Month: January 2020

Associated Press As Iran awakes to the news that Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian general, was killed by the US military, official responses are beginning to appear. The Iranian foreign minister called the US move “extremely dangerous,” “international terrorism,” and a “foolish escalation” while a senior military official vowed that Iran would have its revenge.…

By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices jumped more than $3 on Friday after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad ordered by President Donald Trump killed the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, sparking concerns for an escalation of regional tensions and disruption to crude supplies. Brent crude rose to a peak of $69.50…

The school on the outskirts of Istanbul is a rare place where Uighur child refugees from China can study their language and culture. But for several, it has also become an impromptu orphanage. Having fled a worsening crackdown on Uighur Muslims in northwest China, some of their parents thought it was still safe to return…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Kentucky’s attorney general is asking the FBI to investigate former Gov. Matt Bevin’s pardons. “While Kentucky’s Constitution gives the governor the power to pardon a person convicted of a crime, I believe the pardon power should be used sparingly and only after great deliberation with due concern for public safety,” Attorney General…

Key Point: The Soviets could’ve taken Iceland. Or at least caused a lot of chaos and disruption if the United States did not bolster the defenses beforehand. Tom Clancy’s 1986 novel Red Storm Rising depicts a conventional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. It’s one of Clancy’s best books and, interesting for a story about…

Unknown militants have fired three rockets at Baghdad International Airport close to part of the airport that houses U.S. military forces and Iraqi partners. Local sources told The Daily Beast that the attack consisted of three Katyusha rockets which hit the outer limits of the airport near a base which housed the advisory units for…

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Thursday there were indications Iran or forces it backs may be planning additional attacks, warning that the “game has changed” and it was possible the United States might have to take preemptive action to protect American lives. “There are some indications out…

Former Fox News reporter and occasional Fox & Friends host Courtney Friel writes in a new memoir that before he was president, Donald Trump told her she was “the hottest one at Fox News” and during one call, “out of nowhere, he said: ‘You should come up to my office sometime, so we can kiss,’”…

Oakbank Balhannah CFS via AP Ecologists at the University of Sydney told News.com.au that an estimated 480 million mammals, birds, and reptiles, have died in the bushfires sweeping Australia. Eight thousand of the animals deaths are believed to be koalas, The Independent reported. Federal environment minister Sussan Ley told ABC Radio on Friday that up…

Tens of thousands of people were evacuated in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Thursday after flash floods and landslides killed up to 26 people amid some of the heaviest rain in more than 20 years, with more deluges forecast, authorities said. The flooding, among the deadliest in years, caused chaos in parts of Southeast Asia’s biggest…