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Headline:Jerusalem celebrates 50 years to its unification
Headline:Clashes Erupt as Jewish Israelis Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Jerusalem’s ‘Reunification’
Jerusalem Day celebrations began on Tuesday in the capital with various events and concerts well into the night and continue in full force on Wednesday as the city marks 50 years to its unification. The President’s Residence hosted a musical event on Tuesday evening titled “Singing for you Jerusalem,” which featured a variety of artists and songs about the city. At Safra Square, the Jerusalem Symphonic Orchestra performed with Israeli singers Miri Mesika, David D’Or and Kobi Aflalo. Wednesday’s events include several memorial ceremonies. A state memorial service to some 4,000 Ethiopian immigrants who died on their way to Israel was held at the Mount Herzl cemetery. Meanwhile, Clashes erupted between leftist activists and participants of the annual Flag March in Jerusalem, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the “unification” of the city in the Six-Day War, a day marked as Jerusalem Day.Police say some 60 thousand people are participating in the march, the highest participation rate in the event ever. Hundreds of leftist activists and Palestinians are protesting the march, calling for an end to hatred, violence and for the promotion of a peaceful settlement for all the city’s residents.
May 24, 2017
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4966793,00.html
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.791549
Headline:Rocket Fired at Israel From Egypt on Second Day of Trump Visit
During the second day of President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel, a rocket was fired at the Jewish state Tuesday from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The IDF confirmed the rocket landed in Israeli territory, but in an open area, causing no casualties or damage. During 2016 and the beginning of 2017, several rockets were launched at Israel from the Egyptian Sinai by Salafi jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State terror group. In April, a Grad rocket struck a greenhouse in Israel’s southern community of Yuval, adjacent to the Egyptian border. In February, the Salafis claimed responsibility for firing several rockets at Israel’s southernmost city of Eilat.
May 24, 2017
https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/88578/rocket-fired-israel-egypt-second-day-trump-visit/
Headline: Tillerson: ‘Trump placed heavy pressure’ during Israel visit
Headline: US said to be pushing Israel to transfer parts of West Bank to PA
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson claims that US president Donald Trump exerted heavy pressure during his visit on Prime Minister Netanyahu and PA chairman Abbas to renew the peace negotiations. Tillerson said that “Trump asked both sides in no uncertain terms to agree to compromises in order to promote peace.” Tillerson also noted that the talks with Israelis and Palestinian Authority had been “positive and helpful.” The president emphasized the subject a number of times to both sides and left optimistic and with the feeling that his message had gotten across,” added Tillerson who is accompanying Trump on his first presidential visit abroad. On Thursday President Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, will arrive in Israel to start from the point where the president left off and try to mediate a meeting between Netanyahu and Abbas in the near future.
May 24, 2017
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/230148
http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-said-to-be-pushing-israel-to-transfer-parts-of-west-bank-to-pa/
Headline:Jewish Priests, Biblical Status Confirmed By DNA, Ready to Prepare for Third Temple
In a powerful blend of science and religion, a rabbi has turned to genetics to reinstate the priesthood for the Third Temple. This rabbi believes that science has proven that the priesthood is exactly as the Bible described: An eternal covenant that will reappear to herald in the Third Temple. “Genetics connects modern Judaism to the Bible, confirming 3,000 years of Jewish tradition,” explained Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman to Breaking Israel News. “This is an amazing testament to God’s covenant and the Jewish People. Despite more than 2,000 years of exile we have maintained our religion, our customs, our Torah, and our genetic identity.”In his effort to designate priestly candidates, Rabbi Kleiman has turned to genetics as an aid. This tools first became available 20 years ago when genetic researchers in Haifa discovered a Y chromosome, a genetic marker passed from father to son, that indicated a common ancestry for Jewish men whose family traditions hold that they are descended from the Biblical priestly class. Rabbi Kleiman is using this science for a purpose the researchers probably had not envisioned: to help prepare for the Third Temple. “According to prophecy, there will be a Third Temple, and when there is, we will need to identify the priests,” Rabbi Kleiman explained to Breaking Israel News. “Kohanim are the manpower of the Temple. Without them, it is an empty building.”
