01 Oct 2018
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A UN panel has recommended peacekeeping troops be allowed use force in an effort to address concerns about increasing fatalities, however the report fails to address concerns leveled against the troops themselves. Close to 200 UN peacekeeping personnel have been killed in acts of violence, largely in Africa, in the last five years, 90 percent …
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01 Oct 2018
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By setting up a naval base in the Azov Sea, Ukraine could make Russia “compromise,” said Ukrainian Lieutenant-General Vasily Bogdan. According to the Obozrevatel edition , Kiev is able to install a naval base that becomes a serious problem for Russia, forcing it to “make concessions and sit down at the negotiating table.” For Bogdan, …
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01 Oct 2018
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The UAF landing and assault troops have received 450 sniper rifles from NATO, and sniper pairs have begun training to operate in the Donbass. This was reported by Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, official representative of the People’s Militia of the Lugansk People’s Republic “The main attention in the zone of the so-called “operation of the …
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01 Oct 2018
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Visa and Mastercard have run up the mother of all credit card bills. The monopolistic payment providers had been embroiled in a long-running lawsuit instigated by merchants protesting their excessive fees. The credit card giants have now conceded defeat and agreed to settle the price-fixing case for a whopping $6.2 billion. Also read: Raising the …
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01 Oct 2018
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Pope Francis masterfully controlled the press briefing aboard the papal plane Tuesday in such a way as to make sure that he did not have to face embarrassing questions about how he handled the case of serial abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. The Q&A session with journalists on the return trip from the Baltic states Tuesday …
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01 Oct 2018
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NBC has been dealt another blow of bad news–ratings for this year’s NBC Nightly News have fallen to an all time low. The Wrap reports that NBC Nightly News just had it’s “lowest-rated September-to-September year ever.” The report continues, stating that the Lester Holt-hosted show “delivered its lowest-rated year ever in both total viewers and …
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01 Oct 2018
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President of Ecuador Lenin Moreno told the United Nations General Assembly during his address Tuesday that his country takes in an average of 6,000 Venezuelan refugees a day, many children “coming with chickenpox, diphtheria, and polio,” diseases easily preventable by vaccine. Moreno was the second head of state to address the General Assembly and the …
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01 Oct 2018
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In the fourth installment of Project Veritas’ investigative video series into the “Deep State,” two subjects identified as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials appear to condone the agency’s “unjust treatment” of conservative non-profit organizations — and one seems to affirm allegations that the former IRS commissioner appointed by Barack Obama deleted evidence to cover up …
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01 Oct 2018
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Russia’s Far East has given the Kremlin a bloody nose over the past two weekends. It’s a reminder to Moscow that the regions can’t be taken for granted and blowback can be expected over unpopular pension reforms. In the end, it was a landslide. Nationalist opposition candidate Sergei Furgal of the Liberal Democratic Party of …
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01 Oct 2018
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With all the already existing British intelligence agencies, it is puzzling why the UK needs yet another costly cyber force to counter Russia and terrorism amid national financial uncertainty. The UK Ministry of Defence announced on 21 September the establishment of yet another British spy agency, an amalgam of military and security service professionals designed …
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