100,000 Boat Migrants Arrive in Italy This Year
ROME (Reuters) - Two boat migrants died among almost 1,500 rescued by Italy in the last 24 hours, authorities said on Friday as the total number reaching Italian shores this year passed 100,000.Italy's...
View ArticleBoko Haram Abducts Dozens of Boys, Witnesses Say
MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria, loading them onto trucks and driving them...
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'Doubtfire' Daughter Lisa Jakub Talks Robin Williams, a 'Lightning Bolt' of...
Hours after the world learned that Robin Williams had died, the actress-turned-writer Lisa Jakub took to her blog to share a curious memory. At 14, Jakub had co-starred alongside Williams in one of the...
View ArticleModi: India’s Shame at Rape and Violence Against Women
India should hang its head in shame over an ongoing rape crisis and dire standards of public sanitation, India’s new prime minister Narendra Modi told the nation in his first Independence Day...
View ArticlePhotos: Ukrainians Struggle to Live a Normal Life in Warzone
After Russian military vehicles escorting a convoy of trucks they claimed contained humanitarian aid crossed the border into Ukraine overnight, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko confirmed that...
View ArticleEbola Frontline: Broken Government Promises Keep Sierra Leone Residents...
The new Ebola treatment center being built outside Kenema is still not complete, a big discouragement to residents living next to the country’s main Ebola treatment facility. Originally, the center was...
View ArticleHow Lessons From Trayvon Helped Make Ferguson News
When 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by George Zimmerman on the evening of February 26, 2012, at the Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Florida, the story was not national news. Local news outlets...
View ArticleIndia’s Modi Throws Out Socialist Planning, Questions Caste Divisions
Narendra Modi has yet to show that his government can make a significant difference to the way that India is run and performs, but this morning he impressed critics as well as supporters with his first...
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In Shell-torn Luhansk, Food and Water is Scarce: 'Welcome to Hell!'
On a hot afternoon in August in Ukraine, in the industrial pro-Russian rebel-held city of Luhansk, the Brooklyn-born war photographer Stanley Greene, on assignment for Newsweek, realized the odor...
View ArticlePhotos: Mourning Mike Brown
Mourners gathers in Ferguson, Missouri and across the United States on Thursday night to mourn Mike Brown, who was gunned down by a police officer on Saturday, August 9. Brown was 18 years old; he was...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor: Online Gambling Deserves to Be Regulated
Dear Editors,I am writing regarding a piece on Internet gambling recently featured in Newsweek (How Washington Opened the Floodgates to Online Poker, Dealing Parents a Bad Hand 8/22/14). I am the...
View ArticleHezbollah Sees Islamic State as Threat to Gulf, Jordan
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Hezbollah leader described the radical Islamist movement that has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria as a growing "monster" that could threaten Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and...
View ArticleWhat Happened in Ferguson, Missouri, on Friday
It has been a long, strange day in Ferguson, Missouri: for reporters covering the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown, for residents reeling from the loss of a member of their community. It has...
View ArticleTexas Governor Rick Perry Indicted for Coercion
Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted Friday on two counts of abuse of power after following through on a threat to veto funding for public corruption prosecutors in the state.From the Associated Press: A...
View ArticleFerguson Protests Reignite Over Police Shooting of Black Teen
After another night of racially charged protests and looting in Ferguson, Missouri, over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer, Governor Jay Nixonwas meeting with local...
View Article35 People Found in Shipping Container in Britain, Man Dies
A man has died after 35 people, including several children, were found inside a shipping container being unloaded at a dock in eastern England on Saturday morning, police said.Two of the group,...
View ArticleAn Irish Wake-Up Call: Grades vs. Gridiron Success at Notre Dame
Is the University of Notre Dame waging the same two-front war that Princeton, Yale, the University of Chicago and even the military academies eventually lost? Or will the Fighting Irish overcome what...
View ArticleThe Serpico of St. Louis County
Sgt. Daniel O’Neil, of the St. Louis County Police Department, had been in law enforcement for nearly 30 years, working everything from narcotics to vice to internal affairs, when he was transferred to...
View ArticleTop Ukraine Rebel Leader Says Troops Training in Russia
Ukrainian rebels are receiving new military equipment and troops trained in Russia, and will launch a major counter-offensive against government forces, a separatist leader said in a video released on...
View ArticleKenya Airways to Suspend Flights to Freetown, Monrovia Due to Ebola Outbreak
Kenya Airways will suspend flights to Liberia's capital Monrovia and Sierra Leone's capital Freetown due to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the company said on Saturday.The suspension of the flights...
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