“We entered [Syria] to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad who terrorizes with state terror. [We didn’t enter] for any other reason,” the Turkish president said at the first Inter-Parliamentary Jerusalem Platform Symposium in Istanbul, as quoted by Hurriyet daily…
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Decades after Chernobyl Disaster, Engineers Slide High-Tech Shelter over Reactor…
On Wednesday, officials from all over the world gathered about a football field away from the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine. They were there to celebrate the final placement of a massive, high-tech shelter over reactor 4, which exploded in April 1986…
Welcome to the Fillon-Le Pen Cage Match by Pepe Escobar…
He came (from behind); he saw; he won. Francois Fillon will be the candidate of the French Right in the 2017 presidential elections, and he stands a very good chance of winning, in the second round, against Front National (FN) leader Marine Le Pen…
Refugee-Refusing Swiss Village Agrees to Host ‘A Syrian Family’…
A Swiss municipality, which caught international media attention in May by deciding that it would rather pay $300,000 a year than allow 10 asylum seekers to live there, has suddenly reversed its decision and agreed to host a Syrian family of five…
80k Civilians Flee Aleppo…
This week has brought a breakthrough for the Russian-backed Syrian operation to retake eastern Aleppo, allowing humanitarian relief to be brought to tens of thousands of civilians living in the captured districts, the Russian Defense Ministry said…
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Tony Blair Faces New Charges in Parliament for ‘Misleading’ UK over Iraq…
A cross-party group has tabled a new motion against Tony Blair, on the basis of facts revealed in the Chilcot report, that could see him stripped of his place on the Privy Council – a potential humiliation for the former leader, who is attempting to play a bigger role in UK politics…
Thousands of Cubans Bid Farewell to Castro…
Thousands of Cubans were filing through a memorial in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution on Monday as the nation plunged into a week of services bidding farewell to the man who ruled the country for nearly half a century…
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Aspartame and Metabolic Syndrome…
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Thomas Mair Found Guilty of Murdering Jo Cox…
Thomas Mair has been found guilty of murdering British politician Jo Cox a week before the UK voted to leave the European Union. Mair has been sentenced to life in prison without parole…
Russia Deploys Nuclear Missiles In Retaliation To NATO “Threats”…
The Kremlin appears to be accelerating its head-on collision course with NATO, and as a highly placed defense official said on Monday, Moscow will deploy S-400 surface-to-air missiles and nuclear-capable Iskander systems in the exclave of Kaliningrad in retaliation for NATO deployments…
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Fukushima Reactor Cooling System Stops Following Quake & Tsunami…
The cooling system of the third reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has stopped circulating water following a powerful 7.3 offshore earthquake. TEPCO said it managed to restart the system some 90 minutes after the failure…
Over 300 Iraqi Former Policemen Slaughtered South of Mosul…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Daesh terrorists have executed more than 300 former Iraqi policemen south of Mosul following heavy losses in the ongoing battle with Iraqi forces. The executions were carried out near the recently-liberated Hammam al-Alil town three weeks ago and the victims were buried in a mass grave…
Number of Migrant Arrivals to Italy Surged to Almost 27,500 in October…
Nearly 27 500 migrants reached the Italian shores in October, the highest monthly number ever recorded in the Central Mediterranean and more than twice as many as in the previous month…
Why Would Swiss Fighter Jets Shadow Civilian Russian Aircraft?…
Moscow has asked the Swiss government for an explanation for the deployment of fighter jets to meet a civilian Russian plane carrying journalists to a summit in Peru, saying it is particularly concerned by how perilously close the warplanes shadowed it…
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NATO Officers Among Thousands of Turks Seeking Asylum in Germany…
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said he expects Turkey to live up to the alliance’s ‘core values’ despite post-coup crackdown…
Saudi’s Utter Disregard for Ceasefire. Launches 70 Airstrikes Across Yemen…
The Saudi Royal Air Force disregarded the ceasefire they agreed to earlier this week, launching more than 70 airstrikes across Yemen on Friday…
Putin Withdraws Russia from International Criminal Court…
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday to withdraw Russia from the International Criminal Court, which rules on such grave charges as genocide and crimes against humanity…
Kim Jong-un aka “Kim Fatty III’ Begs China to Stop Calling Him Fat…
Is UKIP’s Brash, Outspoken Nigel Farage About to Become ‘Lord Nigel’…
Prime Minister Theresa May has apparently refused to confirm or deny whether she could give UKIP’s Nigel Farage a peerage, which would allow him to serve in the Cabinet and potentially become a go-between with US President-elect Donald Trump…
Syria Starts Blitzkrieg in Eastern Aleppo…
Tens of warplanes started massive air assaults on enemy targets in the Eastern parts of Aleppo on Tuesday after three weeks of lull and as Russia’s Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier launched combat operations in Syria…
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