(Reuters) Faced with recent setbacks in Iraq and Syria, al Qaeda is slowly but firmly gaining influence in Lebanon, helped by the country’s increasing sectarian violence and the turmoil caused by Syria’s civil war, sources close to the group say.
Lebanon, a small Mediterranean state with a fragile sectarian power sharing system, has seen the worst of the Syria’s war spillover with car bombs in Beirut and Tripoli, gunfights in city streets and rocket fire in the Bekaa Valley…
Remember two years ago when the Susan G. Komen For the Cure foundation abruptly dropped its grants to a Planned Parenthood breast-cancer screening program, setting off a national outcry, and prompting the resignation of the Komen official reportedly behind the decision?
The fallout of the debacle is still hurting Komen, which recently reported a 22 percent drop in income over the past year…
The fallout of the debacle is still hurting Komen, which recently reported a 22 percent drop in income over the past year…
(Fox News) An Australian man who was missing for 28 days ate butterflies, mussels and fruit to survive.
According to Courier Mail, Stephen Currie was discovered by local residents in a remote area outside Tableland, surprising authorities who had called off a search for him three weeks ago.
Currie, 40, lost 33 pounds and was discovered shoeless and shirtless, the report said…
(Business Insider) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s uncle was shot to death after committing “tremendous crimes against the government,” a senior North Korean diplomat told Sky News.
Last month, the North Korean state news agency KCNA announced that Jang Song-thaek had been executed, but didn’t provide any details about the manner of execution…
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