A Palestinian woman confronts Israeli police as her neighbour’s home is razed Israeli bulldozers razed six buildings in East Jerusalem, including three Palestinian homes, marking the end of Israeli efforts to refrain from contentious demolitions that could undermine peace talks. With excavators preparing to tear down one of the homes in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian suburb of Arab-dominated East... 

The S-400 long-range missile defense system.‎ Russia is planning to install two modern anti-missile defense systems on its border with North Korea, an employee of the Russian Defense Ministry says. Russia has expressed “concern” since a row erupted between North and South Korea after the latter blamed the North of torpedoing its warship near the two countries’ disputed maritime... 

Widespread cloud and persistent rainfall has kept temperatures down right across Queensland. Longreach, in the Central West, received persistent rain from Tuesday evening, dropping the temperatures by about four degrees. The temperature then barely moved yesterday, reaching a maximum of 11 degrees; 12 degrees below the long-term average and the coldest July day in 44 years of records. Isisford, further... 

A survivor sits near a relative who was killed in a bomb attack at an Ethiopian restaurant in Uganda's capital. Investigators found an unexploded suicide vest with ball bearings in a disco hall in Uganda’s capital, suggesting that militants planned another attack, officials said Tuesday. Four “foreign” suspects were arrested in connection with the find. The discovery of a suicide... 

The rise in forced marriages — estimated to be in the region of 10,000 every year, of which 20 percent involve male victims — is yet more evidence that Third World culture has been imported into Britain along with Third World immigrants. In a disturbing display of the simple truth that a culture is merely the reflection of a people, and that cultures change when the population changes, the... 

Israel’s immigration policies – which are the most racist in the world as they restrict settlement in Israel to those of racially Jewish descent only – are being tested to the core in the resort city of Eilat. Reports from Israel have revealed that illegal sub-Saharan African immigrants now make up 10 percent of the town’s population, numbering 5,000 out of the 55,000 strong population. Thousands... 

It is possible (but not certain) that the US will nuke the Gulf of Mexico in an attempt to stop the oil spill but the question remains: is this the best solution? New reports circulating in the Kremlin today prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) state that NATO’s Chairman of the Military Committee Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola has ordered 2,400 Canadian... 

A horrifying incident was witnessed by people in Oakland on Saturday, including an off-duty police officer. The officer saw a man shake a toddler violently and then hurl her into oncoming traffic. She was run over near Lake Merritt. The incident happened at around 5:30 p.m. at 5th Avenue and 15th Street. Witnesses say they are having a tough time recovering from what they saw. “It was shocking.... 

From the outside, Jerry Erwin’s home in the northwestern US state of Oregon is a nondescript house with a manicured front lawn and little to differentiate it from those of his neighbors. But tucked away out of sight in his backyard are the signs of his preparations for doomsday, a catastrophic societal collapse that Erwin, 45, now believes is likely within his lifetime. “I’ve... 

Octavia Nasr, senior editor of Middle East affairs at CNN, is leaving the US television news network after praising the late Shiite cleric Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah on Twitter Journalists are being fired for saying what they think while politicians on the Left and Right are being allowed to get away without being questioned, laments Toby Harnden. Freedom of speech may be part of the United States... 

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, a strong supporter of Arizona’s new immigration law, is receiving threats against his life. He’s been very outspoken about the need to secure the borders, and the topic is a controversial one. Outside law enforcements have been brought in to investigate the threats and have found them credible. Chief Deputy Steve Henry said some of the threats come from... 

The EU banking system is in big trouble. Many of the Union’s largest banks are sitting on hundreds of billions of dodgy sovereign bonds and non performing real estate loans. But writing down their losses will deplete their capital and force them to restructure their debt. So the banks are concealing their losses through accounting sleight-of-hand and by borrowing money from the European... 

As Alex Jones has warned for years, the military have been training with police to perform gun confiscations in US neighborhoods. Fox 23 News in Albany, New York is reporting on a program taking place between the National Guard and local police. As we have reported, Operation Vigilant Guard trains foreign troops to confiscate American’s guns. After hurricane Katrina, guns were confiscated from citizens... 

It’s a strange site to watch how the nature dies because of capitalist greed and ignorance. Why aren’t they stopping the oil spill? It should have been stopped by now. A mystery is unfolding across MidSouth farms. Something is killing crops, trees, even weeds and nobody can explain why. Farmers are scratching their heads and some are worried their crops may be lost to the mysterious plague. It’s... 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that Moscow will supply Palestinians with fifty Russian-made armored vehicles within days. “We have sent the Palestinians 50 armored vehicles, they have arrived in Jordan, and we hope that they will arrive here in the next few days,” Lavrov told reporters in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The...