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Russian and Egyptian officials are not to be trusted over airline crash
Russian tourists at Sharm el-Sheikh airport, in Egypt, on Friday. (Khaled Elfiqi/European Pressphoto Agency) By Editorial Board November 6 at 8:43 PM THE CRASH of a Russian airliner in the Sinai Peninsula last week posed an immediate test for Russia, whose citizens made up most of the 224 killed, and for Egypt, which is responsible for security...
Bomb Is ‘Possibility’ in Loss of Russian Jet Over Egypt, Obama Says
the main story Video Cameron and Sisi on Russian Plane In a joint news conference on Thursday, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain spoke about working together to ensure the safety of both countries’ citizens. By REUTERS on Publish Date November 5, 2015. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images....
Ibn Battuta | encyclopedia article by TheFreeDictionary
ibn Battutaأبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي بن بطوطة Born February 25, 1304Tangier, Morocco Died 1369 (aged 64–65)Morocco Occupation Islamic scholar, Jurist, Judge, explorer, geographer Religion Islam Ibn Baṭūṭah (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي بن بطوطة, ʾAbū ʿAbd al-Lāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Lāh l-Lawātī ṭ-Ṭanǧī...
The Man Who Flew Like a Bird by Svetlana Alexievich
IntroductionOn October 8, the Nobel Committee announced that the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature was being awarded to Svetlana Alexievich, a writer and journalist whose body of work is unique both in scope and in genre. The bare facts of Alexievich’s biography reflect the nature of her greater subject: the memory, aspirations, tragedy, and...
BREAKING!! Russian Nuclear Units On The Move, Non-Essential Civilians Told To Leave, Putin’s Ready To Nuke ISIS!! ~ Consciously Enlightened
In response to the purported downing of a Russian civilian airliner in the Sinai in Egypt, the Kremlin is now poised for a nuclear strike on sites controlled by the Islamic State. Citing its right to protect its people and interests in Russia and abroad, Intelligence officials have anonymously reported that Russia is moving its tactical nuclear...
Emperor Palpatine takes City Council seat in Ukraine’s Odessa — RT News
This is neither a joke nor a Star Wars sequel: The series’ villain, Emperor Palpatine, is set to continue his political career in Ukraine. Following Sunday’s nationwide elections, Darth Sidious secured a seat on Odessa City Council. This is according to Odessa mayoral candidate Aleksandr Borovik, who shared the news, as well as his...
Is War About to Break Out in the Balkans?
Lost in the cacophony of international news about Russian airstrikes against U.S.-backed anti-Assad rebels in Syria and refugees flooding through the Balkans on their way to Western Europe, a crisis is brewing in Bosnia-Herzegovina on the European Union’s southeast flank. And here, too, Moscow has a hand in the mischief-making. Nov. 21...
Commodity Traders Helped Spark the War in Syria, Complex Systems Theorists Say
Complex systems theorists say that a combination of deregulated markets, commodity speculation, and food-to-fuel ethanol policies are the direct cause of the spike in food prices that led to the Arab Spring and the civil war in Syria. A new paper, published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that the “two sharp peaks...
Airline Safety Alerting System Created After MH17 Tragedy Seen as Lagging
By ROBERT WALL: Officials say government concerns about information are still trumping security considerations The reconstructed wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is seen after the presentation of the final report into the crash on Oct. 13. MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board...
Analysis: Russia-Iran alliance tactical, not strategic – Middle East
Christian Russia and Shi’ite Iran’s military alliance to help keep Syrian President Bashar Assad in power is fraught with underlying tension, which could be exploited by Israel or the US. Iran’s revolutionary expansionist agenda and its targeting of Israel is at odds with Russia’s long-term goals in the region. Russia...
