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A Sierra Leonean journalist is confirming that presidential advisor Alhaji Kargbo independently signed an agreement to take in potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of garbage from Lebanon, currently struggling to meet its people’s waste management needs.

Officials in Syria have announced they are ready to participate in peace talks in Geneva, but will not attend if the UN also invites the opposition.

President Barack Obama has invited Syrian refugee Refaai Hamo, 55, to sit in Michelle Obama’s box during the State of the Union address.

A female member of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has tortured a Syrian girl to death for violating dress code.

Iranians took to social media to mock Djibouti after the small country located in the Horn of Africa cut ties with Tehran.

Greek Orthodox Christians celebrated the end of the Christmas season in Turkey with a spectacular display, retrieving a wooden cross from the frigid waters of the Golden Horn.

Ukrainians have expressed outrage after a Coca-Cola ad on a Russian social media website featured Crimea on the Russian map. The American business, though, claims a marketing agency changed the map without permission.

New sexual abuse allegations have surfaced against UN peacekeepers in Central Africa Republic (CAR) as officials investigate previous claims.

The Iraqi government has nominated Yazidi Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who was abused as a sex slave by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), for the Nobel Peace Prize.

While the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group has developed a reputation for successfully recruiting using social media, this week, a call from “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—demanding more Muslims join the jihadist group—was met with a chorus of mockery and jeers.

Members of the female Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) brigade mutilated and butchered a mom who breastfed her child in Raqqa, Syria, according to reports.

Numerous Boko Haram attacks in Maiduguri, many featuring female suicide bombers, killed close to 80 people in the last few days.

Turkey’s Kurdish population is demanding self-rule days after continued violence has killed many Turkish soldiers and Kurdish militants.

A 2016 calendar and a cologne inspired by Russian President Vladimir Putin are the latest items for sale that Russians can purchase in order to “celebrate” him.

Christians in Iraqi Kurdistan were determined to keep their Christmas Christian traditions, even though attacks from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda have decimated the population.

Rogers County K9 Deputy Scotty Moree and his dog Jack discovered over 8 pounds of meth wrapped as Christmas presents in the trunk of a car.

The world celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25, including Christians in the Middle East, where–despite persecution or threats–they celebrated the birthday of their Savior.

Indian police have arrested 30-year-old systems engineer Syed Emad Hasan after he allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted his 27-year-old ex-colleague for five days “to force her to convert to Islam.”

A day before Christmas Eve, men and women at Bagram Airfield honored and buried the six fallen soldiers who were killed by a suicide bomber.

Russian propaganda site Russia Today (RT) is offering its readers a brand new site to navigate the Western media, detailing the biases and shortcomings of American media outlets from the eyes of the Kremlin.

“Hopelessly corrupt pander-bot 2008 Hillary is back!” wrote Drew Magary. “And remarkably, she seems to believe—yet again—that her lengthy history of cynical, bought-and-paid-for leadership somehow entitles her to the presidency, as if her entire campaign strategy is “I didn’t betray my principles and sell out every last one of my constituents NOT to be president, you guys!”

A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced reformist writer Zuhair Kutbi to fours years in prison and banned him from travel.

An explosion on the tarmac at Turkey’s Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul killed one person and wounded another.

Mixed-martial artist Jeff Monson, who sports a hammer-and-sickle tattoo on his calf, received a Russian passport and will participate in a fight on Christmas Day.

The Tunisian government shut down a jihadist cell that recruited females to marry terrorists in Syria.

The New York Police Department needs the city’s help identifying a woman who appears to have slashed two people after arguing about a pole on the subway.

José Crespo-Cagnant, a gay Mexican migrant, is being allowed to stay in the U.S. after a federal court judge decided the federal government did not consider his fears of anti-gay persecution if he is removed and repatriated back to Mexico. “The

Turkish authorities arrested construction worker Dilaver Sarı for alleged insults against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media.

On Monday, a terrorist attack on a bus in Kenya failed when Muslim passengers threw themselves over Christians to shield them from the Islamists’ wrath.

Under leader Vladimir Putin, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, who purged between 20 and 60 million of his own people, has become increasingly popular in Russia.

Mehmet Görmez, the head of Turkish Religious Affairs (Diyanet), stated that the damage caused by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is on par with the damage caused by those who draw Muhammed.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nullified a 30-year ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.

At least one Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) recruiter has taken to publishing photos of his cat with explosives to attract young people to the cause of jihad.

Courts in New Delhi have released the youngest convict from the 2012 gang-rape case despite protests from both the community and the convict.

German public television aired a segment this month about the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) selling Yazidi women in Turkey.