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Haiti was struggling under the weight of a slowly rebuilding infrastructure, struggling economy, and loss of entire towns from the earthquake that left more than 200,000 people dead, even before Hurricane Matthew barreled into it, with sustained winds of 145 miles per hour. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere, according to The […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a bill Monday which could be considered by the Duma as early as Wednesday that would effectively withdraw Russia from the plutonium disposal treaty it has with the United States. Citing the United States’ relatively recent “unfriendly actions” in the past few months, Russia says there is still a chance […]

The United States announced this week that it would begin refurbishing its nuclear missile systems, an overhaul that is estimated to take roughly 20 years to complete, in a direct response to the upgrades made to the nuclear capabilities of Russia, China, and North Korea. And it did not push aside fears of a looming […]

Saudi women are trying to end the male guardianship system that has been prevalent for hundreds of years in the Islamic kingdom. After garnering strong support from the womenfolk, female activists formulated and submitted a petition to the Saudi government, urging it to abolish the archaic practice. Claiming the male guardian system to be restrictive […]

A retired NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) general has issued a dire warning to the United States, Canada, and Europe concerning Russia’s military superiority and how, should World War 3 break out with a sudden Russian territory grab across Europe, the West could easily find itself in an extremely compromised position. In fact, recently retired […]

Maria Villar Galaz, the niece of Spanish Football’s chief, Angel Maria Villar, has been found dead a week after she was kidnapped at a cash point in Toluca, Mexico. Mexican authorities said Maria Villar, 36, was kidnapped on September 13, after boarding an unlicensed taxi at a mall in the Mexican city of Santa Fe. […]

Experts believe that the current state of tensions between various major powers on the world stage has brought the planet closer to World War 3 than it has been in over five decades. That time frame would include the harrowing Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, where the world’s foremost superpowers, the United States and […]

The decision of South African authorities to ban controversial U.S. pastor Steven Anderson and several members of the Faith Word Baptist Church from visiting the country has been applauded by many. South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba announced his decision on Tuesday to prevent Anderson and several members of the controversial anti-gay church from […]

The September 11th attacks and their repercussions have remained emblazoned upon the modern consciousness and an inseparable part of historical and political discussion for the 15 years since they occurred. Many consider these attacks to be the Pearl Harbor of the twenty-first century; they have modified the American reality and international attitudes in ways the […]

The long-ranging conflict in Syria finally saw a ray of hope early Saturday morning as the United States and Russia entered a military agreement to cease hostilities across the war-torn region. The agreement comes after months of unsuccessful negotiations between the two major stakeholders in Syria, even as the Middle Eastern country grapples with one […]

Asia Ramazan Antar was one of the most famous faces of the fight against ISIS, but now the 19-year-old dubbed the “Kurdish Angelina Jolie” is dead after sacrificing her life to stop a trio of ISIS suicide bombers. Antar was a soldier with the famed Syrian Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), an all-woman force that […]

Saudi Arabia’s top cleric Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh responded to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments by saying “Iranians are not Muslims.” The Grand Mufti supposedly reacted to the Iran’s leader’s scathing comments on the way Saudi Arabia had handled last’s year’s stampede at the annual Haj pilgrimage to Mecca […]

A Birmingham couple whose nine-month-old son died days after a tragic choking accident has revealed why they allowed a television crew to film him during the last days of his life. Adam and Serena talked to Birmingham Mail to explain why they let the Channel 4 crew film their son in his hospital bed days […]

A 23-year-old American tourist has broken her back after falling down a cliff following an attempt to flee her sexual attacker on Thursday night. Hannah Gavios is now recovering in a Bangkok hospital in Phuket with a spinal cord fracture and other injuries. Her distraught parents flew from their home in the US to stay […]

MMA fighter Marcus Kowal’s 15-month-old son has died Saturday afternoon after being mowed down by an alleged drunk driver. Little Liam Kowal and his aunt were enjoying a stroll at a crosswalk in Hawthorne California when a 72-year-old woman drove her car into them and then fled the scene, Daily Mail reports. Marcus Kowal himself […]

An ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) rape victim, a Yazidi teen now convalescing in Germany, burned her entire body, including her face and hair, last year after being kept a sex slave by Islamic State militants. She said she was in so much fear of being raped again that she couldn’t bear the […]

Hayley McGonigle’s family and friends have taken to social media to ask for help after the 18-year-old teenager vanished without a trace. She was last seen by her family getting in a cab outside her home in Nitshill, Scotland around midnight on Saturday, the Mirror reports. Hayley told her parents that she was going to […]