May 24, 2017
https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/88630/dna-testing-aiding-prophetic-return-priestly-covenant/
Saudi Arabia
Headline: US forces kill seven al-Qaeda militants in Yemen, says Pentagon
US forces have carried out a raid on an al-Qaeda compound in Yemen, killing seven militants, the US military says. They were killed “through a combination of small arms fire and precision air strikes” in the Marib governorate, east of Sanaa, on Tuesday morning. The primary objective of the operation was to gather intelligence. The military did not say whether there were any US casualties during the raid which was supported by the Yemeni government. In a statement, the US Central Command says the militants were members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). “Raids such as this provide insight into AQAP’s disposition, capabilities and intentions, which will allow us to continue to pursue, disrupt, and degrade AQAP.” The US has carried out frequent strikes on al-Qaeda’s bases in Yemen, often using unmanned drones.
May 23, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40007664
Headline:Yemen: New massacre in Taiz as Houthis shell residential areas
Houthi militias and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen continue to shell residential neighborhoods in Taiz, for the third day in a row, killing and injuring dozens of civilians including women and children. A detailed report by Yemen’s Ministry of Human Rights revealed that victims of the shelling were as young as three-year-old. The initial toll resulted from shelling from May 21 to 23, has escalated to more than 36 civilian victims, 14 killed and 22 injured, most of which have serious injuries. “Houthi-Saleh coup militia continues its incriminated acts against unarmed citizens in the city,” the report said.
May 24, 2017
Egypt
Headline: Egyptian Army flees after ISIS storms checkpoints in Sinai province
ISIS is making its presence felt on the embattled Sinai Peninsula after a mixture of pragmatic alliances with desert tribes and favorable terrain have allowed the jihadist group to become more powerful than ever in Egypt. On Tuesday, Islamic State forces attacked a handful of government checkpoints south of Sheikh Zuweid town in the northern part of Sinai province, bordering the Gaza Strip. Spearheaded by a suicide bomber, Islamic State units seemingly overwhelmed the Egyptian garrison, causing them to flee in disarray, driving off in armored vehicles that were supposed to man the checkpoints. Several Egyptian government soldiers were killed in the surprise attack, Amaq Agency stated.
May 23, 2017
Syria
Headline: Syrian Army opens a 100 km front against ISIS in new surprise offensive
Headline: ISIS’ ‘minister of war’ has been killed in Syria
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) backed by allied paramilitaries launched a mass-scale offensive against Islamic State terrorists in the region spanning between Eastern Qalamoun in Damascus province an Palmyra in Homs’s eastern countryside- a front that well exceeds a 100 kilometers. Through its operations on this axis, the Syrian Armed Forces have two strategic aims:
- Laying siege to the rebels of Eastern Qalamoun and keeping them isolated from the US and Jordanian-backed Free Syrian Army units near the Tanf Border Crossing. The Ahmad Abdo Martyrs Brigades and Jaish al-Islam units that control Dumeir and Ruhayba possess some 60 armored vehicles and tanks spread around the East Qalamoun slopes. If those are given a path through the desert, they could easily propel the rebel forces into Deir Ezzor province where they could gain ground against the dying Islamic State.
- Seizing all the slopes around the Busairi Crossroads that span from Sin Airbase and Qaryatayn to Qasr al-Hayr and Jabal Abtar in southern Palmyra would enable the Syrian Army to reopen the Damascus-Palmyra Highway. Opening this highway will provide the government forces with a massive logistical boost as reinforcements and supplies will find a direct route to Palmyra instead of steering through a tumultuous route that passes through Homs first. This development will prove imperative to the rumored upcoming Operation Lavendar that aims to lift the siege off the embattled city of Deir Ezzor.
At this rate of advance, it is likely that the government troops will achieve their goals in the next few days before beginning a new operational phase against the waning terrorist group.
