German police yesterday carried out sweeping raids across 10 states in a probe against an Islamist group suspected of propagating hate and inciting 140 youths to fight alongside jihadists in Syria and Iraq, reports AFP. The group called The True Religion (Die wahre Religion) is now also banned, Interior…

Rescuers in New Zealand yesterday began airlifting relieved tourists stranded by a 7.8 earthquake that devastated parts of the South Island coast and sparked up to 100,000 landslides, reports AFP. Military helicopters started ferrying the first of 1,200 holidaymakers trapped in the seaside town of Kaikoura,…

Keith Ellison, a US Muslim lawmaker and a supporter of Bernie Sanders, on Monday formally announced his bid to lead the battered Democratic Party, vowing to take it in a more liberal direction, reports AFP. “I am proud to announce my candidacy for Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and…

They were threatened, forced to spit on a crucifix or convert to Islam, but a handful of Iraqi Christians miraculously survived more than two years under Islamic State group rule, reports AFP. When the jihadists swept across the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq in August 2014 and told Christians to convert,…

Facebook had a tool to weed out fake news circulating on the social network this year but declined to deploy it for fear of offending conservatives, a report said Monday reports AFP. The report by the online news site Gizmodo comes with Facebook under fire for allowing hoaxes and misinformation to go…

A Chinese man who killed a village official with a nail gun after his home was forcibly demolished was executed yesterday, a court said, despite a public outcry over his condemnation, reports AFP. Jia Jinglong killed his village chief in the northern province of Hebei last year, state media said. Lawyers…