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 (Aug 16 2017) - Borneo Post : Another drug ring busted
KOTA KINABALU -- Police have again crippled another drug syndicate for attempting to smuggle 7.2 kilograms of methamphetamine or syabu worth RM500,000 into the state through the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA) here on Sunday. Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Ramli Din said 4 men, were also arrested by police.
(Aug 14 2017) - Pittsburgh Post : Hundreds buried alive ...
SIERRA LEONE -- After a night of torrential rain, entire hillsides have collapsed into fast-moving mud in & around Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, on Monday. Speaking to the news agency, a Red Cross spokesman said 312 people had been confirmed dead in the floods & mudslides. Given the nature of the disaster ...
(Aug 13 2017) - African Post : Kenyatta Re-elected as President
KENYA -- Uhuru Kenyatta has been re-elected as president in Kenya, with final official results giving the incumbent a substantial margin of victory over veteran opposition politician Raila Odinga. After an acrimonious campaign, Kenyatta used his re-election speech to reach out to Odinga & supporters on Friday night ...
(Aug 12 2017) - BRICS Post : Oxygen runs out at Indian hosp
INDIA -- Atleast 60 children, newborn babies among them, have died over the past 5 days in a hospital in Uttar Pradesh in what appears to be a case of medical negligence. The dead ranged from babies to 12-year-olds. It’s a massacre not a tragedy, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Friday reacting to the incident.
(Aug 11 2017) - Jakarta Post : Thousands threatened by drought
JAVA -- It is estimated that 1,235 villages in 266 districts in Central Java will face water shortages as a result of drought. The province’s Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has supplied clean water to 10 regencies since July. “Drought and a clean-water crisis have affected half of the areas across Central Java.
(Aug 10 2017) - National Post : Canadian pastor freed from prison
TORONTO -- Relatives of a Canadian pastor released this week after more than 2 yrs in a North Korean prison say he's “on his way home” & they're anxious to be reunited with him. News Agency reported that North Korea’s court decided to free Hyeong Soo Lim, who was serving a life sentence for anti-state activities.
(Aug 09 2017) - Patriot Post : Tax Reduction and Simplification
WASH D.C. -- The regulatory cuts ordered by President Trump are already saving consumers billions. His next objective is tax cuts. After deliberating about “tax reform” for the last 6 months, the GOP’s congressional leaders announced that they had reached broad agreement with the Trump administration ...
(Aug 08 2017) - Bangkok Post : North Korea vows harsh retaliation
SEOUL -- North Korean's top diplomat said at the Asean Regional Forum on Monday "under no circumstances" will it put its nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles on the negotiating table. From Pyongyang, the govt vowed instead to bolster its nuclear arsenal & gain revenge of a "thousand-fold" against the U.S.
(Aug 07 2017) - Activist Post : U.S. Sanctions Bill adds more targets
U.S.A. -- With the new U.S. sanctions bill having been passed by Congress and signed by a President allegedly opposed to it, U.S. sanctions are now all over the news. But the sanctions bill was not just a step toward a second Cold War with Russia, the bill was also aimed at North Korea, Iran, China, and even Europe.
(Aug 06 2017) - Christian Post : ISIS' Defeat 'Accelerated'
WASH D.C. -- The ISIS terror group has lost almost a third of its territory in Iraq & Syria mainly due to new policies adopted by President Donald Trump & his administration, a senior State Department official said Friday. Out of the 27,000 square miles of territory that ISIS has lost in the 2 countries ...
(Aug 05 2017) - Seattle Post : Fox News host suspended
LOS ANGELES -- Fox News said Saturday that it has suspended Eric Bolling, co-host of its late-afternoon news program "The Specialists," while it investigates allegations he sent a lewd photo to co-workers. Word of the suspension came one day after a HuffPost reported Bolling had sent a lewd photo to at least 3 females.
(Aug 04 2017) - Yorkshire Post : Pressure grows on Cabinet ...
BRITAIN -- The Govt is coming under intense pressure from business leaders & England’s most prestigious universities who have warned that Britain’s economic future will be plunged into chaos unless a clear vision is hammered out for the nation’s withdrawal from the European Union. A stark ultimatum has been issued ...
