Israeli president: ISIS jihadis are today's Nazis
Text smaller Text bigger Israeli President Reuven Rivlin UNITED NATIONS – The president of Israel compared the brutalities of ISIS and the Nigerian group Boko Haram to the Nazi genocide, declaring the...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo attack live: hunt near Paris intensifies, hostage fear,...
8.07pm: SHOTS were fired during a car chase and at least one hostage was taken to the north-east of Paris tonight, in the same area police were hunting for two heavily armed brothers accused of...
View Article#BringBackOurGirls campaigners fight apathy and government repression
Campaign to rescue abducted schoolgirls continues in face of Boko Haram violence and a public inured to death statistics...
View ArticleHollywood glamour gals wake up to holy war
Text smaller Text bigger WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s leading foreign-policy experts has revealed to WND what he believes is the key to getting leftists to join the war on terror: Enlisting...
View ArticleAn Aging United Nations in 2015. But How About a New United Nations in 2020?
The new report from the Commission on Global Security, Justice, and Governance, co-chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, suggests that the 75th anniversary year in 2020 might be...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleSecurity Council Condemns Human Trafficking in Strongest Terms, Unanimously...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Secretary-General Tells of Abducted Yazidi Girls Sold in Open Slave Markets The Security Council condemned in the strongest terms today all instances of human trafficking...
View ArticleThe Latest: Refugees fear Paris attacks will shut off Europe
PARIS (AP) -- The latest on the deadly shootings and explosions in Paris. (All times local): 8:25 p.m. Asylum-seekers fleeing war and poverty in Syria and other war-ravaged countries are condemning the...
View ArticleThe Latest: US woman undergoes surgery after Paris attacks
PARIS (AP) -- The latest on the deadly shootings and explosions in Paris. (All times local): 8:10 p.m. An American woman was undergoing surgery late Saturday at a Paris hospital after being wounded in...
View ArticleNigeria's Chibok girls: What's happening?
November 6, 2014 -- Updated 1228 GMT (2028 HKT) (CNN) -- Abducted. Sold. On the brink of freedom. Converted to Islam and married off ... despite the claims and counterclaims the fate of more than 200...
View ArticleA year after Boko Haram kidnappings, House members join with girls who...
(Source: Lois Frankel) One year, and one day ago, nearly 300 Chibok schoolgirls were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria. Their only crime: they were trying to get an education....
View ArticleSolidarity in symbols: Responding with light to Paris attacks
Just an hour after a series of attacks rocked Paris on Friday night, the Eiffel Tower went dark in mourning. But the response worldwide was to turn on the light: Three colors began appearing in...
View ArticleWorld wounded, angered by Paris terror attacks
Mourners across the globe reacted to the attacks in Paris with tears and anger, but also with colourful shows of solidarity with France. Monuments across the world, from the Sydney Opera House in...
View ArticleBoko Haram seize Nigerian town of kidnapped schoolgirls after government...
Boko Haram militants have seized the town in north-eastern Nigeria that nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from in April. The Islamic extremists entered Chibok, in Borno state, on Thursday evening,...
View ArticleNigeria Is Letting Boko Haram Get Away With Murder
Remember the #bringbackourgirls campaign? The girls are still gone and as the body count rises in Nigeria, and the country’s leaders are almost as silent as the global community. No one knows for sure...
View ArticleFrederica Wilson plans Nigeria trip to push for release of kidnapped schoolgirls
U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson announced Sunday that she plans to take her year-long campaign for the release of almost 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls to the West African country. Wilson, D-Miami...
View ArticleArtist Jean Jullien's Eiffel Tower peace sign goes viral after Paris terror...
In the wake of the horrifying terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, many took to social media to express their condolences and concern for the people of the French capital, using hashtags like...
View ArticleWhy did the world ignore Boko Haram's Baga attacks?
As the media coverage focused on the Paris terror attacks last week, over 2000 Nigerians were reported to have been killed by Islamist militants. What makes one massacre more newsworthy than another?...
View ArticleWhen were the Chibok schoolgirls released, why were they kidnapped by Boko...
AT least 82 of the 270 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in Nigeria have been released. The girls had been kept prisoner for three years after being snatched from a school in...
View ArticleNigerian army says it has rescued another Chibok girl
Abuja (AFP) - The Nigerian army on Thursday said another Chibok schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists almost three years ago had been rescued along with her six-month-old baby. Rakiya Abubakar...
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