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Friday, 04 December 2015 11:29
IS commander searches monastery for weapons, finds Bibles
Sister Hayat, an Iraqi nun, lived a quiet life of devotion in a Dominican monastery near Mosul. She worked in an orphanage and taught anthropology at a local university. Then IS overran the city and the…
Friday, 04 December 2015 11:21
North Korea: digging a new nuclear-test tunnel
Satellite photos show images dating from October and early November of the addition of a fourth tunnel at test site Punggye-ri, on North Korea’s east coast. The new tunnel is under mountains where North Korea conducts…
Friday, 04 December 2015 11:18
Iran: Christian prisoner denied medical treatment
Maryam Naghash Zargaran has been in Elvin prison for nearly three years. She had heart surgery before her incarceration, now difficult prison conditions have caused her health to deteriorate further. She had another heart attack, and…
Friday, 04 December 2015 11:18
Venezuela: parliamentary elections on Sunday
It has been over two years since president Hugo Chavez died, giving way to an ‘economic war’ on the Venezuelan people. Violence from the opposition has led to Venezuela looking more and more like a powder…
Friday, 04 December 2015 11:17
Burundi: lives on the line
Fearful of being recruited into the Imbonerakure (the violence-prone youth wing of the ruling party who are fighting anti-government forces), many Burundian children run away and become refugees in Tanzania. There have been seven months of…
Friday, 04 December 2015 11:15
IS sources of cash
Weapons, vehicles, employee salaries, propaganda videos, international travel - all cost money. IS's methods of financing are difficult to shut down. Terrorists use their control over a territory the size of the UK to develop revenue…