GERMANY - The migrant who stabbed a police officer to death and injured five others at an anti-Islamification rally last week in Germany has been revealed to be a failed asylum seeker, sparking a national debate on migration ahead of the European Parliament elections. “Sulaiman A.”, the suspected Islamist terrorist who launched a frenzied and fatal attack with a combat-style knife at a rally in Mannheim against the increased impacts of immigration from the Islamic world by activist Michael Stürzenberger, first came to the country from Afghanistan in 2013, German paper of record Welt reports. The paper claimed to have been provided with official documents which said that his request for asylum status was rejected in July of 2014.

USA - In 1989, a senior UN environmental official warned that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend was not reversed by the year 2000. This prediction was made in an Associated Press article written by veteran reporter Peter James Spielmann and published on 29 June 1989. According to the article, governments had a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it went beyond human control. The UN official also predicted that as the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations.

USA - The White House insisted that the “ball was in Hamas’s court” on whether to accept a new Gaza peace proposal, despite mixed signals from Benjamin Netanyahu reflecting turmoil within his governing coalition in Israel. The US national security spokesperson, John Kirby, insisted on Monday that it was an Israeli proposal – despite the fact it had been unveiled by Joe Biden on Friday, during the Jewish Sabbath, and Netanyahu had appeared to challenge it. The Israeli prime minister said any deal that did not lead to the complete destruction of Hamas’s military and governing capacity would be a “non-starter”. The Israeli prime minister told the Knesset on Monday: “The claims that we have agreed to a ceasefire without our conditions being met are incorrect.”

USA - Joe Biden unveiled a three-point ceasefire proposal last week as he urged Israel to agree to the temporary cessation of the war on Hamas. Joe Biden has seen his ceasefire proposal brutally dismissed as a member of Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet insisted his country will not "surrender" to American pressure. The US President last Friday announced a new plan to end the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip and ensure the return of all hostages taken by Hamas on October 7. The three-phase plan would also require the terror group to return the bodies of any captive killed since the start of the war in exchange for the release of an undisclosed number of Palestinian prisoners. "We don't have any other choice but to continue the war and annihilate Hamas, and there is no option to accept a ceasefire while Hamas is still in power."

RUSSIA - One of Russia’s most important early warning radar installations that was designed to track incoming nuclear missiles was destroyed on May 23rd, but the big corporate news outlets in the western world are hardly saying anything about it. Without that installation, there is a giant hole in Russia’s ability to track incoming missiles from the direction of the Middle East. So this is a really big deal. During an all-out nuclear war, early warning radar installations would be among the very first targets, and the Russians are telling us that according to their nuclear protocols the destruction of the Armavir Radar Station could have allowed them to conduct a nuclear strike in return. Thankfully, that did not happen. But this should have been front page news all over the world.

USA - Joe Biden has been accused of “sleepwalking into World War 3” by a close ally of rival Donald Trump. And Ohio Senator JD Vance, tipped as a possible running mate for Mr Trump when he takes on Joe Biden in November’s Presidential election, also believes the risk of nuclear war is “higher than any point in my lifetime”. President Joe Biden just plunged the US deeper into the fight in Ukraine. Soon, Ukraine will be using US- made weapons to strike inside Russia - a nuclear armed power - with a US president's blessing. Mr Vance was responding to a post on X by internet entrepreneur David Sacks, co-founder of Craft Ventures, who said: “Never once during the Cold War would we have dreamed of striking Russia on its own soil, even through a proxy.”

USA - California firefighters aided by aircraft battled a wind-driven wildfire that began Saturday and continued burning early Sunday morning in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said. The Corral Fire began Saturday afternoon near the city of Tracy, 60 miles (96km ) east of San Francisco, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the city of Livermore, according to the California department of forestry and fire protection, or Cal Fire. On Sunday morning, Cal Fire announced that the fire had spanned 12,500 acres and was 15% contained. “Strong winds and dry grass have made it difficult to contain,” it added.

