Iraq Conference Opens in Paris as France Urges 'Global' Fight on Jihadists
French President Francois Hollande called on Monday for united international action to tackle the threat from Islamic State militants as he opened a conference on Iraq bringing together members of a...
View ArticleBritish PM Cameron to Make One of Last Scotland Visits Before Vote to Try to...
British Prime Minister David Cameron will make one of his final visits to Scotland later on Monday four days before a historic independence referendum to warn Scots a vote to leave the United Kingdom...
View ArticleIran Dismisses U.S. Efforts Against Islamic State as Self-Serving
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday dismissed as hollow and self-serving U.S. efforts to build a coalition against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.Iran says it backs the...
View ArticleWorry and Mystification in China Over Scotland Independence Vote
As Scotland heads to the polls this week to vote on whether to become independent, one country with restive regions of its own is watching the debate unfold with nervousness and some mystification -...
View ArticleGerman Man Goes on Trial for Islamic State Membership
A 20-year-old German man charged with joining Islamic State militants in Syria last year went on trial in Frankfurt on Monday, the first such case in Germany.Kreshnik B., who was born in Germany and...
View ArticleKey Whistleblowers Lambast New Zealand Prime Minister at ‘Moment of Truth’...
Five days before New Zealand’s general election, a group containing some of the world’s most prominent whistleblowers launched an attack on Prime Minister John Key, at a panel event, branded the...
View ArticleApple Declares Record Pre-Orders for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
Apple Inc said it received a record four million first-day pre-orders of its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, meaning many customers will have to wait until October for their new phones.Apple said a...
View ArticleFirst Task for Poland's New PM: Avoid a Mutiny in the Ranks
The most urgent task in Polish prime minister-designate Ewa Kopacz's in-tray is to deal with an internal challenge to her leadership that, if mishandled, could bring down the government in eastern...
View ArticleA Real-Life Invisibility Cloak Built Out of Nanoscale Metamaterials
As any great magician will tell you, illusions have more to do with perception than the paranormal. And though deception might seem out of place in the world of science, a team of researchers from...
View ArticleBelgian Murderer Granted Assisted Suicide Request
A Belgian murderer and rapist serving a life sentence is to be allowed to have doctors end his life following a ground-breaking ruling under laws in Belgium permitting people to request...
View ArticleDoes Kennedy’s Vietnam War Documentary Foreshadow Tragedies in Baghdad and...
Earlier this month, Hanoi’s former ambassador to the United States was a houseguest of mine in Washington, D.C. Forty-five years ago, Nguyen Tam Chien was a Moscow-trained electrical/mechanical...
View ArticleAction Against Islamic State Would Prevent Genocide, Says NATO Chief
Military intervention against Islamic State militants could be justified on the grounds of self-defense or preventing a campaign "pretty close to genocide", NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen...
View ArticleOur Citizens ‘Enjoy Genuine Human Rights,’ Says North Korea Report
Early on Saturday, North Korea published a 50,000-word manifesto claiming that its “popular masses enjoy genuine human rights,” despite many well-documented reports of government torture and human...
View ArticleThe Golan Heights, Once Peaceful, May Drag Israel Into the Syrian Civil War
A green flag waves peacefully, clearly visible through the smart fence, a camera-equipped electric apparatus surrounding a remote-controlled gate here in the Golan Heights. Next door is Camp Ziouani of...
View ArticleSerious Reporting Thriving on the Internet, Despite Predictions
For a while there, it looked like the bad guys were going to win, the ones who practiced the dark arts of aggregation, who search-engine-optimized headlines as if splicing genes, who turned human...
View ArticleBritain Rules Out Rescue Mission as It Does Not Know Where IS Hostages Are
Britain ruled out a mission by special forces to rescue a Briton whose life was threatened in the latest execution video released by Islamic State militants, saying on Monday it did not know where he...
View ArticleAs Many as 700 Migrants Feared Drowned in Mediterranean
More than 700 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East may have drowned in the latest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, bringing the death toll this year to almost 3,000, the International Organization...
View ArticleMicrosoft Buying Minecraft Maker for $2.5 Billion, Lead Developer Quitting
Microsoft will acquire Stockholm-based development studio Mojang, the company behind what is arguably the world’s most popular video game, Minecraft, for $2.5 billion, Mojang announced on its website...
View ArticleFour Arrested After 'Slaves' Rescued From British Caravan Site
Two men and two women are being held in police custody after eight “virtual slaves” were rescued during a raid on a Bedfordshire caravan site on Sunday, police have said.The alleged victims - eight...
View ArticleAs Many as 700 Migrants Feared Drowned in Med After Traffickers Ram Ship
More than 700 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East may have drowned in the latest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, bringing the death toll this year to almost 3,000, the International Organization...
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