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Eight people have been reported dead and atleast six people are left injured in a mass shooting by a gunman in Pittsburgh on Saturday.

According to the Police Investigation, the gunman walked into a The tree of life synagogue building and yelled"All Jews must die". There was an ongoing baby naming ceremony when he began firing his rifle, police officers responded swiftly and kept himself inside the building, he crawled out of the building surrendering to the police. According to a local report, he is said to have been injured.

According to KDKA-TV, A local news station said earlier that it sources identified the gunman as Robert Bowers, a White male in his mid-late Fourties.

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Robert Bowers is said to have been involved in several anti-semitic and anti-imigration conspiracies by writing Critics on GAB, a social media comparable to Twitter. He has criticized HIAS, formerly known to be Hebrew Immigration Aid Society, a non-profit organization that provides humanitarian aids to American-Jewish Refugees and Immigrants.

Here is what he wrote in his Social network page a few hours before the shootout: "HIAS likes to bring invaders to kill our people. I can't watch by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in", He said.

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An extradition request has been prepared by Turkish prosecutors for 18 suspects who are believed to be involved in the killing of Saudi's Journalist Jamal khashoogi.
President Recep Tayip Erdogan has however been showing concern recently urging Riyadh to disclose the order of the murder.

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor on Thursday said the killing of Khashoggi was premeditated, contradicting a previous official statement that it happened accidentally during a tussle in the consulate. Riyadh’s numerous shifting accounts of the killing have undermined Prince Mohammed’s stance in the West.

Turkish prosecutors seeking the extradition accuse the 18 of “murder by premeditation, monstrous intent or by torture”. Riyadh previously arrested the 18 as part of its investigation into the case. Those include a 15-man security team that Turkey says flew in hours before the killing and carried it out.

“Who gave this order?” Erdogan said in a speech to members of his AK Party in Ankara. “Who gave the order for 15 people to come to Turkey?” he said.

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An extradition request has been prepared by Turkish prosecutors for 18 suspects who are believed to be involved in the killing of Saudi's Journalist Jamal khashoogi.
President Recep Tayip Erdogan has however been showing concern recently urging Riyadh to disclose the order of the murder.

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor on Thursday said the killing of Khashoggi was premeditated, contradicting a previous official statement that it happened accidentally during a tussle in the consulate. Riyadh’s numerous shifting accounts of the killing have undermined Prince Mohammed’s stance in the West.

Turkish prosecutors seeking the extradition accuse the 18 of “murder by premeditation, monstrous intent or by torture”. Riyadh previously arrested the 18 as part of its investigation into the case. Those include a 15-man security team that Turkey says flew in hours before the killing and carried it out.

“Who gave this order?” Erdogan said in a speech to members of his AK Party in Ankara. “Who gave the order for 15 people to come to Turkey?” he said.

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Cameroon's longtime President Paul Biya is set to remain in office for a seventh term, with the results of the October 7 election revealing he won with more than 71 percent of the vote.

The outcomes, which were authoritatively
discharged on Monday, October 22, did not come as an astonishment to many, after a race damaged by allegations of apparatus and continuous savagery in the nation's English-talking areas, where a dissident development has started a fierce government crackdown. Just 53 percent of the nation's 6.6 million enrolled voters really cast their votes.

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Joshua Osih from the fundamental resistance party, the Social Democratic Front (SDF), had effectively asked for the wiping out of the entire race before the official declaration. The Constitutional Council dismissed the interest, alongside 17 others, which means the last outcomes can never again be tested. Another resistance competitor, Maurice Kamto of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (MRC) had in the interim effectively pronounced triumph soon after the surveys while cast a ballot were all the while being tallied.

In the number one spot up to the declaration, troops were conveyed all through the nation's significant urban areas fully expecting an influx of brutality.

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Boko Haram militants on Saturday hacked 12 farmers to death as they worked on their fields in the volatile northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, civilian militia said.

They came in two trucks and attacked the farmers with machetes outside Kalle, a remote village 17km outside the state capital Maiduguri, the birthplace of the Boko Haram movement.