Priest Albert Pandiangan was holding mass at a Medan Church on the western island of Sumatra when a man suddenly approached him and stabbed him in his left arm, the Mirror reports. The knifeman tried killing himself and the hundreds of worshipers at the congregation with a homemade bomb, but failed. According to eyewitnesses, the […]

An Indonesian suicide bomber, who attempted to set off a bomb in a church in the western part of the country on Sunday, was not working alone, authorities have confirmed. Indonesia’s National Police spokesman Major General Boy Rafli Amar revealed that the suicide bomber told police officers interrogating him that he was not working alone, […]

The “burkini ban” enforced by multiple popular French beachside towns isn’t legal, ruled France’s top administrative court. While the ruling against the burkas modified for beaches isn’t yet applicable across the country, the ruling is expected to set a precedent. France’s highest administrative court effectively suspended the ban on full-body swimwear in the town of […]

With each passing day, there seems to be news out of Syria and Iraq about some new atrocity committed by ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) against captives, prisoners, and civilians under their rule. There is the occasional horror story involving a child that filters through as well. But a recent reading in the […]

North Korea’s population will soon be able to enjoy a spot of Netflix and chill. Well, sort of. The country’s totalitarian government has launched its own rival streaming service, interestingly named “Manbang.” Translated into English, the name of the streaming service means “Everywhere” and provides residents in the country with a carefully selected catalogue of […]

The murder of Hande Kader, a Turkish trans woman and LGBT activist, has led to calls for justice and more effort to protect LGBT persons. Kader, who gained fame in Turkey’s LGBT community after participating in pride parade demonstrations last year, was found dead on August 8, France24 reported. The body, which was discovered along […]

A South African wildlife park has come under criticisms after a 12-year-old boy was killed by lions on its premises on Thursday after he was led into the animal enclosure by a worker. The incident occurred at the Otavi Wildlife Park in Parys, Free State Province. The boy killed by lions, who is reportedly an […]

Three of the top five most liveable cities in the world are in Canada, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, The Economist‘s market research group. Australia was close behind, taking first, sixth, and seventh place. And according to The Weather Network, while the top spots haven’t changed much, more than half of the cities studied […]

The image of a wounded Syrian boy who survived an airstrike in the Syrian city of Aleppo went its rounds on the web Wednesday, serving as a powerful reminder to us all about the high cost of war, the Telegraph reports. In a video that has gone viral, the five-year-old Omran Daqneesh is seen covered […]

Austrian police officers have dismissed concerns that a knife attack on a train in the western part of the country on Tuesday may be connected to a similar incident in Switzerland on Sunday that left two people dead, including the attacker. The knife attack in Austria happened at about 6:30 a.m. local time on a […]

The death of former Aston Villa player Dalian Atkinson, after he was Tasered by police officers in Telford, Shropshire, early on Monday morning, has sparked a debate about the use of Tasers and deadly force by police officers in the U.K. Atkinson, 48, was visiting his father’s house in Trench area when the West Mercia […]

Fidel Castro turns 90 today, and thousands of Cubans have already gathered to celebrate. After scores of assassination attempts against him and even having made enemies with the most powerful nation in the world, El Comandante, as he is sometimes called, quietly passed a milestone in his notoriously secluded life. Meanwhile, the Cuban people celebrated […]

An Islamic State recruit, a schoolgirl whom many dubbed a “jihadi bride” from the United Kingdom, has been killed in an airstrike on Syria, according to media reports, and while her sister reports the family was expecting such news, many are still wondering why she would leave her home and school to join the radical […]

This year’s Russia-China naval exercise over the troubled waters of the South China Sea, which, according to Beijing’s defense ministry, will kick off next month, has its way of sending mixed signals to the international community amid a growing tension in the region. According to Michael Lipin of the Voice of America, China’s announcement on […]

After numerous Mexican leaders publicly rejected the idea of their country paying for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s border wall between Mexico and the United States, Mexico’s foreign minister weighed in on the debate. “Well, that’s absurd. We would never consider that,” said Mexican foreign minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu in an interview with ABC News. […]

Newly discovered diaries of Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo and the SS, have highlighted the daily routine of one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. The diaries, which were discovered in the archives of the Russian Defense Ministry in Podolsk 2013, covers the years 1937, 1938, 1947, and 1948, according […]

The South Korean government has banned the sale of 80 Volkswagen models in the country, including the manufacturer’s popular Jetta and Golf models. The crackdown on the sale of high-emission cars has impacted a number of manufacturers selling in the country, but most prominently, Volkswagen. The news follows last year’s Volkswagen emissions scandal, which found […]

