The death toll from the Easter suicide bombings in Sri Lanka rose to 359, police said Wednesday, as the country’s leaders vowed to overhaul the security apparatus amid a series of intelligence lapses before the attacks. U.S. Ambassador Alaina Teplitz, meanwhile, told reporters that “clearly there was some failure in the system.” Sri Lanka’s leaders […]
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North Korea ‘Executes four foreign ministry officials’ After Accusing Them of Selling Information to the U.S. Ahead of Vietnam Summit…
Four North Korean officials have reportedly been executed for selling information to the US ahead of the failed nuclear arms meeting between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, it emerged today. The four workers, all said to be from the foreign ministry, were allegedly killed by firing squad after talks in Vietnam between the two countries […]
The World Just Witnessed the First Entirely Virtual Presidential Campaign…
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who was elected president of Ukraine by a landslide on Sunday, is probably the least prepared individual to head a democracy in world history. Until this weekend, his main experience in politics was playing a schoolteacher who becomes the president in a satirical television program. He ran with no party affiliation. Until two […]
Sri Lanka Warned of Threat Hours Before Suicide Attacks…
Sri Lankan intelligence officials were tipped off about an imminent attack by ISIS terrorists hours before a series of suicide bombings killed more than 300 people on Easter Sunday, April 21, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. Three churches and four hotels were hit by suicide bombers on Sunday morning, killing 321 […]
SHOWDOWN: Philippines’ Duterte Gives Canada 1 Week to Take Back Garbage or ‘we will declare war’…
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday reportedly threatened to “declare war” against Canada within the next week if the country fails to remove tons of garbage that was previously shipped to Manila. Duterte, in remarks aired by state media and reported by The Canadian Press, said he will “give a warning to Canada maybe next […]
Act II of the Most Important Political Event of the 21st Century Begins in May…
Brexit is the most important political event of the 21st century. It cuts across so many of the dominant narratives playing out daily in the headlines that it is almost mind-boggling. In fact, just about any theory you can dream up as to why Prime Minister Theresa May has worked so assiduously to betray and […]
Sri Lanka Authorities Were Warned of Attacks Two Weeks Ago…
Sri Lankan authorities received warnings two weeks before the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks that killed at least 290 people, a cabinet spokesman has said. “Fourteen days before these incidents occurred, we had been informed about these incidents,” Rajitha Senaratne told a press conference in the capital, Colombo, a day after the bombings, which also injured […]
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Not a Joke: Ukraine Presidential Vote Won by Comedian and Actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Landslide…
He played the president on television, and now he’ll be one in real life. Comedian and actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy has won Ukraine’s presidential runoff vote in a landslide, according to an exit poll released Monday with nearly all the votes counted. The Central Election Commission said Zelenskiy won 73 percent of the vote, while incumbent […]
China’s Belt and Road Continues to Win Over Europe While Technocrats Scream and Howl…
On April 10th, China’s Premier Li Keqiang celebrated the completion of the 1st phase of the 2.5 kilometer Chinese-built Pelgesac Bridge in Croatia across the Bay of Mali Ston alongside Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic. This ceremony marked a striking victory as the following day ushered in an important 16+1 Heads of State summit that […]
The World’s Hypocritical Silence as China Imprisons its Ethnic Muslims En Masse…
Imagine the reaction in the global Muslim community if a western nation imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Muslims solely for being Muslim and subjected them to torture, “re-education” that amounts to treating their religious faith as a pathological mental illness, forcefully separating parents and children, incarcerating the children in state-run orphanages, and on and on […]
Qatari Academic Seen in Video Explaining How Muslim Men Should Beat Their Wives…
A leading academic and cleric from World Cup host country Qatar has filmed a shocking guide on how Muslim men should beat their wives. The vile video features Abd Al-Aziz Al-Khazraj demonstrating how to “punish” a woman in accordance with Islamic law. In a further sick move, the sociologist used a school-age boy called Nayef […]
Tory Support Splinters, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party Nearly Even in Polls…
The bitter fallout from Brexit is threatening to break the Tory party apart, as a Europhile former cabinet minister Stephen Dorrell on Sunday announces he is defecting to the independent MPs’ group Change UK, and a new opinion poll shows Conservative support plummeting to a five-year low as anti-EU parties surge. The latest defections come […]
The Lost Syria Phone of German Islamic State Widow Omaima Abdi…
Here with English subs. I got the phone content of top German #ISIS widow Omaima Abdi. 1000s of pics show she carries gun, arms her child &marries jihadist Deso Dogg. She returned to Hamburg &now lives as if nothing happened. Why story about German #ISIS widow Omaima Abdi crucial? Normally ISIS members give interviews & […]
Kushner: Peace Plan Will Be Revealed After Ramadan…
Kushner told some 100 foreign ambassadors in Washington on Wednesday that the plan would require an “open mind” from both sides – both of whom will be forced to make compromises, according to source cited by Reuters. The source quoted Kushner as saying that the “the plan will require concessions from both sides but won’t […]
Notre Dame Was 15 Minutes from Destruction; Here’s What Was Saved and What Was Lost…
Notre-Dame cathedral was 15-30 minutes from total destruction after a huge fire destroyed its wooden roof and spire, the French government said on Monday night. “Just 15 minutes or half an hour later and it would have been too late to save it,” junior interior minister Laurent Nunez told reporters outside the cathedral. The Paris […]
Sudan’s Bashir Transferred to Jail Notorious for Holding Political Prisoners During His Regime…
Sudan’s ousted President Omar al-Bashir was transferred on Tuesday evening to Kober prison, a maximum-security prison notorious for holding political prisoners during his 30-year dictatorship, two prison officials who witnessed his arrival told CNN. Several other regime figures are being held at the jail and kept separately to Bashir, who is under intensified security measures, […]
‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Banned From School Over Sexism Concerns…
A school in Catalonia, Spain, has withdrawn from its library 200 classic children’s books such as Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood because of their depiction of sexist stereotypes. After analyzing the contents of its library for children up to the age of 6, the management of Taber School in Barcelona found that around […]
Peru’s Ex-President Garcia Dies After Shooting Himself to Avoid Arrest…
Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in a hospital in Lima on Wednesday, April 17, after shooting himself as police arrived at his house to arrest him in connection with a bribery probe, authorities said on Wednesday. Garcia, who had repeatedly denied wrongdoing, was 69. President Martin Vizcarra said on Twitter that he was “consternated” […]
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un Summit in Vladivostok…
Yonhap reports that Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un will be meeting next week in Vladivostok, Russia. Putin will meet Kim before he attends an international forum in Beijing from April 26-29. The forum is about Beijing’s “One Belt One Road” initiative, a grand geopolitical strategy to connect China with Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Europe […]
Mercenaries, Spies, and Double Agents Gather En Masse in Bogotá…
Small families with bedrolls loiter quietly on the red-brick sidewalks outside the high-end eateries and upscale boutiques of Bogotá’s northern neighborhoods, taking handouts. Along the gritty, honking avenues farther south, young men push cartloads of candy for sale or shoulder food-delivery backpacks as employees of one of the Colombian capital’s fastest-growing startups. They are Venezuelan […]
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