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U.N. Security Council approves peace plan for Syria

U.N. Security Council approves peace plan for Syria

The United Nations Security Council on Friday approved a resolution that supports international efforts to seek a political solution in Syria. U.S. Secretary of State… Read More ›

Cholera outbreak threatens world’s largest refugee camp

Cholera outbreak threatens world’s largest refugee camp

  Kenya’s cholera epidemic has reached the world’s largest refugee camp and doctors worry the outbreak could continue to spread. Seven people have died in… Read More ›

Sanders campaign’s data breach jolts Democratic debate

Sanders campaign’s data breach jolts Democratic debate

Washington – Just in time for Saturday night’s debate, the Democratic presidential race is being jolted by another computer-related scandal. The imbroglio over Bernie Sanders’ aides… Read More ›

Five years later: How the US and EU failed the Arab Spring

Five years later: How the US and EU failed the Arab Spring

The debate surrounding the Arab revolts tends to center on basic human nature.   Thursday marked the five-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Arab… Read More ›

Saudi Arabia will behead a second teen protester

Saudi Arabia will behead a second teen protester

  The distraught parents of a teenager believed to be on the brink of being beheaded by Saudi Arabia have launched a last-ditch appeal to the… Read More ›

One of the San Bernardino killers allegedly planned 2 attacks with the neighbor who supplied him guns

One of the San Bernardino killers allegedly planned 2 attacks with the neighbor who supplied him guns

  A criminal complaint filed by an FBI agent claims that Syed Rizwan Farook and Enrique Marquez planned two attacks designed for mass casualties years… Read More ›

Amazon is in talks to lease 20 cargo planes to build its own overnight air operations

Amazon is in talks to lease 20 cargo planes to build its own overnight air operations

  Amazon could soon be leasing at least 20 cargo planes with the goal of building its own air-logistics operations in the US, according toThe Seattle Times’ Jay Greene… Read More ›

Syracuse, NY – Judge Imposes Lifetime Prison Terms In High Profile Amish Kidnapping Case

Syracuse, NY – Judge Imposes Lifetime Prison Terms In High Profile Amish Kidnapping Case

  Syracuse, NY – A man and a woman who kidnapped and sexually abused two Amish girls in northern New York last year were sentenced… Read More ›

Orlando, FL – Disney, Other Parks Add Metal Detectors For The Holidays

Orlando, FL – Disney, Other Parks Add Metal Detectors For The Holidays

  Orlando, FL – Three major theme parks announced Thursday that they are adding security measures including metal detectors ahead of the busy holiday season.… Read More ›

Russia travel agency offers vacations to Syria conflict

Russia travel agency offers vacations to Syria conflict

  A deadly conflict zone that has seen more than four million of its own citizens flee the country seems unlikely to make anyone’s travel… Read More ›

Reviled drug CEO Martin Shkreli arrested

Reviled drug CEO Martin Shkreli arrested

He ran his companies “like a Ponzi scheme.” The charges he faces represent a “trifecta of lies, deceit, and greed.” That is how federal law… Read More ›

FBI: San Bernardino shooters pledged jihad over direct messages

FBI: San Bernardino shooters pledged jihad over direct messages

  San Bernardino shooters Tashfeen Malik andSyed Rizwan Farook communicated online about jihad via direct, private messaging as far back as 2013, FBI Director James… Read More ›

US poised to lift sanctions on Iran under nuclear deal

US poised to lift sanctions on Iran under nuclear deal

Senators say agreement off to ‘terrible start’ with Tehran’s sentencing of American reporter and its ballistic missile test   WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States… Read More ›

‘Russia open to Assad’s ouster as part of Syrian peace process’

‘Russia open to Assad’s ouster as part of Syrian peace process’

Diplomat says Russia privately accepts that Assad will have gone by end of transition period in Syria.   UNITED NATIONS – Russia has made clear… Read More ›

Republican candidates battle over party’s foreign policy

Republican candidates battle over party’s foreign policy

Tuesday’s debate highlighted the divide between those wary of intervention and those calling for a more aggressive anti-IS campaign   WASHINGTON (AP) — For Republicans,… Read More ›

CNN Republican debate: Winners and losers

CNN Republican debate: Winners and losers

Washington – Republican presidential candidates sought to cement — or improve — their standings in a debate Tuesday night that comes less than two months before… Read More ›

A college professor was suspended after wearing a hijab in solidarity with Muslims

A college professor was suspended after wearing a hijab in solidarity with Muslims

  Wheaton College has put a tenured professor who donned a traditional headscarf as a part of her Christmas Advent devotion on administrative leave. Political… Read More ›

Macquarie has a horror outlook for commodities

Macquarie has a horror outlook for commodities

  After what can only be described as a horrific year for metals and bulk commodity prices, market attention is now quickly turning to what… Read More ›

Burundian plea: ‘How many people must die before you help stop the killings?’

Burundian plea: ‘How many people must die before you help stop the killings?’

People dragged from their homes and killed in the night. Bodies littering the streets of the capital at dawn. An attack on an army barracks.… Read More ›

The woman hired to take on Elon Musk drives a Tesla Model S

The woman hired to take on Elon Musk drives a Tesla Model S

  Former Cisco executive Padmasree Warrior, who was just hired to help Chinese electric-vehicle maker NextEV take on Tesla in the US, says that she’s got nothing… Read More ›