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Iran intentionally polluted the Mediterranean Sea and Israel’s shores in an act of ecological terrorism, causing the greatest environmental disaster in Israel’s history, according to Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel as reported by the Jerusalem Post. The official said, “Now we see Iran is not just terrorizing [Israel] with [attempts at attaining] nuclear weapons and entrenching itself in our … Read More

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake has shaken Greece just after noon on Wednesday, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center. The temblor struck around 13.6 miles west-northwest of Larissa, Greece, the capitol of the country’s Thessaly region along the coast of the Aegean Sea. It was felt as far away as the capitals of neighboring Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro. The quake sent … Read More

Another U.S. contractor has died when at least 10 rockets slammed into an air base housing U.S. troops in western Iraq, the Pentagon said. A Pentagon spokesperson said the contractor “suffered a cardiac episode while sheltering” and died shortly afterward. He said there were no service members injured and all are accounted for. The rockets struck Ain al-Asad airbase in … Read More

Israel’s Prime Minister has now said that arch-foe Iran is responsible for a recent attack on an Israeli cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman near Iran and vowed that Israel would strike back against their “greatest enemy.” “It is indeed an Iranian act, that’s clear,” Netanyahu told public broadcaster Kan, referring to the MV Helios Ray, which was last … Read More

Saudi Arabia announced today there was a missile attack over its capital and also bomb-laden drones targeting provinces in a series of airborne assaults it has blamed on Yemen’s rebel Houthis backed by Iran. The Saudis said there was a ballistic missile launched toward Riyadh and there were three booby-trapped drones sent toward the province of Jizan, with a fourth … Read More

An Israeli cargo ship has been struck by an unexplained explosion while sailing in the Gulf of Oman. The ship was forced to turn back towards a port. According to satellite-tracking data from website MarineTraffic.com, it’s believed the stricken vessel is the MV Helios Ray – a Bahaman-flagged roll-on, roll-off vehicle carrier. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which is run by the British navy … Read More

The United States has carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria against buildings belonging to what the Pentagon said were Iran-backed militias responsible for recent attacks against American and allied personnel in Iraq. The strikes were said to be in response to a rocket attack on Feb. 15 on the airport in Erbil, in northern Iraq, which killed a contractor with the … Read More

The first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8), having infected people from birds, has been registered in Russia with it reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East and North Africa in recent months but so far only in poultry. But now … Read More

The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. topped 500,000 today, a staggering and growing number that all but matches the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined. Despite the rollout of vaccines since mid-December, a closely watched model from the University of Washington projects more than 589,000 dead by June 1. The U.S. death toll … Read More

A “red alert” dire warning has been issued due to the statewide impact of the winter storm on agriculture and the food supply chain. The unprecedented storm that swept the southern U.S. states last week led to extreme cold and icy conditions that most southerners have never seen in their lifetime and that caused a loss of power and water … Read More