An Indian woman who wrote a memoir about escaping the Taliban in 1995 has been murdered by Taliban terrorists after she returned to the country according to police.
Sushmita Banerjee, whose book about her dramatic 1995 escape was turned into a 2003 Bollywood movie, was executed outside her home in Paktika province while her family was tied up inside her house. Continue reading
A Syrian rebel group with connections to the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda attacked the historically Christian village of Maaloula Wednesday starting with a homicide bomber from the Jabhat al-Nusra group blowing himself up at a government checkpoint according to the Observatory for Human Rights.
The rebels then seized the checkpoint and a mountaintop hotel that was used as a base to bomb Christian churches throughout the town. A Jewish temple was also damaged in the bombing assault. Continue reading
Doctors Without Borders is raising an alarm about an almost 100% increase in the amount of malaria cases within a region of Chad.
DWB says the number of people coming into clinics for consultations who have malaria is running around 80% when the usual number for this time of year is less than 40%. Continue reading
The Alliance Defending Freedom is calling for an investigation into Planned Parenthood of Northern New England after saying they are ignoring FDA regulations by distributing abortion inducing drugs past the time approved by the FDA.
Planned Parenthood had been advertising that they can provide the drugs for 14 days longer than the approved time period given by the FDA. Continue reading
Tropical Storm Gabrielle roared into Puerto Rico with heavy rain and winds causing downed trees and power lines.
Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla activated the national guard and closed all public schools and government agencies as a precaution against the storm. Continue reading
Egypt’s interior minister survived an assassination attempt early Thursday.
A convoy carrying Mohammed Ibrahim was struck by a car bomb just after 10:30 a.m. local time near Ibrahim’s home in Nasr City. Several of the minister’s protective detail was wounded in the assault. Continue reading
Four children of a homeschooling family in Germany had their home raided and their children taken by the government because the parents refused to stop homeschooling the kids.
Germany bans homeschooling claiming that children cannot function in society unless they are exposed to “different points of view” as mandated by the government. The head of the regional youth services department told the BBC the children had to be seized to guarantee their right to education. Continue reading
Chinese government officials admitted the collection of at least 100 tons of poisoned fish from a river after what they term an industrial accident.
The recovery process is still ongoing and the amount of dead fish is likely to rise. Continue reading
A day after the Japanese government announced plans to fund an “ice wall” to keep radioactive material from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor facility from reaching the ocean, officials admitted that radiation levels at the site of a leak is 20% higher than previously mentioned.
The current level around the most recent leak is 2200 millisieverts, enough to give a lethal dose of radiation to a human without hours if they had no protective materials. Continue reading
Police were forced to take action when Muslims threw rocks at Jews visiting the Temple Mount.
Several arrests were made when the attackers began to riot. Continue reading
