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Headline: Gov’t approves mixed prayer area at Western Wall
The government approved on Sunday the creation of a mixed prayer area at the Western Wall in which both men and women can pray together. According to the proposed arrangement, a new prayer area will be set up south of the existing separate prayer areas. The new prayer area will be modeled on the one set up at Robinson’s Arch two years ago where Women of the Wall could worship, and will allow Reform and Conservative Jews to pray according to their custom. The compromise agreement, which was formulated by a team headed by Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelblit and signed by Women of the Wall and the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, ensures that “the Western Wall will be open and accessible to any Jew seeking to pray in a manner that befits his identify and beliefs.” The new prayer area will be made “respectable, accessible and visible, and serve as an integral part of the Western Wall site.” However, the new area will not be connected to the existing separate men and women sections, as it is on a lower level, and located on the other side of the Mughrabi Bridge leading to the Temple Mount. In addition, because of the political sensitivity over construction at the site, it is not possible to create contiguity between the different prayer areas, but the three areas will share an entrance.
January 31, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4760088,00.html
Headline: Three soldiers wounded in shooting attack next to Beit El
Headline: Opinion: Shooting attack in Beit El signals the start of an armed intifada
Headline: Israel’s leaders opt to avoid action on three menacing fronts
Three IDF soldiers were wounded in a shooting attack on Sunday morning at a checkpoint south of the settlement of Beit El in the Samaria region of the West Bank. The terrorist, who arrived at the checkpoint by car from the direction of Ramallah, was shot dead by IDF troops at the checkpoint. He was using a handgun to commit the attack. One of the wounded soldiers, 21 years old, was taken to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Karem in serious condition with a gunshot wound to his neck. His condition was later updated to moderate. Another soldier, 31, was in serious condition and taken to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus with gunshot wounds to his stomach and extremities. The third soldier, 20, was also taken to Hadassah in light condition after being hit in his extremities. A source in the Palestinian security services told Ynet that the terrorist, Amjad a-Sukari, 34, from Jamma’in, was part of the Palestinian security forces and worked as the driver for the Palestinian attorney general Ahmad Hanoun in Ramallah. Meanwhile, Israel’s leaders are clinging to lame locutions – “good judgment and responsibility” – to avoid military action for dealing with crisis situations fast coming to a head on three extremely dangerous fronts: armed Palestinian terrorists are now tying up traffic on a major Israeli highway to the Israeli capital; southern Syria is sliding into the control of Hizballah after this Iranian proxy was permitted to amass 100,000 missiles in S. Lebanon; and, this week, Israelis living near the Gaza Strip heard Palestinians building terror tunnels under their homes.
***please see also Quneitra Syria below
February 1, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4759943,00.html
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Saudi Arabia says 375 civilians killed on its border in Yemen war
Headline: Yemeni Salafi cleric killed hours after preaching against ISIL, Al Qaida
Mortars and rockets fired at Saudi Arabian towns and villages have killed 375 civilians, including 63 children, since the start of the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen in late March, Riyadh said on Monday. Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, told Reuters that the Houthi militia and army forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh had fired more than 40,000 projectiles across the border since the war began. “Now our rules of engagement are: you are close to the border, you are killed,” he said. In a measure of how fierce the fighting on the frontier continues to be, nearly 130 mortars and 15 missiles were fired by the Houthis and Saleh’s forces at Saudi border positions on Monday alone, Asseri said in an interview in Riyadh. Riyadh has been sharply criticized for civilian casualties in coalition air strikes and on Sunday announced it was improving its targeting mechanisms and would form a committee to investigate claims it had hit non-military targets. Around 6,000 people, about half of them civilians, have been killed in fighting and coalition air strikes in Yemen since the war began, according to the United Nations. The civilians killed in Saudi Arabia included both Saudis and expatriates, Asseri said.