May 24, 2017
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-opens-100-km-front-isis-new-surprise-offensive/
Headline: U.S., Russia military increase communication in skies over Syria
The United States and Russia have increased communication to avoid warplane accidents in the skies over Syria as Islamic State militants lose territory and the air space becomes more crowded, a top U.S. Air Force official said on Wednesday. In 2015, the Russian and U.S. militaries agreed to create a communication link and outline steps their pilots could take to avoid an inadvertent clash over Syria. Senior U.S. military officials have stressed that there was a need to enhance communications as the fight against Islamic State intensified. “We have had to increase the amount of de-confliction work we are doing with the Russians given the tighter airspace that we are now working ourselves through,” Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigian, the head of U.S. Air Force in the Middle East, told reporters. In a recent example of communications, Harrigian said a Russian jet carried out an “unprofessional” intercept of a U.S. military aircraft but the Russian military later apologized after it was brought up by the United States. He said that while the two countries were stepping up communications about Syrian air space there was no U.S. cooperation with Russia, which supports President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria’s civil war.
May 24, 2017
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-russia-idUSKBN18K2K9?il=0
Iraq
Headline:Iraq orders investigation into abuses reported in Mosul battle
Iraq’s interior minister on Wednesday ordered an investigation into allegations that members of the security forces had tortured, killed and abused civilians in the campaign to oust Islamic State militants from Mosul. The inquiry was in response to a report by the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel last week that included images of apparent torture taken by a freelance photographer embedded with the Interior Ministry’s elite Emergency Response Division (ERD). Photographs showed detainees accused of affiliation with Islamic State hanging from the ceiling with their arms bent behind them, and the journalist wrote of prisoners being tortured to death, raped and stabbed with knives. “The Interior Minister ordered investigators to conduct a clear and fair inquiry…(and) to take legal measures against those who are negligent if the investigation proves so,” a ministry statement said on Wednesday. The ERD is one of several government security forces backed by a U.S.-led coalition that have dislodged Islamic State from all but a pocket of territory in the western half of Mosul in seven months of fighting.
May 24, 2017
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-abuses-idUSKBN18K1I2
Turkey
Headline:EU cannot treat Turkey like a beggar: President Erdoğan
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on May 25 on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Brussels, as they bid to calm recent bilateral strife and inject some positivity into the ties. The EU cannot perceive Turkey as a beggar at its door but should instead decide on the union’s future perspective with regards to its membership, Erdoğan said. “We don’t aim to break away from the EU, but the EU shall take its responsibilities, too. The EU cannot see Turkey [as] a beggar. It does not have such a right… that’s what we’ll tell them,” Erdoğan told reporters before he departed for Brussels on May 24. Erdoğan said he would ask EU officials about their vision regarding Turkey’s membership in the union, noting that the bloc appeared to favor Turkey’s “withdrawal from the negotiation talks of its own accord.” Erdoğan stated that Ankara would reconsider its position on joining the bloc if it was kept waiting much longer and if the current “hostile mentality” of some member states persists.
May 24, 2017
Iran
Headline:Iran’s nat’l security adviser in Moscow to discuss US involvement in Syria
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkani, arrived in Moscow on Wednesday and met with Russian National Security Adviser Nikolai Patrushev. The two senior officials discussed the war in Syria but mainly the growing US military involvement in the country alongside what Iran calls “terrorist groups”, namely rebel groups such as the Free Syrian Army that receive weapons and training at US bases in Jordan. Shamkani said that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and its allies (Russia and Iran) need to take action to strengthen the regime in order to “foil plots” to topple it.
May 24, 2017
Afghanistan
Headline: Use of air power in Afghanistan up sharply as Trump troop decision looms
U.S. warplanes dropped more weapons on Afghanistan in April than in any other single month since 2012, according to new statistics, as military officials press U.S. President Donald Trump to send thousands more troops to the country. The escalation in the use of American air power was partly due to an effort by U.S. commanders to wipe out a nascent Islamic State presence before the group can establish more of a foothold in the county, a military spokesman said. The U.S. Air Force unleashed 460 bombs, missiles, or other ordnance last month in Afghanistan, more than double the 203 weapons dropped in March and more than seven times the quantity deployed in April last year. Trump has yet to announce a decision on proposals from his top military advisers calling for the United States and its coalition allies to send 3,000 to 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Currently around 8,400 U.S. and 6,500 coalition troops are deployed, mostly to train and support Afghan forces.
