Two Russian TU-142 Bear aircraft shooed off from USS Ronald Reagan

Four F/A-18 fighter jets were scrambled to protect USS Ronald Reagan that was engaged in a military exercise with South Korea. The fighter jets were launched by the Navy's Carrier Air Wing Five and intercepted Russian bombers near the US aircraft carrier off the Korean peninsula to shoo them away because they had come dangerously close to the ship.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 30 October 2015.

This has been confirmed by the White House - it has said that USS Ronald Reagan was conducting a military exercise with South Korea in international waters in the Sea of Japan when the the incident took place. Two Russian Tu-142 Bear aircraft flew to within a mile of the carrier at an altitude of 500ft on Tuesday.
White house has downplayed the incident and have indicated that it did not represent a "significant confrontation". The White House has also urged Russia on previous occasions to ensure that its military follows generally accepted international protocols.
USS Ronald Reagan is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and has around 5,000 crew members. It is based at Japan's Yokosuka naval port.

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With 700 executions already carried out by Iran since January 2015, the final count could go up to over 1000 by the end of the year. This has been revealed in a report from a United Nations analyst who has been studying the rogue nation's actions.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 28 October 2015.

It seems within the past two weeks, the Islamic Republic has violated international law by hanging two juvenile offenders and there are dozens more who are in death row and awaiting a similar fate. Most of them are believed to be nonviolent drug offenders.
The laws in Iran ae harsh. Two Iranian poets have been jailed for their work and sentenced to 99 lashes apiece because they had shaken hands with members of the opposite sex.
In May 2014, a group of young Iranian men and women were arrested for a video of them dancing to Pharrell Williams' song "Happy." The arrests attracted widespread criticism, including from the musician himself, those involved each received suspended sentences of six months in jail plus 91 lashes.
And, an award-winning Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi has been sentenced to six years in prison and 223 lashes over his films, which in the opinion of the authorities were "insulting sanctities."
Such sentences are strange considering President Hassan Rouhani's efforts to soften the country's image and improve relations with the West – it includes the landmark nuclear agreement that had been reached last summer.
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Till now, the brutal jihadi group ISIS, used to make use of children to act as suicide bombers but, due to a shortage of children, ISIS is now imparting training to women to take over the role. In Syria, they are creating battalion of women suicide bombers.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 26 October 2015.

Human rights group 'Syria is being Slaughtered Silently' has claimed that sources within ISIS held city of Raqqa have come to know that the jihadists have turned to women to carry out training for deadly attacks. An example is of an Egyptian woman who was offered her a large amount of money as incentive with the promise that she could go to meet her husband in heaven in case she agreed to become a ISIS suicide bomber.
The new jihadi bride suicide squad would be imparted training to carry out deadly bomb attacks because the jihadi group believes women would not arouse suspicion immediately. Arab women are targeted to create the new suicide battalion since they have run out of teenagers.
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The al-Nusra Front, the Sunni Islamic jihadist militia fighting against Syrian Government forces in the civil war, have confirmed the death of its leader Sheikh Abu Sulaiman Al Masri. Images of his body, showing a bloody head wound, have been shared online. He is believed to have been killed in the Syrian capital of Aleppo and, the cause of the death is yet to be confirmed.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 23 October 2015.

The news of the death of the al-Nusra Front leader comes even as Syrian troops backed by Russian air strikes continue to wage a war against Islamic State group fighters in a bid to restore a key supply line to the capital. At least 28 IS fighters and 21 troops and militia have been killed in the battle for the road that leads to the government-held sector of the city – this has been indicated by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Al-Nusra is The Front for the Defence of the Syrian People and it is considered to be the second most powerful jihadist group in Syria after the Islamic State. Therefore, the death of its leader would come as a devastating blow to its operations in the war torn Middle Eastern country.
It may be recalled that it had first announced its existence four years ago. It was behind many of the suicide bombings that rocked Syria when civil war broke out in March 2011.
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42 killed in France as coach carrying elderly and disabled persons collide with a lorry

It was a tragedy of no mean proportions in which at least 42 people are believed to have lost their lives when a coach carrying elderly and disabled passengers collided with a lorry causing both vehicles to burst into flames in France. Many of the victims have been burnt alive after getting trapped in the wreckage and were unable to smash the windows to escape.
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The coach was reduced to a charred shell that had been entirely burned in the worst road accident in France in three decades.
There were 49 elderly persons in the coach and they were on an excursion when the accident happened near the village of Puisseguin among the vineyards of the St Emilion region, east of Bordeaux. The accident occurred on a bend that is known to be dangerous.
The driver of the coach was thought to be among the dead and the remaining were passengers in the coach. Eight people managed to escape from the burning coach but, four of them are seriously injured.
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Sword wielding man in Star Wars mask killed a teacher in Trollhättan, Sweden

A sword wielding man wearing a Star Wars mask has killed a male teacher and have injured two children when the man carried out an attack at a school in Trollhättan, north of Gothenburg in south-west Sweden.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 22 October 2015.