February 1, 2016
http://newsdaily.com/2016/02/saudi-arabia-says-375-civilians-killed-on-its-border-in-yemen-war/
http://www.worldtribune.com/top-yemeni-salafi-cleric-killed-in-aden/
Headline: Al-Qaida Seizes Southern Yemeni Town
Al-Qaida’s Yemeni branch seized another town on Monday, setting up checkpoints at its entrances and besieging government buildings before dawn after days of fighting with southern separatists, officials said. The capture of Azzan marks the latest advance for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, which has exploited the chaos of Yemen’s civil war to expand its reach. The security officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to brief reporters. The al-Qaida affiliate has clashed with the Houthis, but the areas it has captured are under the government’s nominal control. An Islamic State affiliate has also emerged in recent months, carrying out a series of attacks on Shiites and government officials. Azzan, with a population of 50,000, is at a crossroads between Aden and the oil and gas-rich Hadramawt province, of which Mukalla is the capital. Officials and witnesses say al-Qaida has a presence inside Aden as well, where it has set up training camps and smuggling operations in the city’s port.
February 1, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/content/al-qaida-seizes-southern-yemeni-town/3171438.html
Egypt
Headline: Bomb explosions leave 4 security forces dead in Egypt
At least 4 members of Egypt’s security forces have been killed in two separate bomb explosions in the country’s volatile Sinai Peninsula. Both attacks targeted the country’s military personnel on Monday. In one attack, a remotely controlled bomb hit a vehicle belonging to the region’s police forces killing two cops, officials told local media. The attack happened in the far northeast of Egypt in the Rafah region, on the border with the besieged Gaza Strip. The other bomb attack killed an army officer and a soldier in the Sheikh Zuwaid region of northern Sinai. No individual or group has yet claimed responsibility for the act of violence, but such assaults are usually blamed on the Daesh-affiliated militants operating in Sinai.
February 1, 2016
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Syria conflict: Dozens killed near Sayyida Zeinab shrine
At least 71 people have died in blasts near the Shia shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of Syria’s capital Damascus. A bus station and a building housing military headquarters were hit by the blasts, which mangled nearby vehicles. It happened as the government and opposition groups gathered in Geneva in a bid to start talks aimed at a political solution to the conflict. The attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, was aimed at disrupting the talks, the EU said. Sunday’s attacks near Sayyida Zeinab were carried out by two suicide bombers, but some witnesses spoke of three blasts. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that, of the 71 people killed, 42 were fighters loyal to the Assad regime. The group said another 29 civilians, including five children, died. The blasts took place several hundred metres from the golden-domed shrine, which was not itself damaged – although it has been previously targeted, most recently in February last year.
February 1, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35454359
Syria Headline: U.N. announces start of Syria peace talks as government troops advance
The United Nations announced on Monday peace talks for Syria had begun and called on world powers to push for a ceasefire, even as government forces, backed by Russian air strikes, launched their biggest offensive near Aleppo in a year. Government troops and allied fighters captured hilly countryside near Aleppo on Monday, putting a key supply route used by opposition forces into firing range, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. Rebels said the offensive was being conducted with massive Russian air support, despite a promise of goodwill steps by the Syrian government to spur peace negotiations. “The (latest) attack started at 2 a.m., with air strikes and missiles,” said rebel commander Ahmed al-Seoud, describing the situation near Aleppo, once Syria’s biggest city and commercial center, now partly ruined and divided between government and insurgent control. Seoud told Reuters his Free Syrian Army group had sent reinforcements to an area near the village of Bashkoy. The British-based Observatory monitoring group said government forces were gaining ground in the area, and had captured most of the village of Duweir al-Zeitun near Bashkoy. It reported dozens of air strikes on Monday morning. Syrian state television also said government forces were advancing.
February 1, 2016
http://newsdaily.com/2016/02/syrian-government-forces-attack-rebels-near-aleppo-talks-to-convene/
Syria Headline: Syria rebels wage new Quneitra offensive
Syrian rebels have launched a new offensive in Quneitra in which they aim once again to open a supply route through the province bordering Israel toward opposition-held positions surrounded by regime troops in Damascus’s western Ghouta area. On Friday, the Syrian Revolutionaries Front, Ansar al-Islam Front and Jaysh al-Sabtain all announced they were starting a campaign entitled “’In Aid of the Children of Madaya,” a reference to the Qalamoun town besieged by Syrian regime forces and Hezbollah. The rebel factions explained they sought to capture Jaba, Tel Kroum, Tel Bazzaq, Al-Rubaei Checkpoint and Mant al-Hisan, all areas east of the regime-held towns of Baath City and Khan Arnabeh. In the ensuing days, rebel groups have shelled regime positions, amid reports of clashes around Jaba, however the opposition factions have yet to notch any advances on the ground. The pro-opposition Al-Souria Net said Sunday that rebels were targeting regime points with artillery, mortars and heavy machinery fire “in the hope of achieving progress in the field in the coming hours.”