(Aug 03 2017) - Punching Bag Post : New FBI Director Confirmed
WASH D.C. -- The Senate confirmed Trump’s pick for FBI director on Tues with a vote of 92-5. Christopher Wray, who worked in the GW Bush Admin' as Assistant AG, has promised to conduct his job “without regard to any partisan political influence.” Wray earned unanimous approval from the Judiciary Committee last month
(Aug 02 2017) - Kathmandu Post : Two die of swine flu in Jhapa
INDIA -- 2 women from Jhapa dist' have died of swine flu in the last 2 weeks. Anita Devi Mittal of Birtamode-4 & Manisha Agrawal of Birtamode-1 breathed their last during the course of treatment at the Apollo Hospital in New Delhi. They were first admitted to hospitals in Siliguri & later referred to Apollo Hospital.
(Aug 01 2017) - Orissa Post : Govt releases Rs 6.9cr flood aid
BHUBANESWAR -- Life in flood affected areas of Jajpur and Kendrapara districts is slowly limping back to normalcy as the water level of Brahmani has receded significantly, officials at Special Relief Commissioner’s (SRC) office said Monday adding, the government had released `6.9 crore as flood assistance.
(Jul 31 2017) - First Post : Pakistan opposition fails ...
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan opposition members on Monday failed to arrive at a consensus on a single candidate for the interim prime minister following Nawaz Sharif's disqualification by the Supreme Court in the Panamagate case. President Mamnoon Hussain has called a session of the National Assembly on Tuesday for ...
(Jul 30 2017) - Sunday Post : Right to have mistress ???
ENGLAND -- THE Prince of Wales claimed it was his right to have a mistress, a new documentary has claimed. The documentary uses controversial video tapes of Diana speaking to her voice coach. In the programme, she claims when she confronted Charles about Camilla Parker Bowles - now his wife the Duchess of Cornwall
(Jul 29 2017) - Saturday Evening Post : Neither War nor Peace
KOREA -- When Truman sent U.S. troops into So. Korea to help combat an invasion by No. Koreans on June 27, 1950, he acted without a declaration of war. Instead, it was called a “police action.” With or without the designation of a war, the conflict involved 328,000 Americans, killing 36,000, wounding 103,000.
(Jul 28 2017) - Conservative Daily Post : 100's of requests ...
WASH D.C. -- In these times of political turmoil there's one thing everyone can agree on, the leak problem has gotten totally out of control & something needs to be done NOW! Far beyond “leaking like a sieve,” the floodgates are so wide open we're publicly discussing “meta-leaks,” which are leaks about leaks.
(Jul 27 2017) - Wash Post : Growing GOP backlash ...
WASH D.C. -- His surprise announcement Wed that he will ban transgender people from serving in the military in any capacity, reversing an Obama admin' decision to allow them to serve openly, caught the Pentagon & Capitol Hill off guard. Most Republicans in the Capitol tried hard to avoid reacting at all.
(Jul 26 2017) - Palm Beach Post : Wasserman Schultz 'IT' arrested
VIRGINIA -- A congressional info technology staffer who has done work for U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, & several other Dem's was arrested on a bank fraud charge this week after months of investigation into the House’s computer & email systems, according to reports.
(Jul 25 2017) - Threat Post : Novel Attack Tricks Servers
LAS VEGAS -- Researcher Omer Gil has devised a way to trick a web server into caching pages and exposing personal data. The so-called web caching attack targets sites that use content delivery network (CDN) services such as Akamai and Cloudflare. These services act as traffic load balancers and reverse proxies ...
(Jul 24 2017) - Patriot Post : 'Let ObamaCare Fail'
WASH D.C. -- Republicans will pay a heavy price for breaking their promise to repeal obamacare. For 7 yrs, the GOP vowed to eliminate the unwise, unpopular law, & during Obama’s years in the WH, Republicans voted for repeal dozens of times. But once there was a president prepared to sign legislation, they choked.
(Jul 23 2017) - Gwinnett Post : 8 people found dead ...
TEXAS -- A phone call from a Walmart employee led to the discovery of eight bodies and 30 people injured in the back of a tractor-trailer in Texas early Sunday, authorities said. The employee told authorities the trailer was parked at a Walmart lot in San Antonio. A man who was in it asked the employee for water ...
(Jul 22 2017) - Bristol Post : Monsters with dark secrets ...
BRISTOL -- It is every parent’s worst nightmare to discover their child has fallen victim to a predatory paedophile. According to research by the NSPCC, 1 in 20 children in the UK are sexually abused, with 1 in 3 victims never tell anyone about their ordeal. Some 90% of abuse is carried out by someone the child knows
(Jul 21 2017) - Conservative Post : Prophetic Breakthrough ...
