A British terror convict has told a New York trial he met Osama bin Laden up to 50 times and was recruited by Al-Qaeda to blow up a passenger jet. Saajid Badat was sentenced in 2005 to 13 years in jail as a co-conspirator in the notorious shoe bombing…
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Are You Sitting Down? Your Desk Job May Be Killing You
Fitness News March 11, 2014 | By CATHRYNE KELLER Leave a Comment I'm standing up as I type this post. Why? Because I've read far too much scary research on "sitting disease"-- a term used to describe the slew of health problems associated with being…
Read More »Israeli Troops kill Jordanian Judge at Border Crossing
Israeli troops at a border crossing on Monday shot dead a Palestinian-Jordanian judge who allegedly tried to snatch a soldier's weapon, prompting Amman and the Palestinian Authority to demand an investigation. The shooting took place on Monday morning…
Read More »The Roots of Nigeria’s Religious and Ethnic Conflict
Modern Nigeria emerged through the merging of two British colonial territories in 1914. The amalgamation was an act of colonial convenience. It occurred mainly because British colonizers desired a contiguous colonial territory stretching from the arid…
Read More »Syria rebels release kidnapped nuns
A group of nuns kidnapped by rebels in the Syrian town of Maalula in December were released early Monday thanks to Lebanese-Qatari mediation and handed to the Syrian authorities. A monitoring group said the release was secured in exchange for some 150…
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