February 1, 2016
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/566558-syria-rebels-wage-new-quneitra-offensive
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: More U.S. troops in Iraq may be needed for conventional warfare ops
The top U.S. general in Iraq said Monday that more American troops on the ground may be needed to help the Iraqi army mount the kind of conventional warfare operations needed to defeat Islamic State militants. “Yes, there is a good potential that we will need additional capabilities, additional forces to provide those capabilities. And we’re looking at the right mix … in consultation with the government of Iraq and our other partners,” Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland told reporters Monday. The general said the American-led military training mission there is now focused more on conventional warfare tactics. “We have shifted from a pure counterinsurgency focus and are now preparing the [Iraqi security forces] to conduct what we refer to as combined arms operations,” MacFarland said in a video teleconference from Iraq. “The ability to integrate infantry, armor, artillery, air power, engineers and other assets on the battlefield, provides the Iraqis with a decisive advantage over a static enemy dug in behind complex obstacle belts,” MacFarland said.
February 1, 2016
Kurdish Headline: ISIS attacks Kurdish headquarters north Iraq, killing scores of Peshmergas
Kurdish Headline: ISIS blows up ten Christian houses north of Mosul
At least eight fighters from the Kurdish Peshmerga were killed and six more wounded when militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) bombed Peshmerga’s headquarters in northern Iraq, military sources reported on Sunday. The Peshmerga ministry of Iraqi Kurdistan said in a statement that ISIS launched an attack with mortar fire on their headquarters in Khazir district, about 40km east of Mosul. “Daesh terrorists launched several mortar shells on a security center for our forces in Khazir on Sunday evening,” Peshmerga leadership said, using another acronym for ISIS. “The terror attack led to the martyrdom of eight of our soldiers,” it said, adding that six others were injured. “The wounded soldiers were transferred to Erbil (capital of Iraqi Kurdistan) for treatment,” the Kurdish leadership added. Speaking to ARA News in Erbil, Peshmerga officer Mehme Khalil said: “Our forces were able to impede ISIS’s progress in eastern Mosul. The group now relies on mortar fire and suicide bombs to hit the ranks of the Peshmerga.”
February 1, 2016
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/isis-blows-up-ten-christian-homes-north-of-mosul/
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Turkish, NATO radars detected Russian jet’s airspace violation
Headline: Turkish artillery shells Syrian territory – Russian military presents video proof
Both Turkish and NATO radars detected a Russian jet violating Turkish airspace, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday, refuting Russian claims that the violation was “pure propaganda.” Turkey said Saturday a Russian SU-34 jet had violated its airspace despite warnings, once more stoking tensions between two countries involved in Syria’s war, but Russia had denied that there had been any incursion. “Russia cannot cover up its violation of our airspace. It’s not possible to hide such an incident if it did happen, or to make up a violation if it didn’t happen,” Davutoglu told a press conference in Riyadh. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov denied late Saturday that any Russian plane had entered Turkish airspace, and called the Turkish allegation “pure propaganda.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday warned Moscow that it would be forced to “endure the consequences” if its jets continue to violate Turkish airspace, after Ankara reported a new border infringement incident by a Russian plane.
February 1, 2016
https://www.rt.com/news/330858-turkey-shells-syrian-territory/
Headline: Five Turkish soldiers killed in PKK attacks in southeast
At least five members of the Turkish army forces have been killed in two separate attacks carried out by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the country’s volatile southeast. According to a statement released on the Turkish Armed Forces’ (TSK) website, three members of the security forces were killed and two others were seriously wounded on Monday in an armed attack by PKK militants in the Sur district of Diyarbakir, situated 676 kilometers (420 miles) east of Ankara. The two injured soldiers are still receiving treatment, reports said. The statement also added that two other Turkish soldiers lost their lives in a separate attack in Sur on the same day. This as three Turkish security officers, including a soldier and two police officers, were killed on January 31 in clashes with the PKK in the violence-hit Cizre district of the southeastern province of Sirnak.
