March 13, 2015-He is coming with clouds
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Revelation 1:7 : “Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.”
Headline: Hamas digging, building outposts not far from border fence
Footage filmed this week shows armed and masked Hamas fighters hard at work preparing for a possible future escalation with Israel; ‘This phenomenon did not exist before Operation Protective Edge, now they’re building outposts and training facilities right under our noses,’ area resident says. Hamas is preparing for the next round of fighting against Israel by building fortifications near the Israel-Gaza border, video footage filmed this week not far from the border fence shows. Armed and masked, Hamas fighters are seen in the video digging and setting up outposts and training facilities only dozens of meters from the border fence. At some point, two armed and masked Hamas fighters are seen helping a man descend – possibly into the ground. The video was not filmed covertly, or with advanced technology used by the IDF’s top intelligence units – it was filmed with a regular video camera from inside Israel, several dozen meters from the houses of Netiv HaAsara, north of the Gaza Strip. The Hamas fighters are seen operating where the settlements of Elei Sinai and Nisanit once were, before they were evacuated as part of the Gaza disengagement. The residents of Netiv HaAsara are accustomed to seeing Hamas men setting up outposts and levees near the border fence, but in recent days the men working have been armed and masked, with Hamas flags flying visibly overhead.
March 12, 2015
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4636622,00.html
Headline: Kerry and Abbas to Meet in Egypt
Headline: Kerry tells Abbas he’ll press Israel to transfer withheld funds
United States Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II on the sidelines of economic talks in Egypt on Friday, American officials said on Thursday night. The talks are likely to focus on the economic crisis facing the PA and could be a four-way meeting which would also include Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a State Department official was quoted by AFP as having said. “We continue to be concerned about the PA,” the official told reporters travelling with Kerry on his plane to the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. “It’s really part of the continuous, ongoing conversation we’re having with the critical stakeholders here,” the official said, asking not to be named. Kerry is due to arrive Friday at the resort to attend an international economic conference, set to burnish Sisi’s global credentials. Last month, Kerry voiced fears that the PA may be teetering on the brink of collapse because of a lack of funding, as Israel withholds taxes and donor aid stalls.
March 13, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192558#.VQM_duEe2uQ
http://www.timesofisrael.com/kerry-talks-mideast-peace-with-abbas-sissi-jordan-king/
Headline: Netanyahu and his Likud are running out of time to survive the March 17 ballot
Headline: Is This the Man Who Could Beat Netanyahu and Become Israel’s Next PM?
Five days before Israel’s snap election, people who have seen Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu close up say he looks weary and, behind his controlled façade, shocked to discover that his Likud party faces the real possibility of being thrown out of office on March 17. At a meeting of the party faithful, Wednesday, March 11, he warned – not once but again and again – that if they don’t get a move on fast, Israel could be stuck with “Bougie and Tzipi” [Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni co-leaders of the opposition Zionist Camp] as prime ministers. The former Labor party keeps on overtaking Likud in opinion polls – not by much but consistently. When the figures hit 24-25 Knesset seats to his party’s 21, Netanyahu finally bestirred himself to go stumping across the country. He hasn’t yet lost the race for another term in the prime minister’s office, but he will need to pull some rabbits out of his hat and aces from his sleeve if he wants to be chosen by the president as the most credible candidate for forming the next government. Herzog may get there first. This campaign has held a couple more surprises and others may be in store in the short time remaining.
March 13, 2015
http://time.com/3740282/herzog-israel-election/
“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)
Jordan
Headline: Israel security officials recommend barrier on Jordan border
Israeli security officials have recommended building a barrier along the border with Jordan — the Jewish state’s only frontier that does not yet feature a fence. “Security officials recommended the construction of a security barrier to protect the new airport which will be built at Timna” some 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of resort city Eilat, an army spokeswoman said, without elaborating. Work has already begun on the new airport near Eilat, which lies across the Jordanian border from the port city of Aqaba. Newspaper Haaretz reported that the planned 30-kilometre (19-mile) barrier was designed both to protect the airport and to foil attempts by would-be “jihadist infiltrators” from Jordan, which is home to some extremist sympathisers and a number of radical clerics. It was unclear whether the government would approve construction of the fence.
March 13, 2015
Lebanon
Headline: Hezbollah deputy chief slams anti-ISIS coalition
Hezbollah’s deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem Friday blasted the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, accusing Washington and partner countries of creating the militant group. “We hear the world wants to confront ISIS because it represents takfiri terrorism. Who created ISIS? Those who want to fight [ISIS] are the ones who raised and funded ISIS,” Qassem told a local prize distributing ceremony. His comments came in a statement released by Hezbollah Friday. Qassem said the U.S. has provided ISIS with weapons and training “starting from Afghanistan all the way to Syria and Iraq.” Gulf countries, on the other hand, according to the Hezbollah official, “paid a lot of money to make them [ISIS] strong in order to [carry out acts of] sabotage in their name and on behalf of America.” “And Israel opened hospitals [to ISIS casualties]; and contact between takfiris in Syria’s Qunaitra and Israel is constantly ongoing, uninterrupted, because they are part of this scheme,” Qassem said. “Therefore, those from the [U.S.-led] coalition who claim to be combating the takfiri scheme are not honest.” He said the world today was witnessing a confrontation between two schemes: the resistance scheme which is honest, sincere and divine; and the scheme led by the U.S. and Israel, which seeks to plunge men into destruction at all intellectual, political and economic levels.
