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Saudi Arabia told the United Nations Human Rights Council that it fights torture and leads the way on human rights. While fibbing over its human rights record to the UN, the Kingdom currently plans to hang three juveniles on the basis of confessions that were extracted under duress. Bandar al-Ali, the Saudi Minister of Culture and Information, made  his comments in a speech delivered to the UN in Geneva in response to a report delivered to the Human Rights Council by Juan Mendez, the special rapporteur on torture.

In response to the rising belligerence by North Korea, and its increasingly more frequent rocket launches, U.S. and South Korean troops staged a massive amphibious landing exercise Saturday, storming simulated North Korean beach defenses amid and threats by Pyongyang to annihilate its enemies.

A War was the Danish submission to the Oscars this year for Best Foreign Language Film of 2015. It lost out to a Hungarian movie set in a Holocaust concentration camp, but A War is well worth seeing, with or without awards. It’s in Danish, with large and clear English subtitles—you will have no problem following the action.

Former US defense secretary William Perry warns that there is at greater risk of a nuclear catastrophe threatening the entire planet now than at any point during the Cold War. Perry says that rogue states and unpredictable leaders coupled with regional conflicts and terrorism is leaving the world vulnerable to an accidental nuclear Armageddon.

During their latest debate, the four remaining Republican presidential candidates revealed the one thing they all had in common..all four of them would put more boots on the ground to fight ISIS. During their 12th presidential debate on Thursday evening GOP candidates Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich each declared just how draconian they would be in dealing with ISIS in the Middle East Syria. The Republican contenders also scoffed at military efforts the Obama administration and vowed to send waves of US troops “to wipe ISIS out,” as Kasich put it.