Tuareg rebels in northern Mali The United Nations Security Council has approved foreign military intervention in Mali to help the Malian government battle the militants controlling the northern part of the West African country. On Thursday, the 15-member council authorized an initial one-year-long deployment of African Union forces in the country. The resolution, drafted by France, also authorized... 

EU leaders have called on their foreign ministers to consider all options to support the Syrian opposition and put pressure on the Syrian leadership. It comes as the Syrian FM blames sanctions for the country’s humanitarian crisis, asking for UN aid. “Nothing is off the table,” British PM David Cameron warned during the recent EU summit, sending a message to President Assad and urging for an... 

The police of the Volga region are about to complete the investigation of the criminal case, the materials of which can shock even those with nerves of steel. Twenty-three-year-old cannibal Alexander Bychkov is accused of killing at least nine people. The perpetrator was gutting corpses and eating the insides to impress his girlfriend. The cannibal was killing homeless people. According to investigation,... 

An new report prepared by the Federal Security Services (FSB) circulating in the Kremlin today on the horrific Connecticut Massacre is suggesting that these deaths may have been associated with the production of a video game based on the popular book Hunger Games which is about a post-apocalyptic United States where the killing of children is glorified as entertainment for the privileged elite classes. According... 

A boat of illegal immigrants on its way to Greece At least 20 bodies have been retrieved following an incident where a small boat carrying illegal immigrants traveling to Greece capsized near the eastern island of Lesvos. Officials say the National Greek Coast Guard has found the bodies at sea and is searching for survivors. The boat reportedly departed from the Turkish coast, carrying at least 27... 

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen insists Australia’s tough asylum seeker policies are discouraging Sri Lankans from getting on boats despite a warning that boat arrivals could total 30,000 in 2013. The minister’s comments came as refugee advocate Paris Aristotle warned asylum seeker boat arrivals, which reached around 2500 in November, were likely to increase next year. “At the current... 

Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner delivers a speech in Buenos Aires on December 9, 2012. Argentina’s president has summoned the country’s congress to potentially change a law on prevention and punishment of human trafficking after a court acquitted 13 people accused of running a trafficking ring. On Thursday, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner summoned the Argentine National... 

The leader of Syria’s new opposition group, the National Coalition, says Washington “must reconsider” its decision to blacklist one of the alliance’s members. It comes as the US agrees to accept the coalition as Syria’s official opposition group. Washington has branded the jihadist Al-Nusra Front as a terrorist organization, saying it is trying to hijack the Syrian uprising on behalf... 

The Syrian society and everyone who follows the situation in Syria, was shocked with another video of atrocities committed during the civil war. The video that appeared in the net shows a smiling young boy beheading a tied hostage. The footage, which was widely publicized in the past couple of days, shows the murder of two people. Everything happens in the street. A group of armed men puts hostages... 

US internet security pioneer John McAfee, speaking live on the internet from the detention center of the immigration departament in Guatemala City said “no hope for my life” if he returned to Belize, December 10, 2012. Fugitive software tycoon John McAfee pleads to return home after facing deportation due to an illegal entry into Guatemala from Belize. On Monday, McAfee released an online... 

Brazilian authorities in Rio de Janeiro arrested over 60 police officers accused of bribery on December 4, 2012. Brazilian authorities have arrested 63 police officers accused of taking weekly bribes from drug gangs to not report any illegal activities committed by drug dealers in Rio de Janeiro. The policemen were taken into custody along with eleven drug dealers on Tuesday after a year-long bribery... 

Despite a flurry of grand initiatives, Doha 2012 has yielded few specifics – with Europe the only major carbon emitter prepared to set clear emissions targets. Its zeal is likely to hamper growth, while doing little to lower worldwide CO2 levels. ­The two-week UN climate change conference in the oil-funded opulence of Qatar had to be extended by a day to produce an agreement that is only as much... 

The US may soon name the Syrian rebel al-Nusra Front, one of the strongest among the opposition, a foreign terrorist group. The designation is likely to complicate the opposition’s fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The US Department of State has been collecting evidence against the group for several months to classify the Islamic radicals as a foreign terrorist organization. Officials... 

US President Barack Obama US President Barack Obama surmises that Damascus might have plans to use chemical weapons against foreign-backed militants in Syria. On Monday, Obama, whose country is accused of being a key member of an international coalition attempting to destabilize Syria, warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons against the militants. There would be consequences... 

A shocking report issued today by the Federal Migration Service (FMS) is warning that local services in Moscow and St. Petersburg are being “overwhelmed” due to the growing number of American and Western European refugees flooding into Russia, a situation, they say, was made even worse this past month with the reelection of President Obama. The FMS is the federal executive body that implements...