“They used machetes to kill their victims who were working on their farms,” militia leader Babakura Kolo said.

“So far, we have recovered 12 dead bodies from the fields and nearby bush.”

Three people were injured in the raids.

The militants had guns but did not use them so as not to attract the attention of troops in nearby Molai village, said another militia leader Ibrahim Liman.

“When the farmers saw them pulling over close to their crop fields they all ran in different directions but the terrorists pursued them,” Liman said.

It was not clear which of the two Boko Haram factions was behind the attack.

The militant faction loyal to Abubakar Shekau is notorious for deadly attacks on civilian targets.

The Daesh-affiliated faction ISWAP focuses on the military and high profile targets including Western interests, although they have recently been involved in attacks on civilians.

Boko Haram has stepped up attacks on farmers and loggers in recent years, accusing them of passing information on the group to the military

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Latest report as the possibility of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) settling for a replacement for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo from the Southeast and intrigues by politicians jostling to be chosen are some of the reasons the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) standard bearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, might delay the announcement of his running mate till the last minute.

Shortly after Atiku clinched the first position in PDP presidential primary election last Sunday in Port Harcourt, a lot of players from both the Southeast and Southwest began making serious moves and sending representations to the party’s substantive presidential candidate seeking to be considered for the vice presidential ticket.

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Although sources within the Abubakar Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation confided in The Guardian that the PDP presidential candidate has not penciled down a prospective running mate, it was gathered that some names have started popping up now and then as possible candidates.

The Guardian learned that considerations as to whether the presidential running mate would come from Southeast or Southwest brought a new twist to the search as well as the strategic need to accommodate the inputs of some critical stakeholders that oiled the machinery for Atiku’s eventual emergence as the PDP numero uno.

“Recall that former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Atiku’s former principal, had mooted the idea of Southeast having a shot at the Presidency in 2019,” a source within PDP said. “But somewhere along the line Baba argued for a presidential running mate and even went further to suggest the name of Mazi Osita Chidoka.

“Chidoka’s eventual exit from the United Progressive Party (UPP), on which platform he contested the November 2017 gubernatorial election back to PDP should not be treated lightly. But, other suggestions have been made for a technocrat with international pedigree to pair up with Waziri Adamawa.”

But no sooner had Chidoka’s name escaped Obasanjo’s lips than many foundation members of PDP, who have eyes on the 2023 presidential election, began clandestine lobbying for a technocrat to be paired with the former vice president.

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It was against that notion that names of former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo and Prof. Barth Nnaji surfaced, ostensibly to push back on the considerations being given to the immediate past governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi.

Those who are pushing for Okonjo-Iweala argue that her Delta/Abia combination origin based on paternity and marriage achieves the Southeast/South-South solidarity in addition to her clout in the international community.

Meanwhile, pressures are said to be mounting also from the Southwest, which claims that ceding the presidential running mate to the zone would go a long way to mitigate the loss of the national chairmanship during last December national convention.

The name of incumbent President of African Development Bank (AfDB) and former Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, is being touted as a feasible candidate on the score of Southwest accommodation and buy-in of the international community.

Southwest lobbyists are also waving the flag of speculated plots by the Presidency to fetch Osinbajo’s replacement from the Southeast as running mate for President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s election to convince the region of its sincerity of ceding power to the zone after Buhari.

While the Southeast and Southwest push their arguments for PDP to select the next vice presidential candidate from their zones, multiple sources told The Guardian that Atiku was moved by the fact of Senator David Mark’s position on gender balance to consider Okonjo-Iweala in addition to her knowledge of international finance and development issues.
Senator Mark had, while addressing PDP delegates at the Adokie Amasiemeka Stadium, Port Harcourt, last Saturday, noted that he was the only presidential aspirant among the one dozen to appoint a woman as Director General of his campaign organization.

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It was also gathered that former President Obasanjo is excited by the likelihood of Okonjo-Iweala being adopted, which prompted his recent comments that a president knowledgeable in economic matters is what Nigeria needs to fix the damage done by the present administration to the economy.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will run for re-election in February 2019 against former vice president Atiku Abubakar, a Muslim from the country's north who was nominated on Sunday as the main opposition party's poll contender.

