The Israel Defense Forces have deployed its Iron Dome and Patriot missile defense batteries around the southern city of Eilat amid concerns over an attack by Iran or its proxy forces to mark the first anniversary of the killing of powerful Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Multiple news outlets reported that batteries of Patriot surface-to-air missile system and the Iron Dome all-weather air defense system designed to intercept and destroy regional short-range rockets directed at populated areas were seen Saturday on the road to the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat. Israeli military redeployed land component air missile defense capabilities and personnel […]
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A haunting video filmed in Southern Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia shows thousands of dead fish decomposing on the banks of a water reservoir. The region suffered from a serious drought this summer. The footage, depicting the apparent aftermath of an environmental disaster, was published on Saturday by a local resident. It shows a water reservoir, the coast of which is covered with glistening fish bodies and seagulls feasting on them. “The stench is unreal, absolutely terrible,” the cameraman comments in Russian. The video was reportedly filmed at the Arshan-Zelmen water reservoir, which is located some 150km north from the provincial capital […]
KABUL (Sputnik) – A car bomb has exploded at an Afghan National Army (ANA) base in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar Province, a military spokesman said. The blast occurred in the province’s western Maiwand District on Saturday evening, a spokesman for the 205th Atal Corps in the south, Khwaja Yahya Alawi, said in a statement. According to Alawi, a vehicle loaded with explosives was intended to attack the ANA base but failed to reach the target as Afghan soldiers spotted it early and opened fire, leading to the vehicle exploding at around 8 pm local time on Saturday (16:00 GMT). The military spokesman […]
The 75th Group Army of the People’s Liberation Army has recently taken delivery a battalion set of light-weight Type 15 tanks. Last week, the spokesman of the Chinese Defense Ministry confirmed the inducted into 75th Group Army service of a new Type 15 light tank. The 75th is one of China’s ‘Southern Guardians’ with responsibility for protecting the southern coast, defense journalist Sam Cranny-Evans said on Twitter. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The Type 15 light tank is a Chinese third-generation light tank operated by the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force, as a replacement for the antiquated Type 62 […]
…from PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The UN as a body is failing miserably in these ongoing wars, as offensive countries put on display that the UN can shove its charter up its behind whenever it conflicts with what these countries want to do. Sure, the UN cannot field and army to go in and remove the offending government. But we are long past time where the UN current structure has shown it is hopelessly failing due to no provisions in its charter to deal with rogue members. At the head of the list is Israel, whose beginning was as a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/13/1080512507_0:83:3000:1770_1200x675_80_0_0_68127cd1d383547ef9cd23cda1653635.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009191080512473-45-magnitude-quake-rocks-southern-california-as-region-battles-wildfires/ The earthquake has come as America’s West Coast continuing to battle wildfires, the worst-affected states being California and Washington. An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale rocked Southern California late on Friday night, the US Geological Survey reported. According to seismologists, the quake occurred at 23:39 local time, 15km from Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Fire Department issued a warning on Twitter. ⚠️#UnitedStates🇺🇸: A mild #earthquake of magnitude Mwr=4.5, was registered at 15 KM ESE of #LosÁngeles, state of #California. Depth: 18,2 KM.More info: https://t.co/esE3N2YYIODid you feel this earthquake?, Tell us!.#EQVT,#quake,#tremor,#seísmo,#sismo,#temblor,#terremoto. pic.twitter.com/ckJwvnFXp6 — […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – French President Emmanuel Macron said the heads of the Southern Countries of the European Union bloc, also known as the Med7 were willing to conduct a responsible dialogue with Turkey in the wake of toughened Eastern Mediterranean tensions. “With Turkey, we want to resume a responsible dialogue, without naivety and in good faith,” Macron wrote on Twitter. He also said it was important to “assert our European sovereignty” in the Mediterranean to ensure the region’s stability, security, as well as biodiversity and the climate. Macron expressed his solidarity with Greece following the recent major blaze on the Lesbos […]
