Jalili in Damascus underscores Iran’s commitment to Assad

Tehran gave Bashar Assad its strongest avowal of support Tuesday, Aug. 7, while heaping threats on the heads of his enemies. Saeed Jalili, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, stood alongside the Syrian ruler in Damascus at the end of their talks and vowed not to let Iran’s “close partnership with the Syrian leadership […]

Ernesto Becomes a Hurricane

Ernesto has become a hurricane and is moving on a west-northwest track toward a landfall just north of the border between Belize and Mexico Tuesday night into early Wednesday. Ernesto’s rain and wind will first begin to arrive during the day on Tuesday.

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Tropical Storm Ernesto Spins in the Atlantic

All of our forecast guidance shows Tropical Storm Ernesto moving westward in the direction of the Windward and Leeward Islands.

 

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Half of U.S. counties now ‘disaster’ areas as drought spreads…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nearly 220 counties in a dozen drought-stricken states were added Wednesday to the U.S. government’s list of natural disaster areas as the nation’s agriculture chief unveiled new help for frustrated, cash-strapped farmers and ranchers grappling with extreme dryness and heat.

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Extreme Drought Grows in Heartland

The drought disaster in the nation’s Heartland continues to worsen, even as rains elsewhere cut into the total extent of drought, according to the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report released Thursday morning.

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Netanyahu: I won’t let Israel face an Iranian atomic threat

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, July 31, that he hasn’t yet reached a decision on attacking Iran. He then went on to say, “The ayatollahs have inscribed Israel’s destruction on their banner” and stressed his personal commitment “not to permit Israel to come under Iranian atomic threat.”

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Khamenei Warns Iran’s Top Leaders: WAR IN WEEKS

On July 27, just before Friday prayers, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei summoned top Iranian military chiefs for what he called “their last war council.”

“We’ll be at war within weeks,” he told the gathering, debkafile’s exclusive Iranian and intelligence sources disclose.

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The bid for Syria’s first safe haven in Aleppo region is thwarted

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta commented Monday, July 30 on his way to the Middle East that the Syrian army’s shattering assault on Aleppo, Syria’s commercial hub, “will ultimately be another nail in Assad’s coffin.” This was a measure of the frustration generated by the failure for now of the Western-backed Arab bid to establish […]

Muslim Brothers plotting overthrow of Gulf states

Dubai police chief warns of "international plot" against Gulf states, says Iran, Syria and MB must know Gulf is a red line.

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“I had no idea that there is this large number of Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf states.”  You know the thing that gets me about bible prophecy is just how […]

Russia eager to challenge Washington, seeks naval bases in Cuba, Vietnam

Russia is talking to Cuba, Vietnam and the Seychelles about housing Russian navy ships, its naval chief has said.

Vice-admiral Viktor Chirkov told the RIA Novosti state news agency Russia was in talks with the three countries about setting up maintenance and supply facilities but would not give further details.

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Russia wants […]