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Buhari, a 75-year-old former military ruler, was the sole candidate for his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party, so his confirmation by some 7 000 delegates gathered in the capital Abuja was a mere formality on Saturday.
The APC swept to power in 2015 with the first opposition victory at the ballot box in the country's history.
But next year's presidential race appears to have tightened in recent months with the APC hit by a wave of defections over Buhari's leadership style.
On Sunday, delegates to a weekend convention of the former ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), nominated Abubakar, 71, as his challenger for next years poll.

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The politician and business tycoon has made four previous attempts at the top job in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation.
Abubakar comes from the Muslim-majority north, and his nomination follows an unwritten rule in Nigeria that the presidency should alternate every two terms between a candidate from the north and south.
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The PDP vote was held in the oil hub of Port Harcourt, in the heartland of the southern Niger delta.
Abubakar garnered 1,532 votes, far outstripping his closest rival Aminu Tambuwal, the governor of northern Sokoto state who scored 693 votes.
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The Eurasia Consultancy group said Saturday the outcome of the PDP primary would determine whether Buhari "loses his incumbency advantage", adding that Tambuwal would be the "strongest challenger".
Port Harcourt streets were festooned with conference banners, while police said thousands of officers were deployed to the PDP primary.
Despite humble beginnings in northern Nigeria, Abubakar rose through the ranks of the customs service for two decades, to eventually become the institution's number two during military rule.
The position is thought to have brought him enormous wealth but he then entered the private sector, investing in oil services and agriculture, among other industries.
From there he joined the civilian government where he became one of Nigeria's most recognisable and enduring politicians.
But his official, political and family life has been dogged by controversies ranging from his numerous wives and more than 20 children to allegations of corruption.

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Earlier, reports in Chinese media suggested that Interpol chief was held by the Chinese authorities. "Meng Hongwei, who is also a vice-minister at China’s Ministry of Public Security, was taken away for questioning by discipline authorities as soon as he landed in China last week," South China Morning Post reported on Saturday citing sources. The language of Interpol's Saturday statement seeking 'clarification' from Chinese authorities gives further impetus to these reports. So far, Chinese authorities have not made an official statement in this regard.

Reports says Mr. Meng's wife says she has not been in contact with him since he Lyon city in September. Meanwhile an France has begun an underway investigation reporting he had left France for China but his exact destination is still unknown.

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Mr. Meng's position as a Vice Minister for China Ministry of Pubic Security is the first Chinese man to become Interpol's President. The president at Interpol is an elected person for a term of four years who heads the executive committee and is responsible for the supervision of the execution of decisions made by general assembly of Interpol. Mr. Meng's term as The President of Interpol expires in the year 2020.

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Facebook announced on Friday afternoon that 50 million of its accounts had been breached.
Here is everything you need to know about the cyber attack.

What happened?

In a post on the social network’s news site, Facebook vice president of product management Guy Rosen said a security breach affecting 50 million users had been discovered on Tuesday.
While the investigation is in its early stages, the firm said the hackers had exploited a vulnerability in

Facebook’s code involving the “View As” feature, which lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else.
In a later post, Facebook said the vulnerability had arisen from a combination of three distinct bugs, which meant the hackers were able extract other users’ access tokens – the equivalent of digital keys that keep people logged in to the Facebook app.
It explained that when using the “View As” feature, the code had not removed the box that allows people to wish friends a happy birthday and incorrectly provided the opportunity to post a video.
In turn, the video uploader incorrectly generated an access tag that had the permissions of the Facebook mobile app. The third bug meant that the access token generated was for the user being looked up, instead of the person doing the viewing.
Pedro Canahuati, vice president of engineering, security and privacy, said: “The attackers were then able to pivot from that access token to other accounts, performing the same actions and obtaining further access tokens.”

Who was affected?

Facebook has not revealed whether any UK users were hit, or where the hacked accounts were based, only saying that it had affected almost 50 million of its more than two billion users.