Last Monday, top officials on the White House coronavirus task force issued an urgent warning to governors across the country: Stop sending your COVID-infected college students home to their parents or risk another nationwide surge, just like the one that overwhelmed the South this summer. So far, the task force’s request for governors to talk to their college presidents appears to have made little difference. By the end of the week, some colleges in the country’s biggest coronavirus hot spots not only were still allowing students to go home after they’d been exposed or infected—they were ordering them to. “You need […]
Kfar Gaza, a community located just a few kilometres from the Gaza Strip, has seen emergency situations before but the outbreak of COVID-19 is now presenting new challenges, the primary one being a full lockdown, set to be imposed on Monday. Only a month ago Kfar Gaza, a southern Israeli community located just five kilometres from the Gaza Strip, was associated with rockets emanating from the enclave and the resilience of its residents who chose to stay in the area despite the constant threat of terror. Now, however, with the coronavirus raging and the town declared a red-zone, meaning the number […]
Over 3,000 people have been evacuated after a massive wildfire broke out in Spain’s southern province of Andalusia. Several separate wildfires are also raging in other regions of the country. The massive wildfire broke out in the mountainous regions of Andalusia on Thursday. Thousands of hectares have been already burnt out while emergency services are struggling to contain the out-of-control blaze. The fire triggered the mass evacuation of people living in small remote towns in the area, with over 3,000 people evacuated across the entire region so far. More than 500 emergency workers, including both civilian and military personnel, have been […]
So far this year, flu infections are way down in the Southern Hemisphere. Scientists want to know why — and what it means for the Northern Hemisphere as their flu season looms. (Image credit: Andre Coelho/Getty Images) Source link
Video-conferencing platform Zoom is scrambling to get to the bottom of thousands of outage reports, concentrated in eastern US cities and the Greater London area, as schools struggle to start the semester teaching from a distance. Thousands of outage reports on DownDetector.com were clustered in cities along the east coast of the US on Monday, including New York, Boston, Atlanta, and Washington DC. Cities further inland, including Chicago, Minneapolis, and Houston, also appeared to be severely affected. Across the ocean in the UK, users in London were reporting numerous issues. Also on rt.com Google Drive, Gmail experiencing major outage across the […]
At least 11 people have been killed and 40 injured in a bombing attack in the city of Jolo in the Philippines while soldiers were helping with Covid-19 relief efforts. One of the attacks involved a female suicide bomber. The first explosion occurred inside the Paradise Food plaza next to a computer shop in downtown Jolo at around 12.00am local time, killing five soldiers and five civilians, local media reported, citing the military. Regional military commander Lieutenant General Corleto Vinluan said that the bomb was attached to a parked motorcycle. About an hour later a female suicide bomber blew herself up […]
Earlier in the day, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said in a statement that “Palestinian rioters” in Gaza “hurled explosives & attempted to approach the security fence” leading to Israel. The Israeli Defence Forces in the early hours of Sunday morning announced that rocket alert sirens had been heard in southern Israel as a result of two rockets fired by what the IDF claimed were “terrorists in Gaza” into the country. Both rockets were said to have been intercepted by the IDF’s Iron Dome Aerial Defense System. Earlier in the day, the IDF claimed that “Palestinian rioters” in Gaza “hurled explosives & attempted to approach the security […]
…from SouthFront The joint Russian-Turkish patrol set to be held in southern Idlib on July 29 was delayed due to increased military tensions and the inability of Ankara to ensure the security of the patrol in its area of responsibility. And the situation does not seem to be improving. According to pro-militant sources, on the evening of July 29th and morning of July 30th, the Syrian Army launched over 500 shells at militants’ positions in the Zawiya Mount area, including Kansafra, al-Bara, Kafar Aweed, Fatterah and Erinah. In response, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies struck Syrian Army checkpoints at Kafr […]
