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The impoverished dictatorship of North Korea is ignoring U.S. calls to cease ratcheting up tensions today, and has instead issued new threats to kill three American hostages it says are being held in Pyongyang. In a propaganda video released this morning on the state-run news channel KCTV, North Korea claimed […]
A group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers who were trying to sail to New Zealand have returned to sea today after mistakenly arriving at the small Western Australian town of Geraldton. The 66 refugees, including several children and pregnant women, sailed into the port of Geraldton yesterday afternoon on a […]
Libertarians across the world are experiencing confusion this morning as they find themselves unsure of how to respond to the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher has long been a hero in libertarian circles for her neoliberal reforms in Britain during the 1980s, but those same libertarians […]
Former Pope Benedict XVI appeared on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to rapturous applause this evening, having been elected the new pope of the Roman Catholic Church. “It is an honour beyond words” said Benedict as he stood before thousands of cheering faithful. “That I, until now a simple […]
The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea today threatened New Zealand with a nuclear attack in response to new sanctions leveled on it by the United Nations. The isolated communist dictatorship had earlier made a similar threat against the United States, but retracted it following President Obama’s swift assurance that […]
One week after a young intern was mauled to death by a lion at California’s Cat Haven sanctuary, the victim’s parents are reassuring the public that their daughter died “doing what she loved.” Elizabeth Baker, a volunteer intern at the sanctuary, died on March 6th when a five year old […]