March 13, 2015
Headline: Hezbollah Readying to Attack Islamist Fighters along Lebanon’s Border
Hezbollah is reportedly mobilizing and preparing to carry out a wide-range attack on more than one axis in the rebel-held areas in the Syrian Qalamoun region and on Lebanon’s Eastern Mountain range. A source close to Hizbullah revealed in comments to the Italian news agency Adnkronos (AKI) that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Syrian regime forces will back the party’s assault on militant posts. The source said Hizbullah had waged a stake that the harshness of the winter in Qalamoun, strategically located on the Lebanese border, would limit the movement of the Islamist fighters and reduce their areas of control. However, the failure of the party’s expectation compelled Hizbullah to stage the wide-area operation to force the rebels to retreat. “The party’s strategy during winter failed to block the key rebel supply line,” the source told the news agency, fearing that the rebels have stepped up their readiness for a battle in the spring.
March 13, 2015
Egypt
Headline: Egypt’s Sisi faces growing pressure from jihadists, Obama administration
Headline: Egypt’s Sissi says country in danger of collapse
Anger is building in Egypt’s government at being treated with hostility by its traditional ally in Washington while coping with a drumbeat of terror incidents targeting security forces in Sinai and foreign business interests here. Asked on March 9 about the shifting U.S. policy in the region, Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi responded: “Difficult question.” After a long silence, he added: ““The suspending of U.S. equipment and arms was an indicator for the public that the United States is not standing by the Egyptians.” Although the Obama administration recently agreed to provide the Egyptian Air Force with Apache attack helicopters, it has blocked most military purchases since Muslim Brotherhood Leader Mohammed Morsi was overthown by Sisi in a coup that met with widespread popular support in Egypt. On Monday, terror attacks in Alexandria targeted an elementary school and three businesses including two banks. Security analyst Janet Basurto attributed some of the attacks to the desire to inhibit foreign investments in Egypt as well as punish police forces. In the past weeks, several cities in Egypt have been rocked by similar attacks, according to EgyptianStreets.com.
March 13, 2015
http://www.timesofisrael.com/egypts-sissi-says-country-in-danger-of-collapse/
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Eighty percent of all Syria’s lights have gone out due to war
Eighty-three percent of all the lights in Syria have gone out since the start of the conflict four years ago, a research report based on satellite images said on Thursday. More than 200,000 people have been killed and nearly four million have fled the country according to the United Nations. The uprising started in 2011 with a pro-democracy movement and a government crackdown and has since spiralled into a civil war. A coalition of 130 humanitarian and human rights organisations, calling themselves WithSyria, in coordination with scientists based at Wuhan University in China, found that the worst hit area was Aleppo province. Much of Aleppo city has been destroyed by Syrian air force helicopters dropping barrel bombs, crudely-made explosives that can flatten whole neighbourhoods. The research showed a 97 percent decline in light in Aleppo province. Raqqa province, where the hard-line Islamic State insurgent group has taken control, saw a decline in light by 96 percent, it said. The southern province of Damascus, mostly held by the government, saw the smallest decline in light, by 33 percent, the research showed.
March 12, 2015
http://www.trust.org/item/20150312000117-pcxq8/
Syria Headline: Fifty people killed in battle for Assad home province
More than 50 regime soldiers and Islamist fighters were killed as they battled over a strategic hilltop in Syrian President Bashar Assad’s home province, an activist group said Thursday. Government forces clashed with Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants backed by other armed Islamist groups in a village in Latakia province in the northwest. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting broke out Wednesday and raged through the night in Jabal al-Akrad district, a rare rebel stronghold in the province, which is the heartland of the ruling Assad clan. Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate the Nusra Front and its allies were seeking to recapture the village of Dourin, which overlooks their positions in one of the district’s main towns, Salma. They lost the village to Assad’s forces last week after holding it for more than a year. “The clashes Wednesday led to 50 dead from both sides. There are many casualties because the fighters are facing off directly,” Observatory head Rami Abdel-Rahman said.
March 13, 2015
Syria Headline: Nusra Front pulls out of Damascus suburb
Militants from the Nusra Front have vacated a suburb of the Syrian capital in the wake of deadly clashes with residents and a local militia, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday. The Britain-based group said that an “Islamist faction” was involved in the mediation efforts to secure the withdrawal by Nusra Front fighters from Beit Sahm. It came several days after an unspecified number of residents and fighters from the Nusra Front and the Sham al-Rasoul militia were killed in two days of running street battles. The tension erupted last week when hundreds of residents of Beit Sahm and nearby Babila staged a protest to demand the exit of the Nusra Front from the area. Pro-opposition media outlets said that among other things, the withdrawal of the Nusra Front could lead to the reopening of a regime-held humanitarian aid corridor.