A second teacher, who was also injured in the attack, has been shifted to a hospital along with the two injured students aged 11 and 15.
It seems the assailant had entered the premises of the school in Trollhättan, north of Gothenburg, and began to attack the students and teachers with a sword or a large knife. The attacker is believed to be student of the school in his 20s and the police, who arrived at the scene were forced to shoot the attacker when he tried to attack the police.
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The carcasses do not exhibit any signs of external injuries, hence possibility to have been caught in fisherman's nets or run over by a cruise liner. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA) of Mexico are studying whether the deaths were a result of pollution.
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The vessel was a Cook Island-flagged merchant vessel Jupiter and it was boarded in the Mediterranean Sea by Italian Finance Police who are responsible for border security. The vessel was then taken under guard to the Port of Cagliari on Sardinia.
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Foreign Minister has added that stricter controls would be introduced so as to block illegal border crossings. Croatia is a member of the European Union, but, unlike Hungary it is not part of the Schengen zone of passport-free travel and migrants could still apply for asylum in Hungary at two border transit zones.
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Figures obtained from oil workers in Syria and Iraq along with Western intelligence estimates would tend to suggest that up to 40,000 barrels are being produced every day in ISIS-held territory. This output can generate around £1million as daily revenue and is proof of failure to make a dent in the ISIS held refineries and pipelines.
It is a paradox that Syrian rebel fighters are forced to buy diesel from ISIS areas as they wage a war against the terror group. The jihadis have apparently modified their operations by creating hundreds of small makeshift facilities to refine the oil.
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This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 13 October 2015.

The airdrop of arms and ammunition comes two days after the Defense Department announced it was effectively ending its current training program. The airdrop was made by four C-17 transport aircraft and all the 112 pallets reached friendly forces.
It was done as had been done for Kobani which is considered to be one of the few bright spots in the war against the Islamic State. The arms dropped by the US to Syrian Kurdish fighters, known as the YPG, resulted in successfully expelling ISIS from the Turkish-Syrian border town of Kobani.
This time, however, Syrian Kurds were not recipients of the U.S. airdrop but only Syrian Arabs who were fighting ISIS. This is because Syrian Kurds are seen as enemies by Turkey whle the US looks upon them as a NATO ally.
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An RAF Puma Mk 2 chopper has crashed in a NATO base in Kabul, Afghanistan killing five persons – two of them were from RAF. Another five have been injured. It is suspected that the chopper had may have hit a security surveillance balloon.
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The incident took place "in the vicinity of the Resolute Support base" and, as per a witness, the helicopter appeared to have hit the security balloon as it was landing. As a result, the cable got entangled around the helicopter rotor.
UGC footage has emerged of a balloon falling after the helicopter came down. The balloon was severed from its mooring during the incident.
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The International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO, the United Nations’ air-safety arm, has issued alert on Oct. 9 to all civil airlines that are carrying out commercial flying in the wider airspace around Baghdad, Damascus and Tehran. The alert has been issued after Russian missiles struck targets in Syria.
The alert is described as “the possible existence of serious risks to the safety of international civil flights” that are using the wider airspace in Iran, Iraq and Syria and over the Caspian Sea.
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Double suicide bombing in a pro-Kurdish peace rally in the Turkish capital of Ankara, has left behind at least 97 dead and up to 400 injured. The blast shook the ground at the road junction near the main train station in the center of the Turkish capital Ankara.
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The blast targeted the protesters who were holding hands and dancing together and the blast left dozens of innocent bystanders injured.
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This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 9 October 2015.

The minister has said on Europe-1 radio that two Rafale jets had bombed a training camp "and the objective was achieved." It was, incidentally, the second French strike on Syria, and "it will not be the last."
He did not elaborate on the purported attack plots but has criticized Russia's stepped-up and wide-ranging military action in Syria. In his opinion, "80 to 90 percent" of Russia’s actions do not target the Islamic State group even though Russia says that its air campaign is aimed against Islamic militants.
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#ISIS #Melbourne #AnzacDay #jihadists It may sound like fiction but it is a fact that a boy sitting in Blackburn had planned a terror attack in far off Melbourne on Anzac Day parade – it was to have been a massacre. The 15-year-old British boy had nearly succeeded but was apprehended in time.
He had been radicalized by ISIS and has now been sentenced to life in jail. While passing judgment, Judge John Saunders has told Manchester Crown Court that the youth remained a significant danger to the community.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 2 October 2015.

