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Headline: Palestinian Anger Could Explode On Abbas Due To Corruption Charges, Arab Official Warns
Recent corruption scandals may jeopardize stability in the West Bank, with Palestinians turning their ire on the Palestinian Authority and not just Israel, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem. The Palestinian media reported this week that cronies of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, presidential advisor Mahmoud Al-Habash, and Director of Intelligence Majed Faraj, were appointed to lofty public positions amid mounting unemployment among university graduates. It was reported that Habash’s son was hired as a state prosecutor even though he graduated from university with a mediocre overall grade of 53 percent. Rattled by the public outcry, PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ associates went on the defensive and accused his challenger, Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan, of waging a smear campaign against the president. The Arab source said that intelligence reviews indicate that Abbas’ popularity hit rock bottom against the backdrop of the corruption scandals and the diplomatic stalemate vis-à-vis Israel. He added that a popular uprising in the West Bank is not an unlikely scenario – only that this time it could be directed against Abbas and not just Israel. “The Palestinian Authority that has so far proved immune to the Arab Spring could witness the rise of a popular resistance movement, a ‘Palestinian Spring’ that would seek to expunge Abbas along with corruption at the top,” he said.
June 22, 2016
Headline: Turkey, Israel reportedly agree to normalization deal
Headline: Turkish FM says meetings with Hamas will continue
Headline: Hamas: Turkey dropped condition that Israel lift Gaza siege before normalization
According to a report, Israel agrees to apologize and compensate families who lost loved ones in Mavi Marmara raid; Additionally, Israel will allow for the construction of a new power station and distillation plant for drinking water; final agreement still had not been concluded, but will likely be announced on June 26. Meanwhile, Turkey will continue to meet with Palestinian group Hamas in its efforts to promote a long-lasting peace in the region, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday, adding the meetings were not an obstacle in the normalization of ties with Israel.
Turkey and Israel have said they are close to patching up a six-year-old political rift caused when Israeli commandoes killed 10 Turkish activists while storming the Mavi Marmara, a ship in a convoy seeking to break an Israeli naval blockade of the Palestinian territory of Gaza. Turkey has demanded Israel apologize, pay compensation and lift the Gaza blockade. For Israel, limiting Hamas activity in Turkey has been key.
June 22, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4818694,00.html
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83)
Jordan
Headline: Terrorists infiltrate Jordan from Syria, kill six troops in bombing
Headline: Jordan declares Syria and Iraq borders closed military zones
Headline: Jordan to respond with iron fist to threat, King says, as 6 troops killed in border terror attack
A car bomb attack at the Jordanian-Syrian border on Tuesday killed six Jordanian guards and wounded 14 more, a Jordanian army source said. The explosives-laden vehicle exploded a few hundred meters from a camp for Syrian refugees in a desolate eastern area of the country where the borders of Iraq, Syria and Jordan meet, a Jordanian army statement said. A Jordanian official source said the attack was launched from the Syrian side of the border. The army said a number of other vehicles used in the attack were destroyed, adding that a number of army personnel had been wounded. The attack that took place at 5.30 a.m. (0230 GMT). Meanwhile, Jordan has declared its border regions with Syria and Iraq to be closed military zones after a suicide bombing on Tuesday that killed six soldiers.
June 22, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36593579
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Tehran accuses Riyadh of backing Kurdish rebels on Iran’s border
Mohsen Rezaei, a senior member of Iran’s regime and secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council, accused Saudi Arabia on Tuesday of sending two Kurdish terror cells to the Iranian border and of supplying and arming Kurdish fighters in the region. In a post on his Instagram account, Rezaei claimed that the members of the two cells that he alleged were operated by the Saudi embassy in Irbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, were all killed. He also told Riyadh to “Pay attention to your defeats in Yemen, Iraq and Syria, and quit killing Muslims.”
June 22, 2016
Headline: Yemen missile launch, Saudi-led air strike shake truce
Headline: Yemen rebels advance on key southern air base
A Saudi-led military coalition said it intercepted a missile fired in Yemen on Tuesday and residents said an air strike by the alliance caused eight civilian casualties, straining a civil war ceasefire. The ballistic missile was fired towards the central city of Marib, which is controlled by Saudi-backed government forces, but was intercepted and destroyed along with the source of the launch, the coalition said in a statement without elaborating. Residents in a mountainous area of Lahj province said a Saudi-led air strike late on Monday targeted Houthi forces who advanced into the area the day before, causing eight civilian casualties. It was not clear how many of those may have been killed. A coalition spokesperson did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The strategic Jalis mountain area is near Al Anad, a major military and air base that once hosted US counterterrorism forces deployed to fight Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In the town of Jaar, about 60km east of Anad, residents said AQAP fighters mobilised at the local prison and freed several inmates.
