August 2018 archive

Israel Developing Missiles To Strike Any Target In Mideast Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced earlier this week that Israel is purchasing new, advanced missiles that he states can strike “anywhere in the Middle East.” The Jerusalem Post said the Defense Ministry’s decision to purchase precision ground-to-ground rockets “is nothing short of a revolution,” as the region …

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Where People Are Most And Least Proud To Be European Late last year, Pew Research polled people in 15 countries across Europe about how proud they were to identify as European. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy shows in the following infographic, respondents in Finland had the highest level of pride with 87 percent saying they were very or somewhat …

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UAE Buys World's Largest Rocket Launcher "Jobaria" From Turkey One of the leading firms in the Turkish defense industry, Roketsan, set a record with world’s largest rocket artillery, capable of launching hundreds of rockets in 2 minutes from a single military vehicle, the company announced on Saturday. Jobaria, a Multiple Cradle Launcher (MCL), was developed by …

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Ireland's Dwindling Catholic Masses Over the weekend, Pope Francis visited Ireland, the country’s first papal visit since John Paul II’s memorable trip in 1979. The Ireland Francis visited is a very different place compared to 1979 with the Irish Catholic church rocked by scandals including sexual abuse, illegal adoptions, cover-ups and the exploitation of women in mother-and-baby …

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"Not Commercially Viable" – British Airways, Air France, KLM Axe Flights To Iran British Airways announced Thursday it plans to stop service to Tehran after its last scheduled flight on September 22.  A British Airways (BA) spokesperson announced the move, which comes after the latest round US sanctions went into effect against Iran this month: “We …

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Yet Another US-Saudi Massacre In Yemen: UN Condemns Airstrike Killing 22 Children Just two weeks after a US-Saudi coalition airstrike on a school bus in Yemen killed some 40 children in an event which finally caught international media attention, there’s a new report that coalition jets have struck a camp for internally displaced people in the …

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Model-Turned-Escort Auctioning Off Virginity To "Buy House For Mum"  A 23-year-old, 5’9″ 110 lb. model from Azerbaijan is selling her virginity online in the hopes of buying a house for her mother and traveling the world.  Mahbuba “Maria” Mammadzada – one of Azerbaijan’s most successful models currently living in Turkey, wants to make her mother “proud” by …

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The "Doom Loop" Exodus: Foreigners Liquidate Record Amounts Of Italian Bonds One month ago, we reported that in the aftermath of Italy’s political fireworks in May, which saw a record spike in Italian government bond yields, ECB data showed record buying of BTPs by Italian banks in May amounting to €28.4bn (chart below), a higher …

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72% Of Spaniards Support Government Interference With Business Countries are divided by the role government plays in regulating businesses. As Statista’s Sarah Feldman notes, Western Europe, as a region, falls more in favor of governments regulating businesses for the good of society, while the American public is divided on whether government regulation is beneficial for society …

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Russia Prepares For New Batch Of Stealth Fighter Jets In a series of reports from the Russian News Agency TASS, Russia’s fifth-generation Su-57 stealth fighter jet could be entering service sometime in 2019. The aircraft has huge potential to modernize the Russian military for at least “fifty years,” exclaimeda senior Russian lawmaker, as it has proven its …

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