TORONTO – A Canadian freelance journalist who was held by kidnappers for 15 months in Somalia seven years ago says the Somali man who Canadian police arrested last week terrorized her mother by calling to Canada multiple times a day at all hours in an effort to extract a ransom. …
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SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni security officials and witnesses say al-Qaida fighters have publicly shot to death six Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, in a town north of Aden. The witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said al-Qaida made the captured Houthi fighters, who were in their …
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A researcher may have uncovered the oldest written references to Moses, dating back 3,800 years and hidden in an Egyptian desert. The two etchings were found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise mining site in the Sinai Desert where Semitic laborers once worked during the Middle Bronze Age. The Proto-Sinaitic …
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A court in Switzerland sentenced a writer and commentator to 60 days in jail for calling a journalist a “fat lesbian,” and the decision is being lauded by LGBTQ+ groups. On Monday, French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, was sentenced by the Lausanne court for the crimes …
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Israel has announced Friday that fresh airstrikes in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon have killed terrorists and targeted military infrastructure belonging to the militant groups of Hamas and Hezbollah. In a series of posts on X, the Israeli air force said overnight that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “attacked over …
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A University of Massachusetts Amherst student was arrested after allegedly punching a Jewish student and spitting on the Israeli flag the student was holding. The incident took place Friday night at the end of a vigil organized by UMass Hillel in which students called for the release of the more …
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KATHMANDU, Nepal – A court official in Nepal says a Canadian tourist with several previous child sex convictions has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing a minor boy. The Lalitpur district court said that Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh, 71, from the province of Nova Scotia, was also …
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has always been a heavily male bureaucracy, and statistics released on the eve of International Women’s Day now back that up. As of last year, only 18 percent of Holy See employees were women, up from 17 percent four years ago. In the separately administered …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian state television is reporting the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader has appointed a former general in the country’s Revolutionary Guard as the nation’s new police chief. The report Monday said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei replaced Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam with Gen. Hossein Ashtari for a three-year term. Moghaddam …
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BERLIN – Germany’s highest court has struck down a state’s ban on teachers wearing headscarves as unconstitutional, saying that it violates guaranteed religious freedoms. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled Friday in favor of two female Muslim teachers from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in a decision that will also apply …
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