“Today, the OPCW Technical Secretariat has requested the Syrian Arab Republic to make the necessary arrangements for such a deployment. This has coincided with a request from the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Federation to investigate the allegations of chemical weapons use in Douma. The team is preparing to deploy to Syria shortly,” the […]
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Israel Strikes Hamas in Gaza As Border Protests Turn into Guerilla Warfare…
The Israeli army was busy last night, and in addition to launching an air strike on a Syria air field, following several weeks of increased tensions at the Israel-Gaza border, the IDF also struck a Hamas military compound in northern Gaza in response to the Sunday discovery of two explosive devices – allegedly placed near […]
Target of Syria Military Base Was Likely Iranian Drone Base…
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitor, said at least 14 people were killed in the Sunday’s raid, including four Iranian “military advisers.” While Russia, the United States, Syria and Iran have all attributed the strike to Israel, Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied it. The T-4 complex in the eastern Homs province, […]
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Viktor Orbans Fidesz Wins Second Consecutive Term…
Viktor Orban’s centre-right Fidesz has polled 45%, with most of the votes counted. A centre-left opposition alliance is trailing with 25%, while the far-right Jobbik party is credited with 21%. The Hungarian left has never fully recovered from its heavy defeat in the 2010 ballot, in which Viktor Orban swept to power with a two-thirds […]
9 Gazans Killed, Including a Palestinian Journalist, During Border Protests…
Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered along the Gaza border on Friday, burning tires and throwing firebombs and rocks at Israeli soldiers, who responded with tear gas and live fire, the army and witnesses said, as Palestinians held a second “March of Return” protest. The Palestinian UN ambassador told reporters in New York late Friday […]
3 People, Including Van Driver, Killed in Muenster Ramming Incident. Numerous Injured…
The police said it was too early to speculate if the incident in Western Germany on Saturday was a terror attack, according to media reports. A car drove into a group of seated people in Germany’s western town of Muenster, leaving several people dead and injured, according to Spiegel Online news outlet. The Interior Ministry […]
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Three Times the Size of France and Growing…
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – an enormous swatch of trillions of pieces of plastic and trash floating somewhere between California and Hawaii – is already three times the size of France and growing fast, according to a new report published in Scientific Reports. The study, which analyzed a total of 1.2 million plastic samples […]
Former South Korea Leader Park Sentenced to 24 Years in Jail…
Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s first female president, was sentenced to 24 years in prison after being found guilty of crimes that exposed deep links between politics and the nation’s corporate giants. A panel of three judges at the Seoul Central District Court found the former leader guilty of most of a dozen charges ranging from […]
Poisoned Ex-Spy Sergei Skripal No Longer in Critical Condition, Improving Rapidly…
Poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in critical condition and has responded well to treatment after a nerve agent attack last month, the hospital treating him says. Sergei, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were poisoned by a nerve agent in the British city of Salisbury. The pair were found slumped on a bench […]
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Saudi Crown Prince Comes Clean: Saudi nationals have funded terrorist groups…
Zerohedge reports that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) admitted in a wide-ranging interview in The Atlantic that Saudi nationals have funded terrorist groups and that Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land. The above statement is perceived as an open indicator that the relationship between Riyadh and Tel Aviv […]
Bill Clinton Admits He Tried to Help Peres Beat Netanyahu in 1996 Elections…
Former US president Bill Clinton acknowledged for the first time that he tried to help Shimon Peres win Israel’s general elections in 1996 against Benjamin Netanyahu. In an interview broadcast on Israel’s Channel 10 news on Tuesday, the former president, who has not made a secret of his difficult relationship with Netanyahu, admitted intervening on […]
Brazil’s Supreme Court Votes to Jail Former President Lula…
Brazil’s Supreme Court has voted 6-5 to deny former President Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva habeas corpus while he appeals his corruption conviction, potentially bringing an end to his re-election campaign. The popular leftist leader must now begin serving his 12-year prison sentence for taking bribes, denying his plea to remain free until he has […]
The Skripal Affair: Knobs and Knockers…
What is left of the government’s definitive identification of Russia as the culprit in the Salisbury attack? It is a simple truth that Russia is not the only state that could have made the nerve agent: dozens of them could. It could also have been made by many non-state actors. Motorola sales agent Gary Aitkenhead […]
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U.S. Supreme Court Throws Out $655M Historic Terrorism Ruling Against the Palestinian Authority…
The US Supreme Court on Monday threw out a $655.5 million terrorism judgment from February 2015 against the Palestinian Authority, in a blow to efforts to hold it liable in American courts for terrorist incidents. The original judgment related to PA-linked attacks in Israel during the Second Intifada, which killed 33 US citizens. Already in […]
Britain’s Chemical Lab, Porton Down, Experts Unable to Identify ‘Precise Source’ of Novichok that Poisoned Spy and His Daughter…
Scientists from Porton Down have not been able to establish where the novichok nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal was made. Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, told Sky News they were not yet able to prove it was made in Russia. He […]
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Netanyahu Suspends Asylum Seeker Deal With UN After Right-wing Pushback…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday night he is suspending the implementation of a deal with the United Nations announced only hours earlier that would see Israel deport asylum seekers to Western countries rather than Africa – despite the fact that the deal has already been signed. Against a backlash from politicians and others against […]
London Murder Rate Overtakes New York Amid Spike in Stabbings, Shootings…
London has surpassed New York City’s murder rate for the second month in a row, due mostly to a spike in knife crime and shootings which left 15 Londoners dead in February – nine of whom were age 30 or younger, and 22 dead in March vs. New York City’s 21, according to the Sunday […]
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Last Act of ‘Novichok’ Drama Revealed – “The Skripals’ Resurrection”…
It seems that the ‘Novichok’ fairy-tale the British government plays to us provides for a happy ending – the astonishing and mysterious resurrection of the victims of a “military grade” “five to eight times more deadly than VX gas” “nerve agent” “of a type developed by” Hollywood…
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On Land Day, Israeli Forces Kill 15 Palestinians, Injure Hundreds More in Gaza…
Israeli forces shot dead 14 Palestinians and injured over a 1,000 more along the Gaza border on Friday, as thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in “The Great March of Return” on the 42nd anniversary of Land Day. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that 14 Palestinians were killed on Friday…The ministry added that 1,272 […]
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‘Satan 2’ Nuclear Missile Again Test-Launched by Russia…
A new intercontinental ballistic missile hailed by Russian President Vladimir Putin as being able to fly over the North or South Poles and strike any target in the world reportedly was test-launched for the second time Friday. Russia’s defense ministry released a video purportedly showing the Sarmat ICBM blasting off in spectacular fashion from the […]
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