Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
After Six Years, Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations reaches “End Game”
Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015
President Obama's GOP salesmen are telling fellow House members that fast-track trade promotion authority (TPA) will "constrain the president" to do what Congress wants when he negotiates the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Sounds reassuring, but there's one problem: It's just…
ISIS Stages Attacks in Iraq and Libya, Despite U.S. Airstrikes
Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Islamic State militants staged attacks near Baghdad and the Libyan city of Surt on Tuesday, underscoring the group's persistent strength on both fronts despite a monthslong American-led air campaign against it in Syria and Iraq.
U.S., NATO launch mega exercise on Russia’s doorstep
Posted on Tuesday, June 9, 2015
U.S. and NATO partners are escalating their presence of military aircraft, people and ships in Europe for the next two weeks in military exercises that have taken on greater symbolic significance due to the continued Russian advances in…
US might deploy missiles in Europe to counter Russia
Posted on Thursday, June 4, 2015
The Obama administration is weighing a range of aggressive responses to Russia's alleged violation of a Cold War-era nuclear treaty, including deploying land-based missiles in Europe that could pre-emptively destroy the Russian weapons.
Pentagon: Iran Continuing Work on Nuclear Systems
Posted on Thursday, June 4, 2015
Iran is continuing to develop missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons despite an interim agreement on its nuclear programs, according to a Pentagon report.
Islamic State Advances Further Into Syria’s Aleppo Province
Posted on Monday, June 1, 2015
Fierce battles between Islamic State and other fighters raged in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Monday, a day after the extremist group seized villages near the Turkish border and came within miles of the main highway…
Opec under siege as ISIL threatens world’s oil lifeline
Posted on Monday, June 1, 2015
Thick black smoke rising from the Baiji oil refinery could be seen as a dirty smudge on the horizon as far away as Baghdad after fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) set fire…
The world is drowning in debt, warns Goldman Sachs
Posted on Monday, June 1, 2015
The world is sinking under too much debt and an aging global population means countries' debt piles are in danger of growing out of control, the European chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management has warned.
NATO and Russia Stage Rival Air Combat Exercises
Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the third major Russian military exercise over the past three months in response to six-member states of NATO beginning military exercises this week over the Arctic.
Russia Masses Heavy Firepower on Border with Ukraine
Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2015
Russia's army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week.
Iran Declares ‘Successful’ Negotiations with Russia on S-300 System
Posted on Monday, May 25, 2015
Moscow and Tehran have concluded negotiations on the delivery of the Russia's long-range S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Iran, which should take place "within a short period," said Iranian Deputy Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, on a visit in…
