Month: October 2019

Notorious serial killers Rose West and Myra Hindley were lovers in prison, according to one of their former solicitors. West’s ex-lawyer Leo Goatley claimed his client fell for the Moors murderer in 1995 after they were both locked up in the hospital wing of Durham prison. He said the women dated each other for a…

Parents of teenagers live for the moment when their kids open up to them. So in April 2018, when my then-ninth grader, Caleb said, “Mom, Dad — I want to talk to you,” my husband and I were all ears. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey What we heard was alarming. Caleb had witnessed a “confusing”…

Prominent liberal Catholics have warned the US attorney general’s devout Catholic faith poses a threat to the separation of church and state, after William Barr delivered a fiery speech on religious freedom in which he warned that “militant secularists” were behind a “campaign to destroy the traditional moral order”. The speech last Friday at the…

ANKARA, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Turkey and Russia will discuss the removal of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from the northern Syrian towns of Manbij and Kobani during talks in Sochi next week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday. Ankara agreed with Washington on Thursday to pause its offensive into northeast Syria for…

Let the experiments begin, submariners and shipbuilders. Even as shipyards lay keels for a bulked-up “block” of its Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), the U.S. Navy espies an entirely new class of attack boat designated SSN(X). The SSN(X) program is slated to debut in 2031, a full twelve years from now. (The program gets underway…

Key point: Russia is a submarine superpower–and this sub proves it.  Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Unlike the United States Navy, which went all-in on nuclear power, Russia maintains fleets of both diesel and nuclear-powered submarines. A land power encompassing much of Eurasia, Russian submarines are based much closer to “the action” than American submarines…

Key point: Sometimes you want an adversary to know they are there. Nuclear powers rarely go to war with each other, but that doesn’t mean they don’t threaten to do so. Indeed, military posturing is an integral part of what Forrest Morgan, an analyst for the RAND Corporation, called “crisis stability.” In other words, “building and posturing…

Brussels (AFP) – Washington’s top diplomat said Friday that 24 hours into a planned five-day pause in fighting between Turkish and Kurdish forces in northern Syria the situation was improving. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, talking to reporters after meetings at NATO headquarters in Brussels said: “There was some activity today, but we also saw…

Beirut (AFP) – The commander of Kurdish forces in Syria accused Turkey of sabotaging a US-brokered truce Saturday by blocking the withdrawal of his forces from a flashpoint border town in northeastern Syria. In a wide-ranging interview with AFP, Mazloum Abdi, head of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said he still wished to see a…

Jo Tuckman in Mexico CityOctober 18, 2019 Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has insisted that his government was right to release one of the sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a day after his brief capture by the army sparked a wave of attacks by cartel gunmen who took soldiers hostage…