Politics

The Israeli Prime Minister has said that Tel Aviv will never withdraw from the Golan Heights, an area captured from Syria in 1967. Benjamin Netanyahu claims the strategic plateau bordering Syria has been in Israeli hands “since antiquity” and will forever stay that way. RT reports: While the UN-led peace talks on the future of war-torn Syria take place in Geneva, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the first-ever cabinet meeting on the Golan Heights to declare that Tel Aviv will not take a single step back from the annexed region.

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Saudi King & Princes Blackmail U.S. Government

The New York Times reported last week:

Using one of the best opening lines ever, NBC reports that in celebration of North Korea's founding leader Kim ll-Sung's birthday (grandfather of current leader Kim Jong-Un), North Korea tried to launch a missile off its eastern coast early Friday.

The launch was a dismal failure according to Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis, who said that it was "a firey, catastrophic attempt at a launch that was unsuccessful."

The failure lead to this excellently crafted opening line from NBC's Stella Kim

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has accidentally released a secret NATO report complete with code words, ciphers, co-ordinates, radio frequencies and a host of other “special instructions” needed for huge war drills currently under way around Scotland. The manual marked “restricted”  somehow made its way into the email inboxes of fishermen and ferry operators The Herald Scotland reports: An MoD official mistakenly circulated a manual for planned air operations during major military exercises involving more than a dozen countries.