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04 January, 2015

Iran's Elite Guards have foiled Mossad’s Assassination attempt against a Nuclear Scientist

An Iranian Elite Guard. Photo Credit: telegraph.co.uk World News --- On Saturday, a senior Iranian security official reported that the Country’s Elite Revolutionary Guards Corps saved one of its nuclear scientist from a Mossad assassination attempt. Col. Ya’qoub Baqeri, the deputy chief liaison officer of the Flight Guards...

By: Sheriff Mako On Sunday, January 04, 2015

27 December, 2014

Cyber-security Experts Humiliate the FBI for its claim that North Korea Hacked Sony Pictures

World News -- Last week, the FBI announced that it had gathered conclusive evidence to prove that the Government of North Korea had orchestrated the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures. This was followed by a verbal attack by president Obama who promised a “proportional response”. In an almost immediate...

By: Sheriff Mako On Saturday, December 27, 2014

Court Authorizes Life Support to be Taken off a Pregnant Brain Dead Irish Woman

Word News -- A young pregnant woman who has been clinically dead for three weeks now will be taken off life support after a three-judge bench found that there was no chance of giving birth to a live baby. The brain dead woman has been deteriorating fast and,...

By: Sheriff Mako On Saturday, December 27, 2014

23 December, 2014

North Korea went offline in a Suspected U.S Payback for Sony Attack

World News – According to the New York Times, North Korea lost it’s already struggling internet connection. While this could be as a result of a normal failure – or Pyongyang’s preemptive measure to forestall an impeding attack – there are chances that this was U.S sponsored DDOS attack. The...

By: Sheriff Mako On Tuesday, December 23, 2014

22 December, 2014

Unidentified Drone Seen Flying over Nuclear Facilities in Belgium

Doel Nuclear Plant. Photo Credit: Woodwalker Via Wikimedia World News --The Belga news agency reported on unexplained drone that was spotted flying over Belgium’s nuclear facility, one day after the facility was restored after being shut for four months. The mysterious unmanned aircraft appeared on Saturday, and resembles...

By: Sheriff Mako On Monday, December 22, 2014

21 December, 2014

ISIS Executes 100 Foreign Fighters Who Tried To Quit

Foreign ISIS fighter: AP Photo World News -- According to the British Financial Times Newspaper, ISIS executed 100 of foreign fighters who tried to leave the group’s headquarters in Raqqa, Syria. An activist opposed to ISIS and the Assad regime confirmed the executions of foreign fighters trying to escape...

By: Sheriff Mako On Sunday, December 21, 2014

20 December, 2014

According to UAC, Russia has surged ahead of the U.S in the production of new military planes

World News -- Reports running in the Russian media indicates that Russia might have surpassed the U.S in the production of new combat planes. During an interview with Ekho Moskvy Radio, Vladislav Goncharenko, a deputy in the department of military aviation programs at the United Aircraft-Building Corporation (UAC), stated...

By: Sheriff Mako On Saturday, December 20, 2014

18 December, 2014

14 Year-old Murder Convict Exonerated 70 Years after Execution

World News -- How late can justice come? Really! A circuit court judge threw out the case, 70 years after a South Carolina court found a 14 year-old boy guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. It is said that the boy was so small that a...

By: Sheriff Mako On Thursday, December 18, 2014

08 December, 2014

The World’s Happiest and Saddest Nations

A happy man At last a new way of looking at the wellbeing of nations that is devoid of economic bias. The Infographic prepared by Movehub “living long lives with a high experience of well-being within the environmental limits of the planet”. Some high income nations scored very...

By: Sheriff Mako On Monday, December 08, 2014

06 December, 2014

Israel Sends 380 Million Fruit Flies to Croatia

Fruit Flies (Photo Credit: counselheal.com) World News -- For many years, Israel was known to be a source of good brains, many of which ended up in Europe. However, Europe has in recent times shown antisemitic tendencies, particularly in regard to Israeli policies and for that, it no longer...

By: Sheriff Mako On Saturday, December 06, 2014

05 December, 2014

BREAKING: ICC’s Bensouda Withdraws Charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta

Left:President Uhuru Kenyatta Right: Fatou Bensouda Kenya News -- The ICC has withdrawn charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta. The case was withdrawn because the prosecution lacked enough evidence to sustain a crimes against humanity case against the president. This is what the prosecutor said. In light of the...

By: Sheriff Mako On Friday, December 05, 2014

China Overtakes the United States as the Largest Economy

Beijing, China World News -- The U.S is no longer the world’s largest economy, a position it has held since 1872. Data provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) indicates that China, the most populous nation in the World, will have an economic output of $17.6 trillion against...