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Biden includes official visit to Saudi Arabia as global crises necessitate tense diplomacy

06/15/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

This week, Biden announced a move that observers had long been expecting: An official visit to Saudi Arabia, effectively thawing diplomatic relations between the countries, and acknowledging that treating the powerful petrostate as a “pariah” MORE

World

Alexei Navalny transferred secretly to high-security penal colony known for abuse

06/15/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

Why? Navalny believes his charges are fabricated and are the result of his criticism and opposition to Putin. Navalny casts President Vladimir Putin’s Russia as a dystopian state run by thieves and criminals where wrong MORE

Middle-East

US Embassy in Kuwait Criticized for Biden Message of Pride Month Support

06/05/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

A U.S. Embassy tweet of a message by President Joe Biden in support of Pride Month has drawn a face-to-face diplomatic protest from Kuwait and sparked a rare Twitter fight between the two close allies. MORE

World

Canada introduces legislation to put a pause on importing, buying or selling handguns

05/31/2022 Ms. G 0

In a press conference in Ottawa, Canada on Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced legislation that will put a pause on importing, buying, or selling handguns. The legislation is expected to pass and MORE

World

Putin’s Puppet and France’s ‘Finest’ Fascist, Marine Le Pen, loses France’s election; Emmanuel Macron remains in power

04/24/2022 Ms. G 0

From the Associated Press: French polling agencies are projecting that centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron will win France’s presidential runoff Sunday, beating far right rival Marine Le Pen in a tight race that was clouded by MORE

Russia/Ukraine Conflict

Aleksei Navalny, Fiery Putin Critic, Is Handed a New, 9-Year Prison Sentence

03/22/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

A Russian court sentenced Aleksei A. Navalny to nine years in a high-security prison on Tuesday, imposing a new punishment on the imprisoned opposition leader at a time when the war in Ukraine has made him even MORE

The Armed Forces

Putin Is Flat-Out Lying About Pulling Troops From Ukraine, U.S. Says

02/17/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

The glimmer of optimism that greeted Russia’s announcement that it was pulling troops back from the Ukrainian border looks to have been extinguished. A senior American official has reportedly accused the Kremlin of lying about its withdrawal, MORE

World

Putin and Xi Join Together to Oppose NATO Expansion

02/04/2022 PMSwithESP 0

President Xi Jinping of China offered support to Putin’s opposition to a NATO expansion in a choreographed meeting ahead of the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics. It was the first in-person meeting Xi has MORE

World

Amnesty International labels Israel as an apartheid state

02/02/2022 Ms. G 0

NPR: On Tuesday, Amnesty International released a report saying the state of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is a crime against humanity, illegal under international law, and amounts to apartheid. “The Israeli government is committing the MORE

Breaking News

Malik Faisal Akram, Colleyville Synagogue Hostage Taker: Terrorist? or Something Else?

01/16/2022 Rachel Kennedy 0

Malik Faisal Akram was the suspect who took hostages at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. The 44-year-old British man was killed in the January 15, 2022, incident at Congregation Beth Israel. The FBI and local authorities MORE

World

U.S. intel suggests Russia is preparing a ‘false-flag’ operation as pretext for Ukraine invasion

01/14/2022 PMSwithESP 0

The U.S. has information that Russia is planning a “false-flag” operation in order to rationalize an invasion of Ukraine. “We have information that indicates Russia has already pre-positioned a group of operatives to conduct a MORE

Biden Administration

Senators make bipartisan push to block Biden’s $650M weapons sale to Saudis

11/23/2021 Rachel Kennedy 0

From The Hill: Three senators on Thursday made a bipartisan push aimed at blocking a proposed $650 million weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a joint resolution disapproving of the proposed arms MORE

Updates

Four year old Cleo Smith ‘alive and well’ after going missing more than two weeks ago

11/03/2021 Rachel Kennedy 0

Police say girl recovered after they broke into a house about 1am and a man is in custody The mother of Cleo Smith has declared her “family is whole again”, after her four-year-old daughter was MORE

Europe

Car Falls off Opening Bridge in Belgium, With Terrified Parents and Child Inside

10/29/2021 Surley 0

The parents and their one and a half year old child drove their car onto the bridge around 5 pm, while it opened to allow a ship to pass in the Leuven fairway. Whether they MORE

Africa

Stand Your Ground: Elephant tramples to death a suspected poacher

10/27/2021 Ms. G 0

In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, authorities found a suspected poacher trampled to death. The area has been hit pretty hard by poachers in the past, particularly targeting rhinos, whose population has plunged by 70 MORE

Europe

Attack By Bow and Arrow in Norway Kills 5, Injures 2

10/14/2021 PMSwithESP 0

A man armed with arrows killed four women and one man, and injured two people on Wednesday in a shopping center in Norway. Among the injured was an off-duty police officer. The police chief in MORE

Breaking News

96-year-old woman who fled Nazi war crimes trial is found

09/30/2021 Rachel Kennedy 0

A 96-year-old German woman who fled on Thursday before standing trial on charges of aiding and abetting murder in a Nazi concentration camp has been found by local authorities and will be brought before the MORE

The Press

Taliban members visit homes of two female journalists in Kabul, source tells CNN

08/17/2021 Rachel Kennedy 0

The homes of two female journalists were visited by Taliban fighters on Sunday, a contact of the women told CNN, adding that both women were severely shaken psychologically. According to the source, one of the MORE

Sedition

Rep. Lauren Boebert Is Torched For Tweeting That Taliban Are ‘Building Back Better’

08/17/2021 Rachel Kennedy 0

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) was accused of rooting for the Taliban on Monday after she tweeted that the extremist group that has overthrown Afghanistan was “building back better.” “The Taliban are the only people building MORE

Middle-East

George W. Issues Statement Urging Help For Afghan Refugees

08/17/2021 PMSwithESP 0

George and Laura Bush released a statement Monday night urging the U.S. to do more to help the refugees fleeing Afghanistan two decades after the 43rd president invaded the country following September 11 attacks. On MORE

Breaking News

State Department urges U.S. citizens to leave Afghanistan immediately as Taliban nears Kabul

08/12/2021 Rachel Kennedy 0

WASHINGTON – The State Department issued another dire warning to U.S. citizens in Afghanistan on Thursday, urging them to leave the country immediately as security conditions deteriorate amid a rapid Taliban advance toward the capital city of MORE

Americas

‘It’s Not What it Looks Like’ — Ottawa Man Caught With Pants Down in Pony Stall !

07/22/2021 Surley 0

Our Polite Neighbors to the North When police found the intruder at the Ottawa stables, he was in a stall with his pants down and his penis up, standing next to a miniature pony that MORE

World

Haiti’s president assassinated in his own home

07/07/2021 Ms. G 0

Early Wednesday, Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his own home. His wife survived but suffered injuries from the brutal attack; she’s recovering in a local hospital. Interim Premier Claude Joseph called the killing a MORE

Americas

Trudeau Hopes to Re-Open the Border with the U.S. Soon, But No Guarantee

06/23/2021 PMSwithESP 0

Justin Trudeau says he hopes to announce loosened travel restrictions at the U.S.- Canada border in the “coming weeks,” but it will depend on the trajectory of Covid-19. Both countries agreed to a non-essential travel MORE

Middle-East

U.S. seizes Iranian news sites under unclear circumstances

06/22/2021 Surley 0

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — American authorities took down a range of Iran’s state-linked news websites under unclear circumstances on Tuesday, the U.S. and Iran said, a move that appeared to be a far-reaching crackdown MORE

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