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So, worthy of note is that at this point Daesh and its semi-ally semi-thrall Boko Haram are conducting a fairly large-scale war on two continents. The latter, of course, is now the official deadliest terrorist organization ( Read more... )

There is no secret, that the US used Al-quaedac in Irag (future ISIS) against Assad's regime. Before it was called "oppostion". It is also known, that ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi was in jail after invasion of Iraq. But suddenly after several years he was released. According to relevant data, future leader told at parting " See you in New-York ( Read more... )

First, the incident in a nutshell. A girl of the age of 16 was stabbed at a gay pride march in Jerusalem by an ultra-Orthodox Jew, and then died from her wounds. Another five people were wounded in the assault last Thursday. The perpetrator, Yishai Shlissel, has had a previous track record of similar assaults, having stabbed three people at a ( Read more... )

Israel is going to have more of the same for the next 4 yaers, it seems: from deep freezing of the peace negotiations with the Palestinians, to a hard stance on the ongoing tedious negotiations about Iran's nuclear program, to additional tensions with Obama's administration and the EU.

Rather than turning a new page (as most forecasts suggested), ( Read more... )

So, in a recent case of the curious predilection of the same people who scream and whine and howl treason over any number of picayune cases of normal outreach to other states to accept a foreign leader as a stump speaker when he agrees with their quest for their own anthropogenic apocalypse, Benjamin "Yoni is the only reason I have a career" ( Read more... )

Palestinians present ICC membership request to UN

The old bluff, it turns out, was no bluff at all. On the last day of last year, the Palestinian autonomy officially requested membership at the International Criminal Court, and the UN Secretary General Ban Kim Moon announced that they would be joining that institution in April. Looks like a risky ( Read more... )

Seems like Cuba is pulling the brakes on the recently heralded warming up of its relations with the US. The historic breakthrough may've prompted many in Havana to sound the alarm: what would happen if Obama's new approach to Cuba puts all achievements of the revolution in question? Cuba is afraid it could remain without its sworn enemy. And for a ( Read more... )

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JEFFERSON CITY. Missouri guvnah Jay has sent a formal request to the badass state of Israel to help the lame state of Missouri to deal with the ongoing proto-civil-war that's spreading across the Pit-of-Hell, aka Ferguson. In a surprising move, Jay (whose surname bears an uncanny similarity to that of a former POTUS whose name is not to be named ( Read more... )