Congress greets Iran deal with skepticism | Former CIA Director: Iran 'Unhelpful' in Nuclear Talks | Boston police captain's son charged in Islamic State terror bomb plot | Lots of speculation, few clues about mysterious beach blast | U.S. considers training Ukrainian army troops: general | Saudi-backed forces seize Aden airport: exiled government | Russian Strategic Bomber Plane Crashes In Far East | Raped, beaten and sold: Yazidi women tell of IS abuse
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- Congress greets Iran deal with skepticism
- Former CIA Director: Iran 'Unhelpful' in Nuclear Talks
- Boston police captain's son charged in Islamic State terror bomb plot
- Lots of speculation, few clues about mysterious beach blast
- U.S. considers training Ukrainian army troops: general
- Saudi-backed forces seize Aden airport: exiled government
- Russian Strategic Bomber Plane Crashes In Far East
- Raped, beaten and sold: Yazidi women tell of IS abuse
Lawmakers have 60 days to review the agreement, and they could vote to block Congress from lifting sanctions
Iran reached a landmark nuclear agreement with the U.S. and five other world powers, a long-sought foreign policy goal of the Obama administration that sets the White House on course for months of political strife.
The U.S. and Iran struggled to resolve a standoff over when and how to lift a United Nations arms embargo, one of the final sticking points as negotiators said they were nearing a deal to restrict the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
Brazil’s socialist leader faces a stark choice in the coming days: veto a bill to raise salaries for state workers, risking a backlash from her leftist supporters, or sign it, risking a disastrous credit downgrade for her country.
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision last month that effectively legalized gay marriage across the United States, a group of young Russians decided to make a video that shows how tolerant Russia is of homosexuality.Read full article >>
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Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro is facing a staggering array of problems far too numerous and severe to list here. Things were already going badly before global oil prices tanked, so now they're a lot worse.Read full article >>
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Mexico's fugitive drug lord and his supporters hit back after Donald Trump threatens to "kick ass"
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Son of Boston police captain arrested in an FBI sting accused of plotting Islamic State-inspired terrorist act
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A short summary of the terms of the deal including the fact that Iran will remain subject to a UN arms embargo for five years. Here are eight more points
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23 Killed in Military Barracks Collapse in Russiaby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
At least 23 Russian soldiers were killed and 19 taken to hospital when a military barracks collapsed near the Siberian city of Omsk, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. Television footage showed rescue workers hauling large chunks of rubble out of the long, four-story barracks, a training facility for paratroopers where part of the roof caved in at around 11 p.m. (1700 GMT) on Sunday. Whole floors had given way in the middle of the blue and white building, leaving twisted pieces of...
Former CIA Director: Iran 'Unhelpful' in Nuclear Talksby webdesk@voanews.com (Mike Richman)
With officials from Iran and six world powers reported close to reaching a landmark nuclear deal, speculation is widespread on what the final accord will look like and if it truly will scale back Iran's atomic program. Iran and the P5 +1 - the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany - are negotiating in Vienna, Austria, trying to compromise on the major sticking points. Iran insists it will not allow international inspectors access to military sites, to...
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“Ley Line Surge” Explodes Rhode Island Beach, Kills 23 Russian Troops by The European Union Times
A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) states that a“Ley line surge” is responsible for both an unexplained explosion on a Rhode Island beach and the deadly collapse of a Federation military barracks as both “events” happened nearly simultaneously this past weekend.
According to this report, Ley lines are alignments of numerous places of geographical and historical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths, natural ridge-tops and water-fords first documented by British archaeologist and antiquarian Alfred Watkins in 1921.
During the 1970’s, this report continues, then Soviet scientists and experts built upon Watkins Ley line theory expanding it into an ancient-built global grid of mysterious “electrical/gravity force” lines which they detailed in Khimiya i Zhizn (Chemistry and Life), the popular science journal of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Russian Academy of Sciences), under the title: “Is the Earth a Large Crystal?”
To this past weekend’s events relating to this “Ley line surge”, this report says, on 11 July, at approximately 3:00:00 PM EDT (UTC-4 hours), an “earthquake-like tremble” was experienced in the environs of the Salty Brine Beach located in Narraganset, Rhode Island which resulted in an explosion that injured an American woman named Kathleen Danise.
