3,222 Islamic State Targets Hit, Pentagon Says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have damaged or destroyed 3,222 targets since August, including 58 tanks, 184 Humvees, 673 fighting...
View ArticlePhotos: Where Ice and Snow Warm the Hearts of Festival Visitors
The northeast United States might be feeling an uncomfortable chill this week, but for Harbin, a city in China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province, the colder, the better. Rather than complain, chilly...
View ArticleAfter Charlie Hebdo, Moderate Islam Must Speak Out
First they came for the Iraqi soldiers, those young men in uniform, who were massacred and tossed in trenches. Then they dragged off the women and girls who didn’t pray to their god and sold them into...
View ArticleFSU’s Jameis Winston Declares for NFL Draft: Big Puppy or Big Dog?
Jameis Winston will never forget his 21st birthday. On Tuesday, January 6, the Florida State quarterback and 2013 Heisman Trophy winner turned 21 and decided to turn pro. “After weighing this decision...
View ArticleThree French Media Companies Offer Employees, Support to Keep Charlie Hebdo...
Just before noon in Paris, three armed gunmen who claimed allegiance to Al-Qaeda entered the offices of French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed 10 employees and two police officers before...
View ArticleThe Ignored Massacre on India’s Forgotten Fringe
“Are you going on to India?” I found myself asking two Swiss tourists whom I met over New Year's in India’s northeastern state of Assam.I could try to justify the question by explaining that they had...
View ArticlePolice Officer Ahmed Merabet Shot During Charlie Hebdo Massacre
One of the police officers killed in the terrorist attack today in Paris has been identified as 42-year-old Ahmed Merabet.The attack began around 11:30 a.m. local time when three men entered the...
View ArticleAfter Paris Attack, News Outlets Face Difficult Choice Over Controversial...
News outlets around the world are grappling with whether to show potentially inflammatory images from the French leftist magazine Charlie Hebdo after gunmen stormed the magazine’s headquarters...
View ArticleNASA Makes Vintage Posters for Futuristic Travel
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology is marketing three other-worldly travel destinations in the form of hypothetical posters from the fictional Exoplanet Travel...
View ArticleYemeni TV Correspondent First Journalist Killed in 2015
Before Wednesday’s deadly attack on the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris, Khalid Mohammed al-Washali, a local Yemeni TV correspondent, became the first journalist to be killed in 2015.His death...
View ArticleFBI Director Provides New Evidence Implicating North Korea in Sony Hack
After numerousexperts disputed the FBI’s assertion that North Korea was behind the notorious Sony hack, which revealed sensitive internal information and resulted in the partial canceling of The...
View ArticleAfter the Attack: The Future of ‘Charlie Hebdo’
When heavily armed gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, Gerard Biard, the satirical magazine’s editor-in-chief was on a trip to London. Now, in the aftermath of the assault,...
View ArticlePolice Hunt Brothers After Paris Attack as Third Man Hands Himself In
The youngest of three French nationals being sought by police for a suspected Islamist militant attack that killed 12 people at a satirical magazine on Wednesday turned himself in to the police, an...
View ArticlePolice Officer Wounded in New Shootout in Southern Paris
A police officer was wounded in a shootout in southern Paris on Thursday, a police source told Reuters, adding that it was unclear at this stage whether there was any link to the killings at the...
View ArticleSecond Shooting in Paris Leaves One Policewoman Dead
Another shooting has been reported in Paris this morning although as yet, there is no official confirmation it is linked to yesterday's attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices in which 12 people...
View ArticleAnti-Islam Marches Will Come to Britain, Says Former EDL Leader Robinson
The former leader of the far-right English Defence League (EDL), Tommy Robinson, has spoken out in favour of the anti-Islam marches that have been taking place in German cities, and said that he...
View ArticleThe Turbulent Genius of David Foster Wallace
Read what follows with a stern caveat emptor in mind, for it has been written by an unabashed David Foster Wallace fanboy, one of those forlorn, bespectacled young men covertly handed a copy of...
View ArticleFrench Police Converge on Town as Charlie Hebdo Attackers Spotted
French anti-terrorism police converged on an area northeast of Paris on Thursday after two brothers suspected of being behind an attack on a satirical newspaper were spotted at a petrol station in the...
View ArticleControversial Signing of Convicted Rapist by UK Football Club Collapses
The signing of convicted rapist Ched Evans by third tier English football club Oldham Athletic, which triggered fierce debate about the role of professional football in British society, has collapsed...
View ArticleMarine Le Pen Calls for Return of Death Penalty After Paris Shooting
The leader of France’s resurgent far-right party Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen has called for France to bring back the death penalty, in light of the attack in Paris on Wednesday. 12 people were...
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