ISREAL -- Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount did something that many are calling a prophetic breakthrough - they prayed, openly & without harassment. Typically, non-Muslim visitors to Judaism’s holiest site are accompanied by the Islamic Trust (Waqf) to ensure they don’t engage in acts of Christian or Jewish worship,
(Jul 20 2017) - NY Post : Obama’s secret plan on Election Day
WASH D.C. -- The Obama admin' was poised to send armed federal agents to polling places, deploy the military & launch full-scale counter-propaganda measures in case hackers disrupted the vote on Election Day, according to a report. The 15-pg playbook, produced in October, outlined the “enhanced measures” ...
(Jul 19 2017) - Cameroon Post : Prostitutes Drug Babies ...
CAMEROON -- When some Miniferme prostitutes are set to work, not even their breast-feeding babies are spared. They prevent them from wanting to suck, by giving them hard drugs, while sucking money out of men. The sex hawkers made this revelation recently in response to the World Day against Abuse & Drug Trafficking
(Jul 18 2017) - Post & Email : 'Immigration' Depresses Wages ...
AMERICA -- In the final segment of an interview with Georgia immigration-enforcement advocate D A. King, she maintained that the numbers of workers who enter the U.S. each yr, whether legally or illegally, affects every other aspect of our lives to include education, national security, culture, taxes & wages.
(Jul 17 2017) - Financial Post : Amazon's making people happy
U.S.A. -- Successful businesses that save time & make goods more affordable for households & businesses are just toxic to an economy, dontcha know. Amazon became a target of the business-bashing brigade the minute it emerged as a rival to the last retailer that grew incredibly huge by making people really happy, Walmart.
(Jul 16 2017) - Denver Post : Trump: MSM distorting democracy
BEDMINISTER, NJ. -- President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on the media early Sunday, hours after news that his campaign paid $50,000 in late June to the law firm later revealed to be representing Donald Trump Jr. in the matter of a meeting during 2016 with a Russian lawyer to seek damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
(Jul 15 2017) - SCM Post : Owning the term democracy
CHINA -- As I walked through central Beijing this week, I passed endless posters promoting “democracy” (minzhu). One might be forgiven for raising one’s eyebrows at a moment when the 20th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover prompts elegies for the fate of democracy in the SAR. Yet it is no longer just greater China ...
(Jul 14 2017) - Post Crescent : Medicaid comments makes undecided
GREEN BAY -- U.S. Senator Ron Johnson again is undecided on the Republican health insurance reform package. Johnson said on Friday in Green Bay that a reported comment by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, (R)-Ky., that Medicaid reform will probably never happen under the plan, is a "breach of trust."
(Jul 13 2017) - Greanville Post : Amazon and the CIA ...
U.S.A. -- In recent years, the multinational corporation Amazon has risen to become the pre-eminent online retail giant and the fourth most valuable company in the world. One of Amazon’s most significant business contracts, which has largely been kept hidden from the public since it was finalized in October 2013 ...
(Jul 12 2017) - Pakistan Christian Post : Minority Rights Forum ...
HYDERABAD -- A delegation of Implementation of Minority Rights Forum led by Chief Coordinator Imtiaz Boota called on Hyderabad Mayor Syed Tayyab Hussain in his office and apprised him of the issues and problems faced by minorities including recruitments under 5% minority quota, special quota for women and special persons,
(Jul 11 2017) - Jerusalem Post : Israel and the unexpected NWO
ISRAEL -- In the new and surprising economic world order, Israel could gain a degree of wealth not seen since the days of King Solomon. For the Western world, strong new alliances between certain non-Western countries constitute something of a mystery. But while the West is distracted by political uprisings and ...
(Jul 10 2017) - China Post : New peace talks are starting ...
CAIRO/GENEVA -- The U.N. launched new Syrian peace talks in Geneva on Monday as a regional ceasefire took effect in the southwest of the country on the weekend. U.N. Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura started the new negotiations by meeting representatives of the Syrian government, according to a U.N. spokesman.
(Jul 09 2017) - US Financial Post : Samsung forecasts Q2 profits
U.S.A. -- Samsung Electronics has jumped 64% over the past year & Thursday's close at 2,403,000 won falls just short of last week's fresh record high. For the first time ever, its 2nd-quarter operating profits could also exceed those of iPhone maker Apple Inc., the world's No. 1 company by market capitalization ...
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