Here’s A Text That Somehow Manages To Make An ISIS Halloween Costume Even More Offensive
“I was wondering if I could borrow one of your long black garments and a hijab and a face thing not sure what it’s called haha.”
“I was wondering if I could borrow one of your long black garments and a hijab and a face thing not sure what it’s called haha.”
Tensions are high after the shooting of a controversial Jewish activist, but the tipping point still isn’t here. Sheera Frenkel reports for BuzzFeed News from Jerusalem.
“What could he bring us? The Ebola virus, AIDS, gonorrhea?”
They don’t really work. And there are much better, more proven ways to fight Ebola. Jina Moore reports for BuzzFeed News from Liberia.
The “Elite Space Club” has just been taken down a peg.
President Blaise Compaore reportedly declared a state of emergency and called for the opposition to end the violence. Thousands of protesters set fire to the parliament ahead of Thursday’s vote to allow the president to extend his 27-year rule.
Formerly a popular member of Parliament, he’s now head of the country for the next 90 days.
The company says it’s a “purely commercial” decision that’s part of its overall restructuring plans. The decision comes as its U.S. business tanks, with revenues down 41% in the most recent quarter.
“Whilst we understand the deeply-held personal feelings of the appellants, there is nothing that this court can do to assist them. Their remedy lies, if at all, in the legislative sphere,” the court rules.
Ebola has turned dead bodies into public health threats in Liberia. But dealing with death is also about grief, loss and long-held beliefs about the spiritual afterlife.
Sam Ganafa was arrested in November 2013 in the run-up to passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act.
Despite a shaky cease-fire that was meant to put an end to months of war in its east, Ukraine remains riven by violence and upheaval. Photographer Joel Van Houdt spent weeks photographing the country’s Jewish population and the latest chapter in its difficult history in the country.
The Foreign Office’s decision not to help was met with outrage from charities and political commentators.
Today is the 100th birthday of Dr. Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine. Here are the places still using his gift.
A court awarded them $188,000 because of a poster of 19th-century Kazakh composer Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly kissing Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
Iosif Kobzon defied a Ukrainian travel ban to sing for a rapturous, elderly crowd in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.
BuzzFeed News examines the social media accounts of three Colorado girls who officials say tried to join a terrorist group.
A new Human Rights Watch report featuring interviews with women captured by Boko Haram details the alleged atrocities committed by the Nigerian terrorist group.
How bad is it really, how bad could it get – and how much should you worry?
“Every year that passes is worse and worse for us.”
The head of the institute at George Washington University that hosts Johnson’s Russia List said the listserv is simply moving beyond the “goodies versus baddies dichotomy.”
On Monday, a 15-year-old student shot and killed a teacher in a south Estonian school.
Sanaa Seif, an activist and editor of the documentary about Egypt’s popular uprising, was sentenced to three years for protesting anti-demonstration laws.
The criminal court, which usually tries terrorism cases, said the lawyers’ actions on Twitter undermined general order.
Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison last week for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
“A motorcyclist, KKK member and a dude wearing a niqab walk into a bar. Worst. Joke. Ever.”
Lee Jook-seok was charged with murdering almost 300 people after abandoning the MV Sewol as it was sinking.
Goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was killed after an armed gang reportedly entered his girlfriend’s house.
President Petro Poroshenko gets an overwhelming mandate for his reform plan and bid to end the war with pro-Russian separatists — but faces significant obstacles in implementing them.