Russia moves to enact anti-gay law nationwide
(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, file) MOSCOW (AP) — Kissing his boyfriend during a protest in front of Russia’s parliament earned Pavel Samburov 30 hours of detention and the equivalent of a $16 fine on a...
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Algerian prime minister: Canadian coordinated Islamists’ attack on gas plant
A Canadian national coordinated the Islamist militant attack on a gas plant in Algeria where dozens of foreign workers were taken hostage and at least 37 were slain, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal told a Monday news...
Iran Resorts to Hangings in Public to Cut Crime
Photo Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/Fars, via Associated Press TEHRAN — An eerie silence filled the air as a crowd of around 300 gathered Sunday just before sunrise in a Tehran park. They awaited the arrival of...
Media Engage In Anti-Christian Witch Hunt
Photo found on Breitbart It’s more than a little troubling to know that Rev. Louie Giglio was ousted from President Obama’s Inauguration over a sermon he gave on the sin of homosexuality sometime in...
A Terrorist Homeland in North Africa
Photo Credit: AP Sahara Region Rife with Instability Similar to Mauritania is Mali’s eastern neighbor Niger. Ethnic Tuareg rebels have been fighting the central government in Niamey for years, and the terrorist group Al-Qaida...
Pakistan cleric’s party may take part in election
Photo Credit: REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (Reuters) – A cleric who has been pushing for electoral reforms in Pakistan will resort to street protests again if the government does not abide by an agreement that eased a political crisis,...
Islamists attack Algerian gas field, kill, kidnap foreigners
(Reuters) – Islamist militants attacked a gas production field in southern Algeria on Wednesday, kidnapping at least nine foreigners and killing two people including a French national during a dawn raid, local and company...
Mali conflict: French troops to face combat ‘within hours’
Trouble in store: French troops arrive at Bamako’s airport Photo: AP The ground assault reverses France’s earlier insistence that it would provide only air and logistical support for a military intervention, which would be led...
Prime Minister’s Arrest Ordered amid ‘Revolution’
Photo Credit: Spiegel Online, Hasnain Kazim Pakistan has plunged into a leadership crisis. As hundreds of thousands demonstrate against corruption, the country’s high court has ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Ashraf. Populist cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri...
France sends more troops to Mali as UN backs intervention
French soldiers from the French Navy Infantry Regiment after arriving in Bamako, Mali Photo: ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images Hollande, who arrived early on Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates, added that overnight strikes in Mali had...