March 13, 2015
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Mar-13/290608-nusra-front-pulls-out-of-damascus-suburb.ashx
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraq Headline: Iran Deepening Involvement in Iraq’s War on ISIS
Iraq Headline: Iranian advisor clarifies ‘Baghdad capital of Iranian empire’ remark
Iraqi army forces and Shi’ite militias, with the help of Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers, continue their fight to liberate Tikrit from Islamic State (ISIS), according to local reports Friday. Iraqi officials explained that Iranian involvement in the region is deepening. Hadi al-Aamiri, leader of the “Badr” sect of the Iraqi parliament, said in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat Friday that the presence of Iranian advisers accompanying the Iraqi army is “a source of pride.” “Why is there some sensitivity with respect to the presence of Iranian consultants here, when it is known that there are currently more than four thousand American advisers in Iraq?” he asked. “The Iranian advisers accompany us on the battlefield and give us the best counseling, and we are proud of them, because they will help us to liberate the provinces of Nineveh and al-Anbar fully after we liberate Tikrit and Kirkuk,” he continued. “Those who speak against the Iranian advisers should thank and praise them – for without them and without Qasem Soleimani (commander of the Guard’s Quds force), Iraq would be under ISIS rule.” Meanwhile, Ali Younisi, Iranian President Hassan Rowhani’s adviser on Ethnic and Religious Minorities affairs, clarified a statement made Monday – “Baghdad is now capital of the Iranian empire” – saying Tehran never wants to damage its neighboring country’s sovereignty and independence, Al Alam website reported. Instead, Younesi said that he was alluding to cultural similarities with Iraq, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan, adding that “unification” of these countries could halt expansionist agendas of powers foreign to the region.
March 13, 2015
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192583#.VQM-8OEe2uQ
Iraq Headline: Iraqi Forces Press Offensive to Retake Tikrit
Iraq Headline: Iraqi offensive on Tikrit appears to stall
Iraqi security forces on Friday pressed on with their massive offensive to retake Tikrit, where fighters from the Islamic State group have reportedly begun to lose ground. Baghdad officials continue to express confidence they will soon completely retake the city, which has strategic and symbolic value, as the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. As many as 30,000 Iraqi troops and Iranian-backed Shi’ite militia members have surrounded the city and retaken several areas, though it remains unclear how far the forces have reached. The multi-front offensive, now in its second week, has been slowed by snipers and booby traps set by Islamic State fighters. On Friday, six soldiers were reportedly killed in a suicide car bombing.
March 13, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/iraqi-forces-continue-offensive-to-retake-tikrit/2678669.html
Iraq Headline: Islamic State Uses Chlorine Gas: Iraqi Official
An Iraqi official has revealed that Islamic State (IS) militants are resorting to using chlorine gas roadside IEDs in an effort to prevent the advances of Iraqi security forces against them.Iraqi officials have shown BBC footage, which they say proves Islamic State militants are using the gas in roadside attacks. The videos show bomb disposal teams carrying out controlled explosions, which send plumes of orange smoke into the air. The bombs contain small concentrations of a chemical agent and in open ground are unlikely to be lethal. Experts say they are designed to create fear rather than harm. There have been multiple reports that IS has been deploying chlorine gas since late last year, but Iraqi officials say the footage confirms its use. Haider Taher, from the Iraq Bomb Disposal Team, said troops have defused dozens of devices containing chlorine as part of the offensive against the militants. “They have resorted to this new method,” he said. “They’re putting chlorine inside these homemade roadside bombs, which is toxic for those that inhale it.”
March 13, 2015
http://basnews.com/en/news/2015/03/12/islamic-state-uses-chlorine-gas-iraqi-official/
Iraq Headline: Foreign suicide bombers launch assault on Ramadi
The Islamic State utilized at least 13 suicide bombers yesterday in an attack on the city of Ramadi, the besieged capital of the western Iraqi province of Anbar. Many of these suicide bombers were foreigners, and included a Belgian, an Australian, a Chechen, an Uzbek, a Moroccan, a Tunisian, an Egyptian, and two Syrians. Iraqi officials have not disclosed the number of people killed in the suicide assault, but medical officials in the area told Reuters that five were killed. This toll has not been confirmed and could likely be much higher. The attacks came from the directions of Albu Aytha, to the northeast of Ramadi, and Albu Diab, which is northwest of the city center, according to Shafaaq News. Iraqi officials said that security forces were able to repel the attack, and some sources claimed that Iraqi Security Forces and Sunni tribal fighters killed 41 Islamic State fighters. The number of Islamic State fighters killed during the attack on Ramadi could not be confirmed. One suicide bomber was able to detonate on a bridge in the western portion the city, Reuters reported. The Islamic State has released several images from the attack, including one that shows a suicide bomber detonating on the Japanese bridge in the city. Another photo set shows the results of the battle near the bridge, including the bodies of several Iraqi security personnel killed during the fighting. At least two US-supplied M113 armored personnel carriers were also captured. The assault near the bridge targeted the Iraqi Army’s 1st Division. Iraqi officials said that the Islamic State assaulted the 2nd regiment of the 1st Division, but the attack was repelled and no losses were reported. However, the pictures released by the Islamic State contradict these claims.
March 13, 2015
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/03/foreign-suicide-bombers-launch-assault-on-ramadi.php
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report March 10-11, 2015
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-situation-report-march-10-11-2015.html
Iraq Headline: ISW Control of Terrain in Iraq: March 12, 2015
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/control-of-terrain-in-iraq-march-12-2015.html
Kurdish Headline: Syria Kurds urge US-led strikes as ISIS forces mass
Kurdish Headline: Is ISIL after a second Kobane in Ras al-Ayn?
