Month: January 2020

The photos and videos of Australia ablaze are incredibly impactful — but there’s one image in particular that’s been stopping people in their tracks, and getting shared at viral levels on social media: In it, a young girl stands in knee-deep water wearing a gas mask and holding a koala as fire rages behind them.…

YouTube/Alternative666 Micah Lovegrove, identified by Adelaide’s The Advertiser, and his cousin saved a carload of koalas on Australia’s Kangaroo Island after finding them near their family’s fire-damaged property.  Lovegrove said that he found the family of koalas while assessing the damage to his uncle’s home. He and his cousin picked the koalas up with towels,…

With Putin in Turkey on Wednesday ceremonially launching the much-anticipated offshore pipeline TurkStream, which will supply Russian gas to Turkey and southern Europe, it’s actually events in Libya and Syria that are at the top of contentious discussions. But there appears to have been a breakthrough which may or may not have any real impact on the…

Libya’s civil war is being driven out of control by world powers who are violating an arms embargo they themselves imposed, the UN’s envoy to the country has said.   Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Ghassan Salame demanded a growing number of countries who have intervened take their “hands off Libya” and warned governments who…

Tripoli (AFP) – Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar’s capture of the strategic city of Sirte on Monday was a major setback for Tripoli’s UN-recognised government, analysts say. The fresh advance by Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army comes as Turkey deploys troops — 35 so far, in a training capacity — to bolster the beleaguered Government of…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Thunderstorms and showers brought some relief for firefighters battling deadly wildfires across Australia’s drought-parched east coast on Wednesday, but also raised concerns that lightning will spark more fires before dangerous hot and windy conditions return. Around 2,300 firefighters in New South Wales state were making the most of relatively benign conditions…

Senator Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) said Tuesday that Democrats will force votes on their desired witnesses at the outset of the impeachment trial against President Trump, even as it seems Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) has garnered enough support to delay the votes on witnesses until later in the trial. “Make no…

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Mitch McConnell is giving every indication that President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial will not introduce any new evidence. Instead, it will use only the evidence gathered by the House of Representatives and cited in the articles of impeachment. Is this, have some Democrats have argued, a travesty of justice? The short…

Donald Trump has told reporters at the White House that John Bolton, his former national security advisor and a potential key witness at his upcoming Senate impeachment trial, “knows nothing” about the Ukraine quid pro quo scandal, an apparent attempt to dismiss the significance of any testimony he might give before Congress. Senate leader Mitch…

(Bloomberg) — Iran has invoked an international agreement to get assistance from other countries — including the U.S. — in investigating Wednesday’s fiery crash of a jetliner near Tehran, two people familiar with the matter said. Such a move is common in aviation disasters, and gives the country where the plane was made the ability…