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Two oil pumping stations on a major Saudi East-West oil pipeline have been attacked by drones two days after oil tankers hulls were bombed in sabotage outside Fujairah port in UAE Gulf of Oman waters. The attack by drones carrying explosives was described as an act of terrorism that targeted global oil supplies. The two pumping stations belonging to Saudi … Read More

A powerful earthquake struck Papua New Guinea triggering a tsunami alert for the country and for the nearby Solomon Islands. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake measured magnitude 7.5 and was located 45 kilometers (28 miles) northeast of Kokopo. It was centered at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), it said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center … Read More

It’s reported that commercial oil tankers were damaged in “sabotage attacks” in the Mideast Gulf as tensions soared in a region already shaken by a standoff between the United States and Iran. It came as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo scrapped a planned visit to Moscow to head to Brussels instead for talks with European officials on Iran. The … Read More

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck 29 miles northwest of Panama’s coastal city of David on Sunday near the country’s border with Costa Rica, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Local police said some buildings were damaged, but there were no initial reports of fatalities. Panamanian authorities said there was no tsunami alert from the quake. Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela said … Read More

Russian news media is reporting that Syrian militants fired 36 rockets at Russia’s Khmeimim airbase in two attacks on Monday with the shelling coming from the Idlib de-escalation zone. But they say both attacks were repelled by the air defenses with no damage dealt, the Russian military said, adding that jets launched strikes in response. They report the shelling came … Read More

The United States is deploying an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East on short notice in response to “clear indications” Iran and Iranian proxies were planning an attack on U.S. forces in the region, a U.S. official said. Late Sunday night, the White House made a surprise announcement that the USS Abraham Lincoln and a … Read More

The death toll continues to rise this Sunday as civilian casualties increased on both sides after more than 600 rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza in less than 24 hours, in one of the most intense flareups of violence in the region in years. The barrage of rockets from Gaza started Saturday with Israelis running for bomb shelters as … Read More

The Gaza-based Islamic Jihad terror group has released a video threatening rocket attacks on the Israeli nuclear facility in Dimona and other sensitive sites in Israel as the Ben Gurion Airport. The threat has come after continuous rocket fire from Gaza raining down 200 rockets on Israel and then the IDF strikes in response. The Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terror group … Read More

Air-raid sirens sounded across southern Israel sending Israelis running for bomb shelters as 200 rockets rained down that were fired from the Gaza Strip, according to Israel Defense Forces. But again miraculously, no one was killed. The Iron Dome aerial defense system intercepted dozens of the incoming rockets, per the IDF. It was reported the rocket barrage continued for some … Read More

The Calvary United Methodist Church in Durham N.C. found a way to support the LGBTQ community by packing the church for an event called “Drag Me to Church.” The event was described by the church as a family-friendly drag performance fundraiser with the purpose of supporting and raising money for the church’s LGBTQ youth group. Also on the group’s calendar … Read More