June 22, 2016
http://jordantimes.com/news/region/yemen-missile-launch-saudi-led-air-strike-shake-truce
Egypt
Headline: Egypt court quashes Red Sea islands’ transfer to Saudis
Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi announced that Tiran and Sanafir would be transferred in April, during a visit by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman. More than 150 people were jailed in connection with protests over the deal, though many were later acquitted or had their sentences reduced on appeal. The Egyptian government has said it will challenge Tuesday’s ruling. On Tuesday, Egypt’s State Council, an administrative court, issued a verdict annulling April’s maritime borders agreement between Cairo and Riyadh. The maritime border agreement signed earlier this year between Egypt and Saudi Arabia took many Egyptians by surprise. Since then, protesters have taken to the streets calling the arrangement unconstitutional, and accusing the government of giving away Egyptian territories in return for aid packages and investments worth billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a strong backer of President Sisi. Some of these protesters were arrested and charged with disrupting public order. A few are still behind bars.
June 21, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36584812
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Air raids kill 25 civilians in ISIS stronghold in Syria
Warplanes have bombed ISIS’s de facto Syrian capital Raqqa, killing at least 25 civilians, after the extremist drove pro-government forces out of their bastion northern province. Twin offensives aimed at severing the extremists’ supply line from the Turkish border to Raqqa city appear to have largely stalled as ISIS mounts a fierce defense using suicide bombers. Six children were among the 25 civilians killed in bombing raids on Raqqa city late Tuesday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. “Dozens more were wounded, some of them critically,” said the British-based monitoring group, which was not immediately able to determine who had carried out the raids. The Syrian government, its longtime ally Russia and a U.S.-led coalition have all carried out air strikes against ISIS in Raqqa. The Observatory said there were fresh air strikes – apparently by the coalition – on the city on Wednesday, one of which hit the town hall.
June 22, 2016
Syria Headline: ISIS suffers over 20 casualties in failed Deir Ezzor offensive
The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) launched a new offensive in the southwestern countryside of Deir Ezzor on Wednesday that targeted the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) defenses at Jabal Thardeh. ISIS began the offensive by launching three VBIEDs at the Syrian Arab Army’s positions near the southwestern perimeter Jabal Thardeh; however, these terrorist attacks were all repelled before they could reach their intended targets. Following the failed VBIED attack, ISIS stormed the Syrian Arab Army’s defenses at Jabal Thardeh, resulting in an intense battle that lasted for over 90 minutes on Wednesday.
June 22, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-suffers-20-casualties-failed-deir-ezzor-offensive/
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe http://syriahr.com/en/category/news
http://syriahr.com/en/category/news/
Iraqi Headline: Iraqi commander says Fallujah almost cleared of ISIL
Iraqi Headline: Despite Iraqi claims Fallujah “cleared” of Daesh, resistance remains
Iraqi commander said Wednesday that Fallujah is almost cleared of ISIL Takfiri terrorists, noting that Iraqi forces are facing resistance from holdout insurgents in just two northern neighborhoods of the city. “The northern and central parts of Fallujah have almost been cleared of Daesh,” the operation’s overall commander Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi told AFP, using an Arabic acronym for ISIL. “There are few ISIL militants left, only in the Al-Muallemin and Jolan neighborhoods in the north of the city,” he said. “The militants in Jolan are offering some resistance but we’re pushing back and we’ve killed a number of them,” he said. Operations against ISIL in northern Fallujah were being conducted by the elite counter-terrorism service and forces from the federal and provincial police.
June 22, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraqi-commander-says-fallujah-almost-cleared-isil/
Iraqi Headline: Iraqi forces begin important offensive in southern Mosul
The Iraqi Army’s 9th Armored Division liberated the small village of Mohammad Al-Moussa in the Nineveh Governorate’s southern countryside on Tuesday. According to local reports, the Iraqi Armed Forces seized the village of Mohammad Al-Moussa after a violent battle with the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS). The main objective of this latest offensive is to seize the historical town of Al-Shirqat, which is also the gateway to the Mosul District.
