Emboldened by U.S. backing Saudi Arabia launched a campaign to finally subjugate Qatar into client state status. The plan has now reached a high point. A few hours ago Bahrain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia severed all ties with Qatar. All sea- and airspace have been closed for Qatari traffic and the […]
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The Qatar Spat Exposes Britain’s Game of Thrones in the Gulf by Paul Mason…
Great. Just what we need. Our self-styled key ally in the so-called war on terror – Saudi Arabia – just closed the airspace, land and sea borders with our other ally, Qatar, accusing it of supporting Isis. What’s that about? Well, like almost everything in the region, it is about the strategic duplicity of the […]
Gulf States Launch Naval Blockade Of Qatar…
In what has emerged as the most significant escalation to result from the Qatar diplomatic crisis – which pits two of OPEC’s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, against the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas and further disrupts stability in the region – the biggest Middle East oil and container ports […]
3rd London Bridge Terrorist Named…
The third London Bridge attacker has been named as Youssef Zaghba, 22, a Moroccan-Italian man who had been living in east London. Zaghba was arrested last year trying to reach Syria, yet was still able to get into the UK. Reports in the Italian media said he was stopped in Bologna. His mother is Italian […]
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Full Transcript of Vladimir Putin Interview with Megyn Kelly…
Kelly: The consensus view in the United States is that you did. That’s what the 17 intelligence agencies concluded and that’s what the Republicans and the Democrats on the Congressional oversight committees who have seen the classified report have said. Are they all lying? President of Russia Vladimir Putin: They have been misled and they […]
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The Shocking Trigger Behind Today’s Gulf Scandal: Qatar Paid Al-Qaeda, Iran $1BN In Hostage Deal…
The FT has unveiled what its believes is the key trigger behind the shocking overnight collapse in diplomatic relations between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors. According to the FT, the catalyst that forced the Saudis and their allies to unveil the cut in diplomatic and economic ties, is that Qatar allegedly paid up to $1 […]
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A Married Father of Two and a Moroccan-Libyan Identified as Two London Bridge Terrorists…
A married father-of-two and a Moroccan-Libyan 30-year-old can now be revealed as two of the London Bridge terrorists who murdered seven people in the capital city massacre. The killer in an Arsenal shirt can today be named as British extremist Khuram Butt who was filmed unfurling an ISIS flag on national TV and was reported […]
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Villagers Say Yemeni Child Was Shot as He Tried to Flee Navy SEAL Raid…
Five civilians including a child were killed and another five were wounded in the latest U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Yemen, according to eyewitness accounts gathered by The Intercept. The raid by U.S. commandos in the hamlet of al Adhlan, in the Yemeni province of Mareb on May 23, also destroyed at least four homes. […]
Resorts World Manila in the Philipines Attacked. Terrified Guests Jump from Second Floor Windows…
Dozens of tourists are feared injured after an ISIS gunman opened fire at a hotel resort near Manila airport in the Philippines. The shooting happened at the popular Resorts World Manila in Pasay City, Philippines at about midnight local time. Explosions and gunshots were heard coming from the tourist hotpot and bloodied victims were later […]
U.S. Reportedly Warned the UK that the Manchester Bomber Was Planning an Attack…
The FBI warned Britain’s MI5 in January that Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was part of a North African ISIS cell that was plotting an attack against a target in the United Kingdom, the Daily Mail reported. The information came from a U.S. investigation into Abedi and his links to various terrorist groups in northern Africa. […]
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The End of the Western Alliance? Angela Merkel’s Colossal Munich Blunder…
As The Duran has written previously, US President Trump’s visit to NATO was a strained and unhappy affair, with European leaders made distinctly unhappy by Donald Trump’s transactional view of the alliance, as shown by his constant calls for its European members to increase their defence spending and his failure to reaffirm the US’s unequivocal […]
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Egypt Retaliates for Christian Killings with Airstrikes in Libya…
Following attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt, government jets attacked positions in eastern Libya. Egyptian state television reports that six strikes were conducted. The bombings were aimed at terrorist outposts, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said, adding that any form of state-sponsored terrorism should be punished. Anyone who attacks Egypt, whether they’re from inside or […]
Children Among Dozens Killed as Masked Gunmen Ambush Convoy of Egyptian Coptic Christians…
Gunmen opened fire on two buses and a truck carrying Coptic Christians in Minya, Egypt on Friday, killing at least 26, including children. Some 26 people were also injured in the attack. The group of between eight and 10 gunmen approached the convoy in three four-wheel-drive pickup trucks before opening fire, according to local media […]
Dilma Rousseff on Her Ouster, Brazil’s Political Crisis & Fighting Dictatorship (VIDEO & Transcript)…
As Brazil is engulfed by a political crisis, we are joined in studio for an extended exclusive interview by Brazil’s former President Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached last year in what many describe as a legislative coup. Her removal ended nearly 14 years of rule by the left-leaning Workers’ Party, which had been credited with […]
U.S. Ratification of the Law of the Sea Convention…
In Washington today, we have the opportunity to assess the raison d’État as defined by the current U.S. leadership: the new Trump administration and a Republican-controlled Congress. One significant measure will be whether the United States finally ratifies the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (“UNCLOS” or the “Convention”), the comprehensive treaty regime that […]
UK Deploys Army As Terror Threat Raised To Critical, PM Warns “More Attacks Imminent”…
In a live televised statement from Downing Street, UK PM Theresa May explains it was possible a “wider group of individuals” could have been involved in the Manchester Arena attack rather than just suicide bomber Salman Abedi – UK’S MAY: MANCHESTER TERROR ATTACKER BORN, RAISED IN UK – SALMAN ABEDI WAS BROUGHT UP IN U.K, […]
Manchester Bomber Named as British Libyan Salman Abedi…
The suicide bomber who blew himself up at a pop concert killing 22 people including young children has been named as Salman Abedi. ISIS have claimed responsibility after the terrorist set off a ball bearing bomb at an Ariana Grande concert, in the worst terror attack Britain has seen since the 7/7 London bombings. Eight-year-old […]
Iran Bets Its Future on ‘Reformist’ Rouhani…
In the perennial electoral battle between principlists (conservatives) and reformists, Iranian reformists have once again won handsomely. Iran’s President Hasan Rouhani was reelected in a landslide on Saturday – with at least 56.88 percent of the votes according to the latest count at time of publishing and a projected vote share of 20 million votes […]
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Shaping the Future: Moscow and Beijing’s Multipolar World Order…
The main assumption Bobo Lo starts with to define relations between Moscow and Beijing is that the two countries base their collaboration on convenience and a convergence of interests rather than on an alliance. He goes on to say that the major frictions in the relationship concern the fate that Putin and Xi hold for […]
Three Years After Their Kidnapping, 82 Chibok Girls Are Reunited with Their Families…
After weeks of delay since the Nigerian government announced it had negotiated with Boko Haram militants to release 82 kidnapped Chibok girls, eager families on Saturday were finally reunited with those who had been in captivity for more than three years, according to the Associated Press. The scene was an emotional one. Families dressed in […]
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