Month: January 2020
Unseen-Before Swarms of Voracious Locusts to Hit East Africa, Mideast, Leaving Behind Barren Earth
A real plague of pests has been forecast for the region that saw unprecedented rainfall over the last three months of 2019, with the scale of it reaching well beyond the Horn of Africa, where it all started. A United Nations report, cited in a press conference Friday, warns that petrifyingly large swarms of locusts […]
IRAQ SPIRALS AS PROTESTS ESCALATE THIS WEEK
Street protests across central and southern Iraq escalated further this week, as the Iraqi prime minister attended the Davos conference in Switzerland. PM Abdul-Mahdi previously announced his resignation last November after two months of ongoing protests against his government’s complicity with the Iranian regime and neglect of Iraqi citizens. Almost two more months have passed […]
Iraqi security forces advance on Baghdad square, shoot at protesters: Reuters
Saturday, 25 January 2020 Iraqi security forces advanced towards Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, the main protest camp in the capital, and fired tear gas and live rounds at protesters, Reuters witnesses say. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Clashes between protesters and police injured at least seven demonstrators earlier on Saturday, according to police and […]
Iraqi security forces advance on Baghdad square, shoot at protesters
REUTERS JANUARY 25, 2020 11:57 BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces advanced towards Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, the main protest camp in the capital, on Saturday and fired tear gas and live rounds at protesters, Reuters witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Clashes between protesters and police injured at least seven demonstrators earlier on […]
HIS CHANNEL WORLD NEWS BRIEFING 1/23/2020
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US still weighing how to protect troops in Iraq from missiles
US Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman did not elaborate at a press conference Friday but did indicate the US is considering options. SETH J. FRANTZMAN JANUARY 25, 2020 03:12 The US is still trying to determine where to put defensive resources in Iraq to address mile and rocket threats. Up to 34 US soldiers have suffered […]
Muqtada Al-Sadr calls for the closure of all US military bases in Iraq
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:30 A.M.) – Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, called for the closure of all U.S. military bases in the country. According to Al-Sumaria TV on Friday, Sayyed Sadr made the announcement, via a lengthy statement about the scheduling of the departure of American forces from Iraq, after […]
Balloons with ‘suspicious object’ land in southern Israel
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFJANUARY 25, 2020 10:44 On Saturday morning Israel Police foreign press spokesman Micky Rosenfeld confirmed that a “suspicious object” fell in southern Israel. The Israel Police statement in Hebrew said that the object was attached to a cluster of balloons.“We confirm that a suspicious object landed in an open area south of […]
21 dead, 1,030 injured as massive quake of magnitude 6.8 rocks Turkey’s Elazığ
At least 21 people were killed and 1,030 others were injured after a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 rocked the eastern Turkish province of Elazığ Friday evening. According to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), 17 people were killed and 654 people were injured in Elazığ, the hardest-hit province. Four people were […]
‘This crime had accomplices’: Full text of Putin’s World Holocaust Forum speech
Those who helped the Nazis ‘were often crueler than their masters,’ Russian president says. ‘The Holocaust was deliberate annihilation. The Nazis intended the same fate for others’ TOI staff23 January 2020, 9:41 pm Full text of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the “Remembering the Holocaust: Fighting Antisemitism” World Holocaust Forum event at Yad Vashem, […]