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Under the hashtag #ConfirmGrenell, conservative activists have demanded an end to the Senate block against President Donald Trump’s appointment of Richard Grenell as ambassador to Germany.
byCharlie Nash21 Mar 2018, 3:00 PM PDT0
After barely a year and a half in office, centrist businessman Pedro Pablo Kuczynski presented his resignation from the presidency of Peru to the nation’s legislature on Wednesday following a scandal involving videos purporting to show him discussing the purchase of votes.
byFrances Martel21 Mar 2018, 12:38 PM PDT0
The government of Ecuador has announced that it will pull funding from the regional left-wing propaganda network TeleSUR.
byBen Kew21 Mar 2018, 12:07 PM PDT0
The Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram released dozens of girls kidnapped from a secondary school in Dapchi, northern Nigeria, on Wednesday on the condition that their parents keep them from going back to school and marry them off, instead.
byFrances Martel21 Mar 2018, 10:39 AM PDT0
As the Trump administration strongly considers the possibility of withdrawing from the disastrous, Obama-era nuclear accord with Iran, Israel sent a clear warning to Tehran on Tuesday by officially confirming the IDF was behind the 2007 airstrikes in northeastern Syria that destroyed the country’s nuclear reactor.
byAaron Klein21 Mar 2018, 10:25 AM PDT0
The Turkish news outlet T24 reported on Wednesday that the owner of the Doğan Media Group, which controls several of Turkey’s last remaining media outlets that do not openly support President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed to sell the group to Demirören Holding, owned by a businessman who maintains friendly ties with the president.
byFrances Martel21 Mar 2018, 10:10 AM PDT0
Medical organizations in Kenya condemned a government plan Monday to import doctors from Cuba to address the nation’s vast shortage of medical professionals, citing that more than one thousand ready-to-work Kenyan doctors are still unemployed in the country.
byFrances Martel21 Mar 2018, 9:24 AM PDT0
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Msgr. Dario Viganò as head of the Vatican’s communications department following a week of controversy and outrage surrounding a doctored photograph of a letter from emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, which was distributed to journalists.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.21 Mar 2018, 9:12 AM PDT0
In the lead-up to the commemoration of Holy Week and Easter, Pope Francis has urged Christians to see the crucifix not as an piece of jewelry but rather as a profound symbol of faith in Jesus.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.21 Mar 2018, 8:11 AM PDT0
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) reportedly signed off on several articles penned by an “Obama holdover” that explicitly challenged President Trump’s anti-Iran policy objectives, according to Conservative Review (CR).
byEdwin Mora21 Mar 2018, 7:51 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – The IDF confirmed Wednesday that it carried out the 2007 airstrike in northeastern Syria that destroyed a nuclear reactor, ending a decade of secrecy over one the most daring military operations in recent history.
byDeborah Danan21 Mar 2018, 7:48 AM PDT0
Turkish President Reccip Erdogan has revealed that he will instruct his forces to invade the Iraqi province of Sinjar if it remains a Kurdish stronghold.
byBen Kew21 Mar 2018, 6:39 AM PDT0
Contents: Xi Jinping invokes the 1840s Opium Wars to justify military action for China’s ‘rejuvenation’; Xi Jinping stokes China’s nationalism with harsh threats to Taiwan and Hong Kong
byJohn J. Xenakis21 Mar 2018, 5:56 AM PDT0
White House officials leaked details of President Donald Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin, revealing that he ignored advice from his national security advisors not to congratulate the Russian president for winning his election.
byCharlie Spiering21 Mar 2018, 5:01 AM PDT0
The Palestinian Authority may study the possibility of declaring the Gaza Strip a rogue area, solidifying the split between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
byBreitbart Jerusalem21 Mar 2018, 3:15 AM PDT0
Rockets fired on a market in a government-controlled neighborhood of Damascus on Tuesday killed 35 people and wounded more than 20 others, Syrian state-run media said, marking one of the highest death tolls in a single attack targeting the capital.
byBreitbart Jerusalem21 Mar 2018, 2:47 AM PDT0
Ekaterina Stetsyuk broke her back in an attempt to escape a U.S. businessman who she claims tried to rape and murder her at knifepoint.
byNate Church20 Mar 2018, 6:48 PM PDT0
Jared Kushner’s private and sometimes secret meetings with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman have reportedly “unsettled” intelligence and national security officials who worry that Kushner has been “freelancing” U.S. foreign policy without even having a permanent security clearance.
byTony Lee20 Mar 2018, 6:44 PM PDT0
The Senate resolution invoking the War Powers Act to demand the administration seek congressional authorization or withdraw American support from Saudi Arabia’s military operations in Yemen is set to come to a vote as early as Tuesday, according to an NBC News report.
byIan Mason20 Mar 2018, 5:45 PM PDT0
The 15th anniversary of the Iraq War finds Iran-allied Shiite militias with American blood on their hands operating as a powerful Baghdad-sanctioned component of the Iraqi military, enjoying the same rights as other members of the country’s armed forces, including salaries.
byEdwin Mora20 Mar 2018, 5:17 PM PDT0
TEL AVIV – A group of Israeli women were barred from participating in a femininity and gender identity festival in Norway over what the organizers described as Israel’s “propaganda” using culture to “whitewash or justify its occupation of the Palestinian people.”
byDeborah Danan20 Mar 2018, 5:09 PM PDT0
Several major developments on the Israeli-Palestinian front may increase the likelihood of continued “lone wolf” terrorist attacks targeting Israelis combined with already planned chaos in the coming weeks. The supposed lone wolf incidents may be part of an orchestrated Palestinian terrorist crusade.
