Author: Steven Sahiounie

By Manlio Dinucci . “The Facebook outage was a planetary-scale demonstration of how essential the company’s services have become to daily life” headlines the New York Times, pointing out that Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger are fundamental to the economy, politics, education, and health care. Worldwide, about 2.8 billion people, on average, use at least one Facebook product per day. Facebook collects billions of pieces of information every day from all over the world in its data centers, 13 of which are located in the United States, 3 in Europe and 1 in Singapore. In a similar way Google works, with its…

By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin . In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character. We must begin to ask: Why are there forty million poor people in a nation overflowing with such unbelievable affluence? – Martin Luther King Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? [p141] The usage of the term ‘woke’ has spread rapidly in the last ten years from meaning awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination to describing the identity politics of various ethnic groups in the USA. The term has a long history reaching back to the 1930s when Black American…

Germany needed a late winner from Thomas Mueller to beat Romania 2-1 while the Netherlands eked out a 1-0 win in Latvia to stay on course for the World Cup finals on Friday. Four-time world champions Germany now have a six-point lead in Group J after their win in Hamburg. However, it was another rollercoaster evening for the European giants. Romania took a shock ninth minute lead when Rangers winger Ianis Hagi ghosted through the defence and fired past Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, a late replacement for injured Manuel Neuer. Serge Gnabry equalised with his 20th goal in 30…

At about 9.33 pm today, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction of the Al-Tanf area with rockets towards the T-4 military airport in the central region, and Syrian air defense media confronted the aggression’s missiles and brought down most of them.source : sana.sy

The International Criminal Court (ICC) asked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday to decide who will be representing Afghanistan at the UN. “Today, 8 October 2021, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court decided to request the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties of the Court to submit information on the identification of the authorities currently representing the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan,” the ICC said in a statement. The Chamber requested that Guterres and the ICC legislative body select an Afghan representative so that the Court could continue its inquiry into…

The US occupation forces have sent a convoy loaded with weapons, munitions, and logistical equipment from northern Iraq to their military bases in the al-Hasakah Countryside, SANA reported. Local sources from al-Qahtaniya in the al-Hasakah northern countryside told the Syrian news agency (SANA) that a convoy of 56 trucks, a carrier loaded with weapons, munitions, and logistical equipment, and 8 new military Hummer vehicles, accompanied by a number of cars belonging to the SDF militants for protection, have headed from northern Iraq through the illegal al-Walid crossing to the US occupation bases in the areas where SDF militants are located. SANA added that mass…

According to the US Air Force, on October 4, 2021, the last flight tests of F-35A fighters as a carrier of thermonuclear aviation bombs B61-12. Two fighters took part in the tests, each of which dropped one B61-12 model. The tests were carried out at the Tonopah test site in Nevada. The fifth-generation fighter jets took off from the Nellis Air Force Base (LSV) near Las Vegas and flew northwest towards the Tonopah test range, where they released two B61-12 JTAs from operationally practical flight envelopes. “The B61 series weapons are tactical gravity nuclear weapons that can be used on…

by :  Rochelle Baker . A new ranking of the planet’s largest polluters has Canada in the top 10 for total emissions, which climate advocates say gives the country an even greater responsibility to align itself with a climate-safe future. The analysis by U.K.-based Carbon Brief studies cumulative emissions since 1850 to identify which countries have historically contributed the most. The economic superpowers of the last half century were the most responsible, with the United States firmly in first place at 20.3 per cent of the global total, followed by China at 11.4 per cent, and Russia at 6.9 per cent. Responsible for…

by : Pavel Alekseev .The high-profile case of Catalonian ex-head Carles Puigdemont, one of those behind the illegal (as official Madrid deems it) referendum on the autonomous community’s independence from Spain that was held on October 1, 2017, has come to light again. An international arrest warrant issued earlier by Spain caused Puigdemont’s unexpected detainment the other day in Italian Sardinia, where he arrived to engage in the international festival of Catalan culture. The scandal surrounding the Catalan referendum, with 90% of its participants having voted for Catalonia’s independence, has slowly began to fade into insignificance in the face of…

CAIRO, October 8. About 100 people were killed and dozens were injured in a powerful explosion in a Shia mosque in the Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan, Aamaj News reported Friday. The attack reportedly happened at about 13:30 local time, when a large number of people gathered for a Friday prayer. According to the preliminary information, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the mosque building. Meanwhile, Ariana News reported that at least 50 bodies have been delivered to local morgues. The explosion report was confirmed by Taliban (outlawed in Russia) spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. “This afternoon, an explosion happened in…