Create your page here
photo: AP / Maxim Guchek/BelTA
Belarus raises alarm about US, NATO military build-up in region
Press TV 03 Dec 2020
Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko says military build-ups by the United States and NATO near the western borders of his country, Russia, and a number of other states in the region is cause for “serious concern.”. “Once again, the world is on the brink of an unbridled arms race ... Russia slams West for ‘interfering’ in Belarus internal affairs ... ....
photo: Creative Commons
Jordan fears losing control over Muslim sites in Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Post 03 Dec 2020
Jordan is growing increasingly worried about reports suggesting that Israel has offered Saudi Arabia control over the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem, including Haram Al-Sharif/Temple Mount, Jordanian and Palestinian officials said on Thursday ... The Wakf Department that oversees Muslim sites in Jerusalem is controlled by the Jordanian government ... ....
photo: White House / Tia Dufour
Why I am trying to put the brakes on Trump's pardon powers
CNN 03 Dec 2020
(CNN)The United States Constitution was designed to meet the evolving demands of our nation ... Since the beginning, we have tested, stretched, twisted and, most importantly, amended our foundational law ... Rep. Steve Cohen ... This would help prevent the exact type of self-dealing and reversals of justice of the pardons we are seeing issued now. Read More ... ....
photo: AP / John Amis
About That Apocalypse And Trump: Did Evangelicals And Christian Nationalists Just Make A Category-Mistake
WorldNews.com 02 Dec 2020
Now suppose the parents say, “Yes, they are fine buildings, but when are we going to see the University?” Clearly the parents have misunderstood the concept of “a University.” Their mistake is in thinking “the University” stood for an extra member of the class of which these ......
photo: AP / Brandon van Wyk
Politician named Adolf Hitler Uunona wins election in Namibia
The Hill 03 Dec 2020
Uunona denied any ideological common ground with the Nazi chancellor, telling the German newspaper Bild "That I have this name doesn't mean that I want to subjugate Oshana now - it doesn't mean that I'm striving for world domination!” ... RESULTS ... "It was a completely normal name for me as a child ... .......
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File
Ex-presidents would get vaccine publicly to boost confidence
Journal Review 03 Dec 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three former presidents say they'd be willing to take a coronavirus vaccine publicly, once one becomes available, to encourage all Americans to get inoculated against a disease that has already ... population of around 330 million ... Biden, now , hasn’t commented on the prospect of undergoing immunization publicly to inspire confidence....
photo: Creative Commons / DLR German Aerospace Center
After six years and 6bn km, Japan's Hayabusa2 prepares to bring home cargo of asteroid dust
The Guardian 04 Dec 2020
.......
photo: Creative Commons / The Post Millennial.
Iranians launch “tweetstorm” for release of Navid Akari’s jailed brothers
The Jerusalem Post 03 Dec 2020
The Iranian regime’s imprisonment of Vahid and Habib Afkari for protesting against regime corruption in 2018 sparked on Wednesday a tweetstorm demanding their release. The twitter hashtag #ReleaseAfkaris gained widespread traction on the micro-blogging platform ... Both brothers are also slated to receive 74 lashes ... In a separate tweet, she wrote ... ....
photo: WN / RTayco
Uighurs forced to eat pork as China expands Xinjiang pig farms
Al Jazeera 04 Dec 2020photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner
Netanyahu greets 316 Ethiopian immigrants as they land in Israel
Arab News 04 Dec 2020
TEL AVIV. More than 300 Ethiopians landed in Israel Thursday after the government approved immigration plans for 2,000 members of their Falash Mura community, whose desire to move to the Jewish state has stirred controversy ... The Ethiopian-Israeli community has since grown to 140,000-strong, including 50,000 born in Israel ... .......
photo: Creative Commons / Fred Romero
French surgeon gets 15-year jail in massive pedophilia case
The Oklahoman 03 Dec 2020
LYON, France (AP) — A French retired surgeon accused of sexually abusing over 300 young children over decades – primarily his patients in their hospital rooms — has been sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison in the first trial of what may be the largest-ever pedophilia case in the country ... No date for a second trial has been set yet ... _____ ... ....
photo: AP / Delmer Martinez
Storms that slammed Central America in 2020 just a preview, climate change experts say
Yahoo Daily News 03 Dec 2020
Now they have no way to support themselves or to build back the 25 homes - a third of the village - also destroyed in the flash floods that have yet to subside, said Raul Quib, a volunteer from a neighboring community ... Hundreds of thousands are now unsure where their next meals will come from....
photo: Creative Commons
Asteroid shines ‘ten times brighter than moon’ in astounding footage
The Independent 03 Dec 2020
A meteor crashed and burned in Earth’s atmosphere over the US and Canada, with astonishing footage by a 24-hour streaming camera. Footage picked up by the live webcam service EarthCam shows an object passing by the CN tower in Totonto ... It is unclear if the two events are related ... Read more. NASA. Mystery object is 54-year-old rocket, not asteroid ... ....
photo: WN / RTayco
Korea confirms highly pathogenic avian influenza case from wild bird
Korea Times 03 Dec 2020
Gettyimagesbank. South Korea on Thursday confirmed another case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a wild bird, with local authorities raising their guard against its transmission into poultry farms ... The country is currently carrying out investigations on droppings of wild birds gathered from Suncheon, 415 km south of Seoul as well ... (Yonhap). ....
photo: Creative Commons / Mutante
Puerto Rico: The moment the Arecibo Observatory telescope collapsed
BBC News 03 Dec 2020
Video shows one of the world's largest telescopes at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory come crashing down ... ....