Judge Saunders has also indicated that some progress had been made to de-radicalize the youth who now becomes the youngest British to be sentenced for a terrorist related offence.
That macabre plot would send a shiver down one’s spine – it included decapitating a police officer, driving into a crowd with a car with an ISIS flag on the bonnet, shooting other police that would arrive on the scene and practicing decapitating a loner in the days leading up to the event.
It seems he would go to school and be turned away since he would not hand his mobile phone over. Then, he would spend the rest of his day sitting by a dam and communicate with jihadists across the world before going home and pretending he had been at school all day.
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Nazis had developed candy bars to kill Winston Churchill in World War II

During World War II, the Nazis had drawn up a macabre plan to kill the British – the plan was to force the British to endure food shortages and then make them eat exploding candy bars.
The chocolate bar was designed to detonate seven seconds after the chocolate was broken and the Nazis wanted to assassinate Winston Churchill using such a bar. They intended to place it in the middle of items going into the War Cabinet's dining room.
This has been reported in foxnewsw.com dated 6 October 2015.

This has come light from a letter of 1943 discovered in 2009. The letter had been written by Lord Rothschild to artist Laurence Fish, who also made the drawings of various Nazi booby-traps.
Lord Rothschild was a larger-than-life character. He was a scientist and self-appointed expert on many things and was also one third of MI5's counter-espionage unit, along with his secretary (and future wife) and police inspector Donald Fish.
Rothschild apparently was in need of someone to draw sketches of the devices he was finding. His intention was to create a sort of manual for any Brits who might encounter them. It was then that Fish recommended his son, Laurence who was a self-taught draughtsman.
That drawings had been presumed to have been lost but they turned up in the home of Rothschild's daughter only recently.
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Flash floods played havoc in the French Riviera as entire roads were washed away by waves of muddy water from River Brague which destroyed peoples' homes, washed away cars and caused widespread travel disruption across the region.
The dead included three who drowned in an Antibes retirement home, a 60-year-old woman who tried crossing a flooded road in Cannes and at least five who had sought shelter inside their cars in Nice.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 4 October 2015.

The death toll could go up as fire crews and ambulances are having a rough time to reach the worst-affected areas, where 35,000 homes are without power.
French President Francois Hollande has met residents whose houses and lives have been destroyed by the natural disaster.
It seems torrential rains resulted in the River Brague near Antibes, which lies between Nice and Cannes, to burst its banks. This was followed by the muddy water washing away entire roads, destroying homes and cars, and causing widespread travel disruption.
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It was an airstrike in Afghanistan that went totally haywire and nine local staffers for Doctors Without Borders were killed and 30 were missing after an explosion near their hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. This is believed to have been caused by a U.S. airstrike.
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Afghan forces backed by U.S. airstrikes have been trying to dislodge Taliban insurgents who overran Kunduz and a U.S. Army Colonel has admitted that the strike "may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility". The operating theater, emergency room and other parts of the hospital complex were hit in the bombing.
It was the 12th U.S. airstrike "in the Kunduz vicinity" and, at that time, the hospital had 105 patients and their caretakers, apart from more than 80 international and Afghan staff.
Interior Ministry spokesman has added that 10 to 15 "terrorists" had been hiding in the hospital at that time and all of them were eliminated but doctors also lost their lives. However, 80 staff at the hospital, including 15 foreigners, had been taken to safety. Doctors Without Borders have indicated that all of its international staffers were alive and accounted for.
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It was a maniac loose in an Oregon community college when the killer targeted only Christians. It was yet another instance of gun violence in an American school. The murderer identified as Christopher Harper Mercer had killed at least nine people and wounded at least seven others at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg before falling to an exchange of gunfire with police.
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The motive of murders is not clear but Investigators are examining Mercer's online presence very closely. In the opinion of one law enforcement official, the individual appeared to be "an angry young man who was filled with hate." Investigators were also poring over what he described as "hateful" writings by Mercer.
It seems the gunman had issued "some sort of race-related manifesto" before the shooting.
A witness who had seen a teacher get shot in the head has revealed that the killer had told the students to get on the ground before asking people to stand up and state their religion. He then began firing. Hence the conclusion that he was a selective killer.
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It is a fact that Russia has carried out airstrikes in Syria – but, instead of targeting the ISIS, the Russia targets appear to have areas that are held by rebels who are receiving arms, funding, and training from the CIA. Dozens of civilians have died in the Russian airstrikes.
The Syrian National Council is a group opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and they have revealed that at least 36 people had been killed by airstrikes in the western city of Homs – five of them were children.
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Moreover, as per the SNC's leader, none of the four areas targeted by Russian planes had any ISIS fighters. Hence, Moscow's claim that it was helping the U.S.-led coalition defeat the terror group was ‘baseless.’
According to a senior U.S. defense official, the Russian strikes had targeted fighters in the vicinity of Homs, located roughly 60 miles east of a Russian naval facility in Tartus, and were carried out by a "couple" of Russian bombers.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reiterated that the Russian Air Forces are cooperating with the Syrian pro-government military to target "exclusively" Islamic State (ISIS) targets.
To this, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has indicated that Washington was prepared to welcome Russian military action in Syria as long as it is directed against ISIS and other Al Qaeda affiliates. However, if strikes were conducted against other groups, the matter would be grave.
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