Zion Oil & Gas several months ago began drilling at its new license in the Jezreel Valley, following the vision of company founder John Brown, who believes vast amounts of oil will be found in the Holy Land to the benefit and blessing of Israel. The Dallas-based Christian-run company announced on Tuesday that it has…
BEIRUT—On the day Syrian anti-aircraft missiles downed an American-made Israeli F-16 fighter jet, a banner boasting of the feat in both Arabic and Hebrew script went up in a village in southern Lebanon. To the northeast, loyalists of Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, distributed sweets to passersby on the streets of Damascus while the…
NORTH KOREA would unleash a “more significant” military response to any attack from the United States in order to protect the “fragile” Kim Jong-un regime, Korea expert Sue Mi Terry claimed. North Korea and the United States have been engaged in an escalating war of words over the regime’s refusal to give up its military arsenal.US…
SINCE Chancellor Angela Merkel has been recently bogged down by negotiations on forming a new governing coalition for Germany, the scene has been left clear for another European leader to take center stage – and, no, I do not mean Theresa May. The British prime minister’s grip on power is looking shaky as talks over…
The United States must rethink its relationship with Latin America if it wants to respond to China’s influence. In the global competition between world powers, the battle in Latin America exemplifies how power is shifting toward Asia. China has been steadily strengthening political and economic ties with Latin America, while the United States has missed…
LONDON (Reuters) – If Prime Minister Theresa May allows Brexit to be watered down or halted by supporters of European Union membership, then Britain will be thrust into the gravest constitutional crisis since World War Two, Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said. The former leader of Britain’s UK Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage, speaks in his…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Angela Merkel is heading into her final term as German chancellor, a close ally conceded on Monday, intensifying the jockeying over the succession to Europe’s most powerful leader.Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader and German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a statement together with Christian Social Union (CSU) leader Horst Seehofer and Social Democratic…
VLADIMIR Putin’s latest anti-missile system – designed to protect the Kremlin and key Moscow installations from enemy strikes – has been successfully tested, say Russia’s defense ministry. Spectacular footage shows the tests at the Sary-Shagan range in Kazakhstan, just days after the Kremlin announced it was also boosting its airforce with a dozen new fighter…
Israel has viewed Iran’s growing footprint in neighbouring Syria with alarm [File: Omar Sanadiki/Reuters] A surge in Israeli-Syrian cross-border incidents has turned into the “biggest” confrontation between the two countries in decades, and confronted Russia with a new dilemma: how to preserve its ties with both sides. The tit-for-tat attacks, which started on Saturday and continued until the following…
A MAGNITUDE 6.0 earthquake has struck 10 kilometres deep off the Northern Mariana Islands, less than a week after a magnitude 5.8 earthquake caused devastation in Taiwan, the US Geological Survey said on Monday. USGS The has been no immediate tsunami warning from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre as yet. The Northern Mariana Islands have…