COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The Danish Foreign Ministry is telling its citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to Tunisia, saying there is “a high terror risk.” The ministry on Friday didn’t elaborate but Danes traditionally follow Britain when it comes to travel advisories. A day earlier, Britain had urged its citizens …
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DEVELOPING – French police said eighteen people were removed unharmed from a discount clothing store in a suburb of Paris after three armed robbers burst in early Monday. A Paris regional police official told the Associated Press that special police units had surrounded the Primark store and cordoned off a …
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BEIRUT – An international human rights group says Syria’s main Kurdish militia is still violating the ban on child soldiers, despite some progress to stop using boys and girls under the age of 18. Human Rights Watch says the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, and its women’s branch, YPJ, …
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BERLIN – A founding member of Germany’s upstart Alternative for Germany party, who left after losing the leadership to a bitter rival, announced the creation of a new party Sunday with a fiscally conservative euroskeptic message. Bernd Lucke, the former leader of the Alternative for Germany or AfD, said a …
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NEW YORK – Facebook surpassed expectations on all fronts in the second quarter, growing not just profit and revenue but its already-massive user base, mobile advertising and usage of its “family” of non-Facebook apps like Instagram and WhatsApp. Even so, its stock price fell after the results came out, as …
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Editor’s note: The following column originally appeared on RedState.com. I have seen a number of Republicans and even some Christian evangelicals in the past seventy-two hours make the case that the Republican Party should avoid a government shutdown to stop Planned Parenthood. In fact, a few have said the fight …
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ATLANTA – Art, monument or embarrassment? The “Confederate Memorial Carving” in a state park outside of Atlanta is once again stirring controversy, as Georgia officials try to decide what, if anything, to do about a huge sculpture that memorializes three of the South’s Civil War heroes but causes offense to …
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SARASOTA, Fla. – A southwest Florida police officer has been suspended after his superiors watched a video of him tossing food to a handcuffed suspect at the county jail and then allowing the man to eat the food off the floor. The Sarasota Police Department announced in a news release …
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif – A teenage boy lured an 8-year-old girl into his apartment and killed her before hiding her body in a recycling bin at the housing complex where they lived, authorities said Tuesday. Santa Cruz Police Chief Kevin Vogel told reporters that Madyson Middleton was probably dead even …
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Deutsche Bank’s net profit rose in the second quarter, but legal expenses stemming from investigations of the bank’s past conduct also increased and the bank’s new co-CEO said its financial performance was unsatisfactory. John Cryan said Thursday that Deutsche Bank needed to cut costs, shed unprofitable activities …
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