June 22, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraqi-forces-begin-important-offensive-southern-mosul/
Iraqi Headline: Iraq Situation Report June 14- June 20, 2016
http://iswresearch.blogspot.com/2016/06/iraq-situation-report-june-14-20-2016.html
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Turkey.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Turkey.
Beth Togarmah is Armenia.
Turkey
Headline: Turkish jets strike PKK targets in northern Iraq, southeast Turkey
Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey overnight Wednesday, and authorities imposed new curfews in rural areas as the army and police continue to battle insurgents, security sources said. The air strikes in Kurdish-run northern Iraq destroyed targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), including shelters and weapon stores. The jets also hit sites near the Turkish towns of Lice, northeast of the regional capital of Diyarbakir, and Semdinli, further east near the Iraqi border, sources said. Some 25 villages near Lice were put under a round-the-clock curfew Tuesday after authorities determined PKK militants were sheltering and keeping weapons there, the Diyarbakir governor’s office said. On Wednesday, new curfews were imposed in villages in Mus and Bingol provinces and near the town of Beytussebap, where three police officers were hurt in a gunfight, security sources said.
June 22, 2016
Headline: EU, Turkey to open new membership talks: sources
The EU will open new membership talks with Turkey as planned in a few days, EU diplomatic sources said Wednesday, just as Ankara’s accession becomes a hot-button issue in Britain’s vote on its future in the bloc. One source, who asked not to be named, told AFP that EU member states will meet June 30 to agree to open a new negotiating chapter with Turkey on finance and budget affairs. A British spokesperson in Brussels said the decision was procedural and followed up a pledge made by European Union leaders in March to open another accession chapter with Turkey. “In March, all member states agreed to open Chapter 33, during the Netherlands (six-month EU) presidency. This is a technical step to implement that agreement,” the spokesperson said. EU leaders at a summit in March agree to speed up Turkey’s long-stalled membership talks as part of an accord with Ankara on tackling the migration crisis, promising to open at least one new chapter by the end of June when the Netherlands presidency finishes. The issue however has become caught up in the campaign for Thursday’s bitterly-fought Brexit referendum amid charges by the “Leave” camp that accession will allow millions of Turks into the country.
June 22, 2016
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/31896584/eu-turkey-to-open-new-membership-talks-sources/#page1
Iran
Headline: Iran warns Bahrain ‘will pay price’ for crackdown on Shiites
Iran has warned Bahrain that it is fanning armed rebellion and “will pay the price” after an escalating crackdown on the country’s Shiite majority saw a top cleric stripped of citizenship. Washington and the United Nations have also raised concerns about moves by the Sunni-ruled kingdom against Shiites, who account for some 70 per cent of the Gulf state’s population. Bahrain has been shaken by unrest since security forces crushed Shiite-led protests demanding a constitutional monarchy and an elected prime minister in 2011. Tensions have reached fresh heights in recent days, with the suspension of the Al Wefaq main Shiite opposition group and, on Monday, the stripping of top Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim’s citizenship.
June 22, 2016
http://jordantimes.com/news/region/iran-warns-bahrain-will-pay-price-crackdown-shiites
Ethiopia
Headline: Eritrea Accuses Ethiopia of Planning a Full-scale War
The government of Eritrea told the U.N. Human Rights Council that its neighbor Ethiopia is planning to launch a full scale war against its territory. Eritrean and Ethiopian troops recently clashed along their border. The countries are blaming one another for starting recent hostilities that included heavy border fighting around the Tserona central front, an area located south of the Eritrean capital, Asmara. Girma Asmerom Tesfay, Eritrea’s U.N. Permanent Representative, said that there is clear evidence that Ethiopia has adopted a hostile policy towards his country. “The evidence is their own statement that they have made in their parliament, and a lot of [Ethiopian] officials have been saying… that they will attack Eritrea, they will take military action, they have changed their policy towards Eritrea, they will go for a regime change…support opposition armed groups to attack,” Ambassador Asmerom told VOA. He said that the June 12th confrontation between the two countries is further evidence that Ethiopia is seeking regime change and seeks occupation of his country. “There was a major military engagement and aggression by Ethiopia using tanks, artilleries and ground forces,” he said.
