Pope Francis Beatification of 124 Korean Martyrs Reportedly Draws 1 Million
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people turned out Saturday for one of the highlights of Pope Francis' trip to South Korea: The beatification of 124 Koreans killed for their faith...
View Article'Darfur: The Genocide the World Got Tired of'
On August 5, 2014 the displaced persons of El Salam camp in South Darfur were brutally assaulted by military and security forces of the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in...
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Missouri Protests, India Independence Day And A Supermoon: Week In Photos,...
Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this...
View ArticleTop Ukraine Rebel Leader Says Troops Training In Russia
By Thomas Grove DONETSK, Ukraine, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Ukrainian rebels are receiving new armored vehicles and fighters trained in Russia, with which they plan to launch a major counter-offensive...
View ArticleSuicide Bomber Attacks UN Base In North Mali
BAMAKO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Two U.N. peacekeepers were killed and nine others injured in a suicide attack on a patrol base in northern Mali, the U.N. peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA) said on Saturday. A...
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Big Media Aids Vital Girls' Schooling in South Sudan
The world's newest country, South Sudan, still struggles to end the internal conflicts that have marred its early life. This week, for instance, a deadline to reach agreement passed without success in...
View ArticleIslamic State Militants Close In On Syria Rebel Stronghold
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's Western-backed opposition called on Saturday for U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State extremist group as the jihadists captured three northern villages, putting them within...
View ArticleOverwhelmed Liberia Opens Another Center To Treat Ebola Patients
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian authorities expanded Ebola treatment centers in the capital Saturday to cope with increasing numbers of patients, while two more airlines announced they were halting...
View ArticleThe Breaking 'Cartgate' Scandal in Honduras
The admission this week by former Minister of the Presidency Enrique Flores Lanza that he did authorize the withdrawals of Lps 50 million ($2.5 million) from the Central Bank of Honduras in the days...
View ArticleIslamic State Militants Executed 700 Tribe Members In Syria: Monitor
BEIRUT, Aug 16 (Reuters) - The Islamic State militant group has executed 700 members of a tribe it has been battling in eastern Syria during the past two weeks, the majority of them civilians, a human...
View ArticleLegal 'Pussyrioting' Lives on in Another Russian Court Blunder
Russia's use of "extremism" laws to prosecute nonviolent dissent is best known through Pussy Riot's Dance Seen Around The World in Moscow's main Christian Orthodox Cathedral, which yielded some of its...
View ArticleDrone Strikes In Yemen Kill 7 Suspected Al Qaeda Militants: Official
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Two separate airstrikes in Yemen's south killed seven suspected militants Saturday, a Yemeni security official said. The official said three suspected militants were killed when an...
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Mobile Phones Save Lives in Timor-Leste
A pregnant woman has one foot in the grave. This common saying reflects the reality in many developing countries: bearing a child is one of the main risks to a woman's life. In the poor countries of...
View ArticleA HuffPost Deathmatch: One Shark To Rule Them All
Shark Week is officially over (well, at least for most of us) and it was a Sharknado-storm of mixed emotions. It brought us some definite bullsh*t, but at times, it really did reawaken our love for the...
View ArticleThe Israel-Egypt-Saudi Arabia Axis: Come the Counter-Revolution
American policymakers have had a dream about the creation of a New Middle East. According to a foreign policy consensus that emerged following the September 11 attacks in 2001 -- that brought together...
View ArticleU.S. Military Says Airstrikes Destroy Islamic State Vehicles Near Mosul Dam
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say a mix of fighter planes and remotely piloted aircraft have attacked Islamic State militants near the Iraqi city of Irbil and the Mosul Dam. In a statement, U.S....
View ArticleOn a Helicopter, Going Down: Inside a Lethal Crash in Iraq
If it weren’t for Tuesday’s helicopter crash on Mount Sinjar, what would I have written about the plight of the Yazidis?
View ArticleU.S. Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Islamic State In Iraq
WASHINGTON -- U.S. lawmakers voiced concern Sunday over the growing threat in Iraq posed by the Islamic State, the militant group seeking to establish a caliphate across Iraq and Syria. "We need to...
View ArticleThe Obscene Escalation of the Vulture Funds Against Argentina
The one-page advertisement published this week in the Financial Times by the U.S. vulture funds using the tragic situations of Argentinean families as human shields to defend their blackmailing of the...
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Stylist Who Spends Every Sunday Cutting Hair For Homeless: 'Every Human Life...
Mark Bustos is a hair stylist at an upscale salon in New York City, but not all of his clientele have to be wealthy to get a quality trim. Sometimes, they don't need a penny. Bustos spends every Sunday...
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