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On Wednesday President Trump accused Iran of the strikes in the Iraqi capital’s fortified ‘Green Zone’, tweeting a picture of three rockets he said had failed to launch, while claiming to have intelligence about further attacks on Americans in the country. The next day, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif hit …

This article was originally published by ScheerPost. Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I am a hypocrite. (Although I’m not sure why I’m talking to my dad about it. He doesn’t read my columns because he’s too busy watching survival reality shows set in Alaska… Maybe I’ll factor something about …

The footage, edited to a dramatic soundtrack, showed the Strela-10M anti-aircraft system on tracked chassis in action at the Donguz range in Russia’s Orenburg Region on the border with Kazakhstan.   During the night-time tests, the system employed Kalashnikov’s state-of-the-art Strela-9M333 guided missiles to eliminate several targets, which were simulating enemy …

After Depp launched and lost a libel case against the Sun newspaper in November over an article calling him a “wife beater,” some studios began distancing themselves from him. As a reaction to that, his fans banded under the hashtag ‘Justice for Johnny Depp’, believing that the actor was a …

As European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her punchlines with perfect Teutonic comedy timing – shouting out to the Beatles, Shakespeare and T. S Elliott – and switched her languages with admirable dexterity, this leader of the Brussels elite showed why she has reached the pinnacle of European …

It’s the end of a long song, a lament. In 1975 I was a runner for the late Mr. Tony Benn, bringing his tea and tobacco to the stage in the days one still could belch pipe-smoke into a large and enthusiastic audience. He was at one and the same …

In 1992, Japanese-American scholar Francis Fukuyama authored a book titled ‘The End of History and the Last Man’ which fabled liberal democracy as the final, inevitable and ultimate stage of man’s evolutionary development. The timing was no coincidence, only a year earlier, the Soviet Union collapsed and brought an end …

President Trump has promised to veto a $2.3 trillion spending package that allocates $900 billion for coronavirus relief, and $1.4 trillion in other government spending. After Trump ordered Congress to increase direct aid to Americans from $600 to $2,000 and cut out a slew of cash bonuses for foreign countries, …

Speaking from Downing Street on Christmas Eve, UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson praised the work of the “brilliant” negotiating teams who had secured a trade deal between the EU and UK. Johnson said that the UK had agreed on 58 free trade deals with nations around the world but asserted, “I pleased …

Shortly after painstaking agreement was announced, British government released a large statement giving itself a huge pat on the back and hailing its achievement. The agreement reached is “fantastic news” for everyone in the UK, London insisted and the country will regain “full political and economic independence” on January 1. …