Mr Rosen said the attack could have given the hackers access to other apps if a user had logged into them using their Facebook name and password – and said the firm was investigating whether there was any access to Instagram accounts. He confirmed, however, that WhatsApp was not impacted by the breach.
What has Facebook done?

Facebook says it has already fixed the vulnerability and has informed law enforcement of the attack.
It has reset the access tokens of the hacked accounts, as well as another 40 million accounts that have been subject to a “View As” look-up in the last year.
As a result, around 90 million people were having to log back in to Facebook, or any of their apps that use Facebook Login.

Some users may see a warning message when logging back into Facebook Credit: PA/Facebook
What should I do to protect my account?
Following the announcement of the breach, Facebook issued guidance on the next steps to take.
While some accounts have been automatically logged out, no one needs to change their passwords, the firm said.

Those who were not logged out automatically, but want to log out as a precaution, should visit the “Security and Login” section which lists all the places a user is logged in to Facebook.
People can use the one-click option to log out of Facebook on all PCs and devices it may have been accessed it on.
Anyone who has difficulty logging back in should visit Facebook’s help centre.

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The police have arrested a man who was allegedly sending threats messages to Atiku Abbubakar's Family.

The Early 40s Man, Augustus Akpan was arrested in Lagos after the police tracked him through one of the threat messages he sent. Read below:

“Turaki Atiku, we are watching you and your family, we ask you right now to withdraw from the race for Presidency, we will kill, rape your wife and daughters. That your ambitious and black daughter Maryam who worked at CBN and left because we were going to mess her up. We will molest, rape, deform her and kill her. Your daughter Fatimah the former Commissioner of Health in Adamawa State, we have a lot of information about her. Also pictures of her naked body, we will mess your overly prostitute wife Jennifer up. We have a lot about. Let Buhari run against your against your PDP members. We know that you are bigger than all those candidates in PDP. That is why we need you to step down. We will blow your plane off from the sky and we will poison you and your family. Atiku Abubakar, take our words for granted and watch what will happen to your family before you. You are going to see what we will do to you and your family. We know where and where your children travel to. We have watched your daughter who is a strong supporter of her father (your daughter Maryam) at number 5, Buzi close and number 5, Lake Maracaibo close”.

Mr. Abubakar had reportedly petition the police, Meanwhile, Nigerians have asked the aspirant to drop out of the race.
According to the investigation reports, the threats where just meant to be distractions. Mr. Akpan had owned up to defrauding many rich and affluent Nigerians in the cause of his plot against the Presidential Candidacy of Mr. Atiku Abubakar.

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Nigeria's First Lady Aisha Buhari Aide De Camp has been released after been allegedly accused of collecting cash gifts totalling #2.500.000.000 from Businessmen and Politicians.

Mrs. Buhari asked the police to retrieve the money and publicly announced that persons who may have given money to Mr. Baba-Inna to demand to demand same from him.

There were report that Mrs. Buhari had ordered that her aide to be arrested but her Director of Information, Suleiman Haruna, on Tuesday, September 25, Mrs. Buhari insisted that the police only did their job.

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Ferocious wind gusts of 44 mph kept an Air France flight from landing, forcing the jet to turn sideways and stay airborne feet above the ground.

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As Earth rotates, its spin axis — an imaginary line that passes through the North and South Poles — drifts and wobbles. Scientists now have, for the 1st time, identified 3 reasons why.

Unlike a plastic globe of Earth, the real planet Earth isn’t perfectly round and doesn’t spin smoothly. The imaginary line around which Earth spins – passing through the North and South Poles – is called its spin axis. Scientists have known for a long time that Earth’s spin axis drifts and wobbles. Measurements over the 20th century show that Earth’s spin axis drifts by about 4 inches (10 cm) per year. Over the course of a century, that’s more than 11 yards (10 meters). This week (September 19, 2018), NASA scientists announced they’ve used observational and model-based data spanning the 20th century in order to identify – for the first time – three processes primarily responsible for this drift.

