Month: January 2020

The White House celebrated the first snow of 2020 on Sunday night. It was shorts weather in the Washington, D.C., area on Sunday. There was definitely no snow. And if it had snowed Sunday, it wouldn’t have be the “first snow of the year.” “After a volatile week filled with snow, uncharacteristic warmth, and even…

At least four Iraqi soldiers were wounded after rockets struck the Balad airbase north of Baghdad housing US forces, according to Reuters. The bombs all fell on a runway within the base, the outlet reported, citing two unidentified military sources. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The Iraqi military acknowledged the attack in a…

Maya Alleruzzo/AP At least four Iraqi soldiers were reportedly wounded on Sunday in the latest rocket attack on an Iraqi military base.  Reuters reported that eight rockets were launched at the Balad joint airbase, which sits around 50 miles north of Baghdad.  Click Here: liverpool mens jersey A statement from the Iraqi military on the…

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday, increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic’s leadership after it admitted its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident, despite days of denials that Iranian forces were to blame. “They are lying that our enemy is America, our enemy…

Canada will not rest until there is “justice and accountability” for the victims of the plane shot down by an Iranian missile, Justin Trudeau has said. Speaking at a memorial service for the 57 Canadian passengers who died, the prime minister of Canada said the tragedy should never have happened. “We will not rest until…

Sam Mooy/Getty Images The bushfires devastating Australia are burning amid waves of disinformation spread over social media and criticism for some of the country’s top news outlets over their coverage of the crisis.  An employee at Rupert Murdoch’s Australia News Corp wrote in a company-wide leaked email that the company’s coverage of the fires, which…

Key point: In some ways, leasing British warships to America would revive an old relationship. To offset a shrinking defense budget, the British military is considering whether to lease a carrier to the Americans, according to British media. The instigator of the scheme? The British Army, which considers carriers to be expensive floating targets. So if…

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election in May or June despite security and logistic concerns, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Sunday. The election will be the first under Nobel Peace Laureate Abiy, who took office in April 2018 and launched political and economic reforms. His reform agenda has also stoked…

Pretoria (AFP) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Sunday asked South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in a long-running dispute with Egypt over a massive dam being built on the Blue Nile River. Ethiopia’s ties to Egypt have soured since the east African country launched the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam in…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Ethiopia’s prime minister has asked South Africa’s president to intervene in his country’s dispute with Egypt over a massive dam project on the Nile River, set to be Africa’s largest hydraulic dam. During a visit to South Africa on Sunday, Abiy Ahmed said President Cyril Ramaphosa as the incoming chair of the…