February 1, 2016
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/01/448304/PKK-Sur-Diyarbakir-Kurdistan-Workers-Party
Iran
Headline: Iran: $100B in assets ‘fully released’ under nuclear deal
Headline: Iranian leader gives out medals for detention of US sailors
Iran says it now has access to more than $100 billion worth of frozen overseas assets following the implementation of the nuclear deal with world powers. Government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht says much of the money had been piling up in banks in China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey since international sanctions were tightened in 2012 over Tehran’s nuclear program. His comments were posted on the website of state-run Press TV on Monday. The landmark agreement brought about the lifting of international sanctions last month after the U.N. verified that Iran had curbed its nuclear activities. Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency meanwhile quoted Central Bank official Nasser Hakimi as saying nine Iranian banks are now reconnected to SWIFT, a Belgian-based cooperative that handles wire transfers between financial institutions.
February 1, 2016
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-leader-gives-out-medals-for-detention-of-us-sailors/
Afghanistan
Headline: Deadly Suicide Blast Rocks Kabul
A powerful suicide blast targeting a major police facility in the Afghan capital has killed at least 20 police officers and wounded 29 other people. The head of Kabul’s crime investigation department said security guards identified the suspected bomber as he moved toward the Afghan National Civil Order Police Headquarters and tried to stop him when he blew himself up. He condemned the perpetrators as “enemies of Afghanistan.” The Taliban claimed responsibility. In a statement sent to reporters, the insurgent group’s spokesman said its suicide bomber attacked a group of officers gathered at the gate of the police center. The bombing is the latest in a series of Taliban attacks that have hit Kabul in recent days.
February 1, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/content/suicide-bomber-strikes-outside-kabul-police-office/3171295.html
Sudan
Headline: South Sudan troops killed 50 civilians by suffocation – report
Headline: Sudan’s VP nixes idea of ties with Israel
South Sudan’s government troops killed about 50 civilians last October by stuffing them into a shipping container in baking heat, a report has said. The document by the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), which oversees the country’s ceasefire, said the incident took place in Unity State. The government has not commented on the claim – the latest reported atrocities in more than two years of war. Thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced since then. “About 50 people suffocated in a container on about 22 October. The investigation was protracted. Attribution of responsibility: Government Forces,” the JMEC report said. The document by the monitoring group, which is backed by the African Union, was made public late on Sunday. Metal containers are often used as makeshift prison cells in the country.
February 1, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35465136
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Sudans-VP-nixes-idea-of-ties-with-Israel-443509
Libya
Headline: Attack damages oil pipeline south of Libya’s Zueitina port
Headline: Report: Sirte residents ecstatic as secret sniper picks off ISIL commanders in Libya
Maintenance teams are working to repair damage caused by an attack on an oil pipeline south of the Libyan port of Zueitina, a spokesman for the pipeline’s guards said on Monday. It was not clear who carried out the attack late on Sunday evening, but Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants have been active in the area in recent weeks. An explosion and fire hit the pipeline in the desert 75 km (47 miles) south of the terminal, said Ali al-Hassi, a spokesman for the Petroleum Facilities Guard that controls nearby oil installations. The pipeline leads from oil field 103 to the export terminal at Zueitina, which was closed last year by a conflict between Libya’s rival governments, one based in Tripoli and the second, internationnally recognised one in the east. ISIS militants have taken advantage of political chaos and a security vacuum to establish a foothold in Libya. Last month, they launched a series of attacks causing major damage at the oil terminals of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, which lie between Zueitina and the ISIS-controlled city of Sirte.
February 1, 2016
http://www.worldtribune.com/report-secret-sniper-picking-off-isil-commanders-in-libya/
Tunisia
Headline: Tunisia police, Islamist militants clash, two dead – government
Tunisian police have clashed with Islamist gunmen in a remote mountainous area in the southern region of Gabes, killing at least two miliants, the interior ministry said on Monday. Tunisia’s security forces are on a campaign against Islamist militants who have targeted military checkpoints and patrols in outlying areas. Islamic State has also claimed three deadly urban attacks last year that hit Tunisia’s tourism industry. “During counter-terrorism operations, police exchanged fire with a group of terrorists. First indications are that two terrorists were killed and a policeman injured,” the ministry said in a statement. Tunisia has escaped major upheaval and violence suffered by other countries who ousted longstanding leaders in the 2011 Arab Spring revolts. It has been held up as a model for democratic transition since the uprising against Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. But its young democracy and economy were tested by three major attacks last year, including Islamic State shootings targeting foreigners at a Sousse beach hotel and a Tunis museum, and also a suicide bombing in the capital.
