World - Part 63
Scientists have shown that the cholera pathogen came to Haiti with foreign UN troops who carried the bacteria in their bodies, and whose military base was dumping its sewage into a nearby river. The imported disease has claimed more than 7,000 lives and c ...[Read more]
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Human rights groups and Bahraini opposition accuse the Manama regime of torture and violating human rights on a massive scale since the beginning of a popular revolution in the Persian Gulf country last year.
Bahrainis have been staging demonstrations s ...[Read more]
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More than a year after they beat a disabled homeless man to death, three California police officers are expected to be fired from the force soon over their role in the killing of Kelly Thomas.
Cpl. Jay Cicinelli and Officers Manuel Anthony Ramos and Joe ...[Read more]
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The Catholic Church's leading exorcist priest asserts that a Vatican employee's daughter thought to be buried in a mob boss's tomb was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties, reports Nick Pisa of the Daily Mail.
Father Gabriel Amorth, who was ordained in 1954 ...[Read more]
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The UN's Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released a report showing that Israeli settlers in the West bank have taken over dozens of natural springs from Palestinians there, preventing access to essential water sources.
he repor ...[Read more]
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The watchdog that keeps an eye on the national police force has found that two people arrested during the G20 summit in Toronto in 2010 were plain-clothesed police officers.
The commission for public complaints against the RCMP released its long-awaited ...[Read more]
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Researchers from Save the Children looked at the health, education and economic status of women in 165 countries to develop the ranking, with Norway claiming the top spot and Somalia the bottom.
Most of the top spots are taken by Scandinavian countries. ...[Read more]
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SA agents at Fort Lauderdale Airport ordered a family to get off a plane they had already boarded, saying that their eighteen-month-old child was on a no fly list as a terror suspect ....
The child ...[Read more]
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In a terror attack that is of the type that was quite common in Iraq during american occupation, at least 55 people have been killed and 372 others injured by two powerful blasts in the Syrian capital on Thursday morning. The car bombs detonated near a mi ...[Read more]
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U.S. and Yemeni officials say the supposed would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaida airliner plot was actually an informant working for the CIA.
The revelation, first reported by The Los Angeles Times, shows how the CIA was able to get its hands on a ...[Read more]
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