Politics

Earlier today, we brought you footage from riots that took place on Monday in the Netherlands.

When the town of Heesch attempted to hold a meeting to discuss the prospect of placing some 500 refugees, around 1,000 demonstrators arrived to storm town hall. “The atmosphere turned nasty”, to quote AFP, and ultimately, police were forced to use “extra powers” to disperse the crowd.

The riots came just hours after far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders aired a new campaign spot for his Freedom Party.

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China is “at the center of a clash between Saudi Arabia and Iran,” WSJ wrote on Tuesday, as Xi Jinping marks his first visit to Riyadh as President.

To be sure, Xi’s trip to the Mid-East comes at a critical juncture. The Sunni and Shiite communities exist in a perpetual state of strife, but Riyadh’s execution of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr threw gasoline on a fire that’s already being fueled by fighting in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.

A top inspector general has told senior lawmakers that Hillary Clinton stored ‘beyond top secret’ emails on her unsecured server at home, indicating the former Secretary of State handled some of the U.S. governments most sensitive and secretive data illegally.  A letter obtained by Fox News sent on January 14th from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III says that Clinton stored several dozens of these emails on her home server.

Russia have successfully destroyed over 600 ISIS targets in Syria over the past 4 days, the Russian Defense Ministry have confirmed, amid a total media blackout by the West of their campaign.  “Over the past four days Russian aviation has conducted 157 combat missions hitting 579 terrorist targets in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzur, Homs, Hama, Raqqa and Lattakia,” the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov told reporters.