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Here’s What You Need to Know About This Week’s United Nations General Assembly

Posted on September 28, 2019By Editor

For the next several days, UN Headquarters will be filled with speeches and discussions on how to make the world a better place. Here’s a brief guide on what to expect and what not to expect from the mega-gathering. … Read More >Here’s What You Need to Know About This Week’s United Nations General Assembly

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Pesticides or random coincidence? Mystery lingers over NEW CASES of babies born with hand and arm defects in Europe

Posted on September 23, 2019By Editor

Authorities are at a loss to explain why several babies born in a west German province have similar hand deformities. One hospital, where three such cases were seen, described the baffling phenomenon as “striking.” … Read More >Pesticides or random coincidence? Mystery lingers over NEW CASES of babies born with hand and arm defects in Europe

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Russia & China veto UN Security Council resolution on Syria truce that would’ve protected terrorists from ‘COMPLETE ANNIHILATION’

Posted on September 23, 2019By Editor

Russia and China have blocked a UN Security Council resolution on the truce in Syria’s Idlib province as it didn’t provide an exemption for military action against terrorist groups blacklisted by the UN itself. … Read More >Russia & China veto UN Security Council resolution on Syria truce that would’ve protected terrorists from ‘COMPLETE ANNIHILATION’

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Do you know who owns all the land in Canada? Not its citizens

Posted on September 19, 2019September 20, 2019By Editor

The second largest country in the world by total area, Canada, is one of the most highly urbanized globally. However, none of its citizens have the right to own physical land in the country. … Read More >Do you know who owns all the land in Canada? Not its citizens

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New sales pitch? US makes the world’s ‘finest’ anti-air systems, but sometimes they just don’t work, Pompeo explains

Posted on September 19, 2019September 20, 2019By Editor

Patriot missiles failed to protect Saudi Arabia from attack because even the world’s best anti-air systems sometimes don’t work, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said, expertly rebuking critics of the US defense industry. … Read More >New sales pitch? US makes the world’s ‘finest’ anti-air systems, but sometimes they just don’t work, Pompeo explains

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Saudi air defenses like Patriot & Aegis don’t match their advertised properties, unfit for real combat – Russian Army

Posted on September 19, 2019September 20, 2019By Editor

Multiple Patriot launchers, Aegis destroyers and radars are guarding Saudi skies, but they failed to stop a massive strike on an oilfield because their actual properties aren’t what the US advertises, a Russian Army source says. … Read More >Saudi air defenses like Patriot & Aegis don’t match their advertised properties, unfit for real combat – Russian Army

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Give or take allies: US pulls $160mn pledged to Afghanistan, citing widespread corruption

Posted on September 19, 2019September 20, 2019By Editor

The US will withhold a total of $160 million destined for projects and initiatives in Afghanistan. Washington says the move and timing is totally due to them finding out the cash will be squandered by Kabul. … Read More >Give or take allies: US pulls $160mn pledged to Afghanistan, citing widespread corruption

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Iraq will not join anti-Iran maritime mission, rejects Israel’s involvement

Posted on September 19, 2019September 20, 2019By Editor

As Saudi Arabia and the United States build support for an international maritime security mission in the Persian Gulf, Iraq has ruled out participating. … Read More >Iraq will not join anti-Iran maritime mission, rejects Israel’s involvement

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Russian aggression… in a galaxy far away? NATO maritime experts sought to secure mysterious ‘Sea of Asimov’

Posted on September 19, 2019September 20, 2019By Editor

A NATO maritime expert discovered a conflict hotspot, as crucial as the Persian Gulf, that no one else has heard of. Apparently, the mysterious “Sea of Asimov” urgently needs NATO’s protection. The error was later corrected. … Read More >Russian aggression… in a galaxy far away? NATO maritime experts sought to secure mysterious ‘Sea of Asimov’

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EVERYONE is on the list: Snowden says no ‘innocents’ in mass surveillance world

Posted on September 19, 2019October 30, 2019By Editor

Asked if buying his memoir would get one on a spy list, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden chillingly replied that everyone in the world is on the “list” and there are no innocents in the age of mass surveillance. … Read More >EVERYONE is on the list: Snowden says no ‘innocents’ in mass surveillance world