Amidst all the anxiety-inducing developments of the coronavirus pandemic comes a grisly report that a man in India broke out of quarantine in order to nakedly chase after a woman and viciously kill her by biting on her throat. The horrific slaying took place in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Friday when the man, who is in his 30s, ran out of his home […]
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Doctors in central Wuhan are planning to conduct a long-term study of the effects of COVID-19 on the male reproductive system after a small study of 81 men revealed that coronavirus patients haed roughly half the normal ratio of testosterone after contracting the disease, according to SCMP. Though still preliminary and not peer reviewed, the study is the first clinical observation of the potential impact of […]
Israeli settlers attacked Israeli occupation forces in the occupied West Bank Thursday night, reported Haaretz, throwing three Molotov cocktails at a Border Police vehicle outside Yitzhar settlement. One of the Molotov cocktails hit the vehicle, “causing light damage”, and there were no casualties. According to the report, Israeli authorities have designated the incident as an “act of terrorism”. Israeli forces “mobilized to search the scene for […]
On Thursday at dawn two Katyusha rockets landed in the heavily fortified Green Zone in the centre of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, where the US embassy is located, according to an official security media office statement. A security source announced that the missiles targeted the US embassy, but landed hundreds of metres away in an empty square. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the […]
A false attack that President Donald Trump made during his Fox News town hall made its way to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s latest coronavirus press conference, and Cuomo batted it down by telling the reporter “That’s not the fact, and you know it.” During Tuesday’s Fox News town hall, Trump read portions of a post from conspiracy blogger Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit that accused […]
Two Turkish soldiers were killed and two others wounded after a mortar attack by Kurdish militants in northern Iraq’s Haftanin region, the Turkish Defence Ministry said late on Wednesday, adding the attack was retaliated, Reuters reports. In a statement, the ministry said Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants had mounted a “harassment attack” on Turkish troops. It said “targets identified in the region” were struck and destroyed […]
Gunmen and suicide bombers have stormed a Sikh religious premise in the heart of the Afghan capital’s old city on Wednesday morning, the Interior Ministry said. It’s so far unclear who the attackers are. Defense forces arrived at the scene and blocked off the place of worship, known as a Gurdwara. Narindra Singh Khalsa, a member of the Afghan parliament who represents the tiny Sikh community, […]
President Donald Trump quoted Gateway Pundit conspiracy blogger Jim Hoft during a Fox News town hall to falsely claim that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo refused to purchase 16,000 ventilators in 2015, when no such purchase was considered or offered. During a very friendly town hall event on Fox News, Trump responded to Cuomo’s recent complaint about the paltry number of ventilators being sent to the […]
In an ill-timed blooper, immediately mocked as a Freudian slip, the head of FEMA standing alongside US President Donald Trump at a coronavirus war room press briefing, has promised a crackdown on Americans’ health and safety. “The Federal Government continues to take aggressive action and proactive steps to address the Covid-19 threat… …as we attack the health and safety, or protect the health and safety of […]
A rocket attack by forces of Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar on Sunday killed one person and also injured two children from the same family, said the country’s UN-recognized government. Haftar militia rockets hit a house in Ain Zara, south of the capital Tripoli, said a statement by the Volcano of Rage Operation, affiliated with the Government of National Accord (GNA). Ahmed Al-Mismari, spokesman for the Haftar […]
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed in a double bomb attack in the western Anbar province on Saturday, according to a military officer. The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said four other soldiers were injured in the attack, which took place in the town of Rutba, west of Anbar. READ: US to deploy air defence systems in Iraq over fears of more Iran attacks Although […]
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday came close to blaming Iran for a rocket attack in Iraq last week in which two American troops and a British service member were killed. “Maybe we shouldn’t say yet,” said Trump when the question was posed to Pompeo at a White House news conference. Said Pompeo: “Let me just get back to you […]
CNN anchor John King was moved to profanity by President Donald Trump’s sustained attack on NBC News’ Peter Alexander at a coronavirus briefing, which King referred to as “bullshit” live on the air. Following Friday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, King discussed Trump’s outburst — sparked by Alexander asking if the president is offering false hope to Americans — with CNN White House reporter Kaitlan […]
In what appears the first significant US foreign policy alteration due to the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump reportedly nixed plans for a large-scale attack on “Iranian proxies” in Iraq last week amid a tit-for-tat following rocket attacks on a US base there, which killed two Americans. The Commander-in-Chief specifically cited coronavirus as reason for holding off on such a major attack, which would surely bog American […]
Leave it to a major US arms defense contractor to hype the “ever-evolving threats” to US national security in a new hugely provocative video at a time the world fights an “invisible enemy” – as world leaders are calling it – in the form of the Covid-19 panemic. A new promotional video released by Lockheed Martin simulates what appears to be a major airstrike on Russian weaponry. Taking […]
Police have cordoned off Barcelona’s El Prat airport after an apparent failed Islamist attack in which two men drove a car through the terminal building’s doors. The Mossos d’Esquadra, Barcelona’s police force, confirmed that two men attempted to storm the Terminal 1 bulking at the El Prat international airport at approximately 5am local time on Friday. The men made it as far as the food court […]
Turkey said on Thursday that one of its soldiers had died as a result of a heart attack in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, Reuters reports. The soldier was preparing for night duties on Wednesday when he had the heart attack, the defence ministry said. Earlier, the governor’s office in Turkey’s central Sivas province said one Turkish soldier had been “martyred” in Idlib. The defence ministry […]
At least three rockets have reportedly struck Baghdad’s Green Zone, according to Iraqi authorities. The spokesman for the US-led coalition denied reports of a rocket attack on nearby coalition base Camp Taji, however. Several unguided Katyusha rockets struck the fortified area on Tuesday, reportedly striking homes in the al-Jadriya neighborhood. سقوط صاروخين نوع كاتيوشا انطلقا من منطقة عرب جبور باتجاه منطقة الجادرية أحدهما سقط على بناية […]
While Palestinians are busy fighting the outbreak of the coronavirus, Israeli occupation settlers have increased their attacks in the occupied Jordan Valley, Al Mugtama Magazine reported yesterday. The armed settlers carried out a wide-scale campaign of attacks on the Palestinian herders and farmers. They stole scores of animals and damaged wide swathes of farmlands. “The situation in the Jordan Valley is very difficult,” Mahmoud Bsharat, who […]
The US Health and Human Services Department’s computer system was reportedly hacked on Sunday night, with the National Security Council needing to step in and warn that news of a mass quarantine was fake news. Three people “familiar with the matter” briefed Bloomberg on the hack and said the breach was meant to slow the department’s system down in the middle of the coronavirus response. Though […]
Joe Biden has raised quite a few eyebrows after he compared the coronavirus outbreak in the US with “being attacked from abroad,” prompting many to wonder if he is to be held to the same standard by liberal media as Donald Trump. The first one-on-one debate between former VP Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders was largely overshadowed by the coronavirus crisis raging in the US, […]
Iran summoned a Swiss envoy in Tehran, who represents American interests, after Washington accused Iran for recent attack that killed two US service members in Iraq, Anadolu Agency reports. Ambassador Markus Leitner was summoned to the foreign ministry and “has been warned against the consequences of any ill-advised measure from the Americans,” Iran’s foreign ministry said in a statement. “Following the baseless remarks by the US president […]
Two of the three US military personnel injured in the latest rocket attack on Camp Taji base north of Iraq’s capital are being treated at a military hospital in Baghdad, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Saturday. Earlier in the day, Iraqi military said a number of the nation’s soldiers had also been “critically injured” in the incident. The Taji base has come under rocket attacks twice […]
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