Hundreds of thousands of Iranians on Monday celebrated the 40th anniversary of the founding of their Islamic Republic – and the collapse of the U.S.-backed government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – as former First Lady, Michelle Obama notched an unlikely Iran-related milestone of her own: Her memoir has become a […]
The mayor of South Korea’s capital city announced he planned to shut down all remaining dog slaughterhouses after watching a cartoon about abandoned dogs.
The Duke of Edinburgh has voluntarily given up his driving licence just weeks after he crashed his Land Rover which sent two women to hospital.
Hundreds of strangers turned up in freezing conditions for the funeral of a hero Holocaust survivor after a rabbi’s plea on Facebook.
Jan Olszewski, a Polish anti-communist dissident and former prime minister, has died. He was 88.
Fifteen people were killed in China on the night of the Lunar New Year in two family tragedies, after one man started a fire and another went on a knife rampage.
Footage of security officers dragging a pregnant black woman off a Stockholm subway train and pinning her to a bench has caused an outcry in Sweden, raising questions about the treatment of minorities in a country often seen as a beacon of tolerance.
More than a dozen European Union countries endorsed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s interim president on Monday, piling the pressure on embattled President Nicolas Maduro to resign and clear the way for a new presidential election.
A car bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Somalia’s capital on Monday, killing 11 people and wounding 10 in an attack that police said was probably carried out by Islamist group al Shabaab.
MINDANAO, Philippines, February 4, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Christians in the insurgency-scarred southern Philippines who hoped for peace after the region won official status as an autonomous, Islamic sub-state last month received a mortifying message when Islamist terrorists bombed a Catholic cathedral on Jan. 27.
The devastation unleashed by ISIS in Iraq is still on display every day, long after the Islamic jihadists were driven out. And families who fled for their lives are still just clinging to life in the aftermath.
At least 60 people were killed by Islamic terrorists in northern Nigeria last week.
