Robert Ménard, the mayor of Béziers, said that his administration has looked at the list of the town’s school children and tried to work out how many were non-French Muslims by their names. According to Mayor Ménard, 64.6% of the town’s children are Muslim when their names are taken into account. “Sorry to say this, but the mayor has, class by class, the names of the children,” he said... 

ISIS reportedly released a list of five states it’s ready to attack, three of which have some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. The states, which were named in a message signed by Abu Ibrahim Al Ameriki and shared on Twitter, included California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan and Virginia. “Four out of the five states listed have passing grades from groups that support MORE gun control... 

An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck off Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the US Geological Survey reported. This is just two days after a 7.4-magnitude jolt shook the southern coast. The quake, which struck 150km southwest of the town of Arawa, appears to be relatively shallow. There have been no immediate reports of damage or casualties, Reuters says. A tsunami alert has been issued by the Pacific... 

A train carrying crude oil through Wells County, North Dakota has derailed. At least six rail cars have caught fire, sending thick, black plumes of smoke billowing into the sky. The village of Heimdal and nearby farms have been evacuated. “The [Federal Railroad Administration] has deployed a ten person investigation team to the site and will be conducting a thorough investigation into the cause... 

Snowden’s documents reveal details of the US National Security Agency’s voice recognition technology. New analysis of documents leaked by former NSA spy Edward Snowden sheds light on sophisticated software used by the agency to turn phone call speech into text. The documents show that “the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough... 

It may ultimately lead to millions around the globe finally overcoming their chronic conditions: top doctors within the medical establishment are finally going public in big ways over what’s really causing disease in our modern society. What’s more, the media is picking it up like wildfire. The best part? We’ve been telling you about it for years. The ‘secret’ has to do with your gut, and... 

A screengrab taken on May 12, 2014 from a video released by the Nigerian Takfiri terrorist group Boko Haram, showing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. The United Nations (UN) says at least 214 young women and girls recently rescued from the the camps of the Jihadist Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria are pregnant. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA)’s executive director, Babatunde... 

Journalists from Germany’s biggest television networks were reportedly detained, questioned and not allowed to leave Qatar for days while working on a story about FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Doha’s vexed nomination for the 2022 football World Cup. Reporter from ARD German TV Florian Bauer tweeted that all of his, as well as colleagues’, materials for ARD and WDR networks have been erased... 

Example of an ocean eddy (not from the study) as seen from space. A team of German and Canadian marine biologists have for the first time ever witnessed so-called ‘dead zones’ in the Atlantic Ocean, places where no life can thrive, owing to there being almost no dissolved oxygen in the water. Zones depleted of oxygen do exist in nature and have previously been discovered along populated coastal... 

Reporters told to disable electronics by police before “electronic pulses”. Several reporters at the scene of Sunday’s terror attack in Garland, Texas, stated that police used an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) device when examining the suspected shooters’ vehicle for explosives. According to NBC 5’s Kevin Cokely, an explosion sound was heard from the suspects’ vehicle shortly after... 

An Israeli soldier guards an area as an army bulldozer pulls down the house of the Palestinian Raba’ai family in Al-Dirat, south of Yatta Village near the West Bank town of Hebron (al-Khalil), January 20, 2015. Israel’s supreme court has authorized the regime’s authorities to demolish a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank. The high court approved on Monday a request from the Israeli... 

EU leaders will try to develop a strategy to curb “Kremlin propaganda” an issue that is on a par with the Grexit and terrorism threats on the agenda. The leaders of 28 EU countries will discuss ways to clamp down on “Russian propaganda” in light of the Ukrainian crisis during their upcoming summit in June, a diplomatic source told RIA Novosti. “EU leaders are expected... 

The Islamic State has reportedly declared it was behind the attack in Garland, Texas, via its Al Bayan radio station. The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) made a statement on Tuesday, claiming this was the terrorist group’s first attack on US soil. The IS added that two of its “soldiers” had attempted to carry out an attack as the exhibit was “portraying negative pictures of the Prophet Mohammed,”... 

Smoke billows as militants loyal to Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, clash with Houthi Ansarullah fighters in the Khor Maksar neighborhood of the southern port city of Aden on May 3, 2015. Yemeni army soldiers backed by members of the Popular Committees have managed to foil an attack launched by Saudi naval forces on Yemen’s strategic port city of Aden in the south. Local... 

Actions of the United States of America predetermined Russia’s military cooperation with China and Iran. Now, should a conflict occur, Moscow, Beijing and Tehran will take joint efforts to show resistance to Washington’s expansionist policies, Pepe Escobar, journalist and political analyst, author of “Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War.” According...