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Nigeria: Toll in suspected Boko Haram funeral attack rises to 65 Dozens more bodies discovered following assault on mourners by suspected Boko Haram fighters in Borno, say officials. 22 hours ago Nigeria: Toll in suspected Boko Haram funeral attack rises to 65 Officials said the attack could be a retaliation for the killing of 11 Boko Haram fighters two weeks ago Death, anguish and flickers of hope: 10 years of Boko Haram today Mobile money: Abuja central bank gives MTN Nigeria green light today Nigeria bans Shia group after deadly clashes yesterday Boko Haram kills 23 mourners after Nigeria funeral...

Trial of Saudi scholar Salman al-Awdah postponed, says son Scholar's son says trial pushed back for months after father was due in court as public prosecutor seeks to execute him. 28 Jul 2019 MORE ON SAUDI ARABIA The trial of Saudi Muslim scholar Salman al-Awdah was postponed until December as it was set to begin in an antiterrorism court after nearly two years of pre-trial detention, his son said. Al-Awdah, who faces the death penalty, was expected to appear in the Criminal Special Court in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, on Sunday. But his son, Abdullah, said on Twitter the session...

[Truncated headline above. ACLJ Obtains DOJs Immunity Agreements with Hillary Lawyers to Dispose of Evidence and Refuse to Comply with Federal Law]The American Center for Law and Justice obtained the Justice Department’s immunity agreements with Hillary Clinton’s lawyers and it showed they were allowed to ‘dispose of evidence and refuse to comply with federal law. The immunity agreements were drawn up for Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson. While the existence of these immunity agreements was already public knowledge, the ACLJ obtained the actual documents for the first time. There were two separate agreements. First, Mills and Samuelson were granted immunity...

UN: Nearly 4,000 Afghans killed and wounded in first half of 2019 Civilians are being killed and wounded at a 'shocking and unacceptable' level despite push to end Afghan war, says UN. UN: Nearly 4,000 Afghans killed and wounded in first half of 2019 In Afghanistan the war has raged on despite the diplomatic efforts, forcing civilians to live under constant fear At least 3,812 civilians have been killed or wounded in Afghanistan's war in the first half of 2019, the United Nations said, noting a big increase in the number of casualties caused by government and NATO-led troops. The...

Why do democrats waste billions of dollars on providing sanctuary and freebies for illegal aliens while neglecting the rundown cities they [mis]manage making their poorest people live in squalor and allowing poverty, drugs, gangs, crime, rats, pestilence and disease to fester? This is not rocket science. It's a matter of priorities. American citizens should come first.

Indian Navy commissioned the sixth of eight indigenously built Landing Craft Utility (LCU) MK IV class ships 'LCU L 56' in Visakhapatnam. The commissioning ceremony was attended by Vice Admiral Atul Kumar Jain, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C), Eastern Naval Command, and other senior officials of Indian Navy. According to the Navy officials, the LCU L56 is an amphibious ship, which will be used in transportation, deployment and recovery of main battle tanks, armoured vehicles, troops and equipment from ship to shore and vice-versa. The ship has been indigenously designed and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE), Kolkata....

Two US Soldiers Killed in 'Insider' Attack in Afghanistan, Gunman Detained 23:59 29.07.2019 Two unidentified US service members stationed in Afghanistan died Monday, a release from the NATO’s Resolute Support Mission has revealed without providing further details of the incident. Citing two US military officials, NBC News reported that a member of the Afghan security forces opened fire on the two US servicemen in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The officials say the gunman was taken into Afghan custody after sustaining a gunshot-related injury. Both troops were ordered to advise and aid Afghan forces prior to the “insider” attack, a term used to...

A D-DAY veteran was given a true hero's send-off today with a motorbike escort and helicopter fly-past - after a Facebook appeal went viral. Sydney Walsh, 97, served in the Royal Navy from January 1940 to 1947 after signing up at Devonport in Plymouth.

... The driver of the van told CBS2’s Lisa Rozner he feels horrible. “It is AGAINST the law to open a car door into the path of a cyclist. Our lives are in each other’s hands. We must act like it,” Mayor Bill de Blasio wrote on Twitter. “Rising cyclist fatalities are a crisis. We will do everything in our power to stop them.” “Pay attention. Drivers must pay attention to make sure that they will be able to see there is not a cyclist coming,” said Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, who lives a block away from the scene of the...

On a Friday afternoon in late July, a crowd of techies, military types and a few civilians deployed to the new Irvine, Calif., headquarters of Anduril Industries, a defense tech start-up, to sip hibiscus margaritas and admire the sensor towers and carbon-fiber drones on display. Dave Brubeck tinkled over the sound system, and the dress code skewed office casual and pastel, offset by the bright red pop of a lone “Make America Great Again” hat by the taco bar. After an hour of socializing amid surveillance equipment, Palmer Luckey, the company’s 26-year-old near-billionaire founder, mounted a stage for the ribbon-cutting....