Syrian Kurdish fighters urged the U.S.-led coalition Friday to launch new airstrikes on ISIS as the jihadis brought in reinforcements for an attack in the northeast. The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) called on the coalition to carry out raids to prevent ISIS from seizing the key town of Tal Tamr in Hassakeh province. “We call on the international coalition forces to take part in the battle for Tal Tamr,” a statement said, adding that the U.S.-led grouping had yet to carry out strikes in the area. ISIS forces began a major offensive in Hassakeh in February, seizing several villages and kidnapping several hundred members of the Assyrian Christian minority in the area. But it has also suffered setbacks, including the February 27 loss of jihadi bastion Tal Hamis. The extremist group is now battling to take Tal Tamr and the town of Ras al-Ain, which sits on the border with Turkey.
March 13, 2015
Kurdish Headline: ISIS attacks Kurdish headquarters in Kobane’s countryside
On Thursday, clashes continued between militant fighters of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) and the Kurdish joint forces (People’s Protection Units “YPG” and Peshmerga) in the southeastern countryside of Kobane in the province of Aleppo, northern Syria, military sources reported. Speaking to ARA News from Kobane, the YPG fighter Khaled Minas said that fierce battles took place in areas near the villages of al-Idaniya and Aqbash, and led to the death of two IS militants was well as the destruction of two armored vehicles. “Seven other IS terrorists were killed in clashes near the village of Khani, southeast of Kobane, in addition to the destruction of an armored car loaded with a heavy machine gun on the highway of Aleppo,” Minas told ARA News. The source added that the IS terrorists militants launched an attack on the village of Munif and its surroundings with heavy weapons on Thursday. “The joint forces were able to repel the attack, killing two militants and injuring several others,” he said.
March 13, 2015
http://aranews.net/2015/03/isis-attacks-kurdish-headquarters-in-kobanes-countryside/
Headline: U.S. Exaggerates Islamic State Casualties
The war against the Islamic State has killed thousands of fighters and even some mid-level battlefield commanders, but the organization’s senior leadership and nerve center remain largely untouched, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials. These officials and other experts tracking the terror group tell us that the Islamic State’s Shura and Sharia councils, the advisory bodies that help inform the major decisions of the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, remain intact, notwithstanding one close call in November for Baghdadi. Although airstrikes and military campaigns have killed several regional administrators and designated “governors,” the Islamic State has quickly replaced them and maintains its command-and-control capabilities. This assessment of progress against the Islamic State differs sharply from public statements by top Obama administration officials as recently as last month, including Secretary of State John Kerry and retired General John Allen, the president’s special coordinator for the coalition against the Islamic State. In February, Allen said that half the group’s leaders in Iraq had been killed.
March 13, 2015
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-13/did-kerry-exaggerate-islamic-state-casualties-
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 Russian invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.
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 Germany.
Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia.
Russia 
Headline: Russia Conducts Military Drills In Crimea, Ukraine’s Forces Train Near Border Amid Ceasefire Deal
Headline: US military official warns of increase in Russian bomber flights, most ‘since the Cold War’
Members of the Russian army in the Southern Military District, which includes Crimea, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Armenia, started military exercises Thursday in the region while Ukrainian forces also began drills very close to the line of contact with Russia. The move by the two rivals comes even as a fragile ceasefire agreement stands amid frequent complaints of violations. Russian military drills are being conducted against both individual and group targets using the newest 2S34 Hosta self-propelled guns and 9K51M Tornado-G multiple rocket launcher systems. Moreover, a five-day training program also began in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, on the border of Europe and Asia, on Thursday where commanders of rocket forces in the Central Military District will be trained in using Iskander and Tochka systems, among others, Sputnik News reported. “On 19 training grounds located in the Southern, North Caucasian and Crimean Federal Districts, as well as Russian military bases in Armenia, South Ossetia an [sic] Abkhazia, artillery belonging to motorized infantry brigades, formations and military bases of coastal troops will perfect their skills and their units’ military coordination,” the Southern Military District’s press service said, according to Sputnik News. The annexation of Crimea by Russia last year triggered violence in the region, leading to clashes between government forces and the pro-Russian rebels.
March 12, 2015
Iran
Headline: Major nations hold talks on ending U.N. sanctions on Iran – officials
Major world powers have begun talks about a United Nations Security Council resolution to lift U.N. sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck with Tehran, a step that could make it harder for the U.S. Congress to undo a deal, Western officials said. The talks between Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — the five permanent members of the Security Council — plus Germany and Iran, are taking place ahead of difficult negotiations that resume next week over constricting Iran’s nuclear ability. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress on Wednesday that an Iran nuclear deal would not be legally binding, meaning future U.S. presidents could decide not to implement it. That point was emphasized in an open letter by 47 Republican senators sent on Monday to Iran’s leaders asserting any deal could be discarded once President Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017. But a Security Council resolution on a nuclear deal with Iran could be legally binding, say Western diplomatic officials. That could complicate and possibly undercut future attempts by Republicans in Washington to unravel an agreement. Iran and the six powers are aiming to complete the framework of a nuclear deal by the end of March, and achieve a full agreement by June 30, to curb Iran’s most sensitive nuclear activities for at least 10 years in exchange for a gradual end to all sanctions on the Islamic Republic. But Western officials involved in the negotiations said they are also discussing elements to include in a draft resolution for the 15-nation Security Council to begin easing U.N. nuclear-related sanctions that have been in place since December 2006.