May 24, 2017
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-usa-airstrikes-idUSKBN18K1XK
Sudan
Headline:Sudan accuses Egypt of backing rebels ahead of foreign minister’s trip
Headline: U.S., Britain, U.N. wary of South Sudan ceasefire announcement
Egypt and Sudan have been at odds in recent months on a range of issues from disputed land in southern Egypt to trade restrictions and burdensome visa requirements that have threatened bilateral commercial ties. In a speech to Sudanese armed forces, Bashir said Sudan’s military had seized Egyptian armoured vehicles from rebels in the country’s war-torn southern Darfur region. Egypt’s foreign ministry denied supporting the rebels. “Egypt respects the sovereignty of Sudan over its territory and has not and will not interfere for a single day to destabilise Sudan or harm its people,” it said in a statement. Bashir, who is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, has been at war with various rebel factions in three southern regions of Sudan for years.
May 24, 2017
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southsudan-security-un-idUSKBN18K2RH
Libya
Headline: Chaos in Libya is setting the stage for an ISIS comeback- VIDEO
Six years after Muammar Gaddafi’s fall in 2011, fighting between rival government and militias has plunged Libya into anarchy, creating a vacuum for groups like ISIS to move into. Last year, ISIS took control of the port city of Sirte, Gaddafi’s former hometown and the largest ISIS stronghold outside Iraq and Syria. But local militias, backed by U.S. airstrikes, recaptured Sirte after a seven month-long battle that ended in December. Yet the fractious local militias guarding Sirte still have no real control over the territory. And ISIS is regrouping nearby, raising fears that Libya’s new slide toward anarchy could pave the way for an ISIS comeback.
May 24, 2017
https://news.vice.com/story/chaos-in-libya-is-setting-the-stage-for-an-isis-comeback
Tunisia
Headline:Tunisians mourn protester as tensions mount
Thousands attended the funeral Tuesday of a protester killed during clashes in southern Tunisia as officials warned tensions could escalate amid demonstrations over social and labour issues. Anouar Sakrafi, in his early 20s, died of wounds sustained on Monday when he was run over by a national guard vehicle during clashes with security forces at an oil and gas plant, the scene of long-running protests over joblessness. Security forces fired tear gas as protesters tried to storm the El Kamour facility in the desert region of Tataouine, 500 kilometres south of Tunis, local radio said. The interior and health ministries said Sakrafi’s killing was an accident.National guard spokesman Khalifa Chibani warned on Tuesday of further escalation. “There is incitement on social media… calls for civil disobedience… and even a coup d’etat,” he told local radio Mosaique FM. In a special sitting of Tunisia’s parliament, Assembly President Mohamed Ennaceur said Tunisia was “passing through a delicate phase”. Tataouine residents have long demanded more jobs and a bigger share of the revenues from oil extraction in the region. Last month protestors there booed Prime Minister Youssef Chahed off stage during a heated town hall meeting. On Monday the health ministry said 50 people were hospitalised after suffering from broken bones or the effects of tear gas during the clashes in both El Kamour and Tataouine. Authorities said around 20 members of the security forces were wounded. Two protests were held in the capital, with demonstrators echoing the rallying cry of Tataouine residents and chanting: “We won’t give up!” Mosaique FM said fighting also broke out overnight during a rally in Kebili, 230 kilometres northwest of Tataouine, in support of the El Kamour protesters. A hundred or so people also demonstrated on Tuesday morning in the central town of Gafsa, an AFP reporter said.
