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[ad_1] House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, decided to highlight President Biden’s failures in Afghanistan since the U.S. withdrawal by inviting former Afghan Ambassador Roya Rahmani to be his guest to the State of the Union address. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., a Marine veteran, invited Shamsrrahman “Shams” Rahmani, an Afghan …

[ad_1] close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for February 8 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. A police officer in Jamaica was charged with abducting and raping a woman following a traffic stop, authorities said Wednesday. JAMAICA REIMPOSES ‘STATE OF EMERGENCY,’ TOURISM …

[ad_1] The People’s Republic of China lodged a “stern protest” to the United States over shooting down the unmanned surveillance aircraft that floated across the country last week. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mao Ning fielded questions Wednesday, when she was asked about the ongoing controversy surrounding the surveillance …

[ad_1] An associate of a Russian billionaire was charged in an indictment unsealed Tuesday with violating U.S. sanctions and money laundering. The indictment charged Vladimir Voronchenko, a Russian who is a permanent U.S. resident, with joining a scheme to make over $4 million in payments to maintain four U.S. properties …

[ad_1] A Nicaraguan judge on Monday sentenced four Roman Catholic priests to 10 years behind bars in what critics maintain is part of President Daniel Ortega’s crackdown on dissent.  The priests were convicted in closed-door trials in which government-appointed defenders acted as the priests’ attorneys. The conspiracy charges against stem …

[ad_1] The Church of England is considering referring to God in “non-gendered” terms during services, the Telegraph reported.  Breaking with centuries of tradition, bishops have announced they are launching a major “project on gendered language” this spring. It may suggest that priests stop using the male pronouns “He” and “Him” …

[ad_1] Extremist rebels in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have killed a worker for the international charity Doctors Without Borders, shortly after a former vice president of the organization was asked to produce a report into the humanitarian situation in the conflict-hit region. Mozambique’s Islamic extremist insurgency, which started in …

[ad_1] Japanese LGBTQ people and rights groups condemned a recent discriminatory remark by a senior aide of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, demanding his government enact laws to ban discrimination against sexual minorities, legalize same-sex marriage and guarantee equal rights before Japan hosts a Group of Seven summit in May. Their …

[ad_1] A Catholic high school student in Canada said he was suspended for the rest of the year for protesting against transgender people’s use of bathrooms and saying there are only two genders – and now he’s appealing to Ontario’s human rights tribunal. Josh Alexander, 16, said the leadership of …

[ad_1] A former London police officer was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years for raping and sexually assaulting a dozen women over a 17-year period. Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick, 48, admitted last month he was a serial rapist in what prosecutors described …