Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose trip to India has been fraught with tension over the issue of Sikh separatists in Punjab, met with one of his chief antagonists on Wednesday and gave assurances that Canada does not support the separatist movement.
byJohn Hayward21 Feb 2018, 8:26 PM PST0
Thirty-eight more people were reportedly killed in the Assad regime’s bombing campaign against the Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, bringing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’ estimate to 310 killed and over 1,550 injured since Sunday.
byJohn Hayward21 Feb 2018, 6:45 PM PST0
A woman in India is fighting for her life at a hospital after she was brutally raped by a gang who used iron poles until they gouged out her intestines, marking the latest sex attack increasingly targeting women in India.
byEdwin Mora21 Feb 2018, 6:06 PM PST0
“Hundreds” of Iranian-allied Shiite troops loyal to the Russian-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad joined the U.S.-allied Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin to defend the territorial unity of Syria and its borders, the Kurds in the region reportedly confirmed.
byEdwin Mora21 Feb 2018, 5:11 PM PST0
An increasingly isolated Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro urged President Donald Trump to engage in a “dialogue” with him as soon as possible, shortly before the opening of the Summit of the Americas, which Maduro has threatened to attend despite not being invited.
byFrances Martel21 Feb 2018, 2:58 PM PST0
The sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is reportedly pregnant with her second child.
byBen Kew21 Feb 2018, 2:47 PM PST0
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s appearance at the Chinese-Filipino Business Club on Monday is proving to be a bottomless well of provocative comments. Not only did Duterte suggest, in a fit of bizarre black humor, that Beijing should consider annexing his country and turning it into a province of China, but he also proposed sending his troops to China for training instead of the United States.
byJohn Hayward21 Feb 2018, 2:36 PM PST0
Nigeria’s Justice Ministry announced on Monday that it had convicted 205 defendants accused of being members of the Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram. Abuja freed over 500 such suspects this week, however, indicating that less than half of those processed by the Nigerian court system are being convicted.
byFrances Martel21 Feb 2018, 12:58 PM PST0
The White House and State Department revealed on Tuesday that North Korean officials offered to meet with Vice President Mike Pence during the Winter Olympics in South Korea, but retracted their offer at the last minute after Pence condemned North Korea’s human rights violations.
byJohn Hayward21 Feb 2018, 12:04 PM PST0
On his way home after the Munich Security Conference last week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis speculated that artificial intelligence could change the “fundamental nature of war.” The impression given by the security conference is that no one is truly prepared for that change.
byJohn Hayward21 Feb 2018, 11:50 AM PST0
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, the recently elected Communist prime minister of Nepal, said in his first official interview on Monday that he wants to restart a Chinese-led hydroelectric project valued at $2.5 billion as part of a strategy to realign his country away from India and toward China.
byJohn Hayward21 Feb 2018, 11:33 AM PST0
Some parents who lost their children to fatal torture tactics at the hands the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) are demanding justice for their loved ones, urging the Syrian Kurdish fighters who apprehended the two “hateful” terrorists behind the death of their sons and daughters to hand them over to the American justice system.
byEdwin Mora21 Feb 2018, 11:11 AM PST0
A Boko Haram attack on a secondary school in Nigeria’s Yobe state may have resulted in the kidnapping of 94 girls, recalling the mass abduction of nearly 300 by the Islamic State-affiliated terrorists in 2014.
byFrances Martel21 Feb 2018, 10:14 AM PST0
Contents: 38North reports that North Korea continues nuclear weapons development; American politicians debate a ‘bloody nose attack’ on North Korea
byJohn J. Xenakis21 Feb 2018, 5:52 AM PST0
The White House said Jared Kushner will not be affected by any policy changes made regarding security clearances, even though he still has an interim security clearance 13 months into the job.
byKristina Wong21 Feb 2018, 4:50 AM PST0
After trouncing the incumbent Lampedusa mayor in elections this past summer, Salvatore Martello immediately began fulfilling campaign promises to get a grip on uncontrolled immigration and has now brought the population of the island’s welcome center down to a manageable 100.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.21 Feb 2018, 4:22 AM PST0
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon on Tuesday slammed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for “running away” from negotiations after the Palestinian leader abruptly left the room following his Security Council speech.
byDeborah Danan21 Feb 2018, 3:56 AM PST0
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace team briefed members of the UN Security Council on their plan to jumpstart negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday.
byBreitbart Jerusalem21 Feb 2018, 3:48 AM PST0
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu castigated Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s address at the UN Security Council Tuesday, saying the PA leader was “running away from peace.”
byBreitbart Jerusalem21 Feb 2018, 1:30 AM PST0
Missionary Father Bernardo Cervellera says that the Vatican is yielding way too much in its forthcoming diplomatic deal with the ruling Communist Party in China, which risks being “limp.”
