John J. Xenakis - Page 12

Contents: Israel and Hezbollah prepare for war with each other; Saudi Arabian minister calls for ‘toppling Hezbollah’

Contents: A ‘powderkeg’ as Australia closes refugee camp and refugees refuse to leave; Australia and Papua New Guinea unable to agree on the future of the refugees

Contents: India begins shipping wheat to Afghanistan through Iran’s Chabahar port; In retaliation, Afghanistan bans entry of Pakistan trucks; Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) – conduit of smuggling

Contents: Dozens killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, bombings, two weeks after hundreds killed; Somalia attack comes as Niger ambush leads to review of US military aims in Africa

Contents: North Korea renews threat of massive hydrogen bomb test over Pacific; US sends three aircraft carrier strike groups to waters around North Korea

Contents: UN Secretary-General in Central African Republic begs for more funding; Bangassou becomes the most dangerous town in Central African Republic

Contents: Pneumonic plague (Black plague) spreads rapidly in Madagascar; Kenya increase border security from Madagascar because of plague epidemic

Contents: Japan’s Shinzo Abe wins a ‘super-majority’ in Japan’s lower house; Abe promises to change the constitution to end Japan’s pacifism

Contents: Dozens of Egyptian police massacred in ambush by jihadists; Officials point to Hasm Movement, armed wing of Muslim Brotherhood

Contents: Zimbabwe’s people fear further starvation after food imports are banned; Zimbabwe’s people fear hyperinflation again after last month’s ‘bond note’ crash

Contents: Mainstream economists baffled about stock market panic of October 19, 1987; The 58 Year Hypothesis: False panics of 1914 and 1987; Examples of the 58 Year Hypothesis: Swine Flu, Iraq War, Israel-Hezbollah war

Contents: Italy’s deals with Libya’s warlords substantially reduce flow of refugees; Italy accused of turning a blind eye to atrocities received by refugees in detention centers

Contents: North Korea nuclear missile crisis close to reaching a tipping point; North Korea crisis: Would the United States sacrifice Los Angeles for Seoul?

Contents: Kurds flee Kirkuk after Iraq army defeats them in complete rout; Devastating defeat to Iraq in Kirkuk exposes major splits between Kurdish factions

Contents: Mattis and Tillerson work to prevent Iraq vs Kurd military confrontation in Kirkuk; ISIS fighters permitted to leave Raqqa, Syria, with human shields; Syria demands ‘immediately’ pullout of Turkey’s forces from Idlib province

Contents: The last UN peacekeepers leave Haiti after 14 years; Thousands of Haitians living in Miami scheduled for deportation in January

Contents: Iraqi troops and tanks seen massing near Kirkuk, poised to attack Kurds; Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas announce unity agreement; Turkey’s tanks and troops cross border into Syria’s Idlib in apparent truce with HTS

Contents: Palestinian reconciliation talks ignore Hamas commitment to destroy Israel; Palestinian unity talks face disagreement on Hamas’s ‘resistance weapons’

Contents: Hundreds of ISIS fighters surrender as Iraqi town of Hawija falls; Tensions grow between Turkmens and Kurds in Kirkuk

Contents: UAE official says Arab blockade was engineered to prevent Qatar hosting 2022 World Cup; Numerous controversies surround FIFA’s award of World Cup 2022 to Qatar; A new ‘risk report’ raises doubts about Qatar hosting World Cup 2022

Contents: Turkey announces major military operation in Syria’s Idlib province; Turkey’s success in Idlib is far from certain

Contents: Islamic State in Greater Sahara (ISGS) blamed for deaths of US troops in Niger; Jihadist ambush in Niger forces a review of military operations in Africa

Contents: Bangladesh builds huge refugee camp for 800,000 displaced Rohingyas from Burma (Myanmar); Rohingya crisis expands into Kashmir, creating a mega-crisis

Contents: International Red Cross: Fighting in Syria worst since Aleppo; Analyst gives a chilling analysis of where the Syrian war is going

Contents: Russia considers taking on a huge financial burden – Venezuela; Maduro has ‘plans A, B and C’ if US imposes further sanctions

Contents: Jihadist attacks on UN peacekeepers surge in Mali; JNIM (Group for Support of Islam and Muslims) takes credit for attacks

Contents: Kirkuk becomes the flash point after the Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum; Significant differences in the three recent independence movements

Contents: Cameroon police shoot and kill English-speaking protesters on Sunday; Catalonia’s leader says the region has ‘won the right to statehood’ from Spain

Contents: Catalonia referendum poised to go ahead despite Spain’s harsh repressive measures; Hundreds of Catalan families occupy school buildings in defiance of police

Contents: Steve Bannon and Henry Kissinger form project to sound alarm on China; Taiwan’s prime minister says that Taiwan is an ‘independent sovereign state’

Contents: Burma’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims passes a major milestone; Burma has possible parallels to Pol Pot’s Cambodian Killing Fields

Contents: Uganda lawmakers throw fists and chairs at each other over Museveni’s power grab; Uganda follows a familiar pattern of violence for many African countries; Thailand’s Yingluck Shinawatra sentenced in absentia to five years in jail

Contents: Iraqi Kurds’ independence referendum appears headed for big approval; Israel may be the only country recognizing the Iraq Kurdistan referendum

Contents: North Korea threatens to shoot down US warplanes; Is there a strategic explanation for Trump’s statements and tweets?

Contents: Angela Merkel scores weak win in German national elections; Rise of far-right AfD party in Germany raises international alarm bells

Contents: Chinese and Indian behavior: A study in contrasts during Doklam crisis; Analysts draw lessons from the China vs. India Doklam border standoff.