June 22, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/content/eritrea-accuses-ethiopia-contemplating-full-scale-war/3386586.html
Libya
Headline: Libyan forces ‘make gains’ in Sirte
Headline: Heavy Fighting Against Islamic Militants in Benghazi, Sirte
Government-backed forces in Libya have made their largest gains yet into so-called Islamic State (IS) territory in Sirte city since their offensive began in May, officials say. Troops advanced more than 1km (0.6 miles) into areas previously held by IS, re-taking residential districts. Dozens of soldiers and IS fighters were reportedly killed. Libyan government forces announced on their official Facebook page that they also had control of an official radio station and power management facility. Al-Jazeera reports that the troops have also recaptured an IS ammunition store. Meanwhile, a mystery explosion in a town close to Tripoli has killed at least 25 people, apparently after a dispute at a shop escalated. The blast took place in Garabulli after clashes between locals and militia fighters from the city of Misrata.
June 22, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36593986
http://www.voanews.com/content/libya-fighting-benghazi-sirte/3387113.html
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: South African capital tense after overnight riots in ruling party dispute
South Africa’s capital was tense on Wednesday after residents torched buses and looted shops overnight, police said, in clashes sparked by the ruling party’s choice of a mayoral candidate for local polls. Africa’s most industrialized country will hold local government elections on Aug. 3, in what looks likely to become a referendum on President Jacob Zuma’s leadership amid mounting concern over weak economic growth. Violence flared on Monday night as impoverished residents of Pretoria’s townships set light to vehicles after the African National Congress’ (ANC) national leadership named a candidate for mayor in the Tshwane municipality where the capital city is located who had not been not nominated by its regional branches. Police said there was an uneasy calm in the capital on Wednesday. With some roads impassable because of debris and burned-out vehicles from the violence, normal commercial life was disrupted. A Tshwane Metro police spokesman, Console Tleane, said vehicles were set alight and a newly-built school was vandalized by gangs of rioters. Last night’s violence erupted at around 6pm until 3am this morning, he said.
June 22, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/node/943291/world
Headline: At least 26 killed in central Nigeria violence
At least 26 people have been confirmed killed in a series of violence which broke out early this week in central Nigeria’s Benue State, local authorities said on Wednesday. Three local districts have so far been affected by the attacks suspected to be a perpetration of local herdsmen in the state, said Michael Oguwche, a traditional chief in Anyii, one of the three attacked villages. According to the local chief, the gunmen had first attacked Vase Village on Monday, before moving to the two other villages to wreak havoc late Tuesday and early Wednesday. He said the sequence of the attacks on Vase Village, Uzzar Village and his village showed that they were coordinated. More than 30 people sustained various degrees of injuries from the attacks, he added. Local police have confirmed the attacks, saying riot policemen were deployed to put the situation under control.
June 22, 2016
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-06/22/c_135458264.htm
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 missile reaches new heights, ‘intensifying’ threat to Japan
North Korea launched what appeared to be an intermediate-range missile on Wednesday to a high altitude in the direction of Japan before it plunged into the sea, military officials said, a technological advance for the isolated state after several test failures. The launch came about two hours after a similar test failed, South Korea’s military said, and covered 400 km (250 miles), more than halfway towards the southwest coast of Japan’s main island of Honshu. The launches and earlier nuclear tests show continued defiance of international warnings and a series of U.N. Security Council resolutions and sanctions, which North Korea rejects as an infringement of its sovereignty. Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani said the second missile reached an altitude of 1,000 km (620 miles), indicating North Korea had made progress. “We don’t know whether it counts as a success, but North Korea has shown some capability with IRBMs (intermediate range ballistic missiles),” he told reporters in Tokyo. “The threat to Japan is intensifying.”
June 22, 2016
https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-fires-second-missile-first-launch-fails-000619521.html?nhp=1
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. 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. 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: Final Brexit Appeals Made as ‘Leave’ Edges Ahead in Two Polls
Headline: The UK referendum: a timetable
Campaigners issued 11th-hour appeals as Britain prepares to vote on its membership of the European Union, with the two latest opinion polls showing a narrow lead for “Leave.” An online survey by TNS on Wednesday put “Leave” two points ahead on 43 percent. It sampled 2,320 adults June 16-22. Luke Taylor of the polling company cautioned that “a late swing to the status quo” was possible. According to the survey, the voting intention figure for those likely to vote based on a turnout model from the last general election is 49 percent for “Leave” and 42 percent for “Remain.”
