Category Archives: International
Ivory coast arrests eight for pangolin smuggling
The authorities in Ivory Coast say they’ve seized a record haul of three tonnes of pangolin scales.
They say the haul represents about 4,000 of the endangered nocturnal mammals, captured in several West African countries.
Pakistan Supreme Court Disqualifies Sharif; He Steps Down
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, center, with his son Hussain Nawaz, right, in Islamabad, Pakistan, June 15, 2017. Sharif appeared before a Supreme Court-appointed team investigating allegations against his family’s offshore companies and money laundering.
Modernizing America’s Nuclear Capabilities Is a Must by Peter Huessy
In 1989, America had 1,000 nuclear missile silos, and a small number of additional bomber and submarine bases and submarines at sea, facing 13,500 Soviet warheads. Today, the U.S. has 450 such silos facing 1,750 Russian warheads. That is a switch from a ratio of 13 Russian warheads to every U.S. missile silo, to a ratio of 4 Russian warheads to every U.S. missile silo. Getting rid of Minuteman ICBMs would reverse that progress and make the ratio even worse, with 175 Russian warheads to every U.S. missile silo. How is that an improvement?
Israelis fire tear gas at Palestinians in al-Aqsa
Worshippers make their way to holy site after two weeks of protesting against Israeli-imposed obstacles to free entry.
UK Terrorism: ‘Enough’ is Not ‘Enough’ by Douglas Murray
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Were terror attacks like this simply something that the British public would have to get used to, as the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, had suggested? What if the public did not want to get used to them?
