War

Donald Trump has warned that the Obama administration’s effort to step up asylum for Syrian refugees has put the US on the verge of another large-scale terrorist attack. The presumptive US Republican presidential nominee thinks that a 9/11 level attack would be led by refugees entering the United States with mobile phones funded by the so-called Islamic State. Press TV reports: Trump said on the National Border Patrol Council’s “The Green Line” radio show on Sunday that Syrian refugees residing in the US would plan the next 9/11 attack.

El Salvador has refused to recognize the new Brazilian government following the suspension of President Dilma Rousseff from office last week. On Thursday Michel Temer became the acting president in Brazil when President Rousseff was suspended after the Senate voted to impeach her. In a statement on Saturday President Salvador Sanchez Ceren said that of Rousseff’s suspension had “the appearance of a coup d’etat.” “We have analyzed the situation and taken the decision to not recognize the interim government of Brazil because there was political manipulation,” the El Salvador leader said.

Here we go again. After all of the incidents that have taken place over the last few months between the U.S. and Russia, capped by NATO moving 4,000 troops to the Russian border, one would assume that the antagonizing would stop, at least for the time being.

Then again, the U.S. will do whatever it pleases.

As Sputnik reports, yet another U.S. surveillance plane flew close to the Russian border earlier today, although as of right now it is not clear if it was again intercepted by a Russian flanker.

French riot police clashed with protesters who were demonstrating against the governments controversial labor reforms The rallies have been taking place since the end of March, with hundreds of thousands taking to streets all over France.

From extending the weekend, to rationing electricity, to running out of money to print money, we've been covering the real-time events that have occurred in Venezuela as it devolved into a completely failed state.