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Why The U.S. Can't Be Done With Afghanistan Yet

WASHINGTON -- With the United States accelerating its withdrawal from Afghanistan after helping to establish a new unity government there, a congressionally created watchdog warned this week that...

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Burkina Faso Army Backs Issac Zida As Leader, Opposition To Protest

By Mathieu Bonkougou and Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's opposition parties and the African Union rejected the army's seizure of power in the West African country on...

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Meet The Arab Spring Activist Deported By The UAE Who Is Now Speaking Out

ISTANBUL -- When the United Arab Emirates deported prominent democracy activist Iyad el-Baghdadi in late April, he disappeared for nearly six months. On Oct. 22, he re-emerged on stage at the Oslo...

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All The Important Things You Need To Know About Fire Safety In Your Home

It's that time of the year when the temperatures start to drop and you find yourself turning on your stove and cranking up the heat. With all the fireplaces, heaters and stoves on full blast, it's...

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U.S. Launches 10 Air Strikes In Syria, Iraq

WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - U.S. fighter and bomber planes have launched five attacks against Islamic State militants near Kobani, Syria and five in Iraq since Friday, Central Command said on...

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Power Blackout Hits Bangladesh As Line From India Fails

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Bangladesh was struggling to restore power hours after a transmission line bringing electricity from neighboring India failed on Saturday, causing a nationwide blackout, and...

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Scientists Try To Predict Number Of US Ebola Cases

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Top medical experts studying the spread of Ebola say the public should expect more cases to emerge in the United States by year's end as infected people arrive here from West...

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Peshmerga Fighters Bring Weapons To Kobani, Prepare To Battle ISIS

MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Iraqi peshmerga fighters prepared Saturday to battle Islamic State group militants in the Syrian border town of Kobani, just hours after they arrived in a town that's become...

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Craig Spencer, American Doctor With Ebola, In 'Stable' Condition At Bellevue...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hospital officials say a New York doctor who became infected with Ebola while treating patients in Guinea has been upgraded from serious but stable to stable condition. The New York...

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How German Pharmaceutical Companies Torpedo Cannabis Legalization

Cannabis can make diseases more bearable. Sometimes, it can even fight them successfully. There are people who claim that cannabis is the best pain relief that they have ever tried, better than, for...

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France's National Front Reaches Highest Membership Number Since Party Was...

The crisis among political parties is everywhere, or nearly. According to our information, Marine Le Pen's National Front (FN) now counts 83,000 fully paid-up members who are eligible to vote at the...

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Why Death Is On The Minds Of Many Major Religions This Month

As his friends in Milwaukee don costumes for Halloween parties this weekend, 23-year-old Felipe Beltran will be observing a different tradition around death, one that he says is "much realer" to him...

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Top Expert Predicts Iran's Supreme Leader Will Reject Nuclear Deal

Iran has finally come to the crossroads, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many hard-line elements seem ready to forge ahead with their nuclear ambitions even if they collide with economic...

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Richard Branson Casts Doubt On Future Of Private Space Tourism After Virgin...

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson on Saturday cast doubt on the future of commercial space tourism. A day after the pilot of a Virgin Galactic rocket plane died in a crash and another was injured...

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Pro-Russian Separatists To Vote For Leader In War-Torn East Ukraine

By Thomas Grove DONETSK, Ukraine, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists will vote to set up a breakaway regional leadership in eastern Ukraine on Sunday aiming to take their war-torn region closer...

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In Setback, Islamic State, Nusra Combine To Rout US-backed Forces In Syria

Al Qaida-backed militants Saturday stormed the base of the most prominent civilian commander in the U.S.-backed Syrian rebel force, forcing him and his fighters to flee into hiding in the Jebal al...

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Bomb Blast On Pakistan-India Border Kills Dozens

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated explosives near a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint near the country's eastern border with India on Sunday, killing at least 54 people in the...

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ISIS Militants Kill Over 300 Members Of Defiant Iraqi Tribe

By Michael Georgy BAGHDAD, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have killed 322 members of an Iraqi tribe in western Anbar province, including dozens of women and children whose bodies were...

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Avoiding the Yugoslav Scenario

The first war of nationalist extremism in East-Central Europe in the post-1989 era could easily have been in Romania, not Yugoslavia. Before conflicts between Serbs and Croats escalated into violence,...

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Sex Trafficking Isn't An 'Over There' Issue, 100,000 U.S. Kids Are Sold Into...

Selling children into sex trafficking may seem like a remote issue, something that happens in far-off places where kids live in extreme poverty and their rights aren’t valued. But it’s happening right...

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