Europe’s Hard-Core Problem

With populism endemic in its periphery, the European Union is clearly in a period of deep uncertainty. If EU leaders are ever going to right the ship, they will need to identify the root cause of today’s instability, which is … Read More

Up to 200 killed in North Korean nuclear test site collapse: report

As many as 200 North Korean workers may have been killed in a tunnel collapse at the country’s nuclear test site, according to a Japanese news report Tuesday. Around 100 people were trapped when an unfinished tunnel at the Punggye-ri … Read More

Rohingya problem world’s fastest-growing crisis: EU

A Rohingya refugee woman washes clothes in a stream at Palong Khali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. Reuters file photo UNB, Dhaka European Union Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides today described the Rohingya crisis as the … Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘pulls the trigger’ on four nuclear-capable ballistic missiles

RUSSIA has just test fired four of its most powerful nuclear missiles in a massive test of its land, sea and air arsenal. Guess who pulled the trigger. RUSSIA has just completed a major nuclear exercise, testing its land, sea … Read More

Germany MUST get behind EU reform of sprawling bloc or it will fail says German minister

ANGELA Merkel’s Germany must lead the movement to reform the European Union or watch it fail, a leading German politician said today. Merkel: We hope to be ready to initiate phase two by December Former foreign minister Joschka Fischer said … Read More

Paul Manafort, Ex-Chairman of Trump Campaign, and Associate Plead Not Guilty to Money Laundering

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was indicted Monday on charges that he funneled millions of dollars through overseas shell companies and used the money to buy luxury cars, real estate, antiques and expensive suits. The charges against … Read More

Israeli and Palestinian ministers meet in Trump peace push

Israel and Palestinian officials held a rare high-level meeting in Ramallah as the United States seeks to kickstart stalled peace efforts, officials said on Monday. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for international negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, wrote on Twitter that the … Read More

Iran says it will continue developing ballistic missiles

Iranians walk past Sejjil (L) and Qadr-H ballistic missiles displayed next to a portrait of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on September 25, 2017 in Tehran  Photo: AFP TEHRAN Iran’s president on Sunday said his country would continue building weapons including … Read More

French Alps shaken by 140 earthquakes in just over a month

Photo: Screengrab SisMalp Residents in one part of the French Alps are starting to grow a little concerned after the area was hit by 140 earthquakes in the last 40 days. Those living in the Maurienne part of Savoie in … Read More

North Korea vows to launch more satellites into orbit

North Korea vowed to launch more satellites into space Monday, in what the United States and the U.N. view as a covert test of the reclusive regime’s ballistic missile technology. The nation says its five-year space development program is aimed … Read More

How Europe exported its refugee crisis to north Africa

Fewer people are crossing the Mediterranean, but a nightmarish bottleneck has been created instead  A man looks out of a barred door at a detention centre for migrants in Gharyan, Libya. Photograph: Hani Amara/Reuters Something happened to the deadly migrant … Read More

‘Raise the Zionist flag high’

French Olim  Yoni Kempinski Israel marked Aliyah Day yesterday (Thursday), Events celebrating immigrants to Israel were held across the country, including in the Knesset, during which MKs discussed the state of Aliyah. Arutz Sheva spoke to Neria Meir, head of the … Read More

Deliberate Famine Should Be a War Crime: UN Expert

The proportion of undernourished people living in countries in conflict and protracted crises is almost three times higher than that in other developing countries. Conflicts have proliferated around the world and with them has come a rise in food insecurity. … Read More

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