U.S. Weighs Options to Rescue Desperate Yazidis From Iraqi Mountain
WASHINGTON/EDGARTOWN Mass. (Reuters) - The United States is exploring options to evacuate thousands of Iraqi civilians trapped on a barren mountain in northern Iraq by Islamic militants, after four...
View ArticleAfter Fatal Shooting of an Unarmed Black Teen, Police Arrest 32 for Rioting
KANSAS CITY Mo. (Reuters) - Police arrested 32 people after rioting and looting erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, late on Sunday and spread to neighboring towns in protests that turned violent over the...
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Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?
Amid every cycle of violence and revenge in Israel over the past 60 years came the cry: “Where’s the Palestinian Gandhi?” Not so much today. The answer has been blown away in the smoke and rubble of...
View ArticleWith a Month Until NATO Summit, Security Fears Grow in Wales
Never mind what will be discussed at next month’s two-day Nato summit, the conference will be the ultimate test for the UK Police Service, who, beleaguered by cutbacks, must find a spare ten thousand...
View ArticleEuropean Internet Pirates Poised for Victory
A young German called Julia Reda readily admits that she illegally downloads movies. But Reda isn’t just any online pirate breaking intellectual property laws in order to get access to entertainment...
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Meet The Public Face of The Israeli Defence Forces
Many might think Lt Col Peter Lerner has the worst media job in the world. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed 40-year-old with impeccable English is the explainer-in-chief for the Israeli military or, to...
View ArticleFormation of Iraqi Government Critical to Face Down Threat of Islamic State...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday the formation of an Iraqi government was critical for stability and urged Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki not to stoke political tensions further.U.S....
View ArticleScanning Family Photos Can Reveal Rare Genetic Disorders
Family photo albums are dusty time capsules from another era. But in the near future, they might also be crucial documents predicting future genetic diseases. Researchers at Oxford University’s...
View ArticleWhen Will Mental Illness Finally Yield to Science?
“The brain is hot,” says Dr. Eric R. Kandel, bow tie askew and eyes a-twinkle. The octogenarian Nobel laureate, who has never quite lost his Brooklyn accent, lists a number of recent efforts that...
View ArticleIslamic State Beheads and Crucifies in Push to Dominate Eastern Syria
BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State has crushed a pocket of resistance to its control in eastern Syria, crucifying two people and executing 23 others in the past five days, a monitoring group said...
View Article40 Kosovans Arrested on Suspicion of Joining Insurgencies in Syria and Iraq
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo police arrested 40 men on Monday on suspicion of having fought with Islamist insurgents in Syria and Iraq, a crackdown aimed at deterring recruitment of volunteer fighters,...
View ArticleIran's Parliament Votes to Make Vasectomies Forbidden
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's parliament has voted to ban permanent forms of contraception, the state news agency IRNA reported, endorsing the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's call for measures to...
View ArticleThis Palestinian Farmer's House Has Been Bombed Three Times
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian Ibrahim Mohammad al-Toum, 85, sleeps on the floor on a thin mattress in a Gaza schoolroom, displaced for the third time in six years.A farmer of oranges and lemons, his...
View ArticleMoscow to Send 'Aid Convoy' to Ukraine as NATO Warns of 'High Probability' of...
BRUSSELS/DONETSK (Reuters) - NATO said on Monday there was a "high probability" that Russia could launch an invasion of eastern Ukraine under the guise of a humanitarian operation, but a defiant...
View ArticleIsrael-Palestinian Talks Resume as Truce Seems to Hold
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed indirect talks mediated by Egypt on Monday on ending a month-old Gaza war, Egypt's state news agency said, after a new 72-hour...
View ArticleNew Turkish Humanitarian Flotilla Set to Defy Gaza Blockade
Turkish aid organisation the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) will attempt to send a humanitarian convoy to Gaza by sea in spite of Israel’s naval blockade, they have announced.The organisation,...
View ArticleU.N. Staffs Panel to Investigate War Crimes in Gaza
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations on Monday named three experts to an international commission of inquiry into possible human rights violations and war crimes committed by both sides during...
View ArticleArmed Political Showdown in Baghdad as Maliki Refuses to Go
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's president named a new prime minister to end Nuri al-Maliki's eight year rule on Monday, but the veteran leader refused to go after deploying militias and special forces on...
View ArticleNew Jobs After the Recession Pay 23% Less
(Reuters) - Jobs growth in the U.S. since the 2008 recession has been undermined by lower wages, with workers earning an average 23 percent less than earnings from jobs which were lost, a report by an...
View ArticleClinton Distances Herself from Obama's Foreign Policy
As Hillary Clinton draws closer to a likely presidential bid, the former secretary of state is distancing herself from President Barack Obama. In an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, she...
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