Once upon a time, when I was editing this newspaper’s opinion pages, somebody decided that it wouldn’t hurt to have a slightly more cordial relationship with the Rev. Al ­Sharpton. So there we were, in a Manhattan steakhouse, discussing not much because it quickly had become clear that Sharpton enjoyed being New York’s premier racial grievance-monger, so there was no common ground to be had. But he did show a flicker of interest in a $350 cognac on the after-dinner menu — glancing over with amusement in his eyes as the waiter hovered. “If you do, reverend,” I said, “I’m...

Kathy Griffin says severed Trump head photo made her ‘unemployable, uninsurable’: ‘I'm still on the D-list’ Kathy Griffin is still harping about the 2017 photo she took posing with a fake severed head of President Trump. Speaking to The Associated Press, Griffin maintained that she did nothing wrong in holding up the fake bloodied head and explained she has no intention of ever apologizing for the photo, even though she says some people still believe her to be a member of ISIS. "You can be as offended by that photo all you want, that doesn't bother me at all,” Griffin...

A Brazilian steakhouse has apologized to law enforcement officials in San Antonio, Texas, after a manager asked an armed officer to leave the restaurant. The incident took place on Saturday at the downtown San Antonio location of Fogo de Chão, during which the manager reportedly requested the police officer leave because of his gun. "A law enforcement officer who was dining at our San Antonio location recently was asked to leave the premises by our staff because he was carrying a firearm," the restaurant stated in a message posted to Facebook.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced a new interim executive director and other top staff changes on Monday after reported criticism that the staff did not reflect the diversity of the Democratic Party. The shakeup was announced after a meeting at its headquarters on Capitol Hill, Politico reported. The news site ran stories highlighting the committee’s diversity concerns, which reportedly sparked the tense meeting on Monday. Two sources for Fox News confirmed the Politico report. “Today has been a sobering day filled with tough conversations that too often we avoid, but I can say confidently that we are taking the...

The U.S. Soccer Federation released a letter from its president Monday saying that it has paid the women’s national team more than the men’s national team in recent years, a move that comes ahead of mediation in the women’s team’s pay-equity lawsuit against its employer. The pay analysis--which U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro said was conducted by U.S. Soccer staff and reviewed by an accounting firm--will add fuel to a complex debate over how the federation has compensated its championship women’s national team. The federation has faced increasing pressure from the public and Congress over the issue, especially since the...

The executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) resigned Monday after Democratic lawmakers and DCCC staffers lashed out publicly at the organization’s leadership over their failure to prioritize racial diversity. Allison Jaslow announced her resignation during an emergency meeting that was held on Monday morning in response to calls from staffers and lawmakers for an “immediate restructuring” of the group’s senior leadership, Politico reported. Democratic representatives Vicente Gonzalez and Filemon Vela of Texas specifically called for Jaslow’s resignation in a statement provided to Politico on Sunday. “The DCCC is now in complete chaos,” Gonzalez and Vela said in...

July 30 2019 Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Ex 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28 The tent, which was called the meeting tent,Moses used to pitch at some distance away, outside the camp.Anyone who wished to consult the LORDwould go to this meeting tent outside the camp.Whenever Moses went out to the tent, the people would all riseand stand at the entrance of their own tents,watching Moses until he entered the tent.As Moses entered the tent, the column of cloud would come downand stand at its entrance while the LORD spoke with Moses.On seeing the column of...

Baltimore City fire and police departments are investigating a string of 11 fires that broke out in the Edmondson Village neighborhood Monday morning. Firefighters were first called to the Edmondson Village area for a report of a fire around 1:30 a.m., Baltimore Fire spokeswoman Blair Adams said. Then firefighters were dispatched to another incident a few blocks away. That process was repeated nine more times. Adams said it was unclear if all 11 fires were related to one another and said the cause of each fire is still under investigation. ... In total, Adams said there were 11 fires: six...

"Local and national organizers are working together to build 10 days of training and direct actions for the Border Resistance Convergence in El Paso, TX – September 1-10th. We are calling on affinity groups everywhere to come together and help us address US-funded genocide and local concentration camps."

Paige Thompson was arrested Monday for allegedly hacking into Capital One’s databases and gaining access to approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers. Capital One disclosed the massive breach in a press release Monday afternoon, noting that about 100 million people in the U.S. and 6 million people in Canada were affected in total. It’s one of the largest breaches of a major financial service. A majority of the comprised information came from credit card application data submitted between 2005 and 2019 that included names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and...