…from SouthFront Turkey is looking for opportunities to shift the current balance of power in Libya after its proxies failed to break the Libyan National Army defenses and capture the port city of Sirte in northern Libya in an off-the-cuff advance. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced on Saturday 25 July that Turkey had signed a military cooperation agreement with Niger during his visit to the African nation, where he held meetings with a number of officials and discussed the effects of the Libyan situation on the region. Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou also revealed Turkish interest in economic cooperation, especially in […]
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The GOP’s ‘Southern Strategy’ Shows How White Supremacy Fuels Class Exploitation By Peter Montague, Truthout. July 20, 2020 The GOP’s ‘Southern Strategy’ Shows How White Supremacy Fuels Class Exploitation2020-07-202020-07-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/anti-racist-protester-raises-fist-in-protest-of-confederacy-e1595271277739.jpg200px200px Above photo: Anti-racist protesters raise fists toward supporters of the Confederacy at the Alamance County Courthouse at a rally with the Burlington-Alamance March For Justice and Community in Graham, North Carolina, on July 11, 2020. By Logan Cyrus / AFP via Getty Images. Starting in the early 1970s, the Republican Party began to draw voters away from the Democrats by appealing to racism and racial anxiety in the electorate; Republicans called it their “Southern Strategy.” By 2000, with […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0c/1079860141_0:0:1218:685_1200x675_80_0_0_4b6b45ab5b23c21affc79b91726f83ae.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007121079859980-videos-allegedly-showing-us-military-convoy-ablaze-in-southern-iraq-emerge-online/ A logistics supply convoy including four trucks came under attack by unknown assailants on Saturday night on the Samawah-Diwaniya highway in the south of the Middle Eastern country. Videos and photos emerged online showing flames consuming three vehicles from the attacked US military convoy. This viral video purportedly shows a logistic #US military convoy, including 2 fuel tankers and a cargo truck carrying a Hummer, on fire in Al Diwaniyah city in #Iraq. There has been no word on possible casualties. pic.twitter.com/r2Gy3QdUvD — Habib Abdolhossein (@HAbdolhossein) July 11, 2020 A logistics convoy supplying American forces […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107980/45/1079804514_0:0:3575:2011_1200x675_80_0_0_8ade4e27cb7991714e8012f18014ae0a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007061079804548-hundreds-of-blazes-break-out-in-southern-california-amid-illegal-independence-day-fireworks-/ Firework displays have been cancelled for the 4th July celebration in Los Angeles and its neighbourhoods due to coronavirus-related concerns as the number of cases has surged in the recent days. Firefighters in Southern California have been scrambled to respond to several hundred fires that broke out across the state as illegal fireworks lit up the skies in celebration of Independence Day over the weekend. According to local media, fire departments have seen a spike in the number of calls in the past few days as local residents complained about tree, bush and roof […]
…from SouthFront Late on June 30, fighting resumed near the villages of Kansafrah, Al-Ruwayha and Bayanin in southern Idlib between the Syrian Army and Turkish-backed militants. Intense artillery shelling also targeted positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham across the Jabal Al-Zawiyah area. Pro-militant sources claimed that the Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces tried to advance there, but were forced to retreat after several hours of clashes. In their own turn, pro-government sources say that the fighting in southern Idlib came as a result of a provocation by militants. Nonetheless, by the morning of July 1 the situation on the frontline […]
The earthquake along the coast of the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, on Tuesday caused several deaths and damaged property. Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez/AP hide caption toggle caption Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez/AP The earthquake along the coast of the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, on Tuesday caused several deaths and damaged property. Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez/AP A powerful earthquake struck Mexico’s southern Oaxaca region on Tuesday, killing at least five people and shaking buildings hundreds of miles away. The 7.4-magnitude quake struck mid-morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Its epicenter was off the Pacific coast about seven miles southwest of […]
