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A bulletproof glass wall is to be erected around the base of Eiffel Tower. The Paris municipality announced it is to set up a 2.5 mete high glass wall around the French capital’s iconic Eiffel Tower as part of a multi-million euro plan to help prevent terrorist attacks on the famous historic monument. “The terror threat remains high in Paris and the most vulnerable sites, led by the Eiffel Tower, must be the object of special security measures,” said deputy mayor Jean-Francois Martins, who is in charge of tourism at the Paris City Hall.

US State and Defense Departments have reportedly cautioned President Trump against designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group. Trump administration officials told CNN that the White House was thinking about designating the IRGC, the elite arm of Iran’s security forces, as a “foreign terrorist organization“ However, Trump did not sign executive orders on the issue after US national security agencies warned him about the consequences of such a move.

A Russian airstrike accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers and wounded 11 others during an operation against the Islamic State in northern Syria on Thursday morning, Turkey's military said in a statement and Moscow confirmed.The head of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, said the warplanes were targeting Islamic State sites in the al-Bab area.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that most terrorist attacks are false flag operations designed by the West in order to control members of the public. Speaking at the 13th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in October last year, Putin began his speech by pointing out that a globalist elite cabal of just “1 percent” dominate our world in order to further a New World Order agenda “for their own beloved selves, for the select few, and not for all”.