Every summer, my parents, my six-year-old brother and I go to stay in a cabin by a lake called Vidöstern in Tånnö in southern Sweden, not far from where we live. I like to build sandcastles on the beach, or find rocks to skim across the water and see how many times I can make […]
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India: Scores Killed As Train Plows Into Revelers at Religious Festival…
A speed passenger train struck a crowd of people celebrating the Hindu Dussehra festival in the Indian city of Amritsar in Punjab state on Friday, killing some 60 people and injuring scores more. A large crowd of people had gathered to watch the ceremonial burning of effigy near the railway tracks when the train struck. […]
U.S. and South Korea Again Call Off a Major Military Exercise…
The United States and South Korea are scrapping another major military exercise this year, a Pentagon official said Friday, citing a push for diplomatic progress with North Korea. The top Pentagon spokeswoman, Dana W. White, said Washington and Seoul are suspending an air exercise known as Vigilant Ace “to give the diplomatic process every opportunity […]
Japan Plans to Flush Fukushima Water ‘Containing Radioactive Material Above Permitted Levels’ Into the Pacific Ocean…
Water that the Japanese government is planning to release into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant contains radioactive material well above legally permitted levels, according to the plant’s operator and documents seen by The Telegraph. The government is running out of space to store contaminated water that has come into contact […]
Merkel Coalition Gets Overdue Spanking in Bavaria – but 5 years Too Late to Save Germany…
In Bavaria’s state elections, German voters sent a powerful message to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been harshly criticized for opening up Germany’s borders to the free flow of migration. But strangely enough the pro-immigrant Green Party took a solid second place. Merkel and her fragile coalition, comprised of the Christian Social Union (CSU), […]
Canadians Love Their Legal Weed, They’ve Run Out of Stock on First Day of Legalization…
Canadians loved their legal weed so much that many stores ran out of stock of the first day of legalized cannabis and no one is sure when the shortages will end. Across the country, smokers of all pedigrees (including one brilliant dude named Tim) either logged onto a website or waited for hours outside a […]
New Saudi Airstrike Hits Yet Another Bus Carrying 40 Civilians in Yemen…
A bus full of civilians was destroyed when the Saudi–led coalition targeted Houthi rebels in Yemen’s port city of Hodeida. The latest bombing comes months after a coalition airstrike killed 40 children on a school trip. At least 17 people were killed and 20 injured in a Saudi-led airstrike on Yemen’s Hodeida on Saturday. The […]
Pompeo Heads to Saudi Arabia Over Disappearance of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said that he will send Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of a Saudi Arabian journalist. Trump tweeted that he had “just spoke to the King of Saudi Arabia who denies any knowledge of whatever may have happened ‘to our Saudi Arabian citizen.’” “He […]
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British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday she still believes a Brexit deal is “achievable”, despite talks with the European Union becoming deadlocked on the issue of the Irish border. “We cannot let this disagreement derail the prospects of a good deal, and leave us with the ‘no deal’ outcome that no-one wants,” she told […]
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The office of Russia’s infamous troll factory believed to be at the vanguard of Russia’s information war has been set on fire in St. Petersburg overnight. An investigation revealed last year that the secretive troll factory had rebranded itself as a media conglomerate with 16 news websites generating more than 30 million pageviews every month. […]
Shocking Footage Shows Moment #Tsunami Waves Hit Palu, Indonesia…
Watching this short clip is surreal, but seeing the sheer might of a 50′ wave of water building then hitting the town of Palu, Indonesia is frightful. Bearing witness to ordinary one minute to devastation the next does something to one’s soul. Unimaginable…
Feeding the Gods: Hundreds of Skulls Reveal Massive Scale of Human Sacrifice in Aztec Capital…
The priest quickly sliced into the captive’s torso and removed his still-beating heart. That sacrifice, one among thousands performed in the sacred city of Tenochtitlan, would feed the gods and ensure the continued existence of the world. Death, however, was just the start of the victim’s role in the sacrificial ritual, key to the spiritual […]
Missing Interpol President Meng Hongwei ‘Under Investigation’ in China…
The first Chinese head of Interpol, the international law enforcement agency, is under investigation in China, a source has told the Post, amid mystery surrounding his disappearance after his wife reported to French police he had gone missing. Meng Hongwei, 64, who is also a vice-minister at China’s Ministry of Public Security, was “taken away” […]
Brazil’s Bolsonaro-Led Far Right Wins a Victory Far More Sweeping and Dangerous Than Anyone Predicted. Its Lessons Are Global…
For the past thirty years, Congressman Jair Bolsonaro was a fringe extremist in Brazilian politics, known mostly for outlandish, deliberately inflammatory quotes in which he paid homage to the most notorious torturers of the 1964-1985 military regime, constantly heralded the 1964 coup as a “defense of democracy,” told a female socialist colleague in Congress that […]
Cardinal Ouellet to Abp. Viganò: Your testimony was ‘political’ and ‘extremely reprehensible’…
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, today issued an open letter to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, in response to his explosive 11-page testimony, alleging that Pope Francis and several high-level prelates were complicit in covering up ex-U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s homosexual abuse of seminarians. In his letter, released in French (official text), […]
Banksy Painting Self-Destructs Seconds After Being Sold for $1.4 Million at Auction…
For an artist that’s known for his stunts, this could be Banksy’s most perfect art world prank. After the gavel fell Friday at Sotheby’s auction house in London, Banksy’s Girl with Balloon was reduced to shreds — another apparent act in the disruptive career of the anonymous British graffiti artist. The iconic image of a […]
Three Decades After Nuclear Disaster, Chernobyl Goes Solar…
Ukraine unveiled a solar plant in Chernobyl on Friday, just across from where a power station, now encased in a giant sarcophagus, caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster three decades ago. Built in a contaminated area, which remains largely uninhabitable and where visitors are accompanied by guides carrying radiation meters, 3,800 panels produce energy to […]
MI5 Provides Immunity for Agents Criminal Acts…
MI5 grants its informants legal cover to participate in crimes that may extend to murder, torture and sexual assaults, a tribunal has heard. The policy, in existence since the early 1990s, is likely to have enabled the Security Service to conceal wide ranging illegal activity, Ben Jaffey QC, representing an alliance of human rights group, […]
MI6 Regrets Helping Vladimir Putin to Win Power, Says Ex-Spy Chief…
MI6’s assistance to Vladimir Putin during his rise to power, whereby it ensured that Tony Blair attended a social event with him, is now regretted, its former head has admitted. Sir Richard Dearlove, who was chief of the Secret Intelligence Service from 1999 to 2004, said that in the run-up to the Russian presidential election […]