It’s a scenario straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, an asteroid is careening towards Earth and is set to wipe out human existence. To mark Asteroid Day, here are four space rocks on a collision course with our planet. The United Nations fears that the possibility of an asteroid smashing into a densely populated area isn’t being taken seriously enough, so it designated June 30 as International... 

An unidentified flying object (UFO) that may have been a missile crashed north of Nicosia on Monday, with no casualties, an official from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) said. Officials were studying debris at the crash site in the Tashkent area, according to a statement on Twitter by Kudret Ozersay, foreign minister of TRNC, whose independence is recognised only by Turkey. “According... 

The frontrunner in the race to become the next leader of the Conservative Party and UK prime minister wrote an extensive piece for a British newspaper on Sunday to comment on a recent interview by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said that liberal ideas were no longer supported by a majority of people in Western nations. The United Kingdom will show Russian President Vladimir Putin its commitment... 

Syrian air defenses have responded to apparent missile attacks in the vicinity of Damascus and Homs, SANA reports, with its military source claiming that a number of ‘hostile targets’ have been intercepted. At least 4 people, including a baby, were killed in the strikes on the Damascus countryside, while 21 others suffered injuries, according to state TV. One of those injured is a month-old baby... 

Last week, national populist interior minister Matteo Salvini declared victory after Italian police arrested the captain of the Sea Watch, a migrant NGO transport vessel which defied military orders not to dock at the southern port in Lampedusa. Saturday morning, following the arrest of Carola Rackete, the 31-year-old German captain of the transport ship, Salvini tweeted a video of the ship arriving,... 

Finnish nationalist leader Jussi Halla-aho has argued that legal and economic sanctions for merely expressing one’s opinion have become more common, calling for laws to bolster the freedom of expression. MEP Jussi Halla-aho, freshly re-relected for a second two-year term as chair of the nationalist Finns Party, has outlined his policy goals in an address to a party congress in Tampere. In his... 

Yeah, you’ve seen it all…. first they said Britons were blacks, now Vikings were blacks, so umm basically we’re all blacks and we should all just marry blacks and have black children and genocide our own race because well there’s nothing to genocide in the first place because there is no such thing as whites. Nope, deep down inside we’re all blacks! God ohhh God in what... 

The United Arab Emirates has broken ranks with its U.S. and Saudi allies in refusing to blame Iran for the suspicious oil tanker attacks off its coast in the Sea of Oman last month. In a clear rebuttal to US and Saudi claims, the UAE says there is no “clear, scientific or convincing” evidence to hold Iran responsible for the attacks. Press TV reports: UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed... 

The University of Gävle in Sweden every year releases a “Diverity barometer” where people in Sweden are asked about their attitudes towards diversity. In the latest barometer they conclude that Swedes’ attitudes towards giving immigrants their cultural rights have become more negative, at the same time more people have positive experiences of having an immigrant colleague at work. In the question... 

In a repeat performance of his infamous 2012 decision rescuing ObamaCare, Chief Justice John Roberts acutely disappointed conservatives Thursday by siding with the Supreme Court’s liberal Justices in second-guessing the reasons for adding a citizenship question to the census and all but killing the question, given the looming deadline for printing census forms. The citizenship question was before... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that “liberalism has become obsolete” and that multiculturalism is “no longer tenable.” In an interview with Financial Times last week, Putin explained the rise of Trump and nationalism worldwide was a reaction to the failures of globalism. “The ruling elites have broken away from the people,” Putin said, adding that the “so-called liberal idea... 

The European financial settlement mechanism (INSTEX), aimed at circumventing US sanctions against Iran, is working and transactions are already happening, according to Iran’s JCPOA envoy. The payments mechanism was established by the European Union to keep trading with Tehran despite US sanctions in order to keep the nuclear deal with Iran alive. The US re-imposed sanctions against the Islamic Republic... 

A former top ranking official in German security and intelligence has called for an investigation into the Merkel administration’s handling of the ‘refugee’ crisis since 2014. Hans-Georg Maassen, president of Germany’s domestic security agency until 2018, told local media a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry should be established to examine the federal government’s management... 

The man charged with murdering Utah woman Mackenzie Lueck and burning her body in his backyard had tried to have a secret interracial sex dungeon built in his basement, a contractor says. Meanwhile, cops said on Friday night that they had located the mattress missing from the suspect’s home and considered key evidence. They did not offer further information about the mattress, however. Contractor... 

US President Donald Trump has denied that US efforts to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have lost momentum, telling reporters “things take time” and that he has five alternative strategies for Venezuela. Speaking at a press conference at the end of the G20 Summit in Osaka on Saturday, Trump was asked about his earlier response to the suggestion that the US had lost momentum in Venezuela,...