Chancellor Angela Merkel has confirmed that she will not be running for re-election as party leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Merkel said she still plans on remaining in her post as chancellor, but will step down in 2021 when her current term finishes. She once said that party leadership and chancellorship must […]
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Northern Marianas Slammed by Typhoon, Faces Slow Recovery…
Residents of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands braced Thursday for months without electricity or running water the islands slammed with the strongest storm to hit any part of the U.S. this year. Even after Super Typhoon Yutu had moved away from the U.S. territory in the Pacific, residents were warned by emergency management […]
Saudi Prosecutor Says Khashoggi Murder Was Premeditated…
The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul was “premeditated”, Saudi state-run media reported on Thursday. In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency, the public prosecutor said that assessment was based on evidence provided by the Turkish authorities. “Information from the Turkish authorities indicates that the act of the suspects […]
Feds Seize Nazi-Looted Art Put Up for Auction in NY…
The United States has brought a forfeiture action to reunite the heirs of a renowned Jewish art collector with a Dutch portrait seized by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Missing since 1943, the oil painting “A Scholar Sharpening His Quill” by Salomon Koninck was transferred to New York from Chile last year in contemplation of […]
In Win for Trump, Merkel Changes Course on U.S. Gas Imports…
Chancellor Angela Merkel has offered government support to efforts to open up Germany to U.S. gas, a key concession to President Trump as he tries to loosen Russia’s grip on Europe’s largest energy market. Over breakfast this month, the chancellor told a small group of lawmakers her government had decided to co-finance the construction of […]
Political Turmoil Throws Australia Off Balance…
For the past decade, Australia has been politically adrift. Like some counterparts in the Western world, it has been experiencing a cycle of deep fragmentation, polarization and swings in the political balance that have put its governments off kilter. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s downfall in late August ushered in the country’s sixth prime minister in […]
Britain’s Grooming Gang’s…
On July 24, 2018, Britain’s Home Secretary, conservative MP Sajid Javid, issued orders for research into the ethnic origins of the country’s many sexual grooming gangs that had involved large numbers of loosely-termed “Asian men”, who, over many years, had taken vulnerable young white British girls to use or pass on for sexual purposes. Most […]
I Pulled a 1,500-Year-Old Sword Out of a Lake…
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 […]
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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SHOT: Theresa May Says Still Believes Brexit Deal Is ‘Achievable’…
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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Infamous St. Petersburg ‘Troll Factory’ Set on Fire…
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 […]
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