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The Kremlin descended into chaos over the weekend as Russia came to the brink of civil war, and the uprising has left President Vladimir Putin exposed. The Russian government is trying to project the image that everything is under control. Others say the crisis shows Putin's war and his regime could be unraveling. In video released by the Russian government, Defense Minister Shoigu is said to be inspecting troops in Ukraine. He was one of the men Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary army was coming after, for alleged corruption and incompetence in running the war in Ukraine. Even though the uprising...

Pakistan's interior minis­ter is warning that outspoken critics of the current government could find their biometric identity cards blocked, leaving them without access to their bank accounts. Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan also claimed that "hecklers" who bother government officials could have their passports blocked and even be arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) using Pakistan's national ID system, according to Newsweek Pakistan. His threat is aimed at supporters of former Prime Minister Imrah Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Party, and it came after some of those supporters harassed a member of the new government who was eating...

Mona Walter is on a mission. Her mission is for more Muslims to know what is in the Koran. She says if more Muslims knew what was in the Koran, more would leave Islam. Walter came to Sweden from Somalia as a war refugee when she was 19. She says she was excited about joining a modern European nation with equal rights for women. But as a young Muslim woman, that was not the Sweden she encountered. A Real Introduction to Islam It was in Sweden that she first experienced radical Islam on a daily basis. "I discovered Islam first...

Demographers say that to keep a population's numbers stable, the magic number is 2.1. That is the birthrate needed in any society to replace the number of deaths. CBN.com – BRUSSELS, Belgium -- You can feel the anticipation in the city of Brussels. When the European Union enlarges in May, it will become the world's largest economic superpower: 455 million people in 25 nations, with a combined economy that Europeans enjoy telling Americans will be even larger than that of the United States. The prospect of pushing around the United States has some Eurocrats drooling. The vision is not of...

Willfully Blind: U.S. Ignoring Saudi Terror Links By Dale HurdCBN News Sr. Reporter September 2, 2003 Historians will one day question why the U.S. spent so much to fight a war on terror, but was unwilling to face up to a major supporter of terrorism in the world. CBN.com – Some believe that 28 blacked-out pages in a recent Congressional report says it all. The pages, reportedly showing Saudi government ties to 9-11, were blacked out by orders of the White House. Senators who read the redacted material said there was no need for it to be classified, at least...

All over the Muslim world, conversion to Christianity can mean more than prison. It can be a death sentence. In countries where Islam reigns, Christians struggle just to stay alive. But Muslims in the United States and other western countries are protected and free to proselytize. And Islam is thriving here in America, aggressively taking advantage of western religious tolerance. Post-Saddam Iraq recently provided a vivid example of the worldwide double standard that Islam enjoys. It seems some people would rather let Iraqis suffer than see Christianity offering hope in the midst of a Muslim population. Iraq is in desperate...