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Angela Merkel office sealed off due to suspicious package — police
The office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been sealed off after the discovery of a suspicious package, Reuters reports citing a police spokesman. “We are investigating a suspicious package,” a police spokesman told Reuters. An eyewitness also informed the agency there were four yellow plastic crates visible...
Chairman Mao gets 36 meter gilded make-over in China
A new ‒ and rather giant ‒ statue of China’s former Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong has people talking after images emerged of the piece. Located in the fields of Tongxu county, near the city of Kaifeng in Henan province, the towering statue reportedly cost three million yuan ($460,000) to build, which was funded...
Christmas tree petrol-bombed in Belgium by youth shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ (VIDEO)
While the city of Brussels was on lockdown on New Year’s Eve due to an increased terror threat level, it didn’t stop a gang of teenagers from vandalizing a Christmas tree in the Anderlecht area of the city, sparking outrage and fear among locals. A video of the incident, which was posted across a number of social...
Google Translate turns Russia into ‘Mordor’
A glitch in the Google Translate service saw Russia turning into the grim and rotten land of ‘Mordor’ from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” when translated from Ukrainian to Russian, proving that a “fully automated” algorithm can’t always be trusted. Numerous screenshots of...
Artist creates amazing map of entire universe in one image
An artist has created in a stunning circular image of the entire observable universe using NASA images based on astronomical surveys provided by Princeton University. It’s also quintessentially geocentric – with Earth’s solar system right at the center. The South American artist and musician, Pablo Carlos...
North Korea claims fully successful ‘miniaturized hydrogen bomb’ test
In a “special and important” announcement at noon, North Korean TV claimed that the country has successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test at 10:00am local time. “Through the test conducted with indigenous wisdom, technology and efforts the DPRK fully proved that the technological specifications of the newly...
Woman, 11 children rescued after standoff near Atlanta: reports
A man who held a woman and 11 children hostage inside a motel near Atlanta stabbed himself in the neck as police entered the room to end an hours-long standoff early on Tuesday, according to local media reports, Reuters reported. The children, ages 3 months to 17 years old, and the woman were rescued, a reporter for...
Militants fire 20 times at Ukrainian positions overnight
Pro-Russian illegal armed groups opened fire 20 times in the direction of Ukrainian forces, twice the amount of attacks recorded the previous day, as reported by the press center of the ATO. From 18:00 yesterday until midnight, the militants were most active in the area of the Donetsk airport. "They opened chaotic fire...
Saudi says break in Iran ties will not harm Syria peace process
Saudi Arabia's decision to break off diplomatic ties with Iran will not affect its own efforts to secure peace in Syria and Yemen, the kingdom's ambassador to the United Nations, Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, said on Monday, according to Reuters. "From our side it should have no effect because we will continue to work...
Reuters: Hezbollah targets Israeli army with bomb, Israel shells south Lebanon
Hezbollah set off a bomb targeting Israeli forces at the Lebanese border on Monday in an apparent response to the killing in Syria last month of a prominent commander, triggering Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon, according to Reuters. Israel has struck its Iran-backed Shi'ite enemy Hezbollah in Syria several times,...
Intensity of Russian proxies’ attacks on Ukraine goes down to 10 per day
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked positions of the Ukrainian army participating in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone in eastern Ukraine 10 times in the past day, according to the ATO press center. "Since the beginning of Monday, militants tried 10 times to provoke ATO forces into violating the full...
Al Jazeera: Denmark and Sweden tighten border control
Denmark has introduced temporary controls along its border with Germany, just hours after Sweden took similar measures to check the flow of refugees, according to Al Jazeera. Sweden began checking documents of travelers from Denmark on Monday for the first time in half a century, causing delays of trains and frustration among...
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