Scientists at the Earthquake Research Institute (ERI) at the University of Tokyo prepared a closed research and recommendations for the UN and governments of world’s leading countries. The report contains a number of warnings about 2017. Unfortunately, most of those forecasts have already come true. India – January 4, with a magnitude of 6.7 – our forecast was at the beginning of... 

Tensions between the US and North Korea are rapidly escalating with both countries engaged in a bitter war of words. Gruesome sketches showing alleged US atrocities that Pyongyang uses in its propaganda campaign against Washington have been published online. The graphic prints, showing US soldiers executing North Koreans, setting dogs on civilians, torturing women and leaving children to die during... 

On the threshold of the independence referendum in Catalonia, as tensions around the upcoming event are mounting Spanish authorities continue to take measures to prevent the vote. Spain’s Civil Guard on Thursday seized 100 ballot boxes and 2.5 million ballots prepared for the Catalan independence referendum, which the Spanish government does not recognize. The boxes and the ballots were found... 

European MPs agreed that lobbyists representing controversial US-based agricultural giant Monsanto should be barred from the European Parliament after the company refused to attend a hearing on allegations that it influenced studies on the safety of its products. The measure includes meeting MEPs, attending parliamentary committee meetings and using the parliament’s digital resources in Brussels... 

Acid has become a popular weapon in gang wars in Britain because it can be purchased over-the-counter from shops, thrown from a distance and hidden easily, explains Jermaine Lawlor, a former gang member who is now a youth worker in Enfield, north London. “Acid is a weapon of choice primarily because it is easy to conceal. You can have it on you… in a bottle, which means when the police stop... 

Nearly five million young people have volunteered to join or re-enlist in the North Korean military to fight Washington, KCNA state news agency reports. It says the volunteers want to send “millions” of nuclear bombs to wipe out the US. Earlier, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un vowed to “tame” US President Donald Trump “with fire.” The volunteers have gathered and said: “Let’s send... 

Majority craving strong leadership, view migrant invasion as an attack. A new survey shows 7 out of 10 Italians think there are too many migrants living in their country. 43% think migrants are taking jobs from native Italians, according to the IPSOS poll, conducted in conjunction with the Jewish Contemporary Documentation Centre. The majority of those surveyed said they viewed immigration as an attack... 

The UK has recently achieved the dubious honor of becoming the “world capital of acid attacks,” which have more than tripled in six years. Now, this deadly trend appears to have reached Scandinavia, as two people were attacked with a caustic liquid in Greater Stockholm earlier this week. Two people were taken to hospital in Upplands Väsby north of Stockholm after being attacked with some... 

A Dutch logistics firm has said they will stop making deliveries to the UK because of the risk of attack by migrants and asylum seekers as trucks pass through Calais. Reining Transport, which has around 500 drivers and annual revenues of €55 million, has stopped trips via Calais to the UK from September due to the violent attacks. “It’s no longer possible,” said Gerrit Hes, the firms managing... 

The Venezuelan army must be ready “to defend every inch of the territory,” President Nicolas Maduro said after a verbal clash with Donald Trump and the introduction of new US travel restrictions. Meeting with the Venezuelan army’s top brass during drills near the city of Maracay, Maduro urged the country’s military to be on standby. “We have been shamelessly threatened... 

White House aides are blocking President Trump from knowing he can pardon Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in exchange for information on the DNC leaks according to Congressman Rohrabacher. President Trump told reporters on Sunday that he “never heard” of any potential deal with Julian Assange. After helping Trump win the elections with his leaks this is what he gets from HIS administration. Nice… California... 

New figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2016 show a disturbing rise in sexually transmitted diseases, including record rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, particularly among young and pregnant women, gay and bisexual men. The CDC’s Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report says that 2 million cases were reported overall in 2016. Over 75% of... 

Perplexing sword-like columns of space ice that rise up through Pluto’s Tartarus Dorsa mountains may finally have been explained by NASA – two years after the weird formations were first observed in detail. The ‘ice blades’ are the result of solid methane ‘evaporation,’ an erosion process similar to that witnessed in the peaks of Chile. A dwarf planet located far from our sun, Pluto is... 

Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon reportedly said during a Monday night rally in Alabama that the Republican establishment faces a “day of reckoning.” “For Mitch McConnell and Ward Baker and Karl Rove and Steven Law — all the instruments that tried to destroy Judge Moore and his family — your day of reckoning is coming,” Bannon told the crowd, according to Politico. Bannon... 

King Salman of Saudi Arabia has issued a decree ordering that women be allowed to drive, Saudi state media has reported. Under the conservative kingdom’s previous laws, women were banned from driving. The decree orders the Saudi interior minister to draft and adopt necessary amendments to the traffic regulations and to form a special commission consisting of the ministers of interior, finance, labor...