Over 10,000 people remain displaced by flooding currently affecting all 19 departments of Uruguay. At least 10 people have died as a result of severe weather in the country in the last 10 days. Five people died after a tornado hit the town of Dolores. A further five victims have drowned in floods. Yet […]
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Update: Over 10,000 remain displaced by floods as further heavy rainfall hits Uruguay
2.3 magnitude earthquake hits Saudi Arabia
An earthquake measuring 2.3 degrees on the Richter scale hit the area near the village of Taba, 80 kilometres away from Hail City, at 6.18 am. According to a reort in Arabic language daily Okaz, tremors which lasted for 16 seconds sparked panic among Taba villagers, who did not allow their children to go […]
30 dead, 20 injured in cutthroat Boko Haram attack in Nigeria – reports
“Most of the victims were slaughtered and most of the wounded [had suffered] machete cuts,” said Mustapha Karimbe, a civilian who has been helping the Nigerian national military fight Boko Haram. The attacks on the three villages – Warwara, Mangari and Bura-Shika – happened on Saturday. All of the villages are located in the state […]
Poll shows huge majority of Saudis hate Daesh terrorists
An overwhelming majority of people in Saudi Arabia detest the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, a recent opinion poll shows. The study, which was conducted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in September, showed that 92 percent of Saudi people hate and reject the terror group, and it has “the worst reputation among […]
Good intentions of the hijacked environmental movement, are you being "Green Washed"?
The hijacked environmental movement is a symptom of the current general, collective state of humanity: good hearted but ignorant. Many people in the environmental movement are in it for the right reasons: they see the ongoing poisoning and destruction of the planet, led by corporations, and are determined to defend and speak out for […]
We Are Taught
We are taught we don’t exist Then told we are to blame, For all of histories evils We were the ones to gain. A privilege of pigmentation All the colours of our eyes, The strength to build our nations For others to despise. We are taught to hate our ancestors Then told we must […]
Former Brit Foreign Secretary: “Israel should have apologized”
Jack Straw Jack Straw I sat my final law examinations at the University of Leeds in June 1967. In between revision, and the examinations themselves, I became glued to my radio, to listen to the latest twist in the Arab/Israeli “Six Day War.” I was a student leader at Leeds, just elected as […]