At the exact same time as the Rhode Island explosion, MoD experts in this report state, on 12 July at 1:00:00 AM OMST (UTC+6 hours), a military troop barracks belonging to the 242nd Training Centre of the Airborne Forces (242 TC VDV) located in Svetloe on the outskirts of Omsk in the Omsk Oblast experienced an identical “earthquake-like tremble” resulting in its collapse that killed 23 soldiers and injured 40 more.
To the specific Ley line linking Rhode Island and the Omsk Oblast, who are separated by 8,046 kilometers (5,451 miles), this report explains, appears to be a mysterious structure located about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the Salty Brine Beach explosion called the Newport Tower, and a likewise mysterious grave in Omsk containing the remains of a “giant” warlord horseman who held sway in the 11th century but lost his left arm in his final battle.
As both the Newport Tower and the grave of ‘Bogatyr’, or ‘Great Warrior’, are both ancient sites open to many theories as to their origin, this report says, there remains substantial evidence pointing to both of them being affiliated with the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon…otherwise known as the Knights Templar…dating back to the Middle Ages.
The Templar’s, this report explains, were among the most wealthy and powerful of the Western Christian military orders and were among the most prominent actors of Christian finance. The organization existed for nearly two centuries during the Middle Ages.
Officially endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church around 1129, the Order became a favored charity throughout Christendom and grew rapidly in membership and power. Templar knights, in their distinctive white mantles with a red cross, were among the most skilled fighting units of the Crusades. Non-combatant members of the Order managed a large economic infrastructure throughout Christendom, innovating financial techniques that were an early form of banking, and building fortifications across Europe and the Holy Land.
Under pressure from King Philip, Pope Clement V disbanded the Order in 1312. The abrupt disappearance of a major part of the European infrastructure after their disbandment gave rise to speculation and legends which have kept the “Templar” name alive into the modern day.
While the Knights Templar may have disappeared from written history though, this report continues, numerous historical accounts trace their voyages and travels from Europe after 1312 to both the United States and the Russian Far East. And with historical depictions of both the Newport Tower and Bogatyr both displaying numerous attributes (building style, construction, alignment, clothing, weapons, etc.) belonging to the Knights Templar, this report notes, this “connection” cannot be overlooked.
Of even greater concern to the MoD about this “Ley line surge”, however, this report states, was aside from its connection with the Newport Tower and the Bogatyr grave site, it also had “passed through” the once infamous German facility known as Der Riese (“The Giant”) near the Wenceslaus mine close to the Czech border where the Die Glocke (German for “The Bell”), a purported top secret Nazi scientific technological device, secret weapon, or Wunderwaffe, was said to have been operated.
MoD experts contributing to this report further note that the Nazi Germans Die Glocke “device” was meant to serve as a sort of “time-portal” device allowing “interdimensional/intergalactic” travel through it which resulted in the November, 1944, appearance over Germany of what were refereed to by Allied Air Forces as “foo fighters”…but which today we call UFO’s.
And in an even more frightening theory, this report concludes, when compared against the dimensions of the Newport Tower, the remaining site of the Nazi German Die Glocke “experiments”bears a striking “dimensional and alignment resemblance” to its Rhode Island Newport Tower counterpart suggesting that the Knights Templar, who actually funded Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1923, may have not only been responsible for the introduction of “interdimensional/intergalactic”entities to our world in the ancient past and World War II, but may be preparing to do it again.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces stepped up air operations in Iraq against Islamic State positions, with 29 of 39 air strikes in the country on Sunday coming near the Anbar provincial capital Ramadi, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations said in a statement on Monday.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two senior Islamic State leaders were killed in an air strike in northeastern Syria on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that it has made clear to the Mexican government that the United States wants to see escaped drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman recaptured to face justice.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are considering expanding the American military training mission in Ukraine to include army and special operations troops, likely focusing on issues like tactics and combat medicine, a top U.S. Army general said on Monday.
BAKU (Reuters) - Azeri President Ilham Aliyev hit back on Monday at his Western critics after resolutions criticized his country's human rights record and handling of its conflict with neighboring Armenia over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The dramatic escape on Saturday of the world's most notorious drug lord has raised pressure on Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to curb corruption and the drug gangs that play an outsized and violent role in his country.
