WritterNig's Posts
Nairaland Forum › WritterNig's Profile › WritterNig's Posts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (of 71 pages)
⚡A smoke bomb was thrown at the Turkish diplomatic mission in Finland, there were no casualties or injuries, an investigation is underway , Helsinki police reported on Wednesday |
⚡Politico: Several American troops stationed in the Middle East have reported symptoms of “traumatic brain injury” following rocket and drone attacks launched by Iran proxies over the past week. |
⚡BIDEN: "We were able to act on a proposal I had to bring, to build a railroad from all the way from Riyadh, all the way through the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Israel, up through Greece, and then across — not the railroad — but pipeline across the mediterranean up into Europe."
|
⚡🛰 Satellite images of the American military base Ain al-Assad in Iraq revealed damage to one of the hangars on the base. This is the first objective confirmation of one of the arrivals
|
⚡Hungary remains the main obstacle to Sweden's entry into NATO - Associated Press The Hungarian Parliament refused to consider Sweden's application to join NATO. The vote was blocked by the ruling Fidesz party, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Fidesz MPs claim Swedish politicians are spreading “outright lies” about the state of democracy in Hungary. |
⚡Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades publishes a picture of its naval commandos.
|
⚡The head of the Christian parliamentary Maronite pro-Israel political party Lebanese Forces, Samir Jaajaa, called on the Lebanese government to force all militants in the south of the country to surrender their weapons, referring to Hezbollah and the Palestinians.
|
⚡Biden when asked about the fact that more than 6,000 Palestinians have been killed so far (per Hamas-run health ministry) "I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed" |
⚡The US intends to send its entire Iron Dome stockpile to Israel including two batteries and more than 300 interceptors, US official says - Haaretz |
⚡Biden: My warning to the Ayatollah was that if they continue to move against those troops we will respond. And he should be prepared. It has nothing to do with Israel.
|
⚡NATO Military Committee head Admiral Rob Bauer: The price for one 155mm artillery shell has gone up to 8,000 euros from 2,000 euros before Russia's attack on Ukraine.
|
⚡A reporter just asked Biden about Iranian-backed militia attacks on US troops Biden says that his "warning to the Ayatollah of Iran was that if they continue to move against US troops in the Middle East, we will respond. And he should be prepared" |
⚡US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken asked the Qatari Prime Minister to influence the Qatari television company Al Jazeera so that it "softens the rhetoric" about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, reports Axios. According to the American portal, during his visit to Doha on October 13, Blinken pointed out the need to "reduce the volume of reporting" because it was allegedly filled with anti-Israeli incitement. |
⚡Money fell from the sky: Czech threw a million dollars from a helicopter. Several thousand people in the Czech Republic this week hunted and collected dollar bills that fell from the sky. It was a prize game designed by the Czech director and influencer Kamil Bartošek. He dropped one million US dollars (€940,000) from a helicopter over the Czech town of Liszt. Bartošek, better known to the Czech audience by his stage name Kazma, in September locked a million dollars in one-dollar denominations in a container with a lock that could only be unlocked with a deciphered code from his film, which has been showing in cinemas since the end of August.
|
⚡Rep. Mike Johnson has been elected House speaker, winning over the majority of voting members in the chamber.
|
⚡Biden: Israel should align with the laws of war. What comes next has to be a two-state solution. |
⚡Israel says it spends around 1 billion shekels ($246 million) a day for war. For now. |
⚡In Minsk, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a meeting with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Sergey Aleinik.
|
⚡Oil supplies from Iraq to Jordan have been stopped Oil trucks stopped at the Iraqi-Jordanian border. A protest is reported. It is stated that the strike will last as long as fighting continues in the Gaza Strip.
|
⚡Heavy Strikes on Northern Gaza within the last few minutes. |
⚡Republican Mike Johnson elected as U.S. House Speaker.
|
⚡Brazilian President Lula: It's not a war, it's a genocide that has already killed nearly 2,000 children who have nothing do with this. I don't know how any human being is capable of waging a war knowing that the result will be more deaths of innocent children.
|
⚡Republican Mike Johnson elected Speaker of the House |
⚡Armenia has responded positively to the Russian proposal to open a consulate in the city of Kapan, located in the Syunik province. This decision was announced by Armenia's Foreign Minister, Ararat Mirzoyan, during a government session in the National Assembly. He mentioned that Armenia has given its consent for the opening of the Russian consulate, and while the exact stage of this process remains unclear, the two countries are working together to facilitate it. Additionally, other countries have shown interest in establishing consulates in the Syunik region, with Iran already having opened a consulate in Armenia, and France expressing its intention to do so. There are ongoing discussions with other countries, although specific details have not been disclosed. The establishment of international consulates in the area is expected to have economic and political implications, potentially contributing to the region's economic development and carrying political significance. |
⚡Egyptian Army shows off its military muscles.
|
⚡A Meeting of the Political-Security Cabinet has been Convened in Tel Aviv following the Statement by Prime Minister Netanyahu. |
⚡Netanyahu: "We are the people of the light, they are the people of darkness... we shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah."
|
⚡Former special agent of the CIA: The Iranians are dragging Israel into the Israeli version of the swamp of the Vietnam War/Netanyahu must understand that he is playing Iran.
|
⚡Russian Yars ICBM spotted while flying in the sky over Arkhangelsk region. The launch of Yars was carried out from the Plesetsk cosmodrome at the Kura training ground in Kamchatka.
|
⚡Netenyahu: Everyone will have to answer about the security failure in the Gaza envelope, including me, but after the war. |
⚡Since October 7, Israel has killed more Palestinians than in the previous 20 years combined & 2023 figure is still ongoing.
|
⚡Netanyahu calls on residents in northern Gaza to head south, saying that a ground invasion will happen. |