byAaron Klein20 Mar 2018, 4:58 PM PDT0
WASHINGTON, DC — Some of the “specialized capabilities” necessary to sustain America’s nuclear stockpile and remain a credible nuclear power “have either atrophied or become obsolete” while U.S. rival China continues to modernize and expand its atomic weapons, a top U.S. commander warned lawmakers on Tuesday.
byEdwin Mora20 Mar 2018, 3:53 PM PDT0
Vian Dakhil, Iraq’s only Yazidi member of parliament, denounced the use of Yazidi children as child soldiers by the Islamic State, telling the Iraqi news agency Al Sumaria this week that the victims were “brainwashed” into jihad.
byFrances Martel20 Mar 2018, 2:50 PM PDT0
Iran has accused Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) of spreading “amateurish lies” by saying that Iran is harboring al-Qaeda terrorists, including the late Osama bin Laden’s son, to mask the kingdom’s role in 9/11.
byAdelle Nazarian20 Mar 2018, 2:14 PM PDT0
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders emphasized that President Trump is interested in making “good” deals when asked during a Tuesday press briefing about the progress of NAFTA negotiations.
byMichelle Moons20 Mar 2018, 1:57 PM PDT0
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Monday to explain how politicians corruptly monetize political power as detailed in his latest book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.
byRobert Kraychik20 Mar 2018, 1:08 PM PDT0
Chinese Communist leader Xi Jinping concluded the nation’s annual meeting of its legislature, the National People’s Congress, with an extensive speech on Tuesday warning “separatists” – in reference to Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang – that their “actions will be met with the condemnation of the people an the punishment of history.”
byFrances Martel20 Mar 2018, 12:40 PM PDT0
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and author of the new book Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight on Monday to detail the involvement of Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s second son, in a China-backed private equity firm’s investment in a Chinese atomic energy company indicted for “nuclear power conspiracy against the United States.”
byRobert Kraychik20 Mar 2018, 11:54 AM PDT0
South Korean “K-Pop” stars will tour North Korea next month as Seoul continues attempts to soften relations between itself and the rogue communist state.
byBen Kew20 Mar 2018, 11:48 AM PDT0
The Venezuelan foreign ministry has accused the United States of a “crime against humanity” after the Trump administration ordered the banning of Americans from investing in the country’s oil-backed cryptocurrency.
byBen Kew20 Mar 2018, 11:39 AM PDT0
Turkey-linked jihadists from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda are taking advantage of the Ankara offensive in the besieged Afrin region in northwestern Syria to slaughter Christians and Yazidis, caution several activists.
byEdwin Mora20 Mar 2018, 11:34 AM PDT0
The World Bank has transformed itself from an international financial institution into a prophet of climate fallout, predicting in a new report that more than 143 million people will be forced to migrate by 2050 thanks to climate change.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.20 Mar 2018, 11:14 AM PDT0
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, highlighted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) financial ties to the Chinese government as an example of how politicians monetize political influence while evading financial disclosure regulations.
byRobert Kraychik20 Mar 2018, 10:55 AM PDT0
In a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in the White House Tuesday, President Donald Trump did not reveal whether he was considering recertifying the Iran deal when the decision reaches his desk in May, telling reporters, “you’ll see what happens.”
byFrances Martel20 Mar 2018, 10:39 AM PDT0
President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on his reelection, according to the White House and the Kremlin.
byCharlie Spiering20 Mar 2018, 9:18 AM PDT0
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister criticized the Iran nuclear deal as “flawed” and told reporters the country is “looking at ways in which we can push back” against the Shiite state sponsor of terrorism on Monday, as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) traveled to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump.
byFrances Martel20 Mar 2018, 8:53 AM PDT0
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, joined Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight to discuss revelations in his latest book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, including how former President Barack Obama’s “smash and grab” strategy allowed friends to buy up various companies for “pennies on the dollar” following market devaluations resulting from the Obama administration’s regulatory policies. Some of the ill-gotten funds later found their way into the Obama Foundation.
byRobert Kraychik20 Mar 2018, 8:49 AM PDT0
President Donald Trump sent the Iranian people a Nowruz (New Year) message and blasted the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for funding terrorism and propping up dictators at the cost of the livelihood of their people at home.
byAdelle Nazarian20 Mar 2018, 8:23 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – A joint Israeli-Polish Holocaust remembrance ceremony in Poland was canceled after the country’s authorities tried to censor the speech of an Israeli mayor that apparently contained references to Polish participation in atrocities committed during the war.
byDeborah Danan20 Mar 2018, 8:16 AM PDT0
TEL – AVIV – President Donald Trump’s special Middle East envoy slammed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday for calling the U.S. ambassador to Israel a “son of a dog” and choosing “hateful rhetoric” over bettering the lives of his people.
byDeborah Danan20 Mar 2018, 8:12 AM PDT0
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is being questioned by police in connection with allegations that he received 50 million euros from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 presidential campaign.
byVictoria Friedman20 Mar 2018, 7:45 AM PDT0
The Taliban has expressed a desire to have discussions with the U.S., instead of Kabul, about ending the nearly 17-year war in Afghanistan, despite Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s historic peace offer.
byEdwin Mora20 Mar 2018, 7:36 AM PDT0
The U.S. military in Iraq on Monday said it was downsizing its headquarters staff, as its mission shifts away from supporting Iraqi troops in combat and more towards training.
byKristina Wong20 Mar 2018, 7:29 AM PDT0
Contents: Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board overwhelmed by migrants crossing border from US; Turkey achieves victory in Afrin, Syria, but Kurds threaten guerilla war
byJohn J. Xenakis20 Mar 2018, 6:13 AM PDT0
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