Actress Scarlett Johansson has given birth to a girl, her first child with her journalist fiance, the actress\’ representative confirmed on Thursday.
The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that Ahmed Godane, a leader of the al Shabaab Islamist group, was killed in a U.S. air strike in Somalia this week, calling it a \”major symbolic and operational loss\” for the al-Qaida-affiliated organization.
President Barack Obama said he was hopeful but sceptical about a ceasefire agreed in Ukraine on Friday and urged European allies to agree on new sanctions against Russia that could be suspended if the peace plan holds.
A Nigerian visiting Israel was quarantined in Jerusalem for fear she may have contracted the Ebola virus.
The spokesman for the family of murdered Jewish-American journalist Steven Sotloff challenged the leader of the ISIS jihadist group to debate the peaceful teachings of the Koran
Don’t bring it up. If it comes up, change the subject. If you can’t change the subject, consider an outright denial.
When I heard the news that American journalist Steven Sotloff had been beheaded by the radical jihadist group ISIS, I immediately began checking the Internet to find out more about his Jewish connections.
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