USA - Sailors arriving in San Francisco in the 19th century used two giant redwood trees perched on a hill to help guide their ships into the bay. The redwoods were felled for their lumber at around the time of the gold rush, but San Francisco now has a new beacon: Salesforce Tower, the tallest office building in the West.
UK - A large number of earthquakes have been felt beneath volcanoes across the world, sparking fears of major eruptions, so are any volcanoes erupting and could there be a violent explosion? In Hawaii a total of 18 earthquakes have been measured under Kilauea volcano during the last 18 hours. In Mexico the Cerro Prieto volcano is showing an increase in activity with a magnitude 2.4 earthquake measured. A swarm of earthquakes has been detected under the Clear Lake volcano in California - 16 have been measured during the past 21 hours at depths ranging between 4.4 and 0.2km. Across the world, in Greece, a magnitude 2.7 earthquake was felt beneath the Nisyros volcano. The Sakurajima volcano in Japan has recently been showing high levels of activity.
IRAN - Tehran is preparing for a sustained campaign of direct confrontation with Israel, with plans to use the Iranian military’s growing presence in Syria to launch attacks on targets inside the Jewish state. For decades, the radical Islamist regime in Tehran has engaged in a de facto war with Israel via proxies – using terror groups in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon to attack Israeli civilian and military targets.
IRAN - Commander of Iranian ground forces says in speech that Iran produces its own weapons, does not have to feel threatened by Israel. An Iranian general stated that a date has been set for the destruction of Israel. Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari, the commander of the Iranian ground forces, said in a speech that Iran's army is "much stronger than in the past" and that Israel can no longer threaten the Islamic Republic. The Iranian news agency Mehr reported that the general said that "the date has already been set" for the destruction of Israel.
EUROPE - Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator, has called for the creation of a European Union army capable of carrying out strikes like those launched by the US, Britain and France in Syria. Mr Verhofstadt was speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg during a debate on the future of Europe, which was begun with a flagship address by Emmanuel Macron, the French president and poster child for closer EU integration. The former prime minister of Belgium attacked the EU for its inertia in the face of crisis and called for reforms of “daring and vision” after Brexit. “Let’s face it, eurosceptics are not always wrong,” Mr Verhofstadt said...
VANUATU - The volcano at the centre of the Vanuatu island of Ambae has flared up once again and blanketed much of the island in ash. A state of emergency has been declared as food sources have been destroyed, supplies dwindle and disease starts to spread. Last year, major eruptions from the Ambae volcano prompted an island-wide evacuation of all 11,000 residents of Ambae. They returned home earlier this year, only for volcanic activity to begin again last month.
MIDDLE EAST - The US is involved in overthrowing the Assad regime in Syria in order to gain oil resources, keep the US dollar afloat, cripple the Russian economy, and to fight for Israel’s interests. Bankers, multinational oil companies and military contractors are the beneficiaries of the war that has killed half a million people.
USA - The global economy has peaked and a downturn in 2018 is inevitable according to a new index and the IMF’s Christine Lagarde who has warned of an “inexcusable, collective policy failure”. Christine Lagarde told an audience in Hong Kong last week that the rules that underpin global trade were “in danger of being torn apart” by protectionist forces in what the IMF managing director said would be “an inexcusable, collective policy failure”. She is most concerned over the tariffs on imported steel and aluminium which were then followed by US action specifically targeting China. Alluding to the tariffs, Ms Lagarde warned that although “the current global picture is bright… we can see darker clouds looming.”
GERMANY - The economic outlook in Germany is deteriorating with alarming speed and any mistake by policy-makers could push the county into a full-blown slump, a leading economic institute has warned. “The danger of recession has increased markedly. It is a notably more critical picture than a month ago,” said the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) in Düsseldorf. The IMK’s early warning indicator said the recession risk over the next three months has jumped suddenly to 32.4pc as trade tensions mount and liquidity ebbs away in the international financial system.
ISRAEL - On Monday last week, Israel is believed to have attacked Syria’s T4 airbase (Tayfur airport), because the airbase is considered a threat to Israel. Apparently, seven Iranians were killed in the attack. Although the debate over Saturday’s airstrikes has dominated news coverage since the April 7 chemical attack, there is a completely different parallel issue in play, which may be even more dangerous.
USA - When asked about the hard evidence of the alleged chemical attack in Syria and justification of the US strike, Pentagon officials showed the art of avoiding direct answers and shifting the blame.
During a briefing in Washington, Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White and Joint Staff Director Lieutenant General Kenneth F McKenzie said that the operation, which launched more than 100 missiles on civilian and military facilities, accomplished all of its objections and "dealt a severe blow" to the Syrian authorities, who they blame for an alleged attack in Douma.
MIDDLE EAST - Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Sunday slammed Iran's "blatant interference" in the region and lashed out at the US over Jerusalem as Arab leaders met in the kingdom for their annual summit. The 82-year-old monarch dubbed the Arab League meet the "Jerusalem summit" as he took aim at Washington's decision to recognise the disputed city as the capital of Israel and transfer the US embassy from Tel Aviv. The final statement released by the league declared the move "null and illegitimate". Syria's war, the most complex of the region's conflicts, is the main point of contention pitting Riyadh and its allies, who mainly back Sunni rebels, against regime backer Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. Arab states have made massive donations to Syria but have not officially offered asylum to Syrians.
USA - Parents across the nation will pull their children out of school on April 23 to protest sex education programs that have become steeped in gender ideology due to an agenda forced by pro-abortion and LGBT rights organizations. Dubbed Sex Ed Sit Out, the protest has been organized by parents who want to know why their children are learning graphic details about oral and anal sex…
UNITED NATIONS - It’s debatable when the world last found itself in such a perilous situation – and there are disturbing echoes of the eve of the first world war. As UN secretary general, it is António Guterres’s increasingly frequent duty to warn the major powers they are rushing towards catastrophe. On Friday, on the eve of the US-led airstrikes, it was the former Portuguese prime minister’s turn once again to raise the alarm at the latest of a series of deadlocked security council sessions on Syria.
SYRIA - Hours after the overnight US-led missile strikes on Syria, WikiLeaks republished a crucially important diplomatic cable through its official media accounts confirming that Saudi Arabia's long term strategy in Syria has been to pursue regime change "by all means available." According to the leaked internal Saudi government document, this is the kingdom's proposed end-goal even should the United States at any point show "lack of desire" due to the threat of Russian response and possibility of a 'great power' confrontation.
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