Tayyip Erdogan won the Turkish presidential election by a wide electoral margin Sunday. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey's first direct presidential election with a landslide victory Sunday, solidifying his already strong control over the Turkish political system.
Some Yazidi have managed to escape and reach Kurdish-controlled territory; however, thousands remain trapped in mountains and are being held captive by ISIS.
A powerful typhoon has left two dead and 1.5 million people evacuated. Typhoon Halong hit western Japan Saturday leaving at least two dead and around 30 injured.
about 1/3 less are voting in this years elections than in the previous one, in 2010 Brazil is seeing the lowest population of registered teen voters for the upcoming October election, according to reports.
Argentina has played host to an important conference on LGBT tourism and has led the way in Latin America toward acceptance, thereby benefitting economically.
This Sunday 500 Yazidis killed and 300 kidnapped into slavery by ISIL. Iraq's human rights minister Mohammed Shia al Sudani announced Sunday that at least 500 Yazidis been killed and about 300 had been kidnapped by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIL.
A medical school in the Caribbean may prove to more competitive now than in recent memory. Some doctors are having a second chance at getting into medical school, and the opportunity lies in the Caribbean.
France to join U.S., U.K. in delivering humanitarian airdrops to Yazidis in northern Iraq France announced Sunday it will join the aid efforts to send supplies to northern Iraqis trapped by Islamic State militants, joining the multinational effort that includes the U.
Patient Zero in the latest Ebola outbreak in western Africa is reported to be a 2-year-old boy who died last December in Guinea in a village that borders Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Palestine announced it would accept a 72-hour cease-fire Sunday in order to allow peace talks to progress with Israel, who refused to attend the talks if violence continued.
15 militants killed, 7 injured, and aid given to those stuck above IS groups are all the success stories from the two days of air strikes by the US in Iraq
On Friday, the World Health Organization declared that the latest outbreak of Ebola is an international public health emergency as the number of deaths caused by the epidemic continues to soar in West Africa.
The Network in Defense of Humanity, founded by Bolivian President, Evo Morales, created the To Defend Palestine manifest, a petition that is being signed by writers, political leaders, artists and journalists worldwide.
