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Donald Trump has reportedly been presented with a plan to send as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East to counter the so-called Iranian threat, the New York Times reported. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan disclosed the updated military plan at a meeting of Trump’s top security aides on Thursday, the publication said, quoting […]

Far from the cold dead rock imagined by modern science, Earth’s Moon is actually tectonically active, according to researchers who triangulated quake data with fault locations. Even stranger, it may still be shrinking. By comparing lunar orbital imagery from NASA with seismic readings obtained nearly half a century ago from equipment left on the moon […]

Facebook-owned WhatsApp messenger has been weaponized to bug the phones of human rights campaigners, lawyers, and other dissidents with an Israeli spyware, sparking a backlash against the program’s manufacturer. “NSO Group sells its products to governments who are known for outrageous human rights abuses, giving them the tools to track activists and critics. The attack […]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is not coming to Moscow on Monday as previously planned, according to a report citing a State Department official. He will still meet the Russian president and foreign minister on Tuesday. Instead of heading straight for the Russian capital, on Monday Pompeo will hold talks with European officials about “Iran […]

The United Arab Emirates has said that four commercial ships were hit by “sabotage” in its waters, hours after denying reports of explosions at an oil tanker terminal. The incident comes as US/Iran tension ratchets up. The four vessels were targeted by “sabotage operations” in waters near the emirate of Fujairah, the country’s foreign ministry […]

Those dastardly Russian hackers are alive and well and meddling in the upcoming European Parliament elections, warned the New York Times. Just don’t expect to see any proof, because the paper offers none. Fresh from interfering in seemingly everything wrong in America, unidentified Russian hackers have shifted their attention to Europe, deploying information warfare tactics […]

Saudi Arabia says two of its oil tankers were among the ships the United Arab Emirates earlier said were targeted in “sabotage operations” off its coast. The alleged attack damaged the ships, but caused no casualties or oil spill. One of the two vessels was on its way to pick up crude for delivery to […]

Eurovision organizers wanted to advertise Israel to tourists and show that the locals aren’t afraid to laugh at themselves but missed the mark completely uniting the most fierce political rivals in outrage. The clip, released by state-owned Kan broadcaster ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel-Aviv next week, begins with a pair of terrified […]

Six people, including a priest, have been killed in an attack on a Catholic church in Dablo, Burkina Faso after attackers opened fire as people prayed at Sunday mass. “Towards 9.00 am, during mass, armed individuals burst into the Catholic Church,” the mayor of Dablo, Ousmane Zongo, told AFP. “They started firing as the congregation […]

Five people were killed during a terror attack on a private five-star hotel in the Pakistani southwestern port city of Gwadar, the military now confirmed announcing that the clearance operation is over. Four hotel staff members and a Navy soldier lost their lives as three gunmen broke into the Pearl Continental hotel. Six more people […]