Both Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC terror group chief “Timochenko” have been dropped from the shortlist of Nobel Peace Prize candidates after the nation rejected a peace deal that would have allowed the FARC to evolve into a political party.
A group of 18 Cuban men and women navigated off the island to Honduras, arriving in Central America on Tuesday morning, just as forecasts predicted Hurricane Matthew would be slamming into the Caribbean.
Three months into his presidency, more than three out of four Filipinos report being satisfied with Rodrigo Duterte’s time in office, an indication that the President’s profane tirades and austere war on drugs have not deterred supporters, and perhaps curried him favor with some who were skeptical of Duterte as a candidate.
The Iraqi television network Al Sumaria is reporting that the Islamic State has issued a fatwa against breeding cats indoors, a surprising move, given the pivotal role kittens have played in Islamic State propaganda, as well as the high regard for the species in the Quran.
The government of Iran has refused to hand over the 6-year-old daughter of Colombian national Sandra Meneses, who tricked her Iranian husband into a “vacation” back to her hometown of Cali in order to escape the myriad abuses she had endured while living with him in Iran.
Saudi Arabia began live-fire military exercises in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz this week, triggering a stern warning from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) to stay far away from Iranian waters.
The purge of suspected supporters of the July 15 failed coup against Recep Tayyip Erdogan has left Turkey’s military down hundreds of thousands of men, including nearly 200 generals, just as Erdogan seeks an expanded role in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria.
President Juan Manuel Santos has announced that, as the Colombian people voted “no” on a negotiated amnesty deal with the FARC terrorist group, Bogotá will be forced to end its ceasefire with the group at the end of the month.
While Russian-Syrian forces focus their efforts on bombing Sunni civilians in Aleppo city, far from any Islamic State strongholds, the U.S.-rebel alliance is closing in on the village of Dabiq, Syria, controlled by ISIS and believed by jihadists to be the future home of the Apocalypse.
Asked during Tuesday night’s Vice Presidential debate whether the threat of terrorism in the United States has increased or decreased in the past eight years, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine argued that the threat of terrorism has decreased “in some ways” because of the reduction in the number of deployed troops, the passage of the Iran nuclear deal, and the death of Osama bin Laden.
The Colombian government and leaders of the FARC terrorist organization have returned to negotiations following the narrow defeat of a brokered peace deal that would have allowed most FARC terrorists to return to civilian life without serving prison time and would have seen the group evolve into a Marxist political party.
During Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine asserted that, thanks to the nuclear deal with Iran known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA), the Iranian nuclear weapons program has indefinitely ceased to exist.
The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning the construction of a facility the Hurriyet newspaper has dubbed the “Turkish Pentagon,” in an attempt to concentrate the nation’s military leadership in one place and move various military hubs further away from the Turkish Parliament and other civilian authority centers.
Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte told his U.S. counterpart, President Barack Obama, to “go to hell” Tuesday, then ordered the European Union to “purgatory” because “hell is full already.”
At the inauguration of a new airport in southern Dhi Qar, Iraqi transportation minister Kadhem Finjan al-Hamami asserted that Sumerians, the members of an ancient Iraqi civilization, built “the first airports” and “Sumerian spaceships used to launch from here towards the other planets” 7,000 years ago.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte says Russian and Chinese diplomats have been very receptive of his many complaints about the United States, and he will continue to develop relations with the two rogue leftist states so long as they approve of his “bloody” war on drugs.
The group whose founder called “the most important leftist party in Latin America” suffered a tremendous electoral collapse on Sunday. Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) is now in charge of the mayorship of only one of the nation’s regional capitals, losing even its home city of Sao Paulo.
By a razor-thin margin, the Colombian people have rejected a peace deal that would have allowed one of the nation’s oldest narco-terrorist groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), to establish its own political party with drug money and many of its leaders to avoid prison time for human rights violations.
Chinese communist officials have admitted that diminishing the influence of the Dalai Lama, the highest authority in Buddhism, is their “highest priority” for governing Tibet, as Chinese state media attempts to elevate the profile of a rival, state-approved Buddhism authority.
Three Japanese governors have agreed to appear in a video depicting their lives as they carry an extra 16 pounds on their stomachs, simulating a pregnancy belly and an amply developed bosom, in a video intended to encourage men to do their fair share of household chores.
An indigenous tribe deep in the Amazon jungle has burned an elderly woman alive on charges of “witchcraft.” While Peruvian authorities say these accusations are not uncommon among natives, this case is unique because a witness recorded the immolation on a mobile phone.
In a rambling speech accusing the United States and the European Union of “hypocrisy,” Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte compared himself to German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, saying he would be “happy to slaughter” as many “drug addicts” as Hitler massacred Jewish people.
Turkey appears to be thawing its previously challenging relationship with Russia just as disagreements about the role of the Syrian Kurdish militias in the fight against the Islamic State have become a point of contention with the United States.
A spokesman for the Chinese Defense Ministry has warned the Japanese government to abandon its plans to seek a greater role in freedom of navigation exercises in the South China Sea, suggesting that Japan’s interest is “playing with fire” and that China’s military is prepared to subdue any challengers in the region.
Venezuela has largely run out of food. It has also run out of medicine and basics like toilet paper, soap, and laundry detergent. The situation has become so dire after 17 years of socialist rule, CNN reports, that Venezuelans with the means to do so are now traveling to the United States just to stock up on food and toilet paper.
Philippines Senator Manny Pacquiao – better known internationally as one of the most successful prize fighters of the 21st century – has vowed his full support for President Rodrigo Duterte and his war on drugs, asserting that he believes that God sent Duterte to save the nation.
Mohammad Rahami, father of New Jersey jihadist Ahmed Khan Rahami, has told ABC News that his wife and another son have been detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and flown back to their native Afghanistan, where they are currently detained.
The full details of the “domestic incident” that led the father of Ahmed Khan Rahami to report him to the FBI as a potential terrorist have now been revealed after multiple information demands from local and national media.
A Kremlin spokesman said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is finalizing plans to visit Turkey in October, a nation with whom relations have been tense following repeated violations of Turkish airspace that resulted in the downing of a Russian jet over Turkey.
Members of the Venezuelan anti-socialist opposition are warning that the peace deal with the Marxist terror group FARC in neighboring Colombia could result in a flood of absolved terrorists looking to rebuild their operation in Venezuela, a nation already bludgeoned by the world’s highest inflation rate and a severe food shortage.
