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Bahamas Death Toll Rises As 70,000 Residents Struggle For Food And Shelter [VIDEO]
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Search and rescue teams in the Bahamas are scouring communities with cadaver dogs looking for both victims and survivors of Hurricane Dorian, which devastated Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands in the strongest hurricane ever recorded to hit the archipelago nation.
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Hong Kong Police Use Water Cannons For The First Time, Fire Live Warning Shots After Protesters Hurl Bricks And Fire Bombs [VIDEO]
The violence between Hong Kong riot police and anti-government protesters escalated on Sunday – one of the most violent nights of pro-democracy demonstrations which began three months ago.
Read moreFormer Chinese Central Banker Warns Beijing May Dump Treasuries In Retaliation
Bloomberg reports that the trade war has shifted to a currency war, several former Chinese central bankers warned Saturday that there is no end in sight to the conflict between the world’s leading superpowers.
Read moreUS-China Trade Talks Collapse After Half A Day Of Negotiations
After roughly half-a-day of negotiations, the US trade delegation has broken off talks with its Chinese counterpart and is already on its way back to Washington, a sign that no new progress was made, and that trade talks between the US and China remain at an impasse.
Read moreVideo Shows Amusement Park Ride in India Break in Midair, Killing 2 [VIDEO]
A pendulum-style ride at an amusement park in India broke suddenly in midair on Sunday, killing two people and injuring dozens, officials said.
Read moreChinese Consumers Shun All American Products As Nationalism Soars
Since President Trump escalated the trade war last month by slapping a 25% tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, and is on the verge of taxing the remainder, Beijing has spawned nationalist sentiment across the country that has left many Chinese consumers shunning American products.
Read moreCrime-Ravaged Mexico City Deploys 140,000 National Guard Troops To Enforce Order
Mexico is deploying its new militarized National Guard police force within Mexico City in an effort to quell a recent surge in violent criminal activity, according to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Read more“Empty Shelves & Massive Job Cuts” Loom As Zimbabwe Abandons USDollar… Again
After a decade of dollarization to escape from the hyperinflationary hell of Mugabe’s money-printing, Zimbabwe has implicitly re-introduced the ZimDollar as the nation’s sole legal tender – banning the use of currencies such as the USDollar and South African Rand in favor of its so-called RTGS dollar.
Read more“We Are Extremely Angry”: Thousands Of Protesters Block Hong Kong Roads In Protest Against China Extradition Bill
Two days after over 1 million people protested in the streets of Hong Kong – unsuccessfully – against a proposed extradition bill that would allow Beijing to take people from Hong Kong to stand trial in mainland China on Wednesday morning in a fresh display of defiance against the contentious extradition bill, thousands of protesters started barricading roads and began stopping traffic from accessing the HK legislature on Wednesday morning, as the government’s proposal returns to a full council meeting.
Read moreChina’s Mass Surveillance App Hacked; Code Reveals Specific Criteria For Illegal Oppression [VIDEO]
Human Rights Watch got their hands on an app used by Chinese authorities in the western Xinjiang region to surveil, track and categorize the entire local population – particularly the 13 million or so Turkic Muslims subject to heightened scrutiny, of which around one million are thought to live in ‘reeducation’ camps. After reverse-engineering it, they found truly dystopian criteria.
Read moreStunning Images Show France’s Historic Notre Dame Cathedral Engulfed In Flames [VIDEO]
The situation is a terrible tragedy as one of the most revered monuments in all of Catholicism looks like it could be completely destroyed, a historical tragedy that would be practically unrivaled in modern times. The cathedral’s 15-foot lead spire has collapsed, and the roof has as well, during holy week on the Catholic calendar, which is a busy season for Paris’s most popular tourist attraction.
Read more‘Hostile And Aggressive’ Migrants Break Through Border Into Southern Mexico, Join US-Bound Caravan
A group of around 350 Central American migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemala-Mexico border, forcing their way into Mexico to join a larger caravan of 2,000 or so migrants headed towards the United States, AP reports.
Read more2 Dead, 14 Injured As Venezuelan Soldiers Open Fire On Civilians Near Brazil Border: WaPo [VIDEO]
Venezuelan soldiers opened fire on a group of civilians attempting to keep open a segment of the southern border with Brazil for deliveries of humanitarian aid, leading to multiple injuries and the first fatality.
Read moreExtremely Disturbing Footage Of Deadly Mexico Pipeline Explosion Surfaces [VIDEO]
Extremely disturbing footage of the aftermath of a giant fireball that burst from an illegal gasoline pipeline tap near a small town north of Mexico City has surfaced online. In the video, people are seen throwing themselves on the grass and in water to try and extinguish the flames. The horrific incident took place as locals had gathered around a ruptured Pemex pipeline to collect the fuel that was spilling out. The company blamed the fire on thieves drilling into the pipe.
Read moreMexico Reinforces Southern Border As New Caravan Prepares For Northbound Exodus [VIDEO]
Mexico is reinforcing its southern border after reports of a new migrant caravan forming in Central America which is set to leave within days for a northbound journey to the US-Mexico border, reports Multimedios.
Read moreIsrael’s ‘Sea Wall’ Complete Along Gaza For Total Air, Sea and Land Blockade
Israel is close to bringing its controversial ‘Sea Wall’ which runs along side the Gaza Strip to completion, Israeli media Channel 10 reports.
Read moreChina Lands World’s First Lunar Rover On Dark Side Of The Moon
Five years after successfully landing its first rover on the moon, China’s space program took another giant leap forward on Thursday when it became the first to successfully land a lunar probe on the dark side of the moon (the side of the celestial body that perpetually faces away from the Earth).
Read moreHolland Heats Up, Belgium Burns As French Yellow Vest Protests Spread Across Europe [VIDEO]
France is now facing the possibility of martial law or greater unrest and violence. But, the discontent being seen in France is also being felt elsewhere in Europe – most notably Belgium and the Netherlands. Although receiving much less media attention, the “yellow vests” have taken to the street in Belgium over many of the same concerns as their counterparts in France.
Read moreEU Army? France Riot Control Vehicles Bearing EU Flag Stoke Fear, Confusion
A strange sighting in France has the internet abuzz over whether the Macron administration deployed armored vehicles bearing the EU flag to perform riot control during Saturday’s Yellow Vest protests, stoking concerns over whether it’s the first sign of a much talked about EU Army.
Read moreU.S. Flies Recon Plane Over Ukraine In Provocative “Warning” To Russia
The Pentagon confirmed Thursday it conducted a provocative military reconnaissance flyover of Ukraine following heightened tensions in the wake of the Nov. 25 Kerch Strait incident.
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