Archive du mois : janvier 2018
Zach Gibson/Getty Images by John Binder16 Jan 2018Washington, D.C. 0 16 Jan, 201816 Jan, 2018 The “Gang of Six” amnesty for millions of illegal aliens shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program should be rolled “straight into the trash can,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says. On Wednesday, a…
Iran’s supreme leader has said Saudi Arabia’s alignment with the United States and Israel is « certainly a betrayal » of the Muslims. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the remark at a conference attended by parliamentary representatives from Islamic countries on Tuesday in Tehran, according to a statement published on his official website. Discussing the recent US recognition…
« God bless Guatemala. » Last Christmas eve, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales with these words for his decision to move his country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Morales’ decision came as a surprise to many around the world. But Guatemala, the first country that showed interest in relocating…
The DOJ announced on Tuesday that a former CIA…
Bitcoin is a virtual currency devised by the mysterious Satoishi Nakamoto as a revolutionary monetary system independent of central banks and governments. The currency is booming as an investment asset and form of payment in China, Japan and South Korea. The value of bitcoin exceeded $12,000 in January. China is one of the main exchange…
The Special Operations forces of the United States – currently 70,000-strong and thus larger than the regular militaries of many sizable countries – occupy a very special place in US national mythology. According to TIME Magazine, Special Ops « heroes » are the « planet’s most skillful soldiers » and « toughest warriors » – operating in their very own « secret world ». …
Researchers have uncovered four malicious extensions with more than 500,000 combined downloads from the Google Chrome Web Store, a finding that highlights a key weakness in what’s widely considered to be the Internet’s most secure browser. Google has since removed the extensions. Researchers from security firm ICEBRG stumbled on the find after detecting a suspicious…
International NGOs have condemned the US government’s decision to cut more than half of its planned funding to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said in a Twitter post late on Tuesday that Washington was « holding Palestinian kids’ humanitarian needs hostage to political agendas ». Jan Egeland,…
A member of the Qatari royal family, who was allegedly detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been transferred to a hospital shortly after his arrival to Kuwait. Sources told Al Jazeera that Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al Thani was seen in a wheelchair when arrived in Kuwait from the UAE. Abdullah’s brother, Sheikh Khalid,…
Home and Away star Jessica Falkholt has died three weeks after the devastating Boxing Day crash which killed her family. The actress, 29, died in hospital on Wednesday morning, six days after her life support was withdrawn. A statement released on Wednesday read: « On behalf of the family of Jessica Falkholt, St George Hospital has…
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