The three processes are mass loss due to melting ice (mostly in Greenland), the lifting of land masses as glaciers have melted since the last ice age (aka glacial rebound), and the slow creeping motion of rocky material in Earth’s interior mantle, caused by convection currents carrying heat from our planet’s interior to its surface (this third process is called mantle convection).

Scientists call the drift of Earth’s spin-axis its polar motion. Surendra Adhikari of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California is first author on the new paper describing the causes for the drift. He said:

The traditional explanation is that one process, glacial rebound, is responsible for this motion of Earth’s spin axis. But recently, many researchers have speculated that other processes could have potentially large effects on it as well.

We assembled models for a suite of processes that are thought to be important for driving the motion of the spin axis. We identified not one but three sets of processes that are crucial — and melting of the global cryosphere (especially Greenland) over the course of the 20th century is one of them.

His team’s statement said:

In general, the redistribution of mass on and within Earth — like changes to land, ice sheets, oceans and mantle flow — affects the planet’s rotation. As temperatures increased throughout the 20th century, Greenland’s ice mass decreased. In fact, a total of about 7,500 gigatons — the weight of more than 20 million Empire State Buildings — of Greenland’s ice melted into the ocean during this time period. This makes Greenland one of the top contributors of mass being transferred to the oceans, causing sea level to rise and, consequently, a drift in Earth’s spin axis.

While ice melt is occurring in other places (like Antarctica), Greenland’s location makes it a more significant contributor to polar motion.

Coauthor Erik Ivins, also of JPL, explained:

There is a geometrical effect that if you have a mass that is 45 degrees from the North Pole — which Greenland is — or from the South Pole (like Patagonian glaciers), it will have a bigger impact on shifting Earth’s spin axis than a mass that is right near the Pole.

Previous studies identified glacial rebound as the key contributor to long-term polar motion. In the new study, which relied heavily on a statistical analysis of such rebound, scientists figured out that glacial rebound is likely to be responsible for only about a third of the polar drift in the 20th century.

Bottom line: Scientists thought the drift in Earth’s spin axis was primarily due to the lifting of land masses as ice has melted since the last ice age. A new study shows this mechanism can account for only a third of Earth’s spin axis drift, and names two other causes as well.

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A survivor has been Saved by divers from the disaster area of a stuffed Tanzanian ship two days after it overturned on Lake Victoria, killing about 166 individuals.

An architect was found close to the motor of the upturned vessel, Mwanza territorial magistrate John Mongella said. The Tanzanian Telecom Organization detailed he had closed himself into the motor room. His condition was not instantly clear.
Naval force divers continued the hunt task inside the depressed MV Nyerere from the get-go Saturday in the wake of hearing sounds that recommended indications of life. They hauled a man out of the toppled ship and he was taken to healing center, a witness stated, while bodies kept on coasting to the surface around the vessel.

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Tanzania's President John Magufuli, has requested the capture of the directors of the ship, which may have been conveying upwards of 300 individuals when it overturned close to the dock on the Ukara Island. The exact number was obscure, nonetheless, on the grounds that the ticket-dealer had suffocated and the machine recording deals had not been found.
Amid a discourse on open TV on Friday night, Magufuli alluded to carelessness and said he had requested the capture of every one of those engaged with the administration of the ship. "It seems clear that the ship was over-burden," he stated, including that the captures had just started.
The president likewise proclaimed four long periods of national grieving.


The works, transport and correspondence serve, Isack Kamwelwe, said the legislature was sending refined gear to help the protect. "This gear will build productivity in the safeguard task and we will proceed with the pursuit until the point that we are fulfilled that we have saved everybody," he told Reuters. Something like 40 individuals were conveyed to wellbeing on Thursday as many security powers and volunteers wearing gloves and face veils spent the day pulling bodies into wooden water crafts.

Tanzanian ships regularly convey many travelers and are stuffed, and there are moves in weight as travelers move to land. The Nyerere was swarmed on the grounds that it was a market day.
Domina Maua, who was among those at the dockside looking for data about survivors on Friday, said she had not gotten notification from either her dad or her more youthful sibling who were on the ship on an excursion to purchase a school uniform and different supplies for the new school term.

