Jan. 22, 2018- EU promises to back Abbas’ demand for Jerusalem
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The Last Chronicles of Planet Earth January 14, 2018 Edition written by Frank DiMora
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How long will Mahmud Abbas live? Since Abbas continues to be an enemy of Israel I would expect not much longer. Why? Did the Lord warn that those who curse Israel with be cursed? Yes He did. I can’t number the number of times Abbas has shown the world he wants to destroy Israel. Watch the news and keep your eyes on Abbas!
Headline: EU promises to back Abbas’ demand for Jerusalem
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Monday urged EU member states to “swiftly” grant official recognition to the state of Palestine as he arrived to meet foreign ministers from the bloc in Brussels.
“We truly consider the European Union as a true partner and friend, and therefore we call its member states to swiftly recognize the state of Palestine and we confirm that there is no contradiction between recognition and the resumption of negotiations,” Abbas told reporters.
The 82-year-old Abbas met EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini for one-on-one talks before joining the bloc’s 28 foreign ministers for lunch on the sidelines of their monthly meeting, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a similar trip last month.
Jan. 22, 2018
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1230981/middle-east
Headline: Mahmoud Abbas wins EU backing for Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem
Headline: EU promises to back Abbas’ demand for Jerusalem
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Monday urged EU member states to “swiftly” grant official recognition to the state of Palestine as he arrived to meet foreign ministers from the bloc in Brussels.
“We truly consider the European Union as a true partner and friend, and therefore we call its member states to swiftly recognize the state of Palestine and we confirm that there is no contradiction between recognition and the resumption of negotiations,” Abbas told reporters. The 82-year-old Abbas met EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini for one-on-one talks before joining the bloc’s 28 foreign ministers for lunch on the sidelines of their monthly meeting, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a similar trip last month.
Jan. 22, 2018
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1230981/middle-east
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/241027
Jordan
Headline: Jordan’s king says east Jerusalem must be capital of Palestinian state
In remarks during talks with US Vice Mike Pence in Amman, the king said the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was a two-state one. “The US decision on Jerusalem …does not come as a result of a comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” the monarch told Pence at the start of the talks in the royal palace. It also broke with decades of US policy that the city’s status must be decided in negotiations with the Palestinians, who want east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state. Pence told the king that Washington was committed to preserving the status quo of holy sites in Jerusalem. “We take no decision on boundaries and final status, those are subject to negotiation,” he said. Pence’s is the highest-level visit by a US official to the region since Trump made his declaration on Jerusalem last month. Jordanian officials fear Washington’s move on Jerusalem had also wrecked chances of a resumption of Arab-Israeli peace talks which the monarch had sought to revive.
Jan. 21, 2018
Lebanon
Headline: Nasrallah warns Israel against continued construction of border wall
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has warned Israel against continued construction of a wall along its border with Lebanon, after Beirut said the project was undermining peace. “After liberating the Lebanese occupied territories from the Zionist enemy in 2000, the UN demarcation of the national border with the Palestinian territories left 13 controversial positions, and the Lebanese government informed the UNIFIL about its rejection for any Israeli measure in this concern,” Nasrallah was quoted by Hezbollah website al-Manar as saying. “The Islamic Resistance backs the Lebanese government and army, and the Zionists must take Lebanon’s warning seriously,” he said. On Friday, Lebanese President Michel Aoun met in Beirut with UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Maj.-Gen. Michael Beary and stressed that a border fence within the demarcated Blue Line “isn’t compatible with the efforts that [UNIFIL] is exerting in cooperation with the Lebanese Army to preserve security and stability along the southern border.”
Jan. 21, 2018
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Russia calls for diplomatic solution to Yemen conflict
Russia on Monday called for an end to fighting in Yemen. Russia halted its diplomatic presence in Yemen last month. “There is no alternative but to end armed conflict as soon as possible in Yemen,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow with his Yemeni counterpart Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi. He said Moscow would engage with all sides to help the situation move to a political dialogue. The Yemeni foreign minister said: “The legitimate government of Yemen, in common with the Arab coalition, supports a peaceful solution,” in comments translated into Russian. “War was not our choice, war was imposed on us,” he said. Separately, Yemeni security officials said Houthi rebels fired Katyusha rockets on a military parade near the central city of Taiz, killing four civilians, including a local journalist, in an apparent assassination attempt on the interior minister and his deputy. The officials spoke about Monday’s attack on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.
Jan. 22, 2018
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1231206/middle-east
Syria
Headline: Syria offensive: Turkish troops ‘capture villages’ in Afrin
Headline:Will Turkish Invasion of Syria Bring About Pre-Messianic Conflict With Russia?
