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The U.S. State Department changed its usual description of the Golan Heights from “Israeli-occupied” to “Israeli-controlled” in an annual global human rights report. The move came amid intensified efforts by Israel to win U.S. recognition of its claim to sovereignty over the strategic plateau it captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and effectively annexed in 1981, a … Read More

The strategic Offutt Air Force Base was devastated by the unusual “Bomb Cyclone” that developed over land in 24 hours and brought devastation to the central U.S. Offutt is home to Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear arsenal. Flooding at the U.S. Air Force base damaged buildings and forced the attempted removal of planes until its runway was rendered unusable. … Read More

Popocatépetl, the active volcano that rises some 40 miles southeast of the Mexican capital, has exploded sending a plume of ash and gas more than two miles into the sky and raining glowing rocks onto its slopes. Video released by Mexico’s national disaster prevention agency showed a fiery light at the volcano’s crater. Then the explosion was quickly enveloped in ash … Read More

National Guard troops have been called in and residents told to stay inside after elevated levels of a dangerous chemical were detected in the air near a Houston-area petrochemicals storage facility that had erupted into massive flames and burned for days. Harris County officials said the National Guard and hazardous materials teams have established perimeters around the Intercontinental Terminals Company in … Read More

A convicted sex offender was allowed to read books to small children during a drag queen story time event at the Houston public library in Texas. Library officials confirmed that Alberto Garza, a 32-year-old drag queen who goes by the name Tatiana Mala Nina, was part of a recent children’s program. According to the Department of Public Safety records, Garza … Read More

An earthquake measuring up to 5.7 magnitude has rocked Turkey sending tremors across tourist areas. It’s also reported the European earthquake monitoring service said the quake measured up to 6.4 magnitude. And the quake was felt in Denizli then also neighboring Izmir and Antalya. Two aftershocks, measuring magnitude 4.8 and 4.5, were also recorded following the initial earthquake. Several homes in rural … Read More

It’s reported that a former ‘Prince of ISIS’ has turned to Jesus Christ after having a God Dream that caused him to say: ‘I Saw a Love That Didn’t Exist in Islam.’ The former ISIS leader, whose identity has been disguised for his safety, and is being called Mohammad, described the miraculous circumstances that led to his transformation to a … Read More

It’s reported the mother of an “androgynous” gay drag kid who was videoed dancing in a gay bar before a crowd of men throwing dollar bills at him says she has been cleared of wrongdoing by child services. Wendy Napoles, the mother of 11-year-old Desmond Napoles (known by his stage name “Desmond is Amazing”), went on her son’s Instagram page to inform … Read More

Cyclone winds and floods swept across southeastern Africa affecting more than 2.6 million people and could rank as one of the worst weather-related disasters recorded in the southern hemisphere, U.N. officials said. Rescue crews are still struggling to reach victims five days after Cyclone Idai raced in at speeds of up to 170 kph (105 mph) from the Indian Ocean … Read More

President Filipe Nyusi fears the death toll could rise to 1,000 in Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Idai he said in a nationwide address. “For the moment we have registered 84 deaths officially, but when we flew over the area … this morning to understand what’s going on, everything indicates that we could register more than 1,000 deaths,” he … Read More