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.
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.
A high-level U.S. delegation is meeting with its Iranian counterpart in Geneva for direct talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
\”As the international media is fixated on the struggle between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, few reporters are focusing on Syria.\”
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres met with Pope Francis at the Vatican and proposed a “U.N. of religions” to fight terrorism.\n
Joan Rivers, the pioneering comedian known for her acerbic wit, classic put-downs and for asking \”Can we talk?,\” died on Thursday at the age of 81 in a New York hospital a week after her heart stopped during an outpatient medical procedure.
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