The Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed after takeoff from Tehran was downed due to “human error” after it flew too close to a military site and triggered a missile launch amid a standoff with the US, the Iranian Army said. The Army General Staff stressed that the tragic mistake was made amid the flare-up of tensions with Washington. The nation’s air defenses were placed on alert... 

Boeing has released another trove of internal company messages suggesting it lied to regulators, and showing fierce criticism from an unnamed employee who said the crash-prone 737 MAX aircraft was “designed by clowns.” In its release of the redacted communications on Thursday following an internal probe, Boeing acknowledged some of the messages were “completely unacceptable” and contained... 

Just a few days ago, the world celebrated the beginning of a New Year, and already there are serious doubts about whether the world will still be here to see the end of it. As I’ve argued in several previous Pravda.Report articles, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve become convinced that most struggles and conflicts in the world are not based on “good vs. evil,” but instead between... 

A Ukrainian airliner that crashed near Tehran was on fire and tried to turn around before crashing, Iranian investigators have said in a preliminary report. Iran has invited all relevant parties to participate in the probe. Eyewitnesses observed a fire on the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 while it was still airborne, Iran’s civil aviation organization noted. The aircraft attempted... 

Why has this happened??? And WHY NOW? Why now after America has killed Iran’s top general? This whole thing is suspicious to say the least, the most obvious mind path that a man would take would be to say that Iran did it to retaliate against USA, but hey, WTF? Retaliate against USA by killing Ukrainians who have nothing to do with this whatsoever? Doesn’t make any sense!!! And when nothing... 

Several towns and cities in Cordoba, Argentina were battered by a sudden and violent dust storm which ripped roofs from houses, felled trees and blocked out the sun. Shortly before 7pm local time on Sunday, locals noticed a rather foreboding cloud heading straight for the city of Rio Cuarto. Temperatures fell dramatically, and darkness descended as residents fled the sudden downpour of hail and debris. The... 

New autopsy photos of Jeffrey Epstein aired by CBS News’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday show that the deceased billionaire was likely murdered, according to a pathologist hired by Epstein’s family. Multiple photographs were given to “60 Minutes” by pathologist Michael Baden, who was hired by Epstein’s family to investigate the child sex trafficker’s death. Baden suggested that Epstein could... 

An investigative journalist, who went undercover to infiltrate violent leftist groups such as Antifa, has been found dead. Bechir Rabani infiltrated Antifa and was about to expose billionaire people trafficker George Soros when he died. Bechir Rabani was a hugely popular Swedish independent reporter, well known for his daring exposés. He was found dead at his home on Friday night in “suspicious... 

Most Americans did not know Qasem Soleimani until the Israelis found the perfect opportunity to have him assassinated. They gave the Pentagon the orders and kindly handed Donald Trump all the credit while he ate his ice cream and watched it on TV. So far, Trump’s post-hoc rational for murdering the most important military official in Iran is that the protesters who want America out of Iraq after... 

A committee of the Lithuanian parliament is drafting legislation declaring that neither the Baltic nation nor its leaders participated in the Holocaust, a lawmaker working on the bill said: Arūnas Gumuliauskas, chairman of the Freedom Fights and State Historical Memory Commission at the Seimas, said this at a conference last month, the 15min.lt news site reported on Dec. 28. The Simon Wiesenthal... 

Angela Merkel’s government is preparing a new bill that will force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to hand over data, including passwords, of those accused of engaging in “hate speech” online. Minister of Justice Christine Lambrecht, a member of the Social Democrats (SPD), is preparing the bill, which will force service providers, email hosts, online retailers, and others to give the government... 

Ghislaine Maxwell, the “British” socialite who’s long been accused of serving as Jeffrey Epstein’s pimp, is hiding in a series of safe houses, primariily in Israel and the U.K., and is being “protected because of the information she has on the world’s most powerful people”: Maxwell, 58, allegedly procured young women and groomed them to have sex with Epstein and his wealthy pals, but... 

Exiled British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is confident she won’t be prosecuted for her involvement in deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile network, according to friends close to the madam. “Ghislaine and her sister Isabel remain totally convinced that she’ll escape any criminal convictions and will eventually clear the family name and return to high society once the dust has settled,”... 

Elan Carr, the State Department’s special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, told a group of Israelis and Americans Tuesday night that in order to combat anti-Semitism, not only is teaching the Holocaust essential, the U.S. also needs to “educate on philo-Semitism”: Philo-Semitism, which is sometimes referred to as “positive anti-Semitism,” is an inverse form of anti-Semitism... 

Multiple people have reportedly been injured in a stabbing attack near a synagogue in a suburb north of New York City, as Jews around the world were celebrating Hannukah late Saturday. A video that emerged on social media shows the aftermath of the alleged machete attack near a synagogue in a suburb north of New York City. The incident, which saw at least five people injured, occurred during a Hanukkah...