No Telling How Long US Troops Will Stay on Southern Border: NORTHCOM Commander
U.S. Air Force Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, briefs the media and Department of Defense about Hurricane Michael at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Oct. 10, 2018. (DoD photo/Angelita M. Lawrence) … Read More
Senate confirms Esper as new Secretary of Defense in 90-8 vote
The Senate confirmed former Army Lt. Col. Mark Esper as Secretary of Defense Tuesday, making him the first permanent Pentagon boss since James Mattis resigned last December. Esper, who served 10 years on active duty and 11 years in the National Guard and Army … Read More
Why the WHO’s Emergency Declaration for Ebola Is a Big Deal
The president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene talks about how the designation could help fight the nearly year-old outbreak in central Sub-Saharan Africa. Credit: Getty Images The World Health Organization last week drew global attention to a … Read More
Congo’s Health Minister Resigns Over Ebola Approach
Dr. Oly Ilunga, health minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, visiting an Ebola treatment center in March. He resigned on Monday after the government appointed a new team to coordinate the effort to contain the disease.CreditCreditJohn Wessels/Agence France-Presse — … Read More
New California quakes stir fears of ‘the Big One,’ which is decades overdue
Significant seismic activity this month in Southern California has renewed fears of “the Big One.” File Photo by 12019/Pixabay/UPI July 23 (UPI) — Dr. Lucy Jones is certain “the Big One” — the devastating, long-predicted, long overdue earthquake in Southern California along one … Read More
EU countries agree plan to handle migrants and refugees
Macron says 14 states back mechanism to redistribute people saved in the Mediterranean The rescue ship Alan Kurdi picking up 44 people from a wooden boat in the Mediterranean this month. Photograph: Fabian Heinz/Sea-Eye/EPA The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said … Read More
Salvini to France: Italy will no longer accept all mogrants arriving in Europe
MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Italian populist interior minister Matter Salvini has declared his country will no longer take in all migrants arriving in Europe in a letter to French interior minister Christophe Castaner. “The choices made only in Paris and Berlin are … Read More
Boris Johnson expected to be announced as Britain’s new Prime Minister today
Boris Johnson is the frontrunner to be the next Prime Minister (Picture: George Cracknell Wright/LNP) Britain is about to learn who its next prime minister will be later this morning. The winner of the Tory leadership contest is expected to … Read More
The EU now needs a fully-fledged #EUCitizenCommissioner
A Romanian man carries an EU flag as people protest against the amendments of the laws of justice, in front of the government headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, 24 February 2019. [Robert Ghement/EPA/EFE] We should never forget that democracy is not … Read More
Israeli Air Force’s F-35 Stealth Fighter Went Into Iran’s Airspace: Report
And someone was fired for it. As we have already explained, in May 2018 the IAF revealed that it has used its stealth fighters in combat operations, making Israel the first country in the world to carry out an “operational attack” using … Read More
Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 19 July 2019
Greetings from Tyler, A war of words has broken out over the report that an American warship shot down an Iranian drone over the Straits of Hormuz. “Drone? What drone? We didn’t lose any drone!” say the leaders of the … Read More