May 24, 2017
http://jordantimes.com/news/region/tunisians-mourn-protester-tensions-mount
Headline: Brazilian Ministry Building Set on Fire as Protests Turn Violent
Protesters in Brasilia set fire to a ministry building on Wednesday afternoon, as tens of thousands gathered outside Congress to demand the removal of President Michel Temer. Amid frequent clashes with police, demonstrators mobilized by Brazil’s main labor unions broke into several ministries, causing widespread damage and setting fire to the agriculture ministry, according to GloboNews. All ministry buildings were subsequently evacuated and civil servants sent home. Tension in Brazil has risen sharply over the past week, after news broke that the Supreme Court authorized an investigation into the president over allegations of passive corruption and obstruction of justice. Unions opposed to Temer’s labor and pension reforms organized Wednesday protests, calling for immediate general elections. According to Brazilian law if Temer resigns or is forced out of office, Congress will elect an interim president. As the protests took place outside Congress, members of Temer’s allied base were meeting to discuss whether to stick by the embattled president.
May 24, 2017
Headline:IS claims deadly attack in Somalia’s Puntland region
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing in Somalia’s semiautonomous state of Puntland—said to be the first time the extremist group has claimed an attack in this Horn of Africa nation. Police said a suicide bomber on Tuesday detonated at a military checkpoint in the commercial hub of Bossaso, killing at least four people. The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activities, says ISIS claimed the attack through its Amaq News Agency. ISIS-linked fighters who have split from the al-Shabab extremist group are a growing threat in Puntland, in northern Somalia.
May 24, 2017
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4966839,00.html
Headline: Al-Shabab Claims Somalia, Kenya Attacks
Militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for a deadly car bombing in Somalia’s capital and two other fatal attacks in Kenya. Officials in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, said at least eight people were killed and 15 others injured in the bombing late Wednesday near the city’s seaport.Al-Shabab said it was targeting police and intelligence officials at the site. Meanwhile, eight Kenyan security officers were killed in two separate roadside explosions Wednesday in the country’s northeast, witnesses and officials said. Five of the officers were killed after an IED hit a convoy of vehicles escorting the governor of Mandera County, Ali Roba, who was campaigning in an area near the border with Somalia.
May 24, 2017
http://www.voanews.com/a/is-clains-reponsibility-for-somalia-bombing/3868856.html
Headline: Bahraini police fire on Shiite protest, one reported dead
Bahraini police opened fire on Tuesday on a protest by supporters of a top Shiite cleric, with at least one demonstrator reported dead in the latest unrest to hit the Gulf state. The Britain-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) announced the “tragic death of a peaceful protester in the crackdown” in Diraz, the scene of a long-running sit-in outside the home of cleric Isa Qassim. Eyewitnesses told AFP multiple civilians were wounded when police opened fire at demonstrators throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at security forces. Police arrested several people wanted by the authorities, the interior ministry said. Qassim is considered the spiritual leader of Bahrain’s majority Shiite community. Authorities have accused Qassim, sentenced on Sunday to a suspended one-year jail term for illegal fundraising and money laundering, of serving “foreign interests” and promoting “sectarianism and violence”. A court last year stripped him of his citizenship, sparking repeated sit-ins outside his residence in Diraz. Bahrain’s interior ministry said on Tuesday it had “launched a security operation in the village of Diraz to preserve security and civil order as the site is a safe haven for fugitives”. Bahraini authorities have accused Iran of fomenting unrest in the kingdom, ruled for more than two centuries by the Al Khalifa dynasty. Tehran has consistently denied involvement.
May 24, 2017
http://jordantimes.com/news/region/bahraini-police-fire-shiite-protest-one-reported-dead
Headline: Manchester bomber Salman Abedi’s father and brothers arrested, linked to ISIS, Al Qaeda
Headline: Manchester raises number of wounded to 119
Headline: Nearly 1,000 British troops mobilized to protect key sites
Manchester bomber Salman Abedi apparently wasn’t the only member of his family to harbor extremist views, as Libyan officials arrested the suicide bomber’s father and two brothers and uncovered what investigators called a plot for a new attack. Hashim Abedi, who was born in 1997, was arrested in Tripoli on Wednesday evening by the Libyan counter-terrorism force Rada on suspicion of links to the Islamic State, and was planning a new attack on the Libyan capital, a government spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday. The father of the bomber was arrested in Tripoli on Wednesday, a Libyan security spokesman told The Associated Press. The father, Ramadan Abedi, had said another brother of the bomber, Ismail, was arrested Tuesday. What’s more, two U.S. defense officials confirmed to Fox News that Salman Abedi spent three weeks in Libya prior to the Manchester bombing, returning to England just days before the Ariana Grande concert Monday, when he launched his attack at the concert venue.