An earthquake measuring 7.4-magnitude has hit southern Mexico, killing at least one person and triggering a tsunami warning for Pacific coastal areas near the epicenter. The country’s seismological service issued the tsunami warning for the central Oaxaca region, recommending residents move away from the coastal area. Videos posted online from the affected area showed the ocean water receding from the shoreline. Se aleja el mar en Santa Cruz, #Huatulco #Oaxaca después del sismo de 7.5 grados. pic.twitter.com/Hlo5jDG1oX — Janosik Garcia (@Janosikgarciaz) June 23, 2020 Also on rt.com Terrified residents flee shaking buildings as 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Mexico (PHOTOS, VIDEOS) DETAILS […]
A previously unreported case of a black man found hanging in southern California has raised questions about foul play, after a similar death only 50 miles (80km) away received nationwide coverage. The family of Malcolm Harsch, who was found dead on May 31 near a homeless encampment in Victorville, have expressed concern that law enforcement will rule the incident a suicide without conducting a proper investigation. “The explanation of suicide does not seem plausible. There are many ways to die but considering the current racial tension, a black man hanging himself from a tree definitely doesn’t sit well with us right […]
…from SouthFront The Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces have repelled an attack on their positions in southern Idlib. On June 8, forces of the Ghurfat Eamaliat wa-Harid al-Mu’minin coalition of al-Qaeda-linked militant groups stormed the villages of Tanjarah and Fattirah. Militants captured the villages and reportedly killed at least 2 soldiers and destroyed a BMP vehicle. Clashes continued till the evening, when government forces finally retook the area. According to released photos and videos, at least 3 militants were killed, a vehicle and a motorcycle were also destroyed. Pro-militant sources claimed that Syrian and Russian warplanes carried out over […]
5.5 magnitude quake rocks southern California at shallow depth – USGS — RT USA News icon bookmark-bicon bookmarkicon cameraicon checkicon chevron downicon chevron lefticon chevron righticon chevron upicon closeicon v-compressicon downloadicon editicon v-expandicon fbicon fileicon filtericon flag ruicon full chevron downicon full chevron lefticon full chevron righticon full chevron upicon gpicon insicon mailicon moveicon-musicicon mutedicon nomutedicon okicon v-pauseicon v-playicon searchicon shareicon sign inicon sign upicon stepbackicon stepforicon swipe downicon tagicon tagsicon tgicon trashicon twicon vkicon yticon wticon fm 4 Jun, 2020 01:49 Follow RT on Follow RT on Add to home screen Source link
A new analysis being reviewed by the White House shows southern states that moved too quickly to relax social distancing guidelines face significant risk for a resurgence of the coronavirus over the next several weeks. In several cases, counties will see hundreds of additional cases by June 17. The study, which was put together by PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is part of a data set being reviewed by top coronavirus task force officials and people working with the team, The Daily Beast reported earlier this month. A previous model by the PolicyLab predicted that if officials moved too quickly […]
US 01:17 GMT 20.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107935/95/1079359521_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_074661841de5f458bd41d86fe76712eb.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005201079359551-us-extends-policy-to-immediately-reject-migrants-at-southern-border-indefinitely–dhs/ EL PASO (Sputnik) – The United States has extended a policy indefinitely that permits US immigration enforcement to immediately return immigrants back to Mexico after being apprehended on the southern border, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. “Today, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended Title 42 public health restrictions at the borders until he determines the serious danger from COVID-19 has ceased,” the statement said on Tuesday. Last week, US media reported that as of 21 March only two immigrants […]
Middle East 04:04 GMT 14.05.2020(updated 04:08 GMT 14.05.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107725/16/1077251688_0:106:2499:1511_1200x675_80_0_0_d0969f8cac8bdd46019c7fe0304e6d95.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005141079298269-yemeni-southern-separatists-seize-control-over-several-positions-in-abyan-province–source/ CAIRO (Sputnik) – The forces of Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC) have established control over several positions in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan, a Yemeni military source said on Thursday. A source said that the STC had attacked the government troops and seized their positions east of the town of Zinjibar. The clash has left six people dead and 15 more injured. On Wednesday, the Yemeni government called on the STC to stick to the Riyadh deal. In late April, the STC […]