June 22, 2016
https://euobserver.com/political/133948
June 17, 2016- Mass die off of salmon in fish farms, due to ‘toxic algae’ in British Columbia, Canada
http://clayoquotaction.org/2016/06/mass-die-off-at-clayoquot-farms/
June 17, 2016- Masses of dead crabs and starfish washing up in Port Aransas, Texas
http://www.portasouthjetty.com/news/2016-06-16/Front_Page/Dead_crabs_starfish_wash_up_on_beach.html
June 18, 2016- 60 tons of fish have died in the waters of Maine-et-Loire, France
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.francetvinfo.fr%2Fmeteo%2Fmaine-et-loire-des-milliers-de-poissons-asphyxies-avec-la-decrue_1506061.html%23xtor%3DAL-67-&edit-text=&act=url
June 20, 2016- Hundreds of dead fish found in Deep Fork River in Oklahoma
http://www.news9.com/story/32265816/investigators-look-into-dead-fish-found-near-deep-fork-river-in-lincoln-co
June 20, 2016- 120,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Al Biqa, Lebanon
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/37194/bird-flu-outbreak-discovered-in-lebanon/
June 21, 2016- sheep dead due to lightning in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Ftengrinews.kz%2Fsng%2Fpochti-300-ovets-pogibli-iz-za-molnii-v-kyirgyizstane-297046%2F&edit-text=&act=url
Headline: Congo declares yellow fever epidemic, 1,000 suspected cases
Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared a yellow fever epidemic in three provinces, including the capital Kinshasa, after confirming 67 cases of the disease, with another 1,000 suspected cases being monitored. Health Minister Felix Kabange said only seven of the proven cases were indigenous to the Central African country, while 58 were imported from Angola, where the outbreak began. A further two cases came from remote forested areas not linked to the current outbreak. Five people in total have died, Kabange added. “I declare today a localized epidemic of yellow fever in the provinces of Kinshasa, Kongo Central and Kwango,” Kabange told a news conference. Kinshasa is the primary concern for global health officials since it has a densely-packed population of more than 12 million and poor healthcare infrastructure.
June 21, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-congodemocratic-yellowfever-idUSKCN0Z616K
Persecution Matthew 24:9 & Revelation 6:9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.” (Matthew) “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.” (Revelation)
Headline: Egyptian mob reportedly burns 80 Christian homes on rumor of new church
An angry crowd of Muslims reportedly looted and burned the homes of 80 Christian families in an Egyptian village Friday after rumors circulated that they wanted to build a church. Christian media reported the violence taking place in the village of Qarayat al Bayda, near Alexandria, quoting witnesses who claimed police did little to protect them. The alleged violence began after noon prayers, when a throng of Muslims gathered in the front of a home being built, Mousa Zarif told International Christian Concern. “They were chanting slogans against us,” Zarif said. “Among these slogans were, ‘By no means shall there be a church here.'” Egypt is roughly 85 percent Muslim and Coptic Christians have long faced persecution in the Arab nation. The village in which the attacks were reported to have occurred has no Christian churches, according to International Christian Concern. The incident prompted renewed calls for the government in Cairo to do more to protect religious minorities.
June 22, 2016
Headline: Goodbye, Password. Banks Opt to Scan Fingers and Faces Instead.
The banking password may be about to expire — forever. Some of the nation’s largest banks, acknowledging that traditional passwords are either too cumbersome or no longer secure, are increasingly using fingerprints, facial scans and other types of biometrics to safeguard accounts. Millions of customers at Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo routinely use fingerprints to log into their bank accounts through their mobile phones. This feature, which some of the largest banks have introduced in the last few months, is enabling a huge share of American banking customers to verify their identities with biometrics. And millions more are expected to opt in as more phones incorporate fingerprint scans. Other uses of biometrics are also coming online. Wells Fargo lets some customers scan their eyes with their mobile phones to log into corporate accounts and wire millions of dollars. Citigroup can help verify 800,000 of its credit card customers by their voices. USAA, which provides insurance and banking services to members of the military and their families, identifies some of its customers through their facial contours. Some of the moves reflect concern that so many hundreds of millions of email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and other personal identifiers have fallen into the hands of criminals, rendering those identifiers increasingly ineffective at protecting accounts. And while thieves could eventually find ways to steal biometric data, banks are convinced they offer more protection.
June 21, 2016
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”
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