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By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) – Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. was released from a psychiatric hospital on Saturday, media reports said, 35 years after he shot U.S. President Ronald Reagan in an attack prompted by a deranged obsession with the actress Jodie […]

Das Innenministerium will Minderjährige besser schützen und fordert, dass im Ausland geschlossene Kinderehen in Deutschland künftig nicht mehr anerkannt werden. “Kinderehen schaden Kindern immer”, sagte der parlamentarische Staatssekretär Ole Schröder (CDU) den Zeitungen der Funke Mediengruppe. Dafür dürfe es keine religiösen Rechtfertigungen geben. Neu veröffentlichte […]

El diputado  Neemtallah Abi Nasr advirtió este jueves contra el “colapso del sistema libanés y la fórmula de convivencia”, señalando que “el status quo no puede mantenerse, y que la Corriente Patriótica Libre no quedara con los brazos cruzados”. “El rechazo de la CPL a […]

WASHINGTON ― The House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for its alleged role in the terrorist attacks. The Senate passed the bill in May, so it now heads to President Barack Obama’s […]

NNA – Members of Change and Reform bloc, MP Simon Abi Ramia and former minister Salim Jreissati, urged, in a press conference on Friday, Minister of Finance, Ali Hassan Khalil, to cancel his decision on conducting land surveys in the region of Aqoura. “We are […]

NEWS BRIEF French authorities announced Friday the arrest of a 19-year-old woman believed to be planning an attack after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State, Agence France-Presse reports. The woman, identified as Ines Madani, was arrested alongside a 23-year-old woman and a 39-year-old woman Thursday […]

KHARABRUD, Iraq (AP) — An Iranian Kurdish rebel group received military training in weapons and explosives from U.S. and European advisers as part of the international program backing Kurds in the war against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the group’s commander told The Associated […]

More than 1.5 million Muslims from across the globe have converged on Saudi Arabia for the annual five-day Hajj. The pilgrimage is one of the five pillars of Islam, and all able-bodied Muslims who can afford to do so are expected to take part in […]

Despite the shrinking of Islamic State-held territory in Iraq and Syria, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency is stressing that the group’s influence is not going away anytime soon. “I think ISIL [Islamic State] will remain a presence inside Iraq and Syria for quite […]