Almost 200 Killed In Haiti As Gang Leader Targets Elders He Suspected Were Sickening His Child With Witchcraft

Over 5,000 deaths have been recorded this year as violence spirals in the Caribbean country Close to 200 people were killed in the Haitian capital over the weekend after a gang leader ordered the butchering of elderly people he suspected … Read More

Google unveils ‘mind-boggling’ quantum computing chip

Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world’s fastest super computers ten septillion – or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years – to complete. The chip is the latest development … Read More

Sotheby’s to Auction Oldest Stone Tablet Inscribed With Ten Commandments

Sotheby’s is set to auction off the world’s oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The Tablet The 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab, engraved with the Ten Commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script, is set to be auctioned on December 18. … Read More

Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and family in Moscow after Russia granted them asylum: reports

Ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad has fled to Russia after Islamist rebels rolled into the capital Damascus and ended his despotic family’s 50-year reign of terror. Assad, who inherited the office from his father in 2000, reportedly slipped out of … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – December 6, 2024

Greetings from Tyler, It turns out Nigel Farrage, mastermind of Brexit, is good buddies with Donald Trump. Problems that require money to fix are surmountable with Elon Musk on your side. Suddenly everyone is beating a path to Mar-a- Lago. … Read More

Thousands flee as Syrian insurgents advance to the doorstep of the country’s third-largest city

BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs, the country’s third largest, as insurgents seized two towns on the outskirts Friday, positioning themselves for an assault on a potentially major prize in their march against … Read More

Romanian court annuls presidential election citing Russian ‘aggressive hybrid action’

Dec. 6 (UPI) — Romania’s Constitutional Court Friday canceled the presidential run-off election between far-right candidate Calin Georgescu and centrist Elena Lasconi. The court cited a Russian propaganda campaign as the reason. The court said in a statement that its … Read More

Syrian rebels capture second major city after military withdraws

Syrian rebels say they have taken full control of a second major city, after the military withdrew its troops from Hama in another setback for President Bashar al-Assad. The leader of the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Abu … Read More

White House: Salt Typhoon hacked telcos in dozens of countries

Chinese state hackers, known as Salt Typhoon, have breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries, President Biden’s deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger said today. During a Wednesday press briefing, the White House official told reporters that these breaches include … Read More

EU orders TikTok to preserve Romanian election data amid suspicion of Russian interference

Dec. 5 (UPI) — The European Commission Wednesday issued a retention order to TikTok to preserve data on the Romanian election and for upcoming EU elections amid suspicion of Russian interference in the vote. “We ordered TikTok today to freeze … Read More

Most popular 100 baby names in UK revealed as new boys’ name steals first place

The annual list of the most popular baby names in England and Wales has been released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and it’s clear the UK has favourites The baby names that parents in the UK love the … Read More

Why did South Korea’s president declare martial law – and what now?

South Korea’s president shocked the country on Tuesday night when, out of the blue, he declared martial law in the Asian democracy for the first time in nearly 50 years. Yoon Suk Yeol’s drastic decision – announced in a late-night … Read More

France’s National Assembly votes ‘no confidence’ in Prime Minister Michel Barnier

Dec. 4 (UPI) — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier lacks the confidence of France’s National Assembly, which on Wednesday night voted to force his resignation while approving a “no-confidence” motion. A coalition of right- and left-leaning ministers voted 331 to … Read More

Mexico seizes record amount of fentanyl days after Trump issued tariff threats

The haul was the biggest seizure of fentanyl in Sinaloa, the state that shares the same name as the infamous drug cartel The Mexican military captured more than a ton of fentanyl pills, one of the biggest seizures of the … Read More

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was facing DOJ probe for insider trading when he was killed in targeted NYC shooting

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was one of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Department of Justice when he was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday. Thompson — who was killed in what police called … Read More

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