Civil unrest in Ukraine began 4 months ago when Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovych decided to take the $15 billion buy-out from Russia instead of finalizing negations to join the European Union. Civilians took to the streets to advocate their disdain of the decision taken by the Prime Minister, along with their general unhappiness towards…
A brand new year has begun, meaning the 2014 Winter Olympics is just around the corner. With the closing of the US Olympic Trials, the excitement and worries coming from the athletes are providing mixed feelings and rising concern for the upcoming Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
While Russia prepares for the quickly approaching Winter Olympics it seems a villain has risen to the occasion to stomp their efforts. Doku Umarov, leader of an Islamist movement within Russia, has raised eyebrows with the increase in mass bombings as the date for the Winter Olympics being held in Sochi creeps closer.
By the end of 2014, the United States will have finally rid itself of its own chemical weapons that have been manufactured since World War 1. Around the same time, the Syrian government must also remove or destroy its own weaponry under a deal that doesn’t seem possible.
Pope Francis is showing his followers that although Catholics should follow the Church’s original teachings, the Church should also adapt to today’s changing world.
On Wednesday, October 2nd, the online drug marketplace Silk Road was raided and shut down by the FBI, who arrested its alleged mastermind, Ross William Ulbricht, known online by his pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts,” named after the feared protagonist of the 1987 movie “The Princess Bride”
The all Saint Church in Peshawar, Pakistan has provided Christians and Muslims with a place to peacefully coexist. It has been a symbol of interfaith cooperation since it was built in 1883. This harmony was maintained until two suicide bombers attacked the church as people were pouring out of mass. One attacker exploded his vest inside…
Source: Google Images More and more kids are being shot, bombed and burned to death in Syria. The numbers of children missing and leaving Syria and going to refugee camps has reached 1 million.