By Crofton Black & Abigail Fielding-Smith of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (The Daily Beast)- The Pentagon gave a controversial U.K. PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda program in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Bell...

At least 52 people were killed and many injured after an annual thanksgiving festival of the Oromo community turned into an anti-government protest Sunday in the south-central Ethiopian town of Bishoftu. According to a statement issued by the regional government, the victims were killed in a...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defended on Sunday his tax practices after a report suggested he may have avoided paying income taxes for the past two decades. The New York Times reported that Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, which could have...

Pope Francis said a Mass on Sunday for the miniscule Catholic community in Shi'ite Muslim Azerbaijan, urging the "precious little flock" to keep the faith and paying tribute to those persecuted during the Soviet era. The oil and gas-rich nation of about 9 million people bordering on Russia,...