France suspends the Schengen agreement and imposes border controls. The move by the French government is temporary and the country will suspend its participation in the Schengen agreement for a month starting November 13. During this period, foreign citizens, who have a Schengen visa, won’t be able to enter France without a French visa. This means if people have planned holidays in France, they... 

On Sunday France announced it had bombed an oil supply center held by ISIS near Deir Ezzor in Syria. “We intervened in Syria… yesterday evening with a strike on an oil supply center near Deir Ezzor on the border between Iraq and Syria,” French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday. The Syrian Army, backed up Russian airstrikes, have made significant progress taking back the Deir... 

In the coming years, Germany will drift away from its integrationist ideals in Europe and become more Eurosceptic in general, a Stratfor analysis report said. The German political shift would also change the country’s foreign policy priorities, making Berlin more distant from the United States and closer to Russia and its fluid energy market, the US intelligence company said. The change would... 

“White privilege” now counts for so much that the president of the University of Missouri was forced to resign for little more than being white. President Tim Wolfe made the announcement today after a baying mob demanded that he acknowledge his “white privilege” in the aftermath of less than a handful of alleged racist incidents that occurred at the university over the last few months. Wolfe... 

Dr. Ron Paul: “Unless this system is changed, America, and the world, will soon experience a major economic crisis. It is time to finally audit, then end, the Fed.” Dr. Ron Paul, the former congressman and US presidential candidate, says unless the United States shuts down the Federal Reserve System – the US central bank known as “the Fed” – the world will experience a major... 

Britain has listed Russia as one of its top-tier potential security threats alongside global terrorism and the Ebola virus. UK’s security services published a draft of a new list of what they deem as possible threats to the country, the Express reported on Sunday. Russia’s alleged aggression in Ukraine, the country’s vast military budget and President Vladimir Putin’s “willingness to display... 

China and Taiwan’s heads of state have shaken hands in a first meeting to be held at such a level since the island broke away from China in 1949. The meeting was held in Singapore on Saturday between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Taiwanese counterpart Ma Ying-jeou. The event is more of a symbolic nature, with both sides having said it is not to produce any agreements or statements. ‘Misters’... 

Late in September, we brought you “US Readies Battle Plans For Baltic War With Russia” in which we described a series of thought experiments undertaken by The Pentagon in an effort to determine what the likely outcome would be should something go horribly “wrong” on the way to landing the US in a shooting war with Russia in the Balkans. The results of those thought experiments were not encouraging.... 

Love him or hate him, businessman, TV personality and presidential candidate Donald Trump knows how to fill the seats, proving so once again on Saturday when he gave comedy program Saturday Night Live the much-needed ratings boost its been looking for. NBC estimated its Nielsen rating score for Trump’s appearance at a 6.6, translating to as many as 10 million viewers nationwide. This handily... 

US Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has strongly condemned media reports questioning parts of his inspirational biography. The soft-spoken former neurosurgeon, who has recently surged in the GOP race to the White House, had a fiery exchange with reporters on Friday about his past and whether he has made up some crucial episodes of his life story. “There is a desperation on behalf... 

The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is reporting today that a raid to remove from Yemen the two captured Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “assets” who are believed to have masterminded the downing of Flight 9268 over Egypt last Saturday, utilizing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, was “highly successful”, and once the Aerospace Forces “protected/guided” aircraft returned to Federation... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that the decisions of EU member states to close their borders for migrants could spark a war in the Balkans. “I do not want it to lead to military clashes,” said Merkel, speaking at a conference in Darmstadt. What contradictions was Merkel speaking about? Are there big problems in the Balkans that may start a war in the region? Pravda.Ru asked an... 

Russia has deployed missile defense systems to Syria to protect its military forces and equipment stationed in the Arab country, the head of the Russian air force says. Referring to the potential threats against Russian military forces and equipment in Syria, Colonel General Viktor Bondarev said fighter jets could be hijacked in countries neighboring Syria and used to attack the Russian forces. “We... 

On Tuesday November 3rd, U.S. Defense Department spokesperson Laura Seal told The Daily Beast that twelve F-15C air-to-air combat planes are being sent to the Incirlik Turkey Air Base for deployment in Syria against Russia’s Su-30 air-to-air combat planes. Neither the F-15C nor the Su-30 can destroy ground-targets, only air-targets — enemy planes. In other words: U.S. President Barack Obama is... 

Israel is seeking a large increase in annual military assistance from the United States and has held preliminary talks with the Obama administration on a 10-year financial package that would provide up to $50 billion, American congressional sources say. During unofficial talks in recent weeks, Israel has asked the US to increase its annual military assistance by 60 percent to an average of $5 billion...