March 12, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-iran-nuclear-idUSKBN0M82IS20150312
Afghanistan
Headline: No Signs of Peace Talks as Afghan Fighting Season Nears
Headline: Taliban attack leaves 14 dead in central Afghanistan
Conflicting claims by Afghan officials and the Taliban in recent days have added to the confusion and uncertainty plaguing peace and reconciliation efforts in war-torn Afghanistan. The murky situation about prospects of a peace dialogue has raised fears the country is likely to witness another bloody year as the traditional Afghan spring fighting season is about to begin. Top officials in Afghanistan and in neighboring Pakistan, where key Taliban leaders are allegedly sheltering, have suggested in recent statements that peace talks between the Afghan government and the Islamist insurgent group could begin sometime in March. The Taliban has rejected the claims and reports of any contacts with Afghan officials since early last month, when it was first reported the Islamist group was willing to enter talks with Kabul and that Pakistan was playing a role in facilitating the dialogue. There have also been reports of a Taliban delegation visiting Islamabad recently for secret talks with Pakistani officials and Chinese diplomats on how to further the peace process. On Friday, the Taliban again rejected as a “baseless propaganda war” against the group, reports of its contacts with Kabul, saying none of its representative at its political office in Qatar visited any country to seek negotiations with Afghanistan.
March 13, 2015
http://www.voanews.com/content/no-signs-of-peace-talks-as-afghan-fighting-season-nears/2679057.html
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/13/401637/Taliban-attack-kills-14-in-Afghanistan
Sudan
Headline: Sudan rebels say they have begun armed campaign to derail elections
A Sudanese rebel group said on Friday it had launched a military campaign focused on derailing elections slated for next month, as rebels and the government reported fresh clashes. The statement by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North Sector (SPLM-N) marks the first time a major rebel group has explicitly said it is aiming to force the government to cancel the election through armed action. “The military campaign will reach cities and villages under the control of the (ruling) National Congress Party to prevent Bashir from re-electing himself as president once again,” SPLM-N spokesman Arnaud Lodi said in a statement. The SPLM-N statement said there had been clashes in South Kordofan, while a representative of the Sudan Liberation Movement, a major Darfuri armed group, said there had been clashes in Jebel Marra in Darfur. An army spokesman confirmed the clashes but dismissed the SPLM-N’s campaign. Violence on both fronts has increased in past months.
March 13, 2015
http://newsdaily.com/2015/03/sudan-rebels-say-they-have-begun-armed-campaign-to-derail-elections/
Libya
Headline: Islamic State militants claim bomb attack in Libyan capital
Headline: Islamists are leading Libya to annihilation – and the west is letting them
Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a police station in the Libyan capital on Thursday in a statement posted on Twitter along with photographs of the scene. A bomb placed under a police car close to the Foreign Ministry in central Tripoli caused damage, local security spokesman Essam Naas said, and one officer was slightly wounded. Militants loyal to Islamic State, the group that controls much of Syria and Iraq, have been exploiting the chaos in Libya where two governments allied to armed factions are vying for power four years after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. Groups of Islamist militants, who have declared loyalty to Islamic State over the last six months, have claimed responsibility for several high-profile attacks in what appears to be an intensifying campaign.
March 13, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-libya-security-idUSKBN0M80DB20150312
Armenia
Headline: Azerbaijan threatens Armenia over killed soldier
Azerbaijan has threatened to give a “severe” response to Armenian troops who have killed a second Azeri soldier this week in the latest conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh border region. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said in a statement, “On March 13, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire. An Azerbaijani soldier was shot dead…. We will take revenge for our soldier and deal a great blow on the enemy… [and] Azerbaijan’s counter-strike will be severe.” The incident comes two days after another soldier was killed in an attack on the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh on March 11. Clashes between Baku and Yerevan troops mounted again in January following an unprecedented spiral of violence last year.
March 13, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/13/401703/Azerbaijan-warns-Armenia-over-soldier
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: Two police officers shot, seriously injured in Ferguson ‘ambush’
Two police officers were shot and seriously injured early Thursday near the Ferguson, Mo., police headquarters, an incident that occurred amid ongoing protests in the city. Just hours earlier, the Ferguson police chief had announced his resignation, a decision that came in the wake of a blistering report from the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal investigators said last week they determined that the city’s police force and court system were racially biased and predatory. Protesters had gathered near the Ferguson police headquarters after Thomas Jackson, the chief of police, said he would step down next week. But the shooting, which occurred after midnight, took place as protests in the area were relatively quiet and after many demonstrators had left, according to police. “This is really an ambush,” Jon Belmar, chief of St. Louis County police, said during a news conference Thursday morning. The two officers, one of whom was shot in the face, were in serious condition after the shooting, but police said that the injuries were not life-threatening.
