Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
NATO kicks off naval drills in Black Sea with Ukraine
Posted on Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Ukraine is hosting naval military exercise in the Black Sea with NATO forces, involving 2,500 troops and some 150 military vehicles, from warships and helicopters to armored cars.
China and Russia are using hacked data to target U.S. spies, officials say
Posted on Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Foreign spy services, especially in China and Russia, are aggressively aggregating and cross-indexing hacked U.S. computer databases -- including security clearance applications, airline records and medical insurance forms -- to identify U.S. intelligence officers and agents, U.S. officials…
ISIS ‘Growing Like Crazy’ Around World: NBC
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2015
September marks the first anniversary of the U.S. war against the Islamic State group (ISIS), but American efforts are showing little success, NBC News reported on Sunday.
Obama Admits Iran Could ‘Break Out’ Toward Nuke at End of Deal
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2015
President Obama allowed today that Iran could decide "to break out" toward a nuclear weapon at the end of the 15-year deal his team negotiated. The remarks are a stark rhetorical shift from Obama's previous statements that the…
Beijing abandons large-scale share purchases
Posted on Monday, August 31, 2015
China's government has decided to abandon attempts to boost the stock market through large-scale share purchases, and will instead intensify efforts to find and punish those suspected of "destabilizing the market", according to senior officials.
Nuke watchdog under pressure to give Iran passing grade
Posted on Friday, August 28, 2015
Enforcing President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran will greatly expand the work of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog and put it in a political spotlight that rivals, if not exceeds, the run-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Middle East leaders flock to Moscow for Syrian talks, arms deals
Posted on Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin will host Iranian officials along with a slew of other Middle Eastern leaders this week, to seal a lucrative weapons deal with Tehran and also to discuss solutions to the ongoing Syrian conflict.
Iran nuke deal erases Obama’s red lines
Posted on Wednesday, August 26, 2015
From allowing Iran to keep enriching uranium to abandoning "anywhere, anytime" inspections of Tehran's nuclear facilities, the Obama administration has crossed many of its own red lines in the nuclear deal that will lift tough economic sanctions on…
Asian shares move off 3-year lows while China’s suffering goes on
Posted on Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Volatile global markets showed tentative signs of a respite from the recent blood-letting on Tuesday as bargain hunters helped Asian stocks off three-year lows, though share markets in China, epicentre of the rout, suffered another big sell-off.
United Nations to let Iran Inspect Alleged Nuke Work Site
Posted on Thursday, August 20, 2015
Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work,…
U.S. Withdrawing Patriot Missiles from Turkey
Posted on Thursday, August 20, 2015
The U.S. Army will withdraw two Patriot air defense missile batteries and their approximately 300 support personnel from Turkey in October, according to a joint announcement by the U.S. embassy in Ankara and the Turkish government.
