International News

Here is the latest: Local police confirm twelve people were killed, and 48 injured when a truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in east Berlin around 8:00pm on Monday evening…the alleged truck driver is from Pakistan, and is reported to have arrived as a refugee in Germany on 16 February 2016…

“This murder is clearly a provocation aimed at undermining the improvement and normalization of Russian-Turkish relations, as well as undermining the peace process in Syria promoted by Russia, Turkey, Iran and other countries interested in settling the conflict in Syria,” Putin said in a statement on Monday evening…

The incident occurred on the Breitscheidplatz square, near the location of Berlin’s iconic Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church along the Kurfürstendamm shopping mile.Nine people are reported to have died as a result of the apparent attack; however, unconfirmed reports state that there may be more fatalities to come…

Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov has been badly wounded in an armed assault in Ankara, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. The attack took place at the opening of the “Russia through Turks’ eyes” photo exhibition, Turkish NTV news channel reports…

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah begins the night of Dec. 24 and lasts for eight days. If you’re traveling or vacationing during the holiday, there may be a menorah lighting near you. Chabad-Lubavitch plans to hold public menorah lightings and Hanukkah events in 400 cities and more than 90 countries…

The US and its terrorist-sponsoring partners are seeing their criminal regime-change project in ruins, as the Syrian army and its allies win a spectacular victory to retake the strategically important city of Aleppo. Western governments and their flunkies at the UN are cynically, perversely decrying a “meltdown of humanity”….

The arid Atacama Desert, thought to be a barrier to early South American settlers, may have held lakes large enough to sustain small human populations, according to new research presented here today. The lakes’ presence challenges the current understanding of the paths early settlers took to explore and settle South America…

Drug dealers in Peru may never look at Santa Claus in the same way again, after police dressed as Father Christmas raided their home and arrested them for possession of cocaine, ruining their chances of a White Christmas…

It’s one of the largest child sex abuse cases in history. A year-long special investigation called “Operation Darkroom” resulted in the seizure of 150 terabytes of data material in the form of photos, movies and chat logs containing atrocities against children as young as infancy, Norwegian police announced at a news conference in late November…

Reports coming out of Russian and Syrian media sources are indicating that Russian Special Forces have been seen joining in the fight to reclaim the strategically vital city of Palmyra from the Islamic State. Russian-led warplanes continue to pound the surrounding area of Palmyra…

During December 12, the army and its allies made a series of successful advances inside Aleppo, retaking a few of militant-held neighborhoods. Last night, pro-government forces launched a final storm of remaining militant positions in the southeastern part of the city…

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Artefacts looted from Syria’s ancient Semitic city of Palmyra have been seized by Swiss authorities after they were discovered in Geneva’s secretive free ports…dates back to third and fourth centuries…

“Within the past 24 hours, 13,346 civilians have been evacuated from the Aleppo districts that remain under the control of militants with the assistance of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of warring parties, including 5,831 children. 728 militants have laid down their arms and crossed into the Western part of the city”…

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With the fall of Aleppo and its return to Syrian central government control, most of the significant Syrian cities are no longer under the control of jihadists and the other rebels who were supported by the US and by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. This strategic event demonstrates Russia’s upper hand, defeating the US administration […]

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Recently, Iraqi security forces (ISF) and the Popular Mobilization Units have liberated the villages of Tal Ghazal, Maydan, Hazimiya al-Janubi from ISIS terrorists west of Mosul. The ISF has also took control of the Mosul neighborhoods of Al-Murour, Al-Nour, Al-A’lam, and Al-Qadsiyah-1…

The consequences of former Prime Minister’s Matteo Renzi’s failed referendum roll on. Italy now has a new Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, who has been asked to form a new government. Assuming he can do so, one of his first tasks will be to rescue — however this is to be done — the “struggling” Italian […]

Finance Minister Bill English has been chosen to succeed departing Prime Minister John Key. English takes over at a time of economic prosperity for New Zealand, but he once presided over a humiliating election defeat…

A country whose most outspoken filmmaker was slaughtered by an Islamist; whose bravest refugee, hunted by a fatwa, fled to the U.S.; whose cartoonists must live under protection, had better think twice before condemning a Member of Parliament, whose comments about Islam have forced him to live under 24-hour protection for more than a decade, […]

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