Source: vocativ.comThe makers of gay dating app Grindr announced onFridaythat asetting allowing users to show the distance between one anotherhad been disabled in several countries with anti-gay legislation.This news comes on the heels ofevidencethat Egyptian authorities wereusing itto locate andarrest homosexuals.Theproximity feature of the app allows users to detectother users’ location to within approximately 100 feet.Asdemonstratedby a reporter fromAmerica Blog, eventhose who don’t have a

Source: telesurtv.netHundreds of armed men have set fire to environmental agency buildings in Brazil’s Amazon region, forcing extra troops and federal police to be deployed to the area to quell the attack.The arsonists are believed to be illegal gold miners seeking revenge against officials who seized boats which are used to extract gold from the muddy bottom of the Madeira River.During the attack, buildings occupied by the Humaita branches of Brazil’s Environmental Protection Agency, the IBAM

Source: telegraph.co.ukA paraplegic man who lost the use of his legs following a motorcycle accident is standing and moving again after doctors stimulated his spinal cord using electrical signals.The 32-year-old wasparalysedfrom the waist down after completely severing his spine in the crash, and had made no progress despite 80 sessions of regular physiotherapy.However researchers at theUniversity of Louisville,in Kentucky, US, have tore-awakenhis nerves using spinal cord epidural stimulation (s

Source: bbc.comThe Spanish government has said it would welcome the participation of sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont in new elections.The central government in Madrid has ordered that fresh elections for the regional parliament of Catalonia should take place in December.It stripped Catalonia of its autonomy after the Catalan parliament voted to declare independence.MrPuigdemont is urging democratic opposition to direct rule from Madrid.He condemned the suspension of Catalonia's auton

Source: reuters.comTwo car bombs killed at least 17 people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, two weeks after a huge truck bomb killed hundreds of civilians in the city.Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attacks on Saturday. A suicide car bomb was rammed into a hotel, Nasahablod Two, about 600 meters from the presidential palace, and then armed militants stormed the building, police said.A few minutes later, a car bomb exploded near the former parliam

Source: cnn.comA federal grand jury in Washington on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources briefed on the matter.The charges are still sealed under orders from a federal judge. Plans were prepared Friday for anyone charged to be taken into custody as soon as Monday, the sources said. It is unclear what the charges are.A spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment. The White House also had no comme

Source: dw.comThe Kazakh language will change from Cyrillic to Latin script as part of a modernization and development effort. The move is also viewed as an attempt to distance the language from Russian and promote nationalism.Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Friday announced the country's alphabet will gradually switch from Cyrillic to Latin script.Kazakh, a Turkic language, currently uses a modified Cyrillic alphabet with 42 letters.The Latin alphabet will have 32 letters

Source: telegraph.co.ukSyria's government was responsible for a deadly chemical attack on a rebel-held town in the north-west of the country on 4 April, a UN report says.The authors say they are confident Damascus used Sarin nerve agent in Khan Sheikhoun, killing more than 80 people.Today's report confirms what we have long known to be true, said the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his ally Russia have repeatedly said the incident was fabricated.

Source: foxnews.comWhen it came to recruiting foreigners to flee the comforts of home for the battlefields of Iraq and Syria, ISIS succeeded like no other —encouraging more than 40,000 fighters from more than 110 countries to travel to the fighting fray both before and after the declaration of the “caliphate” in June 2014.Subsequently, authorities have warned about the threat of returning jihadists to their homeland and since the falls of Mosul, Raqqa and the rapidly receding footprint of ISI

Source: foxnews.comThe 42-year-old mystery of a New York woman who vanished after being dropped off for a doctor's appointment came to a happy ending this week when detectives located her at a Massachusetts assisted living facility.Flora Stevens, 78, was using the name Flora Harris when detectives tracked her down at the facility in Lowell, 23 miles northwest of Boston.Medical records showed Stevens had previously lived in nursing homes in New Hampshire and New York City, but officials say t