Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa is continuing to face backlash after his latest incident of using controversial language that sparked outrage across the nation. King has been notorious for years for tossing out racially-charged soundbites, but he still won re-election in Iowa last November. Now, however, it looks as if things may be changing. As the Inquisitr recently detailed, […]

Political protests in Tunisia are disrupting the hospitality industry, the latest in a series of blows to tourism in the country. The Tunisian government is hoping a boost in aid to poorer families will help contain growing discontent over new austerity measures. It has pledged an extra $70m after protests swept across the country. Al Jazeera met Iskandar Zribi, an […]

Millions of faithful Orthodox Christians around the world have attended midnight mass, from Belarus to Ethiopia. Millions of faithful Orthodox Christians around the world have attended midnight mass, from Belarus to Ethiopia. Orthodox Christians follow the old Julian calendar and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on the seventh of January. Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid reports. Source: Read Full […]

UN report blames a ‘deficient of leadership’ as one of the problems of the increase of peacekeeper fatalities. A new UN report on the upsurge of peacekeepers killed has blamed the global body’s leadership and member states for failing to adapt and undertake the measures required to operate in unsafe environments. Since 1948, 943 peacekeepers have been killed due to acts […]

CIA and Mossad agents planned the unrest in Iran with financial support from Saudi Arabia, chief prosecutor says. A CIA agent was the “main projector” of deadly demonstrations in Iran with assistance from Israel and Saudi Arabia, the country’s chief prosecutor alleged on Thursday. Planning for the plot – dubbed “Consequential Convergence Doctrine” – was initiated four years ago by […]

‘Jealous boyfriend’ is named as arsonist who died in house blaze after ‘stabbing to death ex-girlfriend and another man’ on New Year’s Day Detectives said Ashley Martin, 32, would have been a suspect over the house fire Jay Edmunds, 27, and Billy Hicks, 24, also died in the blaze in Kirton, Lincolnshire  Their families paid tribute to the ‘vibrant’ and […]

The woman was filmed dangling the baby above the floor and then dropping it and then violently rocks it from side to side before throwing the infant on the sofa. Recorded on Monday, the hired help was caught physically abusing the 10-month-old in a home in Changsha, capital of Central China’s Hunan Province. According to local reports, the nanny is said […]

New posters being plastered on numerous bus shelters in West Hamilton and Dundas are being called the latest example of the “hard right” on the rise in Canada. That’s the word from Bernie Farber, the chairman of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. The posters read, “Defend Canada, Join the fight.” They are sponsored by a group called ID Canada. The group’s […]

People in the port city are resorting to rummaging through rubbish to find food as the fate of millions of Yemenis facing famine rests with the Saudi-led coalition. People in the port city of Hodeidah, situated on the Red Sea, are resorting to rummaging through rubbish to find food. UN aid agencies are calling for the city’s port to stay […]

The offensive was prompted by the murder of 14 villagers in a suspected illegal-timber-trafficking dispute last week, but the rebels are denying responsibility for the massacre. Senegal’s military is continuing to target rebel hideouts in the south of the country. They’re looking for the killers of 14 villagers who died in a massacre in the southern region of Casamance last […]