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Israel carried out air strikes in Syria on Sunday in response to rocket fire from Syria at the Golan Heights, its military said, with a war monitor reporting 10 killed by Israel including Syrian soldiers and foreign fighters. Israel’s army said two rockets were fired from Syria at Mount Hermon in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights late Saturday and one had … Read More

Temperatures passed 122 degrees Fahrenheit in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke. The thermometer hit 50.6 degrees Celsius (123 Fahrenheit) in the Rajasthan desert city of Churu on Saturday, the weather department said. All of Rajasthan suffered in severe heat with several cities hitting temperatures above 47 Celsius. In May 2016, Phalodi in … Read More

It’s reported Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman offered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas $10 billion if he would accept US President Trump’s plan for peace in the Middle East, also known as the “deal of the century.” Salman briefed Abbas about the details of the deal of the century and asked him to accept it. Then  the Saudi crown … Read More

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suffered a stunning defeat after he failed to meet the deadline to form a new government, casting a cloud over his future as prime minister and thrusting Israel into the chaos of a new election again. Just seven weeks ago Netanyahu  basked in what he thought was victory after the elections in Israel. Despite a … Read More

America has been hit with 500 tornadoes in the last 30 days, with Tuesday breaking a 40-year record by marking the 12th day in a row with at least eight tornado reports, according to US forecasters. Severe weather has been sweeping across the central U.S., injuring hundreds and destroying buildings, prompting claims areas of the country have been left “like … Read More

The U.S. heartland has just had the 12th consecutive day with at least eight tornado reports, breaking the record, according to Dr. Patrick Marsh, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Dr. Marsh said  “What has really set us apart has been the last 10 days or so. The last 10 days … Read More

In an Israeli election surprise, Netanyahu, the long-serving Prime Minister of Israel for the past decade, who with his allies barely eked  out enough advantage in the recent election to be tapped to form a ruling coalition to govern, has surprisingly failed to form a government in Israel. Netanyahu’s surprise failure to form a government has put Israel on the … Read More

A meteor soared across the Australian sky this week that was the size of a car when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere, according to scientists. Footage of the “fireball” crashing towards the earth flooded social media with sightings of the phenomenon coming in from across both South Australia and Victoria. This sighting had followed another meteor sighting earlier that lit up … Read More

Here we go again, another asteroid is coming to earth, but this one’s different. NASA says this one is a mile wide and also has its own moon that’s orbiting it. Although classified by NASA as technically “potentially hazardous”, this asteroid named 1999 KW4, is expected to skim by the earth in relative space terms and breeze by safely. The … Read More

It’s reported the United States sees signs the Assad regime could be using chemical weapons, including a suspected chlorine attack on Sunday in northwest Syria, the U.S. State Department said. The also warned that Washington and its allies would respond “quickly and appropriately” if this were proven. US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement, “Unfortunately, we continue … Read More