A former US ambassador to the UN has urged Donald Trump to punish the Obama administration for deliberately sabotaging relations with Israel. John Bolton says that the recent UN Security Council resolution on Israel was a deliberate ploy by Obama and others to “box Donald Trump in.” Sputniknews.com reports: “I just think it was a very bad idea,” Bolton said during an interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York.
ISIS are planning to launch “mass-casualty attacks” on UK targets as well as overseas according to British Security Minister Ben Wallace. The minister responsible for national security warned that the terrorists have “no moral objection to using chemical weapons.” “The ambition of IS or Daesh is definitely mass-casualty attacks….they want to harm as many people as possible and terrorize as many people as possible” Wallace said in an interview with the Sunday Times.
Israeli police are interrogating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over suspicions that he systematically received favors and gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars from a number of wealthy Israeli and foreign businessmen. Netanyahu, the 67 year old chairman of the Likud party will be questioned under caution at his official residence in occupied Jerusalem al-Quds on Monday evening. Reports say the interview could last for several hours and there may be another meeting later in the week.
The United States has warned North Korea against carrying out “provocative actions,” after Pyongyang said it was putting the final touches to a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the US soil The Pentagon issued a statement on Sunday warning North Korea that it would face serious consequences if it makes good on its most recent threat of testing an intercontinental ballistic missile. Press TV reports: The warning came only hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced the regime’s plans to test the new ICBM.
Last week we were surprised to learn that demand for hotel rooms at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, where the world's billionaires, CEOs, politicians, celebrities and oligarchs mingle every year (while regaled by their public relations teams known as the "media", for whom getting an invite to the DJ event du jour is more important than rocking the boat by asking unpleasant questions) was so great, not only are hotel rooms running out, but local employees may be put up in shipping containers in car parks to free up much needed accommodations.