Graham’s statement that Christians are being murdered in Muslim nations is not entirely false – but he is greatly exaggerating the problem’s true dimensions.
Somalia is not the only country known for inflicting such horror on children. During a period of intensified Palestinian–Israeli violence that started in 2000, gunmen surrounded themselves with children while shooting on Israeli forces. Various other reports have also suggested that the Taliban used women and children from their own communities as human shields against coalition forces around the year 2006.
Two Western journalists were reported to have been killed in Syria Wednesday after government forces shelled the restive central city of Homs, Associated Press reported.
With the situation in Syrian continually worsening, the United Nations is still trying to select who will serve as a special envoy to the county.
Mugabe, who turned 88 on Tuesday, shrugged off international criticism of his economic and human rights record, telling state television, At this age I can still go some distance, can't I.
Whitney Houston's life and turmoil have been in the headlines since the superstar singer died suddenly on Feb. 11 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Many looked back on her years of drugs use and blamed Bobby Brown for the downward spiral. However, rumors are now surfacing that Houston's break-up with lesbian partner Robyn Crawford caused her emotional descent.
Under Israeli laws, such an inmate can be held indefinitely without trial or even formal charges.
Some of these youths, who have been abducted from their homes and schools, have been subjected to rape and forced marriage.
Prominent human rights activist, Zainab al-Khawaja, was released from detention on Tuesday. She was taken into custody about a week ago after attempting to approach the Pearl Roundabout in commemoration of last year's first uprisings against Bahrain's authoritarian regime.
Millions of iPhones have been sold to date, and yet, no outsider knows that how these devices are made. Not until now, but things are going to change - the secret is going to be revealed on Tuesday edition of NightLine, a show on ABC News.
Peter Tatchell, a prominent gay rights activist, has been in news for the past several days mostly because he said that the late singer Whitney Houston was secretly gay and that her marriage to Bobby Brown was a smokescreen.
An Ecuadorean court Monday defied an international arbitration panel's request that the country prevent plaintiffs from collecting on billions of dollars in environmental damages from Chevron Corp.
The rebel spokesman added that the captured men are safe, but did not disclose their exact location.
At least 44 inmates were killed during a prison riot near the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Sunday.
In Myanmar's new war on drugs, meet the weapon of mass destruction: the weed-whacker. It has dramatically accelerated a campaign to eradicate opium poppies.
Police and regime militia patrols fanned out in Damascus' Mezze district Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have threatened his grip on the capital, opposition activists said.
Police and militia patrols fanned out in the Syrian capital's Mezze district on Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have threatened his grip on Damascus, opposition activists said.
The revelations this week that Google, Twitter, and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have prompted criticism by privacy advocates and lawmakers, along with apologies by the companies.
Amnesty International describes the situation in northern Mali as the country’s worst crisis in two decades.
China’s Vice President Xi Jinping, on the last day of a much-ballyhooed five-day trip through the United States, said the Chinese economy will avoid a “hard landing” this year and maintain stable growth.
Zimbabwe reacted strongly to the European Union's decision to renew sanctions on President Robert Mugabe's government on Friday. Despite the lift on travel bans and asset freezes on 51 people connected to Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, Zimbabwean leadership is still furious that the illegal sanctions are still in place .
American threats to suspend aid to the Egyptian government could endanger Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel, the most powerful party in Egypt's newly elected parliament warned on Thursday.