The child of Davita Ngenda, a more seasoned lady in Ukara, was among the dead. "He had run with his significant other yet she has not been found yet. My God, what did I do to merit this?" she said.

The maturing ship, of which the structure and propellers were everything that stayed noticeable, was additionally conveying payload, including sacks of maize, bananas and bond, when it upset around 50 meters from Ukara dock. The reason for the mischance was not promptly clear, but rather over-burdening is much of the time to fault for such episodes.

The nation's restriction, in any case, blamed the administration for carelessness. "We have regularly raised worries about the poor state of this ship, yet the legislature turned a hard of hearing ear. We have over and over criticized this carelessness," said John Mnyika, the appointee secretary general of Chadema, the primary resistance party.

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Words from these Russian folks is somehow tricky

The Russian military has made a new claim about the downing of a passenger jet over the war zone in eastern Ukraine in 2014, asserting that the missile that brought Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 down was sent to Soviet Ukraine after it was made in 1986 and never returned to Russia.

Defense Ministry officials made the claim at a news conference in Moscow on September 17, in an apparent attempt to discredit the findings of an international investigation that determined the system that fired the missile was brought into Ukraine from Russia before the Boeing 777 was shot down on July 17, 2014, and smuggled back into Russia afterward.

All 298 passengers and crew were killed when the jet, which was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in an area held by Russia-backed separatists in the Donetsk region.

The tragedy caused an international outcry and deepened tensions between Moscow and the West following Russia's seizure of Crimea and support for the militants in their fight against Kyiv's forces after pro-European protests pushed Moscow-friendly Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych from power.

The JIT also found that the Buk missile came from Russia's 53rd Antiaircraft Missile Brigade and was fired from territory held by the Russia-backed separatists.

Many of the JIT's findings have been corroborated or supported by evidence gathered by journalists and independent investigators, such as the British-based open-source cybersleuthing group Bellingcat.

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The Russian military has made a new claim about the downing of a passenger jet over the war zone in eastern Ukraine in 2014, asserting that the missile that brought Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 down was sent to Soviet Ukraine after it was made in 1986 and never returned to Russia.

Defense Ministry officials made the claim at a news conference in Moscow on September 17, in an apparent attempt to discredit the findings of an international investigation that determined the system that fired the missile was brought into Ukraine from Russia before the Boeing 777 was shot down on July 17, 2014, and smuggled back into Russia afterward.

All 298 passengers and crew were killed when the jet, which was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in an area held by Russia-backed separatists in the Donetsk region.

The tragedy caused an international outcry and deepened tensions between Moscow and the West following Russia's seizure of Crimea and support for the militants in their fight against Kyiv's forces after pro-European protests pushed Moscow-friendly Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych from power.

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The JIT also found that the Buk missile came from Russia's 53rd Antiaircraft Missile Brigade and was fired from territory held by the Russia-backed separatists.

Many of the JIT's findings have been corroborated or supported by evidence gathered by journalists and independent investigators, such as the British-based open-source cybersleuthing group Bellingcat.

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Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi implicitly threatened Israel in an interview with the Associated Press Tuesday.

Addressing the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, as well as the Stutnex computer virus which set back Iran's nuclear program, both of which have been blamed on Israel, Salehi said: "I hope that they will not commit a similar mistake again because the consequences would be, I think, harsh."

Salehi said that he hoped the 2015 nuclear deal would survive despite the withdrawal of the US and the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran.

"I think [Trump] is on the loser's side because he is pursuing the logic of power," Salehi said. "He thinks that he can, you know, continue for some time but certainly I do not think he will benefit from this withdrawal, certainly not."

He said that Iran was stronger now and better able to resist sanctions than it had been before the signing of the 2015 deal. "If we have to go back and withdraw from the nuclear deal, we certainly do not go back to where we were before. We will be standing on a much, much higher position."

