His name is Karim Cheurfi and was born on Dec.31, 1977 in Livry-Gargan, France; Cheurfi, 39, a French national lived with his mother in the eastern Paris suburb of Chelles. A document found in attacker’s pocket after he was shot showed he supported Islamic State. Francois Molins says Cheurfi was known to police and judiciary […]
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Kidnapped Qatari Hunting Party of 26 ‘Freed in Iraq’…
The Iraqi interior ministry said “all 26” were in Baghdad and would be handed over to a Qatari envoy. The hunters were abducted by gunmen in a desert area of Iraq near the Saudi border in December 2015. A large-scale search was launched but very little information was known about the group’s whereabouts or condition…
Venezuela on the Brink…Images and Video…
The media is downplaying, and in most cases ignoring, the extreme nature of the crisis currently going on in socialist Venezuela under the Maduro regime. Most of the cries for help are from people begging the international media to cover their plight. Some of the video and photography are stunning as millions of people take […]
Agricultural Mega-Merger Could Make China Leading GMO Producer…
A $43 billion takeover deal that would merge Chinese state-owned agriculture company ChemChina and Swiss-owned seed company Syngenta is expected to turn the world’s second largest economy into a biotech titan. In recent weeks, the deal has been approved by EU and US authorities. Once closed it will be China’s biggest overseas acquisition. It will […]
Israel Celebrates 50 Years as Occupier by Jonathan Cook…
Nazareth. Israel is to hold lavish celebrations over the coming weeks to mark the 50th anniversary of what it calls the “liberation of Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights” – or what the rest of us describe as the birth of the occupation. The centrepiece event will take place in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem. […]
So Where Are They? Mystery Over 730K Missing Elephants…
It means that a third of the elephants’ precious refuges have fewer than five per cent of the animals they should be protecting – with “pervasive poaching” to blame. Yet researchers who have produced the astonishing figures say they should not be treated as “doom and gloom” statistics and believe their findings can go on […]
Israel’s State Comptroller: Israel Is Holding Back Millions of Shekels Meant for Holocaust Survivors…
State Comptroller and retired judge Yosef Shapira called on the state authorities to act quickly: “Time is running out. The state should continue to make improvements and therefore the government should continue to strive to solve the existential distress of all needy elderly in the country, including Holocaust survivors. The survivors who experienced the events […]
Allied Forces Knew About Holocaust Two Years Before Discovery of Concentration Camps…
The Allied Powers were aware of the scale of the Jewish Holocaust two-and-a-half years earlier than is generally assumed, and had even prepared war crimes indictments against Adolf Hitler and his top Nazi commanders. Newly accessed material from the United Nations – not seen for around 70 years – shows that as early as December […]
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PM Theresa May Calls for UK General Elections in June…
In a surprise statement outside Downing Street on Tuesday morning, the prime minister claimed that opposition parties were jeopardising her government’s preparations for Brexit. “We need a general election and we need one now,” she said. “I have only recently and reluctantly come to this conclusion but now I have concluded it is the only […]
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UN Peacekeepers Gave Haitian Kids Snacks to be Part of Sex Ring…
More than 100 U.N. Peacekeepers stationed in Haiti have been implicated in a child sex ring where children as young as 12 years old were exploited, but have never been held accountable for their abuses, according to an investigation by the Associated Press. The investigation described in disturbing detail how from 2004 to 2007, at […]
After Mosul: The Coming Break-Up of Iraq and the Middle East…
The battle against IS is a war no one will win. Here’s the real battle we should be worrying about – and fighting. All eyes are on the battle for Mosul. Will the coalition defeat the Islamic State (IS) or not? In the end, it won’t matter. If we have learned anything from the last […]
Erdoğan’s Referendum Victory Spells the End of Turkey As We Know It…
With the result of Sunday’s referendum on its constitution, Turkey as we know it is over; it is history. The architecture of its governance designed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk – Turkey’s founder – has, after a wobbly series of experiments with the military and a secular elite in charge, been dismantled by the leader of […]
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Erdogan Wins Narrow Referendum Victory, Laying Bare Turkey’s Divisions…
Supporters of Tayyip Erdogan waved flags in the streets while opponents banged pots and pans in protest in their homes, after a narrow referendum victory gave the Turkish president sweeping powers and laid the nation’s divisions bare. The referendum will bring the biggest overhaul in Turkish politics since the founding of the modern republic, abolishing […]
Palestinian Political Prisoners Declare Open Hunger Strike Inside Israeli Jails…
Head of the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe has called on all Palestinian factions in Israeli prisons to join an upcoming mass hunger strike, which was originally called for by the Fatah movement. All Fatah-affiliated prisoners have committed to joining the strike, led by imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthii, scheduled to begin on […]
History Repeating: Ahead of the French Election Facebook Blocks 30k Accounts…
[…] In a blog post, Facebook said it was acting against 30,000 fake accounts in France. It said its priority was to remove suspect accounts with high volumes of posting activity and the biggest audiences…
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Assad to the BBC: Chemical Attack “100% Fabrication”…
“We gave up our arsenal 3 years ago. Even if we had them we wouldn’t use them. We have never used our chemical arsenal in our history. Our information, that the West, mainly the United States, is hand and glove with the terrorists. They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for […]
REPORT: 2,000 Allegations of Sexual Abuse Against UN Peacekeepers Over 12 Years…
As the United Nations continues to “grapple” with sexual exploitation by members of its ranks, the Associated Press says it has uncovered 2,000 allegations of abuse against personnel working as peacekeepers. An AP investigation, drawing on internal UN reports and testimony from victims, states that nearly 2,000 allegations of sexual exploitation have been levelled against…
Melted Fuel Still Leaking Out of Fukushima Reactor — Likely Escaping from Opening at Bottom of Containment Vessel–Giving Up On Robots…
[TEPCO] failed to locate melted nuclear fuel inside the No. 1 reactor at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant… [T]he latest survey on the No. 1 reactor also failed to obtain data necessary to extract melted fuel, such as where the fuel is located. Therefore, the utility is compelled to consider fetching melted […]
Russia Vetoes West’s Syria Resolution at UN Security Council…
Moscow has vetoed a draft resolution submitted to the UN Security Council which demands that Damascus grant full access to UN inspectors at any military site in Syria, under the threat of military action. ”The result of the vote is as follows: ten votes in favor, two votes against, three abstentions. The draft resolution has […]
Putin: Idlib ‘Chemical Attack’ Was False Flag to Set Assad Up, More May Come…
Russia has information of a potential incident similar to the alleged chemical attack in Idlib province, possibly targeting a Damascus suburb, President Vladimir Putin said. The goal is to discredit the government of Syrian President Assad, he added. “We have reports from multiple sources that false flags like this one – and I cannot call […]
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