May 24, 2017
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4966838,00.html
http://debka.com/newsupdatepopup/20651/Nearly-1-000-British-troops-mobilized-to-protect-key-sites
Headline:Suspected suicide bomb in Jakarta kills policeman, injures 9
A suspected suicide bombing near a bus terminal in Indonesia’s capital Wednesday night killed a policeman and injured nine other people, including four officers, police said.Vice National Police Chief Syafruddin, who uses one name, said an initial investigation showed there were two explosions and a suspected suicide bomber had also died. “Tonight, to Indonesian citizens and all of us who are here at the scene, I express very deep concern. There have been bomb explosions at the Kampung Melayu bus terminal and for now they are believed to have been a suicide bombing,” he said. He said the officers had been guarding a parade by a group of local people. National police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said two people had died and nine others were injured — five civilians and four policemen. He said the victims were taken to several hospitals. The explosion occurred in a parking lot next to the bus terminal in eastern Jakarta. A bomb squad was investigating the explosion as heavily armed police guarded the area.
May 24, 2017
http://www.kcra.com/article/suicide-bombings-jakarta-indonesia/9923437
Headline:Thousands flee Philippine city after rebel rampage claimed by Islamic State
Headline: Philippines terror: Americans warned after church hostage-taking, policeman beheaded
Thousands of civilians fled fighting in the Philippines on Wednesday as troops tried to fend off Islamist militants who took over large parts of a city, capturing Christians, seizing and torching buildings and setting free scores of prisoners. The Catholic church said militants were using Christians and a priest as human shields and had contacted cardinals with threats to execute hostages unless government troops withdrew. Thirteen militants and seven security personnel have so far been killed and 33 troops wounded, the army said. Mujiv Hataman, governor of the Autonomous Region in Mindanao, said militants freed 107 prisoners, among them Maute rebels.Islamic State claimed responsibility for the rampage via its Amaq news agency, and President Rodrigo Duterte defended his decision to declare martial law on Mindanao, the Muslim-majority island where Marawi City is located, to prevent the spread of extremism in the impoverished region. The violence flared in Marawi on Tuesday afternoon after a botched raid by security forces on a hideout of the Maute, a militant group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State. Fighters quickly dispersed, torching buildings and taking over bridges, a hospital, two jails, a church and a college. Duterte said he heard reports they may have beheaded a police chief. He said Islamic State must be repelled from the Christian-majority Philippines and he would use all means possible to crush the Maute group and the allied Abu Sayyaf, whatever the consequences. “Anyone now holding a gun, confronting government with violence, my orders are spare no one, let us solve the problems of Mindanao once and for all,” said Duterte, who is from the island, after cutting short a visit to Russia and returning to Manila. “If I think you should die, you will die. If you fight us, you will die. If there’s an open defiance, you will die, and if it means many people dying, so be it. That’s how it is.”
May 24, 2017
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-militants-idUSKBN18K08M
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/24/philippine-church-says-priest-churchgoers-taken-hostage.html
Headline:China calls for new talks with North Korea on nukes
Headline: North Korea official: China within striking distance of Hwasong-12 missile
Headline:China: No one has right to bring war & chaos to Korean Peninsula
China’s U.N. ambassador said Tuesday that multiple North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile tests, with no end in sight, show the “very strong” need for new talks with Pyongyang to reduce tensions and try to achieve denuclearization. Liu Jieyi, whose country is closest to North Korea, said all progress with North Korea on eliminating nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula has come through dialogue, “so there’s no reason why dialogue is not taking place in the current situation.” Liu spoke to reporters after emergency Security Council consultations behind closed doors on the North’s latest missile test. The United States, Britain and France have been pushing for a new U.N. resolution with tougher sanctions against North Korea. But Liu said China “first and foremost” wants to see the six sanctions resolutions against North Korea already adopted by the council fully implemented.
