North Korea’s Kim Jong Un visited China’s Xi, state media says
It is believed to be the dictator’s first foreign trip since he took power in 2011. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands in Beijing.Ju Peng / Xinhua, via AP North Korean leader Kim … Read More
World War 3 is now ‘CLOSER than ANY TIME’ since the Cuban Missile Crisis, claims expert
WORLD WAR 3 is “closer than any time” since the Cuban Missile Crisis after the Salisbury crisis that saw Sergei Skripal and his daughter poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent, it has been claimed. Phil Butler, a geopolitical analyst, issued … Read More
String of knife attacks further fuels debate over refugees and violence
Photo: DPA A spate of bloody knife attacks in recent weeks has led to concerns about a rise in knife crime. The fact that teenage refugees have often been the culprits has also fired up right-wing critics of the government. … Read More
NATO joins 25 nations in Russian expulsions over spy attack
NATO joined 25 governments around the world Tuesday in expelling Russian diplomats in response to a nerve agent attack in Britain, marking what London called a “turning point” in the West’s relations with Moscow. The US-led military alliance expelled seven … Read More
Germany rejecting Pakistani asylum seekers for lack of valid documents
The number of failed asylum seekers who could not be repatriated from Germany because they lack valid documents jumped 71 per cent in 2017 compared with the previous year, the interior ministry said on Monday. Around 65,000 failed asylum seekers … Read More
A New Cold War Is Not Inevitable
Top NATO and Russian military commanders have agreed to meet. Here’s what they need to discuss. Coming to a negotiating table near your. Photographer: Sergei Grits/AFP/Getty Images When I served as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO from 2009 to 2013, I … Read More
Third Temple Alert: Police Authorize Passover Sacrifice Next to Temple Mount
Religious Jewish factions say they are moving ever closer to the realization of the Third Temple in Jerusalem. The latest evidence of this is police authorization, granted on Sunday, for a Passover sacrificial ceremony to be held just tens of … Read More
Yellowstone volcano eruption: Steamboat geyser starts to BLOW underneath supervolcano
YELLOWSTONE could be erupting from underground after experts recorded signs of activity from a powerful geyser in the national park which is home to a terrifying super volcano. Experts at Yellowstone National Park claim to have seen the Steamboat Geyser … Read More
Young Catholics tell Pope Francis the church is indifferent and judgmental
Pope Francis waves as he celebrates the Vesper prayer in the Church of San Gregorio al Celio, in central Rome. (Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images) On Saturday, hundreds of young Catholics gathered to give Pope Francis a piece of their minds. They … Read More
Vesuvius ERUPTION WARNING: Europe’s supervolcano threatening – it’s ‘boiling’
Research shows that a bubbling mass of magma “like a boiling pot of soup” is building beneath the Campi Flegrei volcano, western Naples – after decades of inactivity. The 24 crater, 90 square mile supervolcano is more “dangerous” than before. … Read More
US pledges record $705 million to Israel’s missile defense programs
The Israeli conducted a successful live-fire interception test of its Tamir weapons system, which it describes as a “sea-borne Iron Dome”. IDF Spokesperson Liberman thanked the US Congress in a following statement pointing out that it’s the “highest aid budget … Read More
Papua New Guinea hit by 6.6 earthquake
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake struck about 80 miles east of Kimbre on the island of New Britain at a depth of about … Read More
Chinese Air Force drills in South China Sea and Western Pacific, calls exercises ‘rehearsals for future wars’
The Chinese Air Force has conducted a series of exercises in the contested South China Sea and the Western Pacific, where it sent fighter jets and bombers through Okinawa’s Miyako Strait on Friday, labeling the exercises “rehearsals for future wars.” … Read More
“Army of Islam”: Erdogan’s Plot Against Israel
How many more sinister steps can Erdogan take before the EU and the U.S. recognize that he is a threat to Western strategic interests? Less than a month ago, the Turkish daily Yeni Şafak ran an interesting article in advance … Read More
China ‘still a player’ on North Korea, despite Trump-Kim talks, Japanese official says
Peace and stability in Asia will top agenda at upcoming summit between Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul, former foreign minister says. China still has a significant role to play on the North Korea nuclear issue, regardless of the planned talks between … Read More