Turkish forces have captured a number of villages in north-western Syria, on the third day of an offensive to oust Kurdish fighters, Turkish media report. Troops, accompanied by allied Syrian rebels, reportedly seized control of several areas in Afrin on Monday. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would not “step back” in the assault following talks with Russia. Turkey considers the Kurdish YPG militia it is targeting in the region to be a terrorist group. “We are determined, Afrin will be sorted out,” Mr Erdogan said in a live television broadcast in Ankara on Monday. “We will take no step back,” he said, adding: “We spoke about this with our Russian friends; we have an agreement.”On Monday, the Afrin villages of Shankal, Qorne, Bali and Adah Manli were reportedly captured, along with rural areas including Kita, Kordo and Bibno, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency. But the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, said the YPG had repelled Turkish troops from two villages that had been briefly captured in heavy fighting.
Jan. 22, 2018
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42771469
Iran
Headline: Iran says warplanes warned off 2 Western vessels during drill
Iranian warplanes warned off two “coalition vessels” during military drill in waters off the country’s southeast, a senior naval officer said, in the latest confrontation between Iranian and Western forces that patrol the Gulf. The vessels approached the area of the drills early on Monday to monitor Iranian ships, said Rear Admiral Mahmoud Mousavi, spokesman for the drills, according to Tasnim news agency. “Iranian drones identified the vessels, then Iranian planes flew over them and gave them a warning. The vessels left the area,” he was quoted as saying. The Iranian army launched two days of exercises on Monday involving ground, naval and air forces in the country’s south and southeast, near the Makran Coast, and other areas in the Gulf of Oman.
Jan. 22, 2018
Afghanistan
Headline: Afghan Intercontinental Hotel attack: Death toll in Kabul reaches 22
At least 22 people have now been reported killed in a siege by gunmen at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel, the health ministry says. The attack ended more then 12 hours after gunmen in army uniforms entered the hotel around 21:00 local time (16:30 GMT) on Saturday. The Taliban said their fighters were behind the attack. Sources told national news channel, Tolo News, that the death toll could be as high as 43. Some 160 people were rescued after Afghan troops fought through Saturday night to regain control of the building. The gunmen – armed with rocket-propelled grenades as well as smaller weapons – took many of the guests hostage. “They were shouting… ‘Don’t leave any of them alive, good or bad. Shoot and kill them all,” a guest, Abdul Rahman Naseri, said. Several guests were pictured using bed sheets to try to climb down from a top-floor balcony. All six attackers have reportedly been killed. Kabul police told the BBC that nine Ukrainians, one German, one Greek and one Kazakh citizen had been confirmed dead. Two other foreigners have yet to be identified.
Jan. 22, 2018
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42774198
Headline: ‘We loot or we die of hunger’: food shortages fuel unrest in Venezuela
Amid desperate food shortages Venezuelans are picking up new survival skills. On the night of 9 January, for example, a hungry mob took just 30 minutes to pick clean a grocery store in the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz. By the time owner Luis Felipe Anatael arrived at the bodega he’d opened five months earlier, the looters had hauled away everything from cold cuts to ketchup to the cash registers. “It makes you want to cry,” said Anatael in a telephone interview. “I think we are headed for chaos.” Evidence for his prediction can be found in towns and cities across Venezuela that have been hit by an outbreak of looting and mob violence. Angry about empty supermarket shelves and soaring prices, some people are breaking into warehouses, ransacking food trucks and invading outlying farms. During the first 11 days of January the Venezuelan Observatory for Social Conflict, a Caracas rights group, recorded 107 episodes of looting and several deaths in 19 of Venezuela’s 23 states. But the figures don’t fully capture the level of desperation.
Jan. 21, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/21/venezuela-looting-violence-food-shortages
Headline: Scientists are worried a mysterious “zombie” disease killing deer could spread to humans
Deer across North America are dying from a mysterious disease that gradually destroys the animals’ nervous systems. And scientists are concerned that the infection could make its way to humans. Chronic wasting disease — or “zombie deer disease” — was first observed in 1967 in Fort Collins, Colorado, and has since infected wild herds in 24 states and Canada, as well as in South Korea and Norway, NPR reported. “CWD passes from animal to animal through prions, misfolded proteins that cause other proteins to misfold around them,” NPR reported. “Different prion diseases tend to only harm certain species, but can evolve to overcome those limitations.” In some herds, as many as half of the animals carry prions. But direct contact isn’t the only way prions are transmitted. According to The New York Times, sick animals and cadavers can spread prions through plants and soil, which could be coated with deformed proteins for years, perhaps even decades.
Jan. 20, 2018
Headline:Brazil declares yellow fever emergency in Minas Gerais
Brazil’s south-eastern state of Minas Gerais has declared a public health emergency following a deadly outbreak of yellow fever. At least 15 people have died there since December. Many areas, including the state capital Belo Horizonte, have been affected. A mass vaccination programme is in place in three southern states. But queues have formed outside clinics in Rio and Sao Paulo amid concerns that vaccines could run out. In neighbouring Argentina, there have also been long queues for the vaccine in Buenos Aires and other cities as thousands of prospective tourists prepare to travel to Brazil for carnival. On Tuesday the WHO recommended that travellers to Sao Paulo state get a yellow fever vaccine before visiting.
Jan. 21, 2018
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42763471
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