March 12, 2015
Headline: Shabaab militants attack convoy in northern Kenya
Somalia’s Shabaab militants launched a cross-border raid into northern Kenya Friday, ambushing a convoy of Kenyan officials in the northeast of the country and wounding several people, officials said. A least six people were hurt in the attack, one of them critically, and were taken by ambulance to nearby hospitals, the Kenya Red Cross said. Mandera county governor Ali Roba, who was traveling in the convoy, escaped unharmed, Kenyan media reports said. Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab rebels said they carried out the attack. “A Shabaab commando unit attacked a Kenyan convoy travelling from Mandera to Nairobi,” said Shabaab military spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab. He claimed the militants destroyed two vehicles, hijacked another and captured weapons.
March 13, 2015
Headline: Hundreds rally in Yemen for ex-leader’s son as president
Headline: GCC unruffled by Houthi military drill
Headline: Iran promises a year’s worth of oil to Yemen’s Houthis
Hundreds rallied in Yemen’s militia-controlled capital Friday to call for presidential elections and demand the son of ex-strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh run as a candidate. Sanaa has been under the control of the Shiite militia, known as Huthis, since September, and President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi has fled to the southern city of Aden after escaping house arrest in the capital last month. Saleh, who stepped down in February 2012 after a year-long popular uprising, has been accused of backing the Huthis, who are from the same Zaidi sect of Shiite Islam as he is. Gathered in Sabiin Square in Sanaa’s southern district, near the residence of Saleh’s son, Ahmed, demonstrators chanted “The next president is Ahmed” and “Ahmed is our president”. The demonstration passed without incident, a day after militiamen shot dead two protesters taking part in a rally in support of Western- and Gulf-backed Hadi. Meanwhile, The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has said its member states had “enough capability to protect [their] territories and sovereignty,” after thousands of Shiite Houthi rebels reportedly held military drills in northern Yemen, near the border with Saudi Arabia. Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiya, whose country currently holds of the rotating GCC chair, made the statements on Thursday after a GCC meeting in Riyadh. “A move here and there would not affect the GCC states,” Attiya told a news conference. The drill in the al-Buqa region in the Houthis’ home province of Saada included heavy weapons acquired from the Yemeni army, local tribal and Houthi sources said, according to Reuters.
March 13, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-rally-yemen-ex-leaders-son-president-135728782.html
Headline: 3 killed, 7 injured in NW Pakistan attack
At least three people, including two civilians, have been killed and seven others injured when unidentified gunmen launched an attack on a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan. Police officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a group of militants aboard a vehicle opened fire at the checkpoint in the Gora Qabristan area of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and situated 150 kilometers (93 miles) west of the capital, Islamabad, at around 7 a.m. local time (0200 GMT) on Thursday. Security personnel retaliated, shooting one of the assailants dead. The gunmen later sped off in their vehicle. The injured have been taken to Lady Reading Hospital in the city to receive medical treatment. Police have cordoned off the area, and an investigation is underway to determine the motive behind the assault. Pakistani security forces on Wednesday killed seven militants during a gunfight near a gas field in Pir Koh area, located some 245 kilometers (152 miles) southeast of Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan Province. “We killed seven miscreants hiding in the gas field when they refused to surrender,” Manzoor Ahmed, a spokesman for Frontier Corps, said. “They resorted to a fight which lasted for several hours,” he said, adding there was no loss on the security forces’ side.
March 12, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/12/401468/Pakistan-militant-attack-leaves-3-dead
Headline: Riot police, student protesters clash in Italy
Italian riot police have clashed with a group of students staging a demonstration in Italy’s second most populous city of Milan in protest against a controversial school reform bill. On Thursday, scuffles broke out between riot police and protesters in Milan when the demonstrating students got close to the Lombardy Building, which is the city’s main seat of government. The students were protesting a reform plan known as “Buona Scuola” or Good School. As the police blocked the protesters from approaching the entrance of the building, the latter responded by throwing eggs, stones, smoke bombs as well as bottles containing paint at the police. Security personnel, in return, fired tear gas canisters and stun grenades to break up the protest, and arrested a 15-year-old student protester. Similar demonstrations also took place in a number of other cities, including Turin, Lecce, Pisa, Lecce, and the capital, Rome.
March 13, 2015
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/13/401577/Police-student-protesters-clash-in-Italy
Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & Daniel 2:41-43- Decline of the Euro “ 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) “Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” (Daniel 2:41-43)
Headline: Iceland says final EU goodbye
Iceland definitively dropped its EU membership bid on Thursday (12 March), nearly six years after having made the demand. “The government of Iceland has no intentions to resume accession talks”, country’s foreign affair minister, Gunnar Sveinsson, wrote in a letter to enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn and Latvia’s foreign affairs minister Edgars Rinkevics. Talks were suspended in May 2013 after a centre-right coalition, opposed to EU membership, had come to power. By that time, 27 of the 35 legislative chapters in accession talks had been opened and 11 concluded. But disputes remained on several issues, mainly to do with agriculture and fisheries.The decision by prime minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson’s government to leave EU talks for good has been criticized by the opposition.
