-US candidates

Kerry urges no new Iran sanctions as Khamenei backs anti-US candidates

Iran’s supreme leader warns voters of a Western plot to influence parliamentary elections; secretary of state says new sanctions wouldn’t help   Secretary of State… Read More ›

Ya’alon: Middle East situation in certain respects is third world war

Ya’alon: Middle East situation in certain respects is third world war

Defense Minister in Cyprus, signs Status of Force agreement to deepen bilateral defense ties.   Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon paid a working visit to neighboring… Read More ›

ISIS will keep operating ‘even if it loses all territory in Iraq, Syria’

ISIS will keep operating ‘even if it loses all territory in Iraq, Syria’

IHS Jane’s says attacks in Syria increased even after Russian air strikes began.   Even if Islamic State loses all of the territory it controls… Read More ›

A Georgia businessman is requiring his employees to carry firearms at work

A Georgia businessman is requiring his employees to carry firearms at work

  A Georgia businessman is requiring that every one of employees get a concealed carry permit and carry a firearm in their offices, local TV… Read More ›

Presidential candidates are ignoring the economy’s most ominous statistic

Presidential candidates are ignoring the economy’s most ominous statistic

  As presidential candidates focus on border walls, dirty tricks and massive increases in spending, it would be nice if, just for a moment, one… Read More ›

It is worse than anyone thought on Wall Street

It is worse than anyone thought on Wall Street

  Daniel Pinto, CEO of JPMorgan’s corporate and investment bank, just made a gloomy prediction for Wall Street. He said that the firm’s investment-banking revenues… Read More ›

New York – Ben Carson Says Obama Was ‘raised White,’ Sparking Twitter Furor

New York – Ben Carson Says Obama Was ‘raised White,’ Sparking Twitter Furor

  New York – Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s comments that President Barack Obama was “raised white” prompted backlash on social media on Tuesday, with… Read More ›

Barcelona, Spain – Hottest Phones You’ve Never Heard Of _ Same Bang, Less Buck

Barcelona, Spain – Hottest Phones You’ve Never Heard Of _ Same Bang, Less Buck

  Barcelona, Spain – Move over, Apple and Samsung. The next big smartphone might be from little-known Chinese brands such as TCL and OPPO. Along… Read More ›

Oklahoma City – University Of Oklahoma Agrees To Return Nazi-stolen Painting

Oklahoma City – University Of Oklahoma Agrees To Return Nazi-stolen Painting

  Oklahoma City – The University of Oklahoma has agreed to return a painting that the Nazis stole from a French family during World War… Read More ›

Nigerian navy recovers hijacked oil tanker after gun battle

Nigerian navy recovers hijacked oil tanker after gun battle

  Lagos, Nigeria – This was the dramatic moment that the Nigerian Navy showed six men who they say hijacked a Saudi Arabian oil tanker off… Read More ›

Obama gives Congress Guantanamo closure plan

Obama gives Congress Guantanamo closure plan

Washington – President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility after delivering his plan to Congress to achieve a… Read More ›

UK nurse who had Ebola hospitalized again for ‘complication’

UK nurse who had Ebola hospitalized again for ‘complication’

For the second time, a Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola 14 months ago has been hospitalized for a “late complication” from the original infection. Pauline… Read More ›

Syrian women refugees find shelter in Turkey

Syrian women refugees find shelter in Turkey

“Many came so tired of war and you can see on their faces; they feel safe.”   KILIS, Turkey – A mural at the entrance to… Read More ›

Encountering hundreds of thousands of Syrian ghosts

Encountering hundreds of thousands of Syrian ghosts

A weekend experiencing the Turkish border crisis with Syria takes on a dystopian flair   KILIS, TURKEY – Every war has its hotels, its lounges,… Read More ›