Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
NAFTA Trade Talks Begin
Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2017
The United States drew a hard line for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement on Wednesday, demanding major concessions aimed at slashing trade deficits with Mexico and Canada and boosting U.S. content for autos.
Obama administration knew about North Korea’s miniaturized nukes
Posted on Friday, August 11, 2017
Tuesday's bombshell Washington Post story that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has determined North Korea is capable of constructing miniaturized nuclear weapons that could be used as warheads for missiles – possibly ICBMs – left out a crucial…
China to Stay Neutral, Unless U.S. Attacks N Korea
Posted on Friday, August 11, 2017
If North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States then China should stay neutral, but if the United States attacks first and tries to overthrow North Korea's government China will stop them, a Chinese state-run newspaper…
Hearing loss of US diplomats in Cuba blamed on covert device
Posted on Thursday, August 10, 2017
The two-year-old diplomatic relationship between the United States and Cuba has been roiled by what U.S. officials are describing as a string of bizarre incidents that left a group of American diplomats in Havana with severe hearing loss…
Defectors Wage War Against North Korea
Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2017
According to citizens who have fled the country, a growing number of North Koreans are switching on unauthorized radios—devices they’ve rigged or bought on the black market that can pick up signals beyond the country’s darkened borders. They…
Breakthrough device heals organs with a single touch (Video)
Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State's College of Engineering have developed a new technology, Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the patient's own body.…
North Korea vows ‘thousands-fold’ revenge on US
Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2017
North Korea yesterday angrily rejected the tough new sanctions agreed to unanimously by the UN Security Council, and vowed to launch a 'thousands-fold' revenge against the US for leading the initiative.
UK ready to pay up to 40 billion euros to leave EU
Posted on Sunday, August 6, 2017
Britain is prepared to pay up to 40 billion euros ($47 billion) as part of a deal to leave the European Union, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported, citing three unnamed sources familiar with Britain's negotiating strategy.