February 1, 2016
Headline: ISIS Sanctuary: January 29, 2016
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/ISIS%20Sanctuary%2028%20JAN-01.pdf
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Toll climbs to 85 in weekend Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
Headline: Boko Haram burned children alive in Nigeria, witness says
At least 85 people died this weekend when Boko Haram insurgents stormed and torched a village near the restive northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a state commissioner said Monday. It was the third deadly attack to hit the area in four days, after suicide bombers killed at least 24 people in two separate attacks on towns to the south. Nigeria’s army said the gunmen attacked Dalori just outside Maiduguri late on Saturday after evening prayers, burning down the village and sending residents fleeing into the bush. A first toll Sunday put the deaths at 50 but Borno State health commissioner Haruna Mshelia said 75 bodies were brought into hospitals and 10 others buried. “A total of 65 bodies were deposited at the specialist hospital, 10 others are being deposited at UMTH (another hospital), while another 10 were buried yesterday evening at the Dalori community cemetery” Mshelia said.
February 1, 2016
http://news.yahoo.com/scores-feared-dead-boko-haram-attack-near-maiduguri-133440838.html
Headline: Somalia mortar attack injures six, kills child
Six people have been injured and a child has been killed in a mortar attack on the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, police say. The incident occurred on Monday after mortar shells targeted Villa Somalia, the main government complex which includes Somalia’s presidential palace. “There was a mortar attack near the presidential palace, but several of the rounds struck civilian neighborhoods,” Somali police officer Abdirahman Siyad said. “An innocent child died and a number of others were wounded.” Witnesses said they heard as many as five explosions. “I saw six wounded civilians, some of them seriously,” said Abdi Moalim Hussein, one of the neighbors. No group or individual has so far claimed responsibility for the attack but such acts of violence are usually carried out by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militant group.
February 1, 2016
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/01/448277/Somalia-Mogadishu-alShabab
Headline: Paving The Way For The Antichrist – The Consolidation Of Power
Today, consolidation of power throughout society is increasing at a rapid pace. From the television shows we watch, to the news sites we visit, to the music we listen to and our financial institutions, the amount of control has passed from the many to the few. The many different brands we use give us the illusion of choice but, more often than not, the real power is consolidated in just a few corporations or individuals. Earlier this month Oxfam, in a complaint against tax havens, reported how that even those who hold the greatest wealth and influence in society, have regrouped into an ‘ultra’ elite, as a mere 62 individuals control as much money as the poorest 3.5 billion people on the entire planet. Back in 2010, 388 members of the elite had as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity. But since then that number has been steadily falling and now it is down to just 62. At this pace, Oxfam is projecting that in just a few years a single person will have as much money as the poorest half of the global population combined. Have you noticed your banking options are much more limited than 20 years ago? In the last few decades 37 banks have merged to became just 4 mega-banks: Citibank, JPMorgan/Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. This same trend can be seen in the corporate media world. Thirty years ago 50 different corporations dominated what, today, we call the mainstream media. Now that control has been centralized around 6 major corporations: Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdochs News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal. Together, the “big six” absolutely dominate news and entertainment in the United States. If you look at any type of media outlet today, chances are they will have links to one of these companies. It is not without significance that all these major media conglomerates are also corporate members of the Council on Foreign Relations.
February 1, 2016
http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=91
Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide– “ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)
Headline: IMF sees years of austerity for Saudi Arabia, as debt defaults loom
The International Monetary Fund has predicted years of higher taxes and low fuel subsidies for oil-rich Saudi Arabia. As crude prices have fallen more than 70 percent in 18 months, weaker players could soon start to default on debts. Saudi Arabia will need to stop relying so heavily on oil revenues, which make up more than 80 percent of the government’s wealth, said Masood Ahmed, head of the Middle East department at the IMF. “This will have to be part of a multi-year adjustment process. There will have to be a major transformation of the Saudi economy. It is necessary, and it is going to be difficult, but it is a challenge which I think the authorities have clearly laid out,” Ahmed told the Telegraph. According to IMF estimates, Saudi Arabia may be running a $140 billion budget deficit, much more than the official figures of $98 billion. To change that, Riyadh will have to change its electricity, water and oil subsidies for population of 30 million. “Energy price reform is key. It has been part of the social contract but that will now need to change,” Ahmed said. The current situation in the oil market reminds analysts of 1986 oil glut, when the Saudis sparked a four-month, 67 percent collapse that left oil just above $10 a barrel. Prices sank to as low as $10.42 per barrel in March 1986 from a November 1985 peak of $31.72. During the 1986 oil crisis, 17 out of 25 of the world’s major oil producers defaulted on their debts, says a research from Oxford Economics. The debt in these producers rose to 40 percent of GDP on average.
