More than 100 killed in ‘terrorist attacks’ near tomb of Iranian Guards’ Soleimani
Babak Yektaparast, a spokesperson for Iran’s emergency services, was reported as saying 73 people had been killed and 170 injured. State television said later that at least 100 people had been killed.
Wuhan Cover-Up: Anti-vaccine activist and presidential candidate RFK Jr lays bare rot in US health industry
There are the funders; the scientists who will do anything for another grant; the massive network controlled by a syndicate: the moneymen and women from the National Institutes of Health’s many institutes, especially its best-funded National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Science Foundation, whose former director was on the board of EcoHealth Alliance; the Wellcome Trust, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation; and other charities deeply entangled with the ones I just mentioned. There are think-tanks that help guide the direction the funding takes.
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel sets up high-stakes legal battle at International Criminal Court
Many South Africans, including President Cyril Ramaphosa, have compared Israel’s policies regarding Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank with South Africa’s past apartheid regime of racial segregation. Israel rejects such allegations.
Frist Black Harvard President Gay forced to resign after rocky testimony, plagiarism claims
Gay, former University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth testified before a US House of Representatives committee on December 5 about a rise in antisemitism on college campuses following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October.
Possibility of Gaza war spreading high following killing of Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut
US spy agencies assessed that Hamas and Islamic Jihad had used Al Shifa to command forces and hold some hostages but largely evacuated it before Israeli troops entered, a US official said on Tuesday, citing declassified US intelligence.
Row looms between Ethiopia and Somalia after breakaway Somaliland leased coastal land to Addis Ababa
Somaliland seceded from Somalia more than 30 years ago, but is not recognised by the African Union or the United Nations as an independent state. Somalia still considers Somaliland part of its territory and reactions by officials from there were swift.
Democratic Party strategists: Trump could very well defeat Biden even if the former president is in prison
Perhaps because of such apathy, some voters simply don’t believe Biden and Trump will end up on the general election ballot, despite strong evidence to the contrary. That’s an idea that conservative strategist Sarah Longwell, who founded the Republican Accountability Project, says she hears regularly during weekly focus groups with voters across the political spectrum.
Japan quake: 3,000 crew of army firefighters and police rescuers rush to reach survivors
Authorities have confirmed 48 deaths so far, all in Ishikawa prefecture, NHK reported. Many of those are in Wajima, another hard-hit city on the remote northern tip of the Noto Peninsula.
Pariah economy: Museveni’s ‘life presidency’ turned Uganda into a basket case on life-support
Cultural erosion through schemes such Operation Wealth Creation, Myooga and Parish Development Model, which emphasise the individual and money rather than community integrity, cohesion, unity and resilience, which were subserved by culture.
Stopping the boats: Number of illegal migrants arriving in Britain in small boats drops
The interior ministry, the Home Office, said on Monday the government had met a pledge made by Sunak in December 2022 to clear the legacy backlog of 92,000 asylum cases by the end of 2023.
