A militant group linked to Al-Qaeda took responsibility for an attack on a mall in an upscale district of Nairobi, Kenya that lasted four days. At least sixty-one civilians, six Kenyan Special Forces soldiers, and five of the attackers were…

A gang-related shooting at a neighborhood basketball court in Chicago left up to 13 people injured, including a 3-year old child. A witness said that dreadlocked men fired from a gray sedan. “They’ve been coming round here looking for people…

Pope Francis recently granted a papal audience to the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Algirdas Butkevičius. The two men discussed the “contributions of the Catholic Church in the social and educational fields in Lithuania.” They also discussed “improving awareness of spiritual…

On September 17, 2013 Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old civilian U.S. Navy IT contractor entered the Navy Shipyard in Washington DC and began killing people with a shotgun, 9mm pistol and a AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Thirteen people died including Alexis (killed…

The U.S. Treasury Department and the IRS have declared that all same-sex couples who are legally married will be recognized as such for federal tax purposes, even if the state where they live does not recognize their union. The ruling…

Yingluck Shinawatra, the Prime Ministers of Thailand visited Pope Francis in the Vatican. She also met with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the papal secretary of state, and Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States. The Prime Minister and the Pope…

Israel recently signed an agreement with Greece and Cyprus that will link the three countries’ electricity grids via a 2000-mega-watt underwater cable. By doing this, energy will also be exported from Israel to the European continent. But cooperation on electricity…

Bolivia’s president Evo Morales met with Pope Francis to help pave the way for improved relations between Bolivia and the Vatican. Morales described the meeting as “very positive.” Roman Catholic Morales began the discussion by saying, “For me you are…

Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President at the recent G-20 meeting and urged him to move the trans-Atlantic trade agreement forward on his end. The trade agreement, which is the foundation of…

Federal officials released previously classified documents, which reveal that the U.S. National Security Agency misused phone records it secretly collected from millions of Americans. The misuse involved 15,000 phone records in 2009 that had been identified for further scrutiny without…

The Vatican is working all diplomatic, political and popular angles to prevent an attack on the Syrian dictatorship by the United States and its allies. The United States has tried to justify a strike on the basis of human rights…

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been able to crack much of the encryption which protects the privacy of emails, documents, web searches, internet chats, and phone calls of Americans and others around the world. The agency used a…