May 24, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/23/china-calls-for-new-talks-with-north-korea-on-nukes.html
https://www.rt.com/news/389608-china-war-korean-peninsula/
Headline: Moody’s cuts China’s credit rating for first time since 1989
China’s credit rating has been cut over fears that growth in the world’s second-biggest economy will slow in the coming years. Moody’s, one of the world’s big three ratings agencies, cut China by one notch to A1 from Aa3. It was the first time the agency has downgraded the country since 1989. China’s finance ministry said Moody’s was exaggerating the mainland’s economic difficulties and underestimating reform efforts. The downgrade could raise the cost of borrowing for the Chinese government. The ratings agency also changed its outlook for China to stable from negative. Moody’s said that the downgrade reflected expectations that China’s financial strength would “erode somewhat over the coming years, with the economy-wide debt continuing to rise as potential growth slows”.
May 24, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40024503
Headline: South Africa’s Western Cape declares drought disaster
South Africa’s Western Cape province has declared a drought disaster as it faces its worst water shortage in 113 years. Provincial leader Helen Zille said water will be harvested by drilling boreholes to serve key points like hospitals in Cape Town. The alert will last for three months but could be extended if the crisis persists, she said in a statement. Southern African nations are reeling from a two-year drought. The UN estimates that over 40 million people have been affected by the drought that was caused by the El Nino climate phenomenon. “The disaster declaration will accelerate… the province’s strategy to ensure that taps do not run dry,” Ms Zille said.
May 22, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40002770
May 18, 2017 –Aquatic bird die-off reported from Amelia Island to Ponte Vedra Beach Florida
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/community/aquatic-bird-die-off-reported-from-amelia-island-to-ponte-vedra-beach/440894816
May 19, 2017 –Dead sea birds found washed up in San Pedro de la Paz, Chile
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biobiochile.cl%2Fnoticias%2Fnacional%2Fregion-del-bio-bio%2F2017%2F05%2F19%2Fvecinos-encuentran-una-veintena-de-aves-muertas-en-playa-de-san-pedro-de-la-paz.shtml&edit-text=&act=url
May 21, 2017 –Tens of thousands of pounds of fish die ‘suddenly’ in Guangxi, China
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shuichan.cc%2Fnews_view-323525.html&edit-text=&act=url
May 21, 2017 –50 thousand animals killed by the rains in Corrientes Argentina
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarin.com%2Fieco%2Feconomia%2Fdrama-agua-50-mil-animales-muertos-lluvias-corrientes_0_r1Lzr4Ae-.html&edit-text=&act=url
Headline:Taiwan’s top court rules in favour of same-sex marriage
Taiwan’s top judges have ruled in favour of gay marriage, paving the way for it to become the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex unions. The highest court ruled that current laws preventing members of the same sex from marrying violated their right to equality and were unconstitutional. It gave parliament two years to amend existing laws or pass new ones. Wednesday’s landmark decision came as the LGBT community faces increasing persecution in the region. In a press release following the ruling, the court said that “disallowing two persons of the same sex to marry, for the sake of safeguarding basic ethical orders” constituted a “different treatment” with “no rational basis.” The court concluded that “such different treatment is incompatible with the spirit and meaning of the right to equality” as protected by Taiwan’s constitution.
May 24, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40012047
Headline:CME TO SIDESWIPE EARTH THIS WEEK
On Tuesday, May 23rd, the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory observed a CME leaving the sun: movie. NOAA analysts say the plasma-filled cloud could deliver a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field midday on May 26th, causing geomagnetic unrest and polar auroras.
May 24, 2017
All earthquakes are instantly posted to the ETRM Facebook page- you do not need to sign up; click the photo below to see the earthquake album
~click the photo to see ALL the maps of the large earthquakes for the current year~
Headline: What’s shaking? 
List & map of USGS Earthquakes~Click the shaking house~