Muslims in the hometown of Adel Kermiche, the ISIS priest killer, have refused to bury him. Kermiche was killed by police after he slit the throat of an elderly priest in a church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France. Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean, both 19 years of age, took six people hostage in a church in the […]

Authorities are taking every cautionary measure possible after an outbreak of anthrax spread throughout the Yamal Peninsula area earlier this week. On July 25, officials issued a quarantine of the area after some dead wildlife tested positive for the anthrax bacteria. Three days later, authorities sent hundreds of doses of the anthrax vaccine. According to […]

On Thursday, Han Song Ryol, a diplomat for North Korea, stated that the United States crossed a “red line” and that this was interpreted as the United States having declared war on North Korea. The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, was placed on a list of sanctioned individuals by the United States. Kim’s […]

Turkish President Recep Erdogan has told Western leaders critical of his response to the attempted military coup to mind their own business as he cancels 50,000 passports and considers mass executions of rebels. Erdogan goes so far as to accuse the United States of supporting the military coup and says that if they don’t support […]

The Great Wall of China is a well-known UNESCO site and popular tourist destination. However, the wall is gradually being eroded away, as people steal bricks as souvenirs, or to build homes. Now China is taking action to stop this erosion. While the Great Wall is not a single, unbroken structure, it is estimated to […]

A 47-year-old Mennonite pastor, Llewellyn Lucas, has been decapitated, the police finding his severed head in a black bucket, Belize authorities say. Five men have been arrested and charged with an array of crimes, including kidnapping, conspiracy, and murder. And as police in Belmopan, Belize, investigated, they have found that the man accused of committing […]

Pope Francis made a historic visit to the former Nazi concentration camp known as Auschwitz this week, where he walked the grounds and took everything in. During the visit, he prayed over various parts of the camp and talked to former prisoners. Pope Francis’ visit to this part of Germany is something only two previous […]

An undercover reporter working for the British Sun newspaper was coached for two months by an Islamic State recruiter with the intention of blowing up a major London tourist site. Possible sites included Big Ben, the London Bridge, or a major shopping area of the U.K. capital. The Sun released a report on Thursday giving […]

World War 3 is the hobgoblin of the modern military world, what with wars and civil wars and proxy wars springing up all over the globe. But a think tank is now warning the West to be wary of Russia and its military build-up and increased maneuverings and war exercises, for, according to them, they […]

Eight children were killed and several injured after a train hit a school van in India. About 20 students were packed inside the school bus at the time of the accident. The van was hit by an oncoming train when it attempted to cross a railway crossing. Appallingly, it appears the accident was caused by […]

https://rumble.com/embed/vd4hx/ Satoshi Uematsu, the 26-year-old suspected of killing 19 and injuring 25 in a knife attack at a care facility in Japan, “wanted euthanasia” for disabled people. On July 26, the knife attack suspect broke into the Tsukui Yamayuri En (Tsukui Lily Garden) care home in the town of Sagamihara in Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture and […]

What is TPP or Trans-Pacific Partnership? TPP would be the biggest trade agreement in United States history. It dwarfs NAFTA and KAFTA, and it also supersedes them. In effect, it modifies those deals while creating even more trade agreements with even more countries. Twelve nations are now eligible to join. It is as of yet […]

The corrections minister for the Northern Territory has lost his job over footage released on Australian national television of the horrific abuse of juveniles in detention. After disturbing footage was aired on the Australian ABC television channel on Monday night, John Elferink, the Northern Territory corrections minister has been fired. The Northern Territory chief minister, […]

India has launched one of its largest ever search operations to locate a military plane that mysteriously went missing over the Bay of Bengal. The plane had 29 military personnel on board. A demonstration of Search & Rescue ops launched by Indian Navy for IAF AN-32 plane which went missing, yesterday. pic.twitter.com/4RAMVbPcSA — ANI (@ANI) […]

The Munich shooter who went on a rampage in a German mall on Friday was obsessed with violence and death, according to sources in Germany. The gunman, who has been identified as an 18-year-old German-Iranian man, was born and raised in the city where he carried out his shootings. The Munich shooter knew the area […]

After an 18-year-old German-Iranian opened fire near a shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening killing ten people, authorities are seeking to piece together a motive for the attack. As of this morning, police said they had found no immediate evidence of an Islamist motive behind the Munich shooting. Authorities had said it is too […]