Cosmos Chronicle

Israeli settlers attacked the Palestine TV crew this morning while they were filming near the illegal settlement of Ariel, built on land seized from Salfit in the north of the West Bank. Israel security forces from the settlement also attacked the crew as they were filming a documentary outside the illegal structure, about the escalating illegal settlement activity and the...

A secret night-time covert insertion against the regime in Iraq has gone badly wrong as commandos dropped into wrong area? However, business as usual, when you’re in the killing business. It was a HALO jump. High-altitude, low opening. Cruising at around 18,000 feet, supplementary oxygen would be involved in the drop, along with night vision goggles. In the HALO technique, the...

French President Emmanuel Macron has once again offered his help in patching up relations between Iran and the USA, suggesting he could be an honest broker in talks over returning to the 2015 nuclear deal. However, he also said he wants to expand the deal to include the strongly anti-Iranian countries of Israel and Saudi Arabia. The French president said he...

More than 100 people were reported missing after a glacier broke off and caused a flood that damaged a power plant in northern India. The military was deployed to look for survivors. Between 100 and 150 people are feared dead, the chief secretary of the northern Uttarakhand State, OM Prakash, told ANI news agency. Indian media cited officials that said...

The US administration intends to revoke the terrorist designation for Yemen’s Houthi liberation movement in response to the country’s humanitarian crisis, reversing one of the views of the Obama administration. The reversal, confirmed by a State Department official on Friday, comes a day after President Joe Biden declared a halt to US support for the Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in...

The South Korean government said it signed a $43 billion contract to build the world’s largest offshore wind power complex, as it seeks to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050? South Korea has few energy resources of its own and relies on imported coal – a cheap but dirty fuel – for about 40% of its electricity. However, wind power complexes...

Russia has revoked the credentials of three officials from EU nations, over claims they took part in unauthorized rallies in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny. Moscow's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had made formal protests to the embassies of Germany, Poland and Sweden. Representatives of these countries are said to have participated in mass-demonstrations that saw thousands take...

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Saturday in a letter to the Israel Defense Forces that the International Criminal Court’s ruling to open a war crimes investigation against Israel was “grave” and “unfounded”. Earlier, the US State Department also expressed concerns about the International Criminal Court’s attempts to exercise its jurisdiction over Israeli citizens. The decision of the judges at...

An Iranian diplomat accused of plotting to bomb a meeting of an emigrant opposition group has been jailed for 20 years in Belgium. The diplomat's accomplices also received absurd lengthy prison terms. An Antwerp court sentenced Assadolah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat formerly based in Vienna, Austria to the maximum 20 years behind bars on Thursday. According to international law, diplomats have...

Former President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi has been granted a mandate to form a new government after meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella. The previous Cabinet resigned in January, after the centrist Italia Viva party led by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi left the governing coalition, criticizing current Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte for poor handling of the...

Beijing has said it continues to monitor US military maneuvers near the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, warning that China is ready to respond to American threats and provocations. Speaking on Thursday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters that Beijing had carefully followed the passing of a hostile US warship through the Taiwan Strait earlier that same day.   China will...

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo met earlier with Jens Stoltenberg to discuss ways to revitalize the transatlantic bond between Europe and North America. Sputnik was live in Brussels where NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivered an speech on “the importance of strengthening the transatlantic bond in the next decade”. Following the media show, Stoltenberg participated in a panel with a...

Eleven active duty US soldiers are in the hospital after consuming a liquid they believed to be alcohol, but which turned out to be antifreeze, leaving two troops “seriously ill” and requiring intensive care. The soldiers imbibed the toxic chemical while on a 10-day field exercise at Fort Bliss’s McGregor Range Complex in Texas, the Army said reported. The soldiers drank...

A report being withheld from the public documents horrific acts of rape and sexual abuse against young boys that were facilitated by nuns belonging to the Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne in Germany, according to the Daily Beast. The investigation’s findings, which concluded last month and stemmed from a lawsuit brought against the archdiocese by victims, have not been publicly released,...

China ended the recognition of British Overseas passport as UK opens visa program for over 5 MILLION Hong-Kong'ers. Beijing has said that the British National Overseas (BNO) passport will no longer be recognized as a travel document or form of identification in China from, when the UK’s new visa program opens to millions of Hong Kong citizens. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman...

Assigned US President Joe Biden called the military seizure of power in Myanmar a “direct assault” on democracy and rule of law, demanding they “immediately” surrender or face an “international community” response, including derailing sanctions. Citing allegations of fraud in the November general election, the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) declared a one-year emergency on Monday and detained President Win Myint...

Two FBI agents were killed, three wounded during a raid in Sunrise, Florida, the agency said in a statement to media. They were attempting to serve a warrant on a suspect for child pornography possession when he opened fire on them. Sunrise Police warned residents of Nob Hill Road to remain in their homes on Tuesday morning, after a raid...

Curacao kan de eerste eiland donut economie van de wereld worden, gezien de uitdagingen van armoede, massa werkeloosheid, maar ook vervuiling en vernietiging van de natuur door ontwikkelaars en andere belasting ontwijkende entiteiten. De initiatief nemer, Wintertuin Curacao denkt dat het donut model goed van pas kan komen en verricht daarom onderzoeken om de huidige stand van zaken op het...

One day Israel will be become the “state of all its citizens” that democratic values require it to be, a country of Hebrew-speaking Jews, Muslims, and Christians, all equal before the law. Although the great majority of secular Israelis do not yet subscribe to this point of view, more and more will come to it if things continue on their...

The most striking fact about the agenda of the Great Reset is that it is being advanced by the same giga-rich plutocrat families responsible for the flaws of the present world economic model.  They, not we, have created ruin of organic fields and nature with their Roundup glyphosate and toxic pesticides. They have ruined the air quality in our cities...

Vaccination against COVID-19 has already become the largest vaccination campaign in history. As of January 25, 2021, more than 65.7 million doses in 56 countries have been administered. Which countries are leading in terms of vaccination? As world leaders race to respond to the global Corona-virus pandemic, government heads and politicians in the United States, Europe and elsewhere have contracted the COVID-19 virus. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson...