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Friday, April 10, 2015 - 07:17
Russian forces busily resupply for Ukraine ahead of a Spring offensive, according to numerous sources including a former head of NATO. According to my own sources in Ukraine, where I was two weeks ago, Russian military assets have spread broadly all along Ukraine’s eastern border formed up in three waves in order to stretch and overwhelm Ukrainian defenses across an entire front. While the world wrangles about Iran’s nuclear ambitions in the future, the one country that can physically obliterate the West in the present, the same sole country that openly threatens to use nukes, gets a free pass as it invades and occupies parts of Europe – repeatedly.
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 06:54
Pakistan’s parliament has dealt a blow to Saudi hopes of defeating Yemen’s Houthi rebels, with MPs voting overwhelmingly for the country to remain out of the conflict.
Friday’s vote, which came as tensions continued to rise between Riyadh and Tehran over the conflict in Yemen, will make it extremely hard for the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, to offer anything more than symbolic help.
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 06:41
Kavumu is just across Lake Kivu from Rwanda and near an office of the U.N. stabilization mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). Kavumu has a high crime rate and a low literacy level, according to human rights activists.
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 06:35
A United Nations panel on technological development has called for peacekeeping missions to be equipped with unmanned drones to survey conflict zones. A purportedly crucial tool steeped in controversy, UAVs are set to become a peacekeeping staple.
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 06:30
Four people were killed and nine others wounded in an apparent Sudanese airstrike on South Sudanese territory, a South Sudanese government official said Thursday. Sudan is to blame because it is the only neighboring country with "the history of this type of unprovoked attacks," said South Sudanese presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny.
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 06:24
Bronwyn Bruton from the Africa Center at The Atlantic Council said last week’s attack at Garissa University in Kenya marks a turning point. She said it may be evidence of an African jihadist movement.
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 06:21
If the world has learned anything about Islamic fundamentalism in the last two decades it is that such revenge actions are utterly counterproductive. Indeed, they have superheated the hatred and fueled further attacks. Kenya’s leaders must take these attacks seriously, understand what they mean and devise smarter strategies and more effective tactics for dealing with them.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 22:08
Cartel gunmen ambushed a state police convoy on a remote stretch of highway in Jalisco on Monday, killing fifteen officers in the most recent bloody incident to rock the western region of Mexico.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 22:05
News reports have come out regarding an armed heist of some 900 kilos of gold from a mine in Sinaloa. An outright robbery of a refinery has been relatively rare.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 22:02
The Argentine government has summoned Britain's ambassador in Buenos Aires over claims the UK had spied on the country.