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[quote author=Zouzer post=71132698]The Russia-China joint military exercise that kicked off on Tuesday is the biggest since the height of the Cold War. The weeklong Vostok exercise marks progress in Russia’s pivot to the east, and marks the rise of a power centre that is an alternative to the United States.

India, just like the United States and Europe, must take note of this development while not being unduly alarmed.

Ties between Russia and China have strengthened in the aftermath of the West’s sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. While Russia remains a pre-eminent military power, it is not an economic powerhouse. On the other hand, China has emerged as the world’s second-largest economy, and counting.

Even though Russia has been historically suspicious of China’s intentions in its eastern provinces, circumstances have brought the two together in a strong partnership.

Russia’s suspected meddling in American and European domestic affairs, including elections, has not made relations between Moscow and the West easier.

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The Russia-China joint military exercise that kicked off on Tuesday is the biggest since the height of the Cold War. The weeklong Vostok exercise marks progress in Russia’s pivot to the east, and marks the rise of a power centre that is an alternative to the United States.

India, just like the United States and Europe, must take note of this development while not being unduly alarmed.

Ties between Russia and China have strengthened in the aftermath of the West’s sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. While Russia remains a pre-eminent military power, it is not an economic powerhouse. On the other hand, China has emerged as the world’s second-largest economy, and counting.

Even though Russia has been historically suspicious of China’s intentions in its eastern provinces, circumstances have brought the two together in a strong partnership.

Russia’s suspected meddling in American and European domestic affairs, including elections, has not made relations between Moscow and the West easier.

http://abdulmusablog..com/2018/09/russia-china-wars.html?m=1

Russia!

The Russia-China joint military exercise that kicked off on Tuesday is the biggest since the height of the Cold War. The weeklong Vostok exercise marks progress in Russia’s pivot to the east, and marks the rise of a power centre that is an alternative to the United States.

India, just like the United States and Europe, must take note of this development while not being unduly alarmed.

Ties between Russia and China have strengthened in the aftermath of the West’s sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. While Russia remains a pre-eminent military power, it is not an economic powerhouse. On the other hand, China has emerged as the world’s second-largest economy, and counting.

Even though Russia has been historically suspicious of China’s intentions in its eastern provinces, circumstances have brought the two together in a strong partnership.

Russia’s suspected meddling in American and European domestic affairs, including elections, has not made relations between Moscow and the West easier.

http://abdulmusablog..com/2018/09/russia-china-wars.html?m=1

[quote author=Zouzer post=71112684]The Russia-China joint military exercise that kicked off on Tuesday is the biggest since the height of the Cold War. The weeklong Vostok exercise marks progress in Russia’s pivot to the east, and marks the rise of a power centre that is an alternative to the United States.

India, just like the United States and Europe, must take note of this development while not being unduly alarmed.

Ties between Russia and China have strengthened in the aftermath of the West’s sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. While Russia remains a pre-eminent military power, it is not an economic powerhouse. On the other hand, China has emerged as the world’s second-largest economy, and counting.

Even though Russia has been historically suspicious of China’s intentions in its eastern provinces, circumstances have brought the two together in a strong partnership.

Russia’s suspected meddling in American and European domestic affairs, including elections, has not made relations between Moscow and the West easier.

http://abdulmusablog..com/2018/09/russia-china-wars.html?m=1[Russia!]

A second case of monkeypox has been confirmed in England and this time it's in Lancashire.

Health officials say a patient has been diagnosed in Blackpool and is currently receiving treatment at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It's thought they became infected while in Nigeria.

The disease is similar to smallpox, and although it's milder, it can still be fatal.

The first patient to be diagnosed, a Nigerian national, is being treated in London after being diagnosed with the rare viral infection while staying at a naval base in Cornwall.

Monkeypox is a rare viral infection, similar to smallpox though not as deadly, that was first discovered in monkeys in 1958.

Source: http://abdulmusablog..com/2018/09/a-second-case-of-monkey-pox-has-been.html?m=1

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on Russia and Iran to halt a looming “humanitarian disaster” in Idlib, saying Syrians there could not be left to the mercy of President Bashar Assad.

