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VENEZUELA - Looters have all but emptied stores and warehouses across western Venezuela as large parts of the country remain without power more than a week after a mass blackout. The mobs overwhelmed Venezuela’s security forces and…

NEW ZEALAND – Police said they are evacuating and searching a “location of interest” in Dunedin, New Zealand, after shootings at two mosques Friday in Christchurch, which is hours away from Dunedin. “This is a location of…

In her short life, Karina Janveau, 24, had her fair share of hardship and that was before she met Farhan. Her parents divorced when she was nine, her mother killed herself at Christmas, she had a partially paralyzed leg, a crippled arm…

BEIJING – China is trying to stem an economic slowdown, including rising unemployment, continuing into the first two months of 2019 after documenting its worst year of economic growth in nearly 30 years in 2018. Beijing is…

AUSTRALIA - An Australian court sentenced the most senior Catholic cleric convicted of child sexual abuse to six years in prison Wednesday. Cardinal George Pell, former Vatican finance minister and adviser to Pope Francis,…

ROME - Italy’s Justice Ministry will investigate a court’s 2017 ruling acquitting two men of rape convictions after it found the victim was too ugly to be a credible witness. The Ministry of Justice ordered a preliminary inquiry as…

WASHINGTON – Pilots flying in the U.S. have filed at least five complaints on planes of the same model that crashed in Ethiopia on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board. Federal records contain at least five…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYIsQA35P0I ISRAEL - Maimed and disabled animals are finding sanctuary at a farm in Israel created as an education center for visitors to learn about the treatment of animals. Animal rights…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNejN0dyOUo AUSTRALIA - Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Catholic clergyman ever convicted of child sex crimes, will face a rare live court broadcast Wednesday as he appears before a judge in…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4ZTFBcDf4&t=16s WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday he is pulling remaining U.S. embassy staffers from Venezuela because of the country’s worsening situation. “The U.S.…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkLtXz-XP08 SCOTLAND - The IRA claimed responsibility for four letter bombs found in London and Glasgow Tuesday, telling police there is a fifth explosive that has yet to be found. The four devices…

HONG KONG – China lashed back Saturday at the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom’s claim that Beijing is “at war with faith,” calling it slander. Sam Brownback urged China in a Friday speech in Hong…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdz3cPuLKww PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron is planning a sweeping energy and climate legislative package months after “yellow vest” protests ignited across the country over a proposed gas tax…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI5hEPkZx98 INDONESIA - China and other countries are grounding planes following a crash that killed 157 people, including eight Americans, Sunday. Boeing’s stock went down by approximately 7 percent…

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration warned the German government that the U.S. may not share intelligence with Germany if the country continues using Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei to build up its fifth generation…

LONDON – Malaysian authorities released Monday one of two women accused of assassinating Kim Jong Un’s half-brother with VX nerve agent after prosecutors dropped her charges. Malaysian Attorney General Tommy Thomas said…

ETHIOPIA - An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed soon after taking off from Ethiopia’s capital Sunday morning, killing all 157 passengers and crew members on board. The passengers included eight Americans, Fox News reported. The…

FRANCE – Cardinal Philippe Barbarin offered his resignation Thursday to Pope Francis after a French court convicted him of failing to report a pedophile priest. Barbarin is the first cardinal to face trial on charges of…

VENEZUELA - Venezuela’s embattled socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro and his subordinates blamed the country’s widespread power outages on sabotage, cyberattacks and even Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Maduro’s rival Juan…

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is preparing more sanctions on Venezuela as Nicolas Maduro refuses to step down as president of the South American country, sources told S&P Global Platts. President Donald Trump placed…

ENGLAND - A horde of 200 vegans stormed a farm in Lincolnshire, England, to protest animal cruelty but caused a stampede that crushed piglets, according to the farmer. Farmer Sylvia Hook said the mob of vegans from the…

LONDON - A second individual suffering from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) appears to have been cured, marking a major breakthrough in scientific advancement that could mean the elimination of the disease in the future. Twelve…

STRASBOURG - Vandals defaced a former synagogue in eastern France with swastikas in the latest of a series of anti-Semitic desecrations plaguing the region. Staff at the synagogue-turned-sports-facility in the town of Mommenheim…

SILICON VALLEY – Google is reportedly refusing to remove a feature in the company’s app store allowing Saudi men to track the whereabouts of women, according to online outlet Insider. Google reviewed the Absher app and…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump used Twitter on Sunday to weigh in on the U.S. and South Korea’s decision to end their annual large-scale joint military exercises. “The reason I do not want military drills with South Korea is to…

Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar with Pope Francis meeting with the members of the Muslim Council of Elders last month, at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, ahead of an interfaith conference, as part of the…

Screenshot of the employment section of the Open Society Foundation website with George Soros added from the Festival of the Economy of Trento, 2018 photo by Niccolò Caranti, Wikipedia Commons. WASHINGTON – Money tied to George…

Dr Idowu-Fearon (Center) at Lambeth Palace with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (left) and the chair of the Anglican Consultative Council, Bishop Jame Tengatenga. Credit: Lambeth Palace ENGLAND - Liberal and traditionalist bishops…