KIEV (Reuters) - Two policemen were wounded in explosions at two district police stations in the west Ukrainian city of Lviv on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said, linking the cases to a deadly standoff between a far-right group and police over the weekend.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's top court has struck down legislation that would have shut thousands of private schools, dealing a blow to President Tayyip Erdogan's efforts to curb the influence of a cleric he has accused of covertly seeking to topple him.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will begin the trial on July 28 of a Korean-American missionary arrested last year over a non-profit school he ran near the sensitive border with North Korea, his lawyer said, in a case that sparked outcry from international Christian groups.
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court granted bail on Tuesday to a supermodel jailed for four months on charges of attempting to smuggle out of the country more than half a million dollars in cash, her lawyer said.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has blocked access to more than half a dozen Islamist news websites this week, prompting one group claiming allegiance to Islamic State to accuse Turkey of persecuting Muslims and warn of unspecified retaliation.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's nationalist opposition does not want to share power in a government with the ruling AK Party, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday, dealing a blow to his efforts to find a junior coalition partner.
ADEN (Reuters) - Gulf-backed Yemeni forces recaptured Aden's international airport from Houthi militia fighters on Tuesday as heavy combat took place across the port city following the collapse of a humanitarian truce, the exiled government said.
Russia Seeking Ukraine’s Economic ‘Collapse,’ Biden Saysby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has accused Russia of trying to destabilize Ukraine “by any means it can,” saying the Kremlin wants to see the economy of its ex-Soviet neighbor crumble.
U.S. Eyes Stepped-Up Plan To Train Ukrainian Army Soldiersby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
The United States is considering plans to train soldiers in the Ukrainian Army in the next few months, in a move that risks heightening tensions with Russia.
A Russian man charged with leading a Taliban attack against U.S. forces in Afghanistan has lost his bid to avoid trial in a federal court in Virginia.
Opposition Journalist In Russia's Buryatia Attackedby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL's Russian Service)
The chief editor of the opposition website Asia-Russia Today has been severely beaten by unknown attackers.
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A Tupolev Tu-95MS aircraft has crashed in the region of Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East.
Russian Troops Demarcate Part Of Georgian Oil Pipelineby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL's Georgian Service)
Georgian authorities have expressed concern over recent demarcation activities by Russian troops in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia that appear to leave a 1,605-meter portion of the strategic Baku-Supsa oil pipeline outside Tbilisi's control.
Russian ultranationalist leader Ilya Goryachev has been found guilty of organizing high-profile killings.
Russia And Iran Are Trading Placesby support@pangea-cms.com (Brian Whitmore)
After decades as an isolated rogue state, Iran appears to be finally coming in from the cold. And after decades of pretending to be a partner to the West, Russia has gone rogue.
Ukrainian journalist and activist Oleksandr Nikolaichuk was recovering from his injuries after he was beaten up on July 10 in the city of Olevsk. Nikolaichuk has been involved in campaigning against illegal amber mining, an industry largely controlled by criminal gangs.
The deal with Iran added a new, unpredictable factor to a region where many major players are closely allied with either Shiite Iran or Sunni Saudi Arabia.
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Russia decides it can avoid implementing European court judgments if they conflict with the Russian constitution.
Yazidi girls tell of horrific abuse at hand of Islamic State group
Documents: US agents knew of 'El Chapo' escape plots in 2014by By ALICIA A. CALDWELL
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. drug authorities knew Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and his associates had developed several escape plans starting almost immediately after his arrest last year, according to internal Drug Enforcement Administration documents obtained by The Associated Press....
BOSTON (AP) -- The son of a Boston police captain has been arrested in an FBI sting and accused of plotting to commit terrorist acts in support of the Islamic State group, including the setting off of pressure-cooker bombs at an unidentified university and the slaughter of students live online....
NEW YORK (AP) -- As the anniversary of Eric Garner's death approaches, Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed that he has faith in the reforms made to the New York City Police Department following the chokehold killing that shook the country's largest city and contributed to a national focus on policing communities of color....
Op-Ed Contributor: Our Drone War Burnoutby PRATAP CHATTERJEE
Remote-control warfare is taking a toll at home with mounting levels of stress.
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President Obama is essentially betting that once sanctions have been lifted, Iran’s leaders will have no choice but to use much of the new money to better the lives of their citizens.
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