March 13, 2015
https://euobserver.com/beyond-brussels/127983
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: 2 banks fail US Fed stress tests, Bank of America put on ‘warning’
The US Federal Reserve has rejected the capital plans of US branches of Germany’s Deutsche Bank and Spain’s Banco Santander in a test designed to gauge whether America’s biggest banks are prepared to withstand a hypothetical financial crisis. The 31 institutions that were tested this year hold $14 trillion in assets as of the fourth quarter of 2014, or about 80 percent of domestic bank holdings in the US, the US Federal Reserve said Wednesday. Both the banks which failed have passed Europe’s financial institution stress tests. The two banks were the only foreign banks out of the 31 major banks audited to fail the second part of the stress tests. America’s largest bank, Bank of America, only got a conditional pass, and will need to submit a new capital plan by September. The Fed said that BofA had “deficiencies” in how it would react to a severe economic downturn.
March 12, 2015
http://rt.com/business/239981-us-bank-stress-test-fail/
Headline: UK to join China-backed Asian development bank
Britain said it has sought to become a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), making it the first Western nation to embrace the China-backed institution, but the United States reacted frostily to the development. The AIIB was launched in Beijing last year to spur investment in Asia in transportation, energy, telecommunications and other infrastructure. Analysts have said it could challenge the Western-dominated World Bank and Asian Development Bank. However, Britain’s finance ministry said on Thursday that the AIIB could complement work already done in the region by those organizations. Britain would meet other founding members this month to agree on the principles of the bank’s governance and accountability arrangements, the ministry said. Finance minister George Osborne said joining the bank would boost the country’s push to foster business and investment ties with countries in the region, chief among them China.
March 13, 2015
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/03/13/uk-britain-asia-bank-idUKKBN0M82S720150313
Headline: S&P 500 Poised for Third Weekly Drop Amid Oil, Dollar Concerns
U.S. stocks fell, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index toward its third straight weekly decline, as an oil selloff and dollar rally weighed on energy and industrial companies. International Business Machines Corp. and United Technologies Corp. fell more than 2.6 percent. Halliburton Co., Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. declined more than 1.1 percent as crude oil retreated amid rising supplies. Raw material companies lost 1.4 percent. The S&P 500 Index slipped 1.1 percent to 2,043.99 at 2:24 p.m. in New York, after rising 1.3 percent Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 236.07 points, or 1.3 percent, to 17,659.15. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 0.9 percent, erasing an earlier gain. “We need the dollar and oil to settle down or we’re going to see more big moves,” Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab Corp., said by telephone. “A lot of this volatility we’ve seen recently is related to most of the data indicating that the Fed’s rate hike is very likely coming in June.”
March 13, 2015
Revelation 6:6– With the bees dying off, you will see a decrease in produce and an INCREASE in food prices!
Mar. 9, 2015- Mass die off of bees has hit colonies in Cherves-Richemont, France
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Mar. 10, 2015- 35 percent of bee colonies have died off during winter in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8 “ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” 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. Prophecy Sign: Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
Headline:North Korea fires missiles into sea amid tensions, says South
Headline: Russia and North Korea declare new alliance and 2015 as a ‘year of friendship’
North Korea has fired seven ground-to-air missiles into the sea, South Korea’s defence ministry says. It comes on the last day of an annual US-South Korea military exercise. Leader Kim Jong-un was present during the launch on Thursday off the eastern coast, a ministry spokesman from the South said. The annual exercises, which Pyongyang calls a rehearsal for invasion, are always a trigger for a surge in tensions between the two Koreas. North Korea showed its opposition to this year’s drills by firing two short-range ballistic missiles when they began earlier this month. South Korea said the missiles fired on Friday were believed to be SA-2 or SA-3s, with a range of “dozens of kilometres”, as well as one SA-5 with a range of 200km (120 miles).
March 13, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31865897
Headline: China warns Japan to remain pacifist as Tokyo eyes military return
China has called upon Japan to “remain on the pathway of peace.” The statement comes after Tokyo announced plans to introduce a new law allowing it to offer logistical support to foreign allies’ troops in conflicts abroad. Beijing hopes Tokyo will “take a correct attitude, stick to its previous correct positions and statements, including the Murayama Statement. We also expect that Japan will remain on the pathway of peace,” Cheng Yonghua, China’s ambassador to Japan, told China Daily newspaper. “If Tokyo attempts to tackle the war incorrectly, or to impose ambiguity or defiance upon its war-related actions, we will worry about it further honoring the pathway of peace,” he said. He added that any such attempt will “deal serious harm once again” to Asian people, and the move will feel like “peeling off a fresh scab and rubbing salt in the wound.”
March 13, 2015
http://rt.com/news/240305-china-japan-peace-war/
Pestilence & Plagues Luke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)
Headline: Death toll from West Africa’s Ebola outbreak passes 10,000: WHO
The death toll from West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has passed 10,000, according to the latest tally released by the World Health Organization on Thursday. Liberia has recorded the most deaths with 4,162. Sierra Leone is the second worst-hit nation with 3,655, and Guinea has recorded 2,187 dead, according to the data. The deadly hemorrhagic fever reached Senegal, Nigeria and Mali but was contained there. A handful of cases have also been recorded in the United States, Spain and Britain.