Erdogan has called for a cease-fire in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last opposition stronghold in Syria, as an assault by Syrian regime forces is expected any day.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Erdogan said the West had an “obligation to stop the next bloodshed” but that regime allies Moscow and Tehran were “likewise responsible for stopping this humanitarian disaster.”

The comments came four days after the Turkish president met his Russian and Iranian counterparts for a summit in Tehran, where Erdogan sought to avert a bloody assault in Idlib. 

Analysts said Erdogan failed at the summit to achieve his aim, and his comments appear to indicate growing frustration in Turkey that Iran and Russia are not reining in Assad.

While Turkey has been one of the main supporters of the Syrian opposition and called for Assad’s ouster, Ankara has until now worked closely with Assad’s allies Moscow and Tehran to find a political solution to the conflict. 

The UN has warned a large-scale military operation could create “the worst humanitarian catastrophe” of this century in Idlib, home to some 3 million people — about half of them displaced from other parts of the country.

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The Russia-China joint military exercise that kicked off on Tuesday is the biggest since the height of the Cold War. The weeklong Vostok exercise marks progress in Russia’s pivot to the east, and marks the rise of a power centre that is an alternative to the United States.

India, just like the United States and Europe, must take note of this development while not being unduly alarmed.

Ties between Russia and China have strengthened in the aftermath of the West’s sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. While Russia remains a pre-eminent military power, it is not an economic powerhouse. On the other hand, China has emerged as the world’s second-largest economy, and counting.

Even though Russia has been historically suspicious of China’s intentions in its eastern provinces, circumstances have brought the two together in a strong partnership.

Russia’s suspected meddling in American and European domestic affairs, including elections, has not made relations between Moscow and the West easier.

http://abdulmusablog..com/2018/09/russia-china-wars.html?m=1

The PC version of Overkill's The Walking Dead is getting a Closed Beta session early next month, the developer announced during a recent livestream.
If you're interested in taking the zombie-mashing survival title for a spin prior to launch, then pre-ordering Overkill's The Walking Dead will net you guaranteed access to the Closed Beta on October 9.

Those of you who plumped for the standard edition of Overkill's The Walking Dead will receive one Closed Beta invite, while the Deluxe Edition will bag you four keys that you can share.

Not much else is known about Overkill's The Walking Dead's Closed Beta right now, though we're promised more details at a later date. It's worth remembering that the PC version of the game is the only one out this year; the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One editions recently got pushed into 2019.

Overkill's The Walking Dead takes place in the same post-apocalyptic universe as Robert Kirkman's comic book series, and is set in an undead-infested Washington DC. Right now, there's no plans to introduce any of the characters from The Walking Dead comics into the mix via DLC

Source: http://abdulmusablog..com/2018/09/overkill-walking-dead-video-game-is-getting-a-PC-Version.html?m=1

Seventy percent of the Earth’s surface is hidden beneath the ocean, yet 95 percent of it remains unexplored to the human eye.

Strange footprints have been found on the bottom of the ocean floor by a deep-diving robot as part of a British study from the National Oceanographic Center in Southampton.

Scientists ruled out the possibility of the mysterious tracks, measuring 6.5 feet in length and 13 inches deep, discovered 2.4 miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii, being the result of mining or scientific operations.
They also said that the tracks were too large to be created by fish or any other deep-sea creatures.

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“Analysis revealed that the depressions were not randomly distributed,” lead author of the research, Dr. Leigh Marsh, told the Express, adding that the most likely culprits are “deep-diving whales.”

Even though whales normally do not dive so deep, similar tracks found across the globe suggest that the large aquatic mammals can occasionally plunge to a depth of 2.5 miles and even more.

Scientists believe that “electronic depth-tags, attached to the animals, will provide direct evidence that whales can dive to these abyssal depths.”
While the discovery of mysterious footprints on the ocean floor has left researchers scratching their heads, conspiracy theorists have been quick to claim that UFO technology is to blame.

Source: http://abdulmusablog..com/2018/09/Strange-Footprints-found-2.4-Miles-Under-Ocean-Surface.html?m=1