Afghan citizens Taliban radicals have reportedly beheaded 17 civilians, including 2 women, in Southern Afghanistan. Local authorities say the dead were executed for attending a party where unrelated men and women were present. ­The attack happened during a celebration near the Musa Qala district, about 75km north of the capital of Helmand province, Lashkar Gah, said district governor Nimatullah. The... 

Psychiatrists will be helping trainee priests in Belgium to avoid potentially dangerous situations at work. Special “anti-pedophile” training is the new measure to help prevent child abuse by priests. ­According to Belgium’s RTL online, psychiatrists will teach aspiring priests “the correct attitude in the presence of a child”. “The goal of the training? Not to repeat the errors of the... 

People from the Roma community walk outside their camp in Evry, near Paris, with their belongings after being expelled by French police on August 27, 2012. Police in France have dismantled a Roma camp near the capital, Paris, expelling 70 people, including 19 children, from their shelter. Local police moved in the encampment in the suburb of Evry early Monday in a bid to remove the people from the... 

London has become the UK’s first city to recognize Islamic holidays, a move meant to encourage the integration of a religious minority often vilified by opponents of immigration. Tower Hamlets recommends that its schools close on the Islamic feasts of Eid al-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha. The local authority states: “Tower Hamlets policy is that schools should close for Eid (these dates have been advised... 

The US cyber attack policies destroy the original basis of the internet, an analyst says. A political analyst says that the US government has been destroying “the very original basis of the internet,” as they launch cyber attacks against its perceived opponents. In an interview with Press TV, Paul Sheldon Foote criticized the American authorities for conducting the hacking tactic, believing “the... 

The shocking Obama regime arrest of US Marine war hero Brandon Raub [see video of arrest HERE] has reverberated throughout the Kremlin this past week with the Federal Security Service (FSB) warning today that the US social media website Facebook has now become the “greatest threat to freedom” the American people have ever seen. According to this report, Raub [photos 3rd left] was detained and... 

Mark of the Beast: A Louisiana public school’s decision to purchase palm scanners to speed up lunch lines and payments has been met with religious opposition A Louisiana public school’s decision to purchase palm scanners to speed up lunch lines and payments has been met with religious opposition. Mother Mamie Sonnier said that she will not allow her children to participate in the scanner... 

France declares war on illegal migrants. Riot police smash camps and hundreds rounded up for deportation as Socialists take on gipsies. French police were yesterday breaking up gipsy camps and deporting illegal immigrants found in them. Dozens of officers in riot gear descended on a settlement near Lille shortly after dawn to oversee the evacuation of some 200 Roma living in mobile homes. One hundred... 

A migrant holds his papers ready for the ID-check, which has been instigated following an estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants slipping into Greece each year. Greek authorities have this week begun one of the country’s biggest crackdowns yet on illegal immigrants; they have so far deployed some 4,500 police around Athens and have detained more than 7,000 immigrants in less than 72 hours, the... 

Qatar’s ambassador in Mauritania allegedly offered his Syrian counterpart an advance payment of US$1 million and a monthly salary of $20,000 over 20 years, trying to convince the diplomat to defect and voice support for the opposition. Hamad Seed Albni was also offered a permanent residence in the Qatari capital Doha, but refused the proposition, claims Lebanese-based Al-Manar TV. The diplomat reportedly... 

Science and religion meet at the intersection of a $5 million grant gifted to UC Riverside in Pennsylvania by the John Templeton Foundation for further research into an afterlife and immortality. John Martin Fischer, philosophy professor from UC Riverside, will host conferences and oversee post-doctoral students running a website that centers around immortality; along with international consensus... 

A Norwegian lawyer criticized the local judicial system that, in her opinion, protects pedophiles. As a result, in many families children are forced to live with parents who subject them to sexual abuse. All attempts to appeal to the court are unsuccessful because the testimony of the children simply is not trusted. Norwegian lawyer Thea Totland shared her fears with a reporter of local newspaper... 

Dmitry Medvedev has told the government to pay more attention to foreign migrants to prevent ethnic enclaves from appearing on Russian soil, as well as excessive expansion of foreigners to the country’s Far East. At the same time, Russia’s prime minister stressed that the officials should not be afraid of international migration, but work harder in order to manage it. “Our key task is to create... 

US President Barack Obama has signed a secret order allowing the CIA and other American agencies to support rebels seeking to overthrow the Assad regime, a US government source told Reuters. Obama reportedly gave the order, known as an intelligence “finding”, earlier this year. The presidential finding also provides for US collaboration with a secret command center operated by Turkey and its allies. The... 

Mitt Romney has spent nearly a week shaking hands abroad while conducting a foreign policy trip that has managed to somehow spark some of the most uncomfortable roadblocks of his campaign. In Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday, things didn’t get better. Right on the heels of having remarks made in London and Jerusalem eaten up and chewed out by the press, an appearance on Tuesday added another line to the...