March 12, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-health-ebola-toll-idUSKBN0M82CM20150312
March 11, 2015 – dead fish wash ashore along the coast of Montevideo Uraguay
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March 12, 2015 – dead fish found floating in a lake in Yate, New Caledonia
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March 12, 2015 – 30,000 chickens culled in bird flu outbreak, Dutch government confirms
http://www.euronews.com/2015/03/12/30000-chickens-culled-in-bird-flu-outbreak-dutch-government-confirms/
March 12, 2015 – 40,000 birds to be killed due to avian flu in Arkansas, America
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-birdflu-arkansas-turkeys-idUSKBN0M720S20150312
March 13, 2015 – Turkeys at Butterball farms infected with avian flu
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-butterball-avian-flu-20150312-story.html?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fbusiness+%28L.A.+Times+-+Business%29
Scorching Sun Isaiah30:26 , Revelation 16:8-9 & Revelation 7:16, Malachi 4:1 “Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.” (Isaiah 30:26) “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” (Revelation 16:8-9) “Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.” ( Revelation 7: 16) “For behold, the day is coming,Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch” (Malachi 4:1) Prophecy Sign: Drought Jeremiah 50:38 & Isaiah 42:15 “A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, And they are insane with their idols.” (Jeremiah)“I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.”(Isaiah)
Headline: California has about one year of water left
Given the historic low temperatures and snowfalls that pummeled the eastern U.S. this winter, it might be easy to overlook how devastating California’s winter was as well. As our “wet” season draws to a close, it is clear that the paltry rain and snowfall have done almost nothing to alleviate epic drought conditions. January was the driest in California since record-keeping began in 1895. Groundwater and snowpack levels are at all-time lows. We’re not just up a creek without a paddle in California, we’re losing the creek too. Data from NASA satellites show that the total amount of water stored in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins — that is, all of the snow, river and reservoir water, water in soils and groundwater combined — was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014. That loss is nearly 1.5 times the capacity of Lake Mead, America’s largest reservoir. Statewide, we’ve been dropping more than 12 million acre-feet of total water yearly since 2011. Roughly two-thirds of these losses are attributable to groundwater pumping for agricultural irrigation in the Central Valley. Farmers have little choice but to pump more groundwater during droughts, especially when their surface water allocations have been slashed 80% to 100%. But these pumping rates are excessive and unsustainable. Wells are running dry. In some areas of the Central Valley, the land is sinking by one foot or more per year.
March 12, 2015
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-famiglietti-drought-california-20150313-story.html
Travailing Earth Romans 8:22 “For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now”
Headline: More giant craters spotted in Russia’s far north
Russian scientists have now discovered seven giant craters in remote Siberia, a geologist told AFP on Thursday, adding that the mysterious phenomenon was believed to be linked to climate change. The discovery of an enormous chasm in a far northern region known to locals as “the end of the world” in July last year prompted speculation it had been caused by a meteorite or even aliens. A YouTube video of the hole went viral and a group of scientists was despatched to investigate. “We have just learnt that in Yakutia, new information has emerged about a giant crater one kilometre (0.6 miles) in diameter,” the deputy director of the Oil and Gas Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vasily Bogoyavlensky, told AFP. He said this brought to seven the number of reported pits. “Footage allows us to identify minimum seven craters, but in fact there are plenty more,” he said. All of the craters have been discovered in the remote energy-rich Yamalo-Nenetsky region in north-western Siberia.
March 12, 2015
http://news.yahoo.com/more-giant-craters-spotted-russias-far-north-163604385.html
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: Strong eruption of Turrialba prompts evacuations, causes flight disruptions, Costa Rica
A new strong eruption of Costa Rica’s Turrialba volcano started around 16:50 UTC on March 12, 2015. Volcanic material reached some 500 meters above the summit. This is the second major eruption of this volcano in the last five years. Raúl Mora, volcanologist with the National Seismological Network, said a series of volcanic tremors in the surroundings of Turrialba canton followed the explosion. He added the explosion had a greater magnitude than those recorded last weekend. At 23:20 UTC on March 12, Washington VAAC reported strong emission of volcanic ash. “GFS winds places height of volcanic ash moving NE about 9.1 km (FL300) and volcanic ash moving W at 6 km (FL200). At 22:45 UTC volcanic ash extends about 46 km NE of the summit and 30 km W of the summit”.
March 12, 2015
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/turrialba-volcano-continues-er/43802707
Headline: Cyclone Pam: massive storm bears down on Vanuatu, with 260,000 people in its path
Headline: Dozens feared dead after cyclone Pam makes landfall in Vanuatu
The capital of Vanuatu went into lockdown as a “once-in-a-lifetime” storm bore down on the South Pacific island nation, threatening up to a quarter of a million people in its path. Tropical cyclone Pam, a category five storm with predicted wind gusts of more than 280km/h at its core, was on track to hit the capital, Port Vila, at about 11pm Friday night local time (midday GMT). Evacuations across the country followed warnings of a life-threatening weather event bringing storm surges, torrential rain, flash flooding and landslides. The United Nations agency Unicef, which along with aid agencies was on the ground with personnel and emergency supplies, warned about 260,000 people were in the potential disaster zone. Port Vila was in lockdown by 7pm local time, with sources in the area describing “panic” setting in among those who filled 12 evacuation centres, while hotels crammed with guests booked in to shelter for the night ordered them into underground bunkers.
March 13, 2015
Headline: What’s shaking? 
List & map of USGS Earthquakes
