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Chinese dog torture festival causes a major stir

Chinese dog torture festival causes a major stir

Activists around the world have voiced their outrage and launched campaigns against a food festival in China where hundreds of thousands of dogs are reportedly slaughtered for meat. In the past few weeks, there has been a growing number of reports focusing on the Lychee and Dog Meat Festival which took place in Yulin, China […]

Video: Plane crashes in Indonesia leaving 113 dead

Video: Plane crashes in Indonesia leaving 113 dead

At least 113 people aboard an Indonesian air force C-130 have been killed, when the plane crashed in a residential neighbourhood in the city of Medan on the northern island of Sumatra, according to military officials. The plane came down on Tuesday hitting empty residential buildings after bursting into flames shortly after takeoff. There were […]

No More Financial Handouts For Greece Says EU: Greece Banks on Forced Holiday

No More Financial Handouts For Greece Says EU: Greece Banks on Forced Holiday

Greece will introduce capital controls and keep its banks closed on Monday after international creditors refused to extend the country’s bailout and savers queued to withdraw cash, taking Athens’ standoff to a dangerous new level. The Athens stock exchange will also be closed as the government tries to manage the financial fallout of the disagreement […]

Istanbul police use teargas to break up Gay Pride parade

Istanbul police use teargas to break up Gay Pride parade

Istanbul-Riot police in Istanbul used teargas and fired rubber pellets to disperse thousands of participants in the city’s Gay Pride march after some began chanting slogans against the president, a reporter said. The scene turned violent when participants many brandishing rainbow flags denounced “the fascism” of the conservative President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Police then began […]

French terror suspect took ‘selfie’ with beheaded victim

French terror suspect took ‘selfie’ with beheaded victim

Suspect Yassin Salhi sent a picture of him with beheaded victim via the WhatsApp messaging service, investigators say. The suspect in the beheading of a businessman that French authorities are calling a terrorist attack took a “selfie” photo with the slain victim, officials have said. Sources close to the investigation said on Saturday that the […]

Eurozone refuses deepening Greece crisis bailout extension

Eurozone refuses deepening Greece crisis bailout extension

Eurozone finance ministers have rejected a Greek request to extend a bailout programme beyond 30 June. A Eurogroup statement said Greece had broken off negotiations over a new bailout deal “unilaterally”. Late on Friday, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras called a surprise referendum for 5 July over the terms of any new deal. Greece has to […]

Terrorist ‘Caliphate’ Declares War With China, India, Rome

Terrorist ‘Caliphate’ Declares War With China, India, Rome

Chilling: Dubbed ‘Caliphate Cubs’, the children appear little more than 10 years In what was called the “most significant development in international jihadism since 9/11”, the leader of extremist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has captured a huge sway of territories in both Iraq and Syria, declared […]

ISIS Terrorists bomb American owned company in France and cut off a man’s head

ISIS Terrorists bomb American owned company in France and cut off a man’s head

A man has been decapitated and dozens more injured at a gas product factory in France by terrorists carrying Islamist banners.The attack took place at the headquarters of the American owned Air Products, in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near the city of Lyon, in the south east of the country. The murder is believed to have been accompanied […]

A Plane Crashes And Kills All People On Board In USA

A Plane Crashes And Kills All People On Board In USA

A sightseeing plane carrying a pilot and eight cruise ship passengers crashed into a cliff in southeast Alaska, killing everyone on board last night. “There are no survivors,” said Promech Air, the plane’s operator.Because of poor weather conditions, the body recovery process won’t take place until today, Friday 26th June, the Alaska State Troopers said. […]

US to Deploy Heavy Weapons in Eastern Europe Amid Tensions With Russia

US to Deploy Heavy Weapons in Eastern Europe Amid Tensions With Russia

The US will deploy heavy weapons in central and eastern Europe for the first time, Washington says, in the midst of the worst standoff between Russia and the West since the Cold War, triggered by the crisis in Ukraine. “We will temporarily stage one armoured brigade combat team’s vehicles and associated equipment in countries in […]

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