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.21 Feb 2018, 1:21 AM PST0
WASHINGTON — US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday said Washington would not “chase” the Palestinians to the negotiating table with Israel, following Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the UN Security Council.
byBreitbart Jerusalem21 Feb 2018, 1:01 AM PST0
TEL AVIV – A Palestinian couple from Gaza have named their triplets Jerusalem, Capital and Palestine in protest of President Donald Trump’s December recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
byDeborah Danan21 Feb 2018, 12:04 AM PST0
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked foreign fighters from Indonesia, Malaysia, and other predominantly Muslim countries are traveling to Christian-majority Philippines to join the terrorist group’s Southeast Asia wing.
byEdwin Mora20 Feb 2018, 9:33 PM PST0
A new Gallup poll shows that North Korea has surged to the top of America’s enemy list. Fifty-one percent of respondents say the communist regime is the greatest threat to the United States.
byPenny Starr20 Feb 2018, 6:39 PM PST0
Beijing is demanding the extradition of 11 Muslim Uighurs from Malaysia as part of its efforts to allegedly combat Islamic extremism in and around Chinese soil.
byEdwin Mora20 Feb 2018, 6:14 PM PST0
A mob of an estimated 3,000 Islamic extremists in Pakistan reportedly called for the beheading of a 17-year-old Christian whose phone, after reappearing days after he lost it, contained blasphemous content that authorities could use to sentence him to life in prison or death.
byEdwin Mora20 Feb 2018, 5:45 PM PST0
The Islamic Republic of Iran is reportedly acting more visibly upon what it refers to as “the axis of resistance” by mobilizing its growing network of terrorist proxies throughout multiple Middle Eastern countries, particularly in Syria, in light of a recent incident between Iran and Israel.
byAdelle Nazarian20 Feb 2018, 5:31 PM PST0
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a severe rebuke of Iran in Moscow on Monday during a panel discussion with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif at a conference. He rebuked the Islamic Republic’s continuous calling for the destruction of Israel.
byAdelle Nazarian20 Feb 2018, 5:21 PM PST0
A North Korean official on Tuesday floated the possibility of co-hosting the 2021 Asian Winter Games with South Korea and using North Korea’s Masikryong ski resort for the event.
byJohn Hayward20 Feb 2018, 5:13 PM PST0
China’s Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center is demanding the United States “severely punish” a man who allegedly defaced an ancient terracotta warrior statue while it was on display at the Franklin Institute museum in Philadelphia.
byJohn Hayward20 Feb 2018, 4:56 PM PST0
A group supportive of Russian president Vladimir Putin have announced its intention to hold a ‘Gays for Putin’ rally ahead of March’s presidential election, despite the country’s stringent laws on homosexuality.
byBen Kew20 Feb 2018, 4:29 PM PST0
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly trying to add Pakistan to a global terrorist-financing watchlist maintained by a counter-money laundering monitoring group.
byEdwin Mora20 Feb 2018, 3:48 PM PST0
Police in Zimbabwe arrested a senior official and professor at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) on Friday for having participated in issuing former First Lady Grace Mugabe a Ph.D. which she did not qualify for, according to multiple reports.
byFrances Martel20 Feb 2018, 3:29 PM PST0
Chinese authorities have vowed to crack down on the rural tradition of hiring strippers for funeral ceremonies, the country’s Ministry of Culture has announced.
byBen Kew20 Feb 2018, 3:00 PM PST0
The U.S. Army is honoring three Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) cadets killed in the Florida high school shooting Wednesday with medals for heroism.
byKatherine Rodriguez20 Feb 2018, 2:55 PM PST0
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s bloody efforts to stamp out the remaining rebel enclaves near Damascus resulted in what observers are describing as the wholesale massacre of civilians on Monday and Tuesday, with a bombing campaign that deliberately targeted seven hospitals and killed over a hundred people, including at least 20 children.
byJohn Hayward20 Feb 2018, 2:44 PM PST0
The manager of a Castro-friendly Cuban band reportedly condemned the government in a Facebook post on Sunday, claiming that the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television had banned a recent hit song whose video has 5.9 million views on Cuban social media.
byFrances Martel20 Feb 2018, 1:54 PM PST0
A Russian husband and wife “troll team” was indicted by U.S. authorities on Friday for their involvement in an online effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.
byTom Ciccotta20 Feb 2018, 1:17 PM PST0
Relations between Poland and Israel are in their deepest crisis in memory in the wake of Poland’s move to criminalize criticism of Polish collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust.
byCaroline Glick20 Feb 2018, 12:55 PM PST0
The government of India has been criticized for what many interpreted as a deliberate snub of visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday. While Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted many other visiting dignitaries in person at the New Delhi airport, he dispatched Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh to do the honors for Trudeau.
byJohn Hayward20 Feb 2018, 12:30 PM PST0
United States Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley had strong words for top Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat on Monday: “I will not shut up.”
byBreitbart Jerusalem20 Feb 2018, 12:00 PM PST0
The United States Military Academy at West Point has decided to posthumously accept fallen JROTC high school student Peter Wang to the class of 2025.
byKatherine Rodriguez20 Feb 2018, 10:28 AM PST0
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Tuesday that the Turkish military would invade and “besiege” the heart of Afrin city Syria “in the coming days,” threatening to turn “Operation Olive Branch” into a devastating urban conflict.
byFrances Martel20 Feb 2018, 10:19 AM PST0
Two unlikely partners in South Asia, Taliban supporter Iran and U.S.-allied India, have reportedly expressed a willingness to enhance cooperation against jihadist organizations and drug traffickers in Afghanistan, named the top opium and terrorism-producing region in the world by the Pentagon.
byEdwin Mora20 Feb 2018, 8:54 AM PST0
Lent is the time when we are called to stand up to Satan and “vanquish” him with God’s help, Pope Francis told pilgrims.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.20 Feb 2018, 8:03 AM PST0
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