Clashes between Israeli and Palestinian security forces were triggered by the finding of a boy’s body neat Jerusalem. The teen found dead may be Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khudair who had been kidnapped on Tuesday. As a consequence, protesters took to the streets in a Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem. ... read entire article »
A cargo plane transporting drugs had crashed into a building in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi, killing all four people aboard. The plane took off from the city’s main international airport and it was flying at low altitudes when it hit a commercial ... read entire article »
The American National Security Agency apparently has the authority to spy on almost any country it wants to except Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. NSA can also keep under supervision several international organizations such as the International ... read entire article »
Following the 10-day ceasefire, Ukraine’s army has launched into a massive offensive, aiming to wipe out every bit of rebel presence on the Ukrainian soil. Artillery and aerial bombardment hit ground targets in eastern Ukraine and ‘terrorist plans to ... read entire article »
Israel retaliated with a massive air strike on the Hamas-led Gaza Strip, hours after finding the bodies of three kidnapped Israeli teenage boys, all of whom had been shot dead. The Israeli police had been concentrating all its efforts on finding three teenager ... read entire article »
For the first time in four decades, Spain recorded two consecutive years of declining population. The main reason for the fall is the total amount of foreigners living in the country, but also the number of them leaving Spain. A few years ago, Spain was a ... read entire article »
Another Pakistani honor killing had stunned international press with its brutality. A married couple had their throats slit open with butcher knives by the bride’s family because they had married without their families’ consent. In a village in the Punjab ... read entire article »
The Ukrainian government has launched a full-scale military attack on rebels located in the east of the country, in spite of earlier talks between President Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel and France’s Hollande. Aircraft and artillery was employed to ... read entire article »
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or, by its new name, the Islamic State, takes on drastic measures not only against those who oppose them, but also against their own members. Apparently, the extremist group has just crucified eight of its members. Their ... read entire article »
Yesterday marked the end of the extended seven-day truce between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists. Although, at first, President Petro Poroshenko firmly stated that the offensive against the rebels will be resumed, after several talk ... read entire article »
A third Russian journalist has lost his life after being caught in the middle of a fire exchange between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatists. Anatoly Klyan, a cameraman for Russia’s state-owned Channel One television, was shot in the stomach ... read entire article »
Catalonia was the first domestic destination of Felipe VI as king of Spain. The king had only good words about the region and praised the Catalan people despite numerous protests this year on the autonomy of the region. Spain's new king visited the Catalan city ... read entire article »
Two very different protests were in Ukraine over the past weekend. While people in Luhansk took to the streets in a rally for peace, people in Kiev called for martial law to be enforced in eastern Ukraine and the ceasefire to be brought to an end. In Luhansk ... read entire article »
The extremist group, ISIL, has taken a step forward to enforcing an Islamist rule over the cities it has captured in Iraq and Syria. ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has changed its name to ‘Islamic State’ and the militant group ha ... read entire article »
In an act of goodwill, as the rebels want the world to see it, pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine have released four out of the eight international observers they had kidnapped more than a month ago. Those released were taken to a Donetsk city hotel while the ... read entire article »
The Obama administration has no reluctance when it comes to using unmanned machines in military operations, although the consequences might lead to an unprecedented crisis, as a US official warns in a report. US drone air strikes could create a ‘slippery ... read entire article »
Thousands of Ukrainians are fleeing the country, crossing the border into Russia, as the week-long ceasefire has entered in its final hours. One guard at the Luhansk border post, which is currently under rebel control, said that at least 5,000 people have crossed ... read entire article »
A new area has been approved for the search of the missing Malaysian jet after experts re-analyzed satellited data and concluded that the plane was, most likely, on auto-pilot when it hit the Indian Ocean and that inflicted a change in the plane’s trajectory. ... read entire article »
Syria has just plunged into Iraq’s civil war after launching an airstrike in several regions of the Anbar province and killing at least 57 civilians while more than 120 were severely injured. ‘Unfortunately, (the) Syrian regime carried out barbarian attack ... read entire article »
Nine Ukrainian government troops are dead after a military cargo helicopter has been shot down by separatists near the city of Slovyansk. The helicopter was transporting technicians whose mission was to monitor breeches of the ceasefire treaty, which the rebel ... read entire article »
