US Navy, August 30 — US Navy’s latest Gerald Ford-class aircraft carrier project under review by Pentagon. Among cited issues are “performance of key systems aboard” reports USNI (via August 23 memo obtained by USNI). Estimated cost is $12.8 billion according to nationalinterest.org The article continues listing some of the…
Aleppo, Syria, August 30 — According to Amaq News Agency ISIL/ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani was killed in Syria. al-Adnani was responsible for inciting global violence against non-muslims. DW continues to report al-Adnani was a terrorist propaganda chief also responsible for recruiting new fighters. Interestingly and [not surprisingly] he…
Germany, August 28 — The United States and Germany negotiations over The European Union Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TIPP) have effectively failed after three years of talks. German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said “in my opinion the negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody…
West Bank, August 27 — An unarmed Palestinian man, a 38-year-old Eyad Zakaria Hamed died in what appeared to be a charge at an IDF guard post. In following the procedures for “stopping suspicious individual[s]” IDF opened fired killing the man. No IDF soldiers sustained injuries. An unnamed Palestinian…
Geneva, August 26 — US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov met in Geneva to discuss possible end-of war strategy in Syria. After a ten hour meeting Mr. Kerry said the two nations “achieved clarity on the path forward“. Nationwide ceasefire technical aspects are still…
Tianjin, August 26 — China’s LM-5 largest carrier rocket (Long March-5) has departed Tianjin Port heading to the launch base in southern Hainan. The rocket is scheduled for maiden flight later this year, reports Xinhuanet. The large carrier rocket has a payload of 25 tonnes in low orbit and…
Germany, August 26 — In a recently conducted poll in Germany more than three quarters of Germans do not want to see burqas in public, reports DW. Burqas are a full face, full head-to-toe covering in which not even eyes can be seen. The poll was conducted by Infratest…
Istanbul, August 26 — During a press conference in Istanbul, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim declared total war on terrorism and continued to say Turkey will “bear their pain and continue to fight against terror” referring to most recent terrorist attack in city of Cizre by Kurdistan Worker’s Party…
Luckenwalde, Germany, August 25 — Luckenwalde mayor Elisabeth Herzog-vod der Heide has fired her Palestinian intern after just one day on the job. The reason for termination from internship notes mayor is refusal by the intern to remove her headscarf at work in presence of men which is a…
Persian Gulf, August 25 — Three more US Navy ships were harassed by Iranian navy reports USNI. This is on the wake of earlier incident this week also harassment of another US war ship. One of the ships returned warning shots from heavy caliber machine-guns to discourage Iranian patrol boat…