Ukraine Rebel Leader Says Willing To Accept Ceasefire
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's rebels are surrounded and ready to agree to a cease-fire to prevent a "humanitarian catastrophe," the insurgents' new leader said Saturday as conditions deteriorated...
View ArticleMSNBC Head Pledges To Boost Diversity After Cinco De Mayo Disaster
SAN ANTONIO -- The president of MSNBC pledged on Friday to meet continually with Hispanic experts to improve diversity on air in the wake of a Cinco de Mayo disaster that he said left him "horrified."...
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U.S. president Barack Obama invited nearly 50 Africa heads of state to Washington D.C. this week, for an unprecedented summit aimed at forging a stronger relationship with the continent. A series of...
View ArticleWomen Stoned To Death In Syria For Adultery
BEIRUT (AP) — A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put...
View ArticleThe Heightened Domestic Crack Down and Human Rights Violations
History appears to be repeating itself in the Islamic Republic. Whenever many Iranians believe that there will be more socio-political, individual as well as socio-economic freedoms in the country, due...
View ArticleGetting Money in Gaza: An Interview With Palestine's Central Banker
Amidst the destruction and death in Gaza, the Palestine Monetary Authority has kept cash flowing to a besieged population struggling to survive in a devastated economy. Gaza's 45 bank branches have...
View ArticleFears Remain For Yazidis Still Trapped In Mountains
Some members of an Iraqi minority community on the run from ISIS militias have reportedly escaped the mountains where they had been stranded, but thousands more may still be in danger. Several thousand...
View ArticleTracing Ebola's Breakout To An African 2-Year-Old
Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak, researchers suspect, was a 2-year-old boy who died on Dec. 6, just a few days after falling ill in a village in Guéckédou, in southeastern Guinea. Bordering Sierra...
View ArticleU.S. Launches 4 Airstrikes On Iraqi Militants
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says American jet fighters and drones have conducted four more airstrikes on Islamic militants in Iraq, taking out armored carriers and a truck that were firing on...
View ArticleCeasefire Negotiations On Hold As Gaza Violence Continues
JERUSALEM (AP) — Egyptian-brokered talks between Israel and Hamas on a new border deal for Gaza were thrown into doubt Saturday after senior officials said an Israeli team would not rejoin negotiations...
View ArticleThe Cairo Talks: Mediation or End Game in the Gaza War?
By James M. Dorsey Joint efforts by Israel and Egypt to prevent Hamas from emerging from the Gaza war with a political victory not only threaten to undermine efforts to achieve a formal...
View ArticleReport: Erdogan Wins Turkey's Presidential Election
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey's first direct presidential election Sunday, striking a conciliatory tone toward critics who fear he is bent on a power grab as he...
View ArticleIsraeli Officials: Israel Accepts Egypt's Gaza Cease-Fire Proposal
CAIRO (AP) — Israel and the Hamas militant group accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal Sunday, clearing the way for the resumption of talks on a long-term truce to end a month of heavy fighting in...
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Kurdish Forces Seize Back Two Towns From Insurgents: Kurdish Official
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Reinvigorated by American airstrikes, Kurdish forces retook two towns from Sunni militants Sunday, achieving one of their first victories after weeks of retreating, a senior Kurdish...
View ArticleLiberians Fill Churches In Defiance Of Official Ebola Warnings
By Clair MacDougall MONROVIA, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Liberians packed churches in the capital Monrovia on Sunday to seek solace from an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, defying official warnings to...
View ArticleUkraine Demands Rebels In Donetsk Surrender
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Fighting raged in the city of Donetsk on Sunday, as government forces continued to close in on the rebel stronghold and pro-Russian insurgents backed away from an unconditional...
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'Supermoon' 2014 Photos And Tweets (VIDEO, LIVE UPDATES)
Happy Supermoon Sunday! The summer of 2014 has been called the summer of supermoons, and for good reason. Skywatchers already got a chance to see one supermoon on July 12, and the second is tonight....
View ArticleIraqi PM Maliki Accuses President Of Violating The Constitution
BAGHDAD, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Special forces loyal to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki were deployed in strategic areas of Baghdad on Sunday night after he delivered a tough speech indicating he would...
View ArticleIraq Special Forces Of Maliki Deployed In Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Special forces loyal to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki were deployed on Sunday night in strategic areas of Baghdad, police said, after he gave a tough speech on...
View ArticleThese Lions Are So Passionate About Conservation They Interrupt Their Own PSA
World Lion Day is August 10, and Kevin Richardson -- known on YouTube as The Lion Whisperer -- and his pals are excited. Except, in the video above, Richardson can't finish telling us about the day...
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