Terrorists detonated a “massive” roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan killing 18 people who were on a bus going to a wedding party.
Mostly women and children were killed. Continue reading
Terrorists detonated a “massive” roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan killing 18 people who were on a bus going to a wedding party.
Mostly women and children were killed. Continue reading
At least 14 soldiers were killed when al-Qaeda terrorists launched an assault on a military base in southern Yemen. The dawn attack began with a terrorist car bombing followed by fierce fighting between troops and terrorists.
The attack is possibly in response to a US drone attack on Thursday that killed seven terrorists. Security officials reported the terrorists had been meeting at a farm outside of the city of Jaar. Continue reading
Uruguay has become the second country in Latin America to legalize abortion. The other nation is communist Cuba.
The measure is causing major divisions within the predominantly Roman Catholic country. The Uruguayan Senate approved the bill 17-14 to allow abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The bill was a compromise between enough pro-choice and anti-abortion legislators to pass the bill. Continue reading
A man who thought he was about to set off a thousand pound bomb in front of the Federal Reserve building in New York was arrested by the FBI Wednesday. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis of Bangladesh came to the US with the sole purpose of carrying out a terrorist attack according to FBI reports.
The FBI said there was never a threat to citizens as they had been keeping Nafis under observation. Continue reading
Officials say 11 people are dead and another 10 missing after a landslide in northern Peru.
More than a dozen homes were destroyed when flooding caused an avalanche of mud and rocks to sweep into the village of El Porvenir.
“At least five children are among the dead,” provincial mayor Ronald Garcia said. In addition Garcia said entire families are missing. Continue reading
A 4.0 earthquake centered about 3 miles from Hollis Center, Maine shook buildings to the point residents rushed into the streets. However, no serious property damage or injuries resulted from the quake.
“It was the loudest bang you ever heard in your life,” Jessica Hill, owner of Waterboro House of Pizza, told the Associated Press. “We actually thought it was an explosion of some type. The back door and the door to the basement blew open.” Continue reading
A Taliban attack on a joint NATO/Afghan Army base has injured at least 45 troops.
The lone terrorist drove a vehicle packed with explosives to the gates of the base in Zurmat. Most of the wounded soldiers were hit with shards of broken glass. All of the wounded are reportedly Afghani soldiers. Continue reading
Terrorists launched a grenade attack that injured at least 10 Kenyan police officers was apparently carried out in retaliation for Kenyan military assistance to troops in Somalia fighting the al-Shabab Islamic terrorist organization.
The officers were assaulted as they searched a house near Mombasa for weapons. They were attacked after finding an AK-47 rifle and two grenades. Continue reading
Germany has called on the other members of the European Union to consider giving up more of their country’s economic sovereignty to the collective Union.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is proposing that the EU create an “EU Economic and Monetary Commissioner” who will have power to regulate the national budgets of individual member nations. The Commissioner would have the ability to veto a nation’s budget if it breaks established EU deficit rules. Continue reading
“We are entering a new era of rising food prices and spreading hunger. Food supplies are tightening everywhere and land is becoming the most sought-after commodity as the world shifts from an age of food abundance to one of scarcity. The geopolitics of food is fast overshadowing the geopolitics of oil.”
Those chilling words from Lester Brown of the Earth policy research center in Washington come as the United Nations is reporting that grain reserves worldwide have reached such a critical point that extreme weather in the United States or other major food exporting nations next year could cause a major hunger crisis. Continue reading