USA - A weather phenomenon is heading into Texas and California on Tuesday, putting millions of Americans in the path of a scorching heat wave. A heat dome, which is a phenomenon caused by hot air being trapped in one region by a high pressure air system, killed dozens of people in Mexico last month and is now expected to bring record-breaking temperatures to the southwestern US. California could see temperatures 20 degrees Fahrenheit above the average for at least a week, while parts of Texas near the border could see up to 114 degrees. The national weather service has warned that the rest of the nation, from the Midwest to Northeast, is also expected to see increased temperatures due to the southwestern heat dome.

INDONESIA - Indonesia’s Mount Ibu - the nation’s second-most active volcano, located in the notorious Ring of Fire - has erupted again, belching thick, gray ash 7,000 metres (16,000 feet) into the air. The volcano, located on an island in the eastern North Maluku province, erupted for more than six minutes last night, according to Muhammad Wafid, chief of Indonesia’s Geology Agency. A column of ash could be seen rising high into the sky. It spewed out material including volcanic ash and sand. Indonesia, an archipelago of 270 million people, has 120 active volcanoes. It is prone to volcanic activity because it sits along the Ring, a horseshoe-shaped series of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean.

HAWAII - Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, began erupting early on Monday in a remote area that last erupted a half-century ago, the US Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. The eruption is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the Kilauea caldera, in an area within Hawaii Volcanoes national park that last erupted in December 1974. The area surrounding the caldera has been closed to the public since 2008 because of other hazards, including ground cracking, instability in the crater wall and rockfalls.

RUSSIA - A state of emergency has been declared in eastern Russia after huge fires continue to rip through forests in Siberia. Emergency services have been struggling for weeks to contain an outbreak of fires in the regional territories of Buryatia and Transbaikal. During May, the situation deteriorated significantly with emergency services reporting 291 fires covering an area of almost 198,000 hectares. A huge task force consisting of over one-and-a-half thousand firefighters is trying to bring the fires under control. Authorities are throwing every resource at their disposal at the fires. Some 1,462 people and 105 pieces of equipment have been deployed.

ISRAEL - Israel and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror group in southern Lebanon, are near a war footing as Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets and projectiles at Israel over the weekend, causing widespread fires near Israel’s northern borders. Israel had retaliated for a round of earlier attacks by targeting dozens of terrorist sites in southern Lebanon. Unlike Hezbollah, Israel targets military targets and not civilians; Hezbollah has targeted both since early October. Hezbollah is violating United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, the resolution that ended the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and prohibited Hezbollah from locating military installations south of the Litani River. Neither the Lebanese military nor the United Nations has been willing or able to enforce the resolution. President Joe Biden’s warning to Hezbollah and Iran in October — “don’t!” — has been ineffective in deterring the terrorist group.

SOUTH KOREA - The president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, signed a “Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)” alongside South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol in Seoul on Wednesday, dramatically expanding trade between the two countries. The CEPA is South Korea’s first free trade deal with a Middle Eastern country, the South Korean news service Yonhap observed. The two countries hashed out most of the details of the agreement in October but finalized and signed the deal on Wednesday... "Under the agreement, the two countries will lift tariffs on more than 90 percent of goods traded over the next 10 years,” Yonhap reported. “The UAE will especially lift tariffs on South Korea’s major export goods, including cars, auto parts, defense items, fruits and instant noodles."

USA - Once upon a time, America was a Christian nation. I know that many on the left cringe when they read a statement like that, but it is true. For most of our history, the population of the United States was overwhelmingly Christian, and the values that governed our society were primarily Christian values. But of course everything has changed in recent decades. When Barack Obama boldly declared that “we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation” in 2009, he was speaking the truth. We are no longer a Christian nation and we haven’t been for a very long time. So if we aren’t a Christian nation at this point, what exactly are we?

USA - Is it time to stop worrying about the war on cash and begin paying with your face? Over the past decade, the movement toward a cashless society has been gaining steam. In a climate hyping all things artificial intelligence, this world could be coming close to being realized. In March, JPMorgan Chase announced that it signed an agreement with PopID to help create a biometric payment system in 2025 by using its commercial identification infrastructure. Many US retailers have experimented with this technology, using face authentication, fingerprints, and palms. Some big brands have been utilizing these tools for a while: Amazon maintains a pay-by-palm mechanism at its brick-and-mortar locations, while Apple Pay allows users to pay with a face scan.