Ukraine Begins Artillery Withdrawal, Recognizing Truce Is Holding
By Peter Graff KIEV, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Ukraine announced on Thursday that it would begin withdrawing artillery from the front line with separatist rebels in the east, a move…
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‘Jihadi John’ Reportedly Identified As Mohammed Emwazi
* Jihadi John named in Washington Post * From well-to-do London family * Known to counterterrorism officials (Adds more details of report) – No comment was immediately available from the…
Man Known as ‘Jihadi John’ Is Identified as Mohammed Emwazi
LONDON — The man in the black balaclava who has seemed to have beheaded several foreign hostages in Islamic State videos has been identified by British security services as Mohammed…
‘Jihadi John’ identified, Reuters reports, citing Washington Post and BBC
The identity of the man, who’s become widely known as “Jihadi John,” was confirmed to the Post by one of Emwazi’s close friends, it reported. London’s Metropolitan Police declined to…
Deadly Attacks in Xinjiang Go Unreported in China
Had these incidents taken place in the United States or Europe, they would have dominated the news for days, if not weeks, and prompted extensive nationwide discussions about how, and…
‘Jihadi John’: The Islamic State Killer Behind The Mask Is A Young Londoner
The world knows him as “Jihadi John,” the masked man with a British accent who has beheaded several hostages held by the Islamic State and who taunts audiences in videos…
Dumping subway trains into the ocean … in a good way
Over 2,500 New York subway cars have been used to create an underwater reef for crustaceans and fish in the Atlantic. Over a period of three years, photographer Stephen Mallon…
Worst Avalanches In Decades Kill 186 In Afghanistan
By Mirwais Harooni KABUL, Feb 26 (Reuters) – More than 180 people have been killed in north Afghanistan in some of the worst avalanches there for 30 years, officials said…
Feeling the heat: West combats extremists’ advance in Africa’s deserts
The back of the C-130 opens to a blast of suffocating heat. Down the plane’s ramp and past the glare of the narrow asphalt runway is an endless horizon of…
Numbers Of Christians Abducted In Syria By Islamic State Rises To 220, Monitor Says
BEIRUT, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three day offensive, a monitor that tracks…
3 men try to join ISIS: Here’s what we know
Their arrests took place in New York and Florida. Abror Habibov, Akhror Saidakhmetov and Abdurasul Juraboev are accused by the federal government of attempting to join ISIS and of fostering…
Kabul Explosion Rattles Windows In Diplomatic Quarter
KABUL, Feb 26 (Reuters) – An explosion rattled windows in the diplomatic quarter of the heavily fortified Afghan capital on Thursday morning, sending the city’s embassies onto high alert. “This…
Kabul Explosion Rattles Windows In Diplomatic Quarter
KABUL, Feb 26 (Reuters) – An explosion rattled windows in the diplomatic quarter of the heavily fortified Afghan capital on Thursday morning, sending the city’s embassies onto high alert. “This…
Stunning turnaround: Qantas is profitable again
On Thursday, Australia’s national carrier announced an after-tax interim profit of A$206 million (US$161 million) for the second of half of 2014. The airline group “is now targeting A$675 million…
From storytelling on film to storytelling in clay — a journalist finds her inner artist
These days however, the Emmy-Award winning reporter spends her time painting watercolors and crafting sculptures in her studio in the bay area of San Francisco. After a fruitful career in…
World Cup winner Cannavaro faces jail after swimming in his own pool
The retired footballer, who captained Italy to World Cup glory in 2006, had been ordered to stay out of his Naples address after prosecutors claimed that elements of the property…
United Airlines warns pilots after review shows mistakes in cockpit
A review of United flight operations data, which details safety incidents involving United pilots and aircraft, prompted the warning, according to an airline official. READ: Southwest planes grounded over missing…
‘Too terrified to travel’: A new normal for Hong Kong’s ‘Occupy Generation’?
Glacier Kwong is an 18-year-old student activist and founder of Keyboard Frontline, which campaigns for internet freedom. She spent two months on the streets of Hong Kong last year, taking…
The names: This is who ISIS has recruited from the West
Those are the numbers; albeit, they’re estimates. But who is actually going? What are their names? What do they look like, where are they from and — perhaps most importantly…
Greek Leader Criticized On Austerity Concessions
Greece’s prime minister held a marathon meeting with his party’s lawmakers Wednesday, briefing them on pledges made to European creditors to win a four-month extension of the country’s bailout amid…
Rob Ford Auctions Off Items
Anyone interested in buying a piece of Rob Ford history now has the chance to do so. – Ford’s assistant has said Ford would be selling some items, but didn’t say how many…
What Bill O’Reilly owes America
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, grappling with accusations that he embellished and/or fabricated reports placing him at the center of dramatic news events, tipped his hand more than he realized…
In Case of L’Oréal Heiress, a Private World of Wealth Becomes Public
BORDEAUX, France — For five weeks, a French version of “Downton Abbey” has been unfolding in a courtroom here, providing a rare glimpse into the discreet lives of the ultrarich….
Winston Churchill’s blood to be auctioned
A UK auction house is taking the former prime minister’s words literally. Duke’s auction house has announced it will auction a vial of Churchill’s blood, taken during a hospital stay…
Time to silence terrorists on social media
Reports Wednesday that three men have been arrested over plans to travel from New York to join ISISand that one of them allegedly posted online about his desire to shoot…
Dimitar Berbatov strikes as Arsenal faces Champions League exit
Bulgarian international Dimitar Berbatov now plays for AS Monaco and scored the second goal in the French side’s shock 3-1 win in the last 16, first leg tie Wednesday. On…
How Many Americans Have Traveled To Syria To Join ISIS?
U.S. officials said on Wednesday they have thwarted the plans of three New Yorkers to join the Islamic State militant group in Syria, once again highlighting the risks posed by…
Putin aide predicts relations ‘renaissance’ … if Russian ‘national interests’ rights respected
“Let’s be frank. Quite unexpectedly lots of water has passed under the bridges since that time,” he said with a wry laugh. “We have witnessed a tremendous clash of interests,”…
Why Obama did GOP a favor on Keystone veto
When Barack Obama issued just the third veto of his presidency on Tuesday, of a bill allowing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, Republicans were outraged, or at least pretended…
Eye on ISIS: 150 held in Syria; 3 arrested in U.S. in alleged plot
Here are some of the latest headlines: Activist: Lives of 150 Christian hostages in danger ISIS is holding 150 Assyrian Christians as hostages in Syria, and will threaten to kill…