February 1, 2016
https://www.rt.com/business/330857-saudia-arabia-oil-austerity/
January 27, 2016 – Thousands of fish have died in a reservoir in Nevada
http://www.kolotv.com/content/news/NDOW-Rye-Patch-Fishery-Could-Take-Years-to-Recover-366788351.html
January 28, 2016 – Tons of fish have died in farms in Ha Tinh province, Vietnam
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdantri.com.vn%2Fxa-hoi%2Fca-chet-ret-trang-be-hang-chuc-nong-dan-mat-tet-20160128161440751.htm&edit-text=&act=url
January 28, 2016 – Almost 9,000 Buffalo and cows killed by cold in Northern Vietnam
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?to=&from=&a=http://www.vietnamplus.vn/hon-8900-con-trau-bo-bi-chet-do-thoi-tiet-ret-dam-ret-hai/368953.vnp
January 28, 2016 – Hundreds of sea birds found dead on a beach on Sea of Galilee, Israel
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-seagulls-found-dead-on-sea-of-galilee-beach/
January 28, 2016 – Over 22,000 sea birds found dead, ‘biggest die off ever recorded’, along beaches in Alaska
https://www.adn.com/article/20160129/scientists-think-gulf-alaska-seabird-die-biggest-ever-recorded
January 29, 2016 – 2.5 Million birds killed due to avian flu in 18 states of Nigeria
http://www.punchng.com/bird-flu-in-18-states-affects-2-5-million-chickens/
January 30, 2016 – Over 500 camels have died from ‘mysterious disease’ in Marsabit, Kenya
http://www.nation.co.ke/counties/Mysterious-disease-kills-camels-in-Marsabit/-/1107872/3048394/-/ofkfsaz/-/index.html
January 31, 2016 – Large die off of fish in Snake River, Washington
http://www.union-bulletin.com/news/large-die-off-of-shad-attracts-rare-gulls/article_e5e12262-c7f0-11e5-b664-771d04052407.html
February 1, 2016 – Mass fish deaths reported again at Shing Mun River
http://www.ejinsight.com/20160201-mass-fish-deaths-reported-again-at-shing-mun-river/
Headline: UN Health Agency Declares Zika Virus Global Emergency
The World Health Organization has announced that the explosive spread of the Zika virus in the Americas is an “extraordinary event” that merits being declared an international emergency. The agency convened an emergency meeting of independent experts on Monday to assess the outbreak after noting a suspicious link between Zika’s arrival in Brazil last year and a surge in the number of babies born with abnormally small heads. Although WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said there was no definitive proof that the Zika virus, spread by mosquitoes, is responsible for the birth defects, she acknowledged on Thursday that “the level of alarm is extremely high.” The last such public health emergency was declared for the devastating 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which killed more than 11,000 people. WHO estimates there could be up to 4 million cases of Zika in the Americas in the next year.
February 1, 2016
http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.700797
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Volcano explodes 1.8 miles high hours after massive earthquake
The Karymsky volcano in Russian Kamchatka’s eastern volcanic zone spewed ash up to 3km into the air, according to the Regional Emergencies Ministry. Airlines have been placed on an “orange” warning to avoid the area following today’s eruption. It came less than 48 hours hours after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake tore through the region, followed by a series of at least seven less powerful aftershocks. Terrified shoppers fled from a shopping mall after feeling the tremors inside. The epicentre of the earthquake was within about 20 miles of the 1,486 metre-high magma mountain, prompting fears seismic activity is on the rise and there could be a catastrophic earthquake, volcanic eruption or both.
February 1, 2016
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Headline: What’s shaking? 
List & map of USGS Earthquakes
