Princess Diana Was Allegedly Pregnant With Dodi Fayed’s Baby When She Died In Paris Car CrashThe Inquisitr 2015-01-11
Now, some 18 years later, a new West End play, which opened in London last week, entitled, Truth, Lies, Diana, alleges, among other things, that indeed the future King of England’s mother was carrying a “Muslim baby,” as noted in the “factional” production. The director of the play, Jon Conway, who also appears in it, wrote the play using transcripts from the inquest...
ISIS hacks Pentagon accounts: 'We are coming'WorldNetDaily 2015-01-13
Hackers purporting to be affiliated with the Islamic State seized control of social media accounts of the U.S. military’s Central Command on Monday, posting messages such as “CyberCaliphate” and “i love you isis.” One message posted on Twitter warned, “AMERICAN SOLDIERS, WE ARE COMING, WATCH YOUR BACK.” Centcom is responsible for leading the U.S. military...
Nigeria's ignored massacre: 2,000 slaughtered by Boko Haram, 30,000 flee their homesBelfast Telegraph 2015-01-12
One of Africa's most senior church leaders has accused the West of ignoring the threat of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, days after the reported slaughter of up to 2,000 people by the group. Ignatius Kaigama, the Catholic Archbishop of Jos and president of the Nigerian Bishops Conference, spoke as bodies lay strewn on the ground in Baga, in north-east Nigeria, after a surge by Boko Haram...
Divers retrieve 2nd black box from AirAsia crashPhiladelphia Daily News 2015-01-13
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) - Divers retrieved the crashed AirAsia plane's second black box from the bottom of the Java Sea on Tuesday, giving experts essential tools to piece together what brought Flight 8501 down. The cockpit voice recorder was freed from beneath the heavy remnants of a wing at a depth of about 30 meters (100 feet), a day after the aircraft's flight data recorder was...
Rubin: Saudi flogging, Paris murders have same rootsBoston Herald 2015-01-13
On Friday, the day French police killed the terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo, the liberal Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was publicly flogged in Jeddah for insulting Islam. The two cases are bookends. The terrorists, who apparently had links to al-Qaeda and ISIS, murdered 10 journalists in the name of Islam because the journalists “insulted” the prophet Muhammad. Badawi, a brave...
Pegida marches: 25,000 join anti-Islamification protests in Germany following Paris attacksThe Independent 2015-01-13
Germany's growing anti-Islamic protest movement registered some of its largest attendance figures on Monday with 25,000 supporters turning out in what organisers described as a tribute to the victims of the terror attacks in Paris. Pegida, which stands for "Patriotic Europeans against Islamisation of the West", asked supporters marching through Dresden to wear black ribbons in respect...
Kerry praises Pakistan operation, more work to be doneKhaleej Times 2015-01-13
"The operation is not yet complete but already the results are significant. Pakistani soldiers and their commanders deserve enormous credit," Kerry said. US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday praised the Pakistani military’s operation against militants in the country’s northwest, saying the results are “significant,” but cautioned that more work needs to be done....
World leaders head Paris march to honor terror victimsThe State 2015-01-11
PARIS — More than 40 world leaders, their arms linked, marched through Paris Sunday to rally for unity and freedom of expression and to honor 17 victims of three days of terrorist attacks. The leaders were heading a demonstration of at least tens of thousands of people who converged on the capital after three gunmen attacked a newspaper office, kosher supermarket and police. Deafening...
Living among Gaza's deadAl Jazeera 2015-01-13
Hesham el-Moghraby stands in the centre of his living room, looking down at two large tombs. He takes his baseball cap off, runs one hand over his head, and puts the cap back on. "There is no other place that I know," Moghraby tells Al Jazeera from inside his family's dark shack, which brims with piles of salvaged tyres, firewood, plastic tubing, old shoes and scraps of metal. This is Moghraby's...
EU changes rules on GM crop cultivationBBC News 2015-01-13
The EU has given governments more power to decide whether to plant genetically modified (GM) crops, which are highly restricted in Europe. The European Parliament has passed a new law giving states more flexibility by a big majority. A type of maize - MON 810 - is the only GM crop grown commercially in the EU. Although Euro MPs and ministers have agreed to give states more flexibility, EU...
U.S. CENTCOM Twitter, YouTube Hacked, Apparently by IS GroupChosun Ilbo 2015-01-12
The Twitter and YouTube accounts belonging to U.S. Central Command were taken over briefly by hackers who say they are loyal to the Islamic State group. The Twitter account on Monday posted threats to U.S. soldiers, warning "We are coming watch your back. ISIS." Follow-up tweets included links to documents that appeared to contain the telephone numbers, email addresses, and home addresses of...
Canadian police make third terror arrestPhiladelphia Daily News 2015-01-12
TORONTO (AP) - Canadian police have arrested a third man in an alleged terrorist conspiracy. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday that 21-year-old Suliman Mohamed has been charged with participating in the activity of a terrorist group. On Friday, twin brothers linked to Mohamed, Ashton Carleton Larmond and Carlos Larmond, were charged with terrorism-related offences. Carlos Larmond was...
Egyptian Court Overturns Hosni Mubarak's Final ConvictionNational Public Radio 2015-01-13
8:05 AM ET Eyder Peralta Twitter i i A supporter of ousted President Hosni Mubarak reacts in a courtroom to a verdict ordering a retrial in Cairo on Tuesday. Ahmed Abd El-Gwad/AP hide caption itoggle caption Ahmed Abd El-Gwad/AP A supporter of ousted President Hosni Mubarak reacts in a courtroom to a verdict ordering a retrial in Cairo on Tuesday. Ahmed Abd El-Gwad/AP An Egyptian court has thrown...
Cristiano Ronaldo wins 3rd FIFA Player of the Year awardBoston Herald 2015-01-13
ZURICH — Cristiano Ronaldo hopes his third FIFA Player of the Year award brought him closer to being remembered as one of soccer's all-time greats. The Portuguese forward, who led Real Madrid to its record 10th European title, received 37.66 percent of votes of national team coaches and captains and selected media to add to the FIFA awards he won in 2008 and 2013. He matched Zinedine...
Ronaldo on top of the world againDeccan Herald 2015-01-12
Real Madrid’s Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo won the Ballon dO’r for the third time at a glittering ceremony here on Monday night. Ronaldo, who was the winner last year as well as in 2008, edged out two other contenders, Barcelona’s Argentine ace Lionel Messi and German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, in the vote for the World Player of the Year. Ronaldo was the favourite for the...
Pope Francis touches down in Sri Lanka for 'mercy mission'The Independent 2015-01-13
Pope Francis brought calls for reconciliation as well as justice as he arrived in Sri Lanka at the start of a weeklong Asian tour, saying the island nation can't fully heal from a quarter-century of ethnic civil war without pursuing the truth about abuses that were committed. In a show of ethnic coexistence, the pope's welcoming ceremony at Colombo's airport featured traditional dancers and...
We’re Not All CharlieCounterPunch 2015-01-12
L’affaire Charlie Hebdo has reached its denouement, leaving a score of people dead and many controversies in its wake. First, off the bat, let’s establish that we believe there should be no death penalty for expression of opinion, no matter how repellent. All too often in the news lately we’ve seen losers who have access to heavy weapons displaying their angst at the point of a gun with tragic...