French bank Credit Agricole was accused by Washington of dealing with countries under US embargo and processing financial transactions for Sudan, Cuba and Iran through the United States. Several bank employees responsible for the transactions have already been fired, media reported. The bank agreed to pay $800 million in fines for the illegal financial transactions carried out in the period from 2003... 

Governor Jeb Bush participates in the North Texas Presidential Forum at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas. Republican US presidential candidate Jeb Bush says his brother, former President George W. Bush, is not responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. “Look, my brother responded to a crisis, and he did it as you would hope a president would do,”... 

The Hyperloop vacuum train is said to start traveling in the United Arab Emirates between Dubai and Abu Dhabi already in 2016. The futuristic train will be able to develop the speed of up to 1,200 km/h. A ride on board this train from one emirate to another will take 15 minutes. According Russianemirates.com, the tests of the new train will begin in 2016. The train will be 15 meters long, 2.5 meters... 

Canadian Israel-friendly Prime Minister Stephen Harper has conceded defeat in regional elections, stepping down and setting the stage for the appointment of an interim leader. Harper gave his concession speech on Monday following his loss to Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau. “The disappointment is my responsibility and mine alone,” he said in the speech in Calgary. His Conservative Party had... 

Turkish police have detained dozens of ISIS-connected suspects, among them 24 under the age of 18, who are being trained to operate in Syria and Iraq as Islamic State’s militants. The Istanbul Anti-Terror Directorate has arrested dozens of foreigners in one of the districts of Turkey’s largest city. Those detained are suspected of getting ready to transfer to areas of Syria in Iraq under Islamic... 

The global elite have never been closer to their goal of a united world. Thanks to a series of interlocking treaties and international agreements, the governance of this planet is increasingly becoming globalized and centralized, but most people don’t seem alarmed by this at all. In the past 30 days, we have seen some of the biggest steps toward a one world government, a one world economy and a... 

Nadezhda Maksimova, a physician-geneticist, chief scientist of the educational-scientific laboratory “Genomic Medicine” at the North-Eastern Federal University, described a new deadly disease. The virus that the specialist from Yakutia discovered causes irreversible genetic mutation, after which a person can live for only three years. “Only two of 16 patients are alive,” the... 

The United States has informed the Southeast Asian countries that it will soon send its warships to the disputed areas in the South China Sea. Kyodo Tsushin agency, quoting diplomatic sources, released information on October 18 stating that the United States plans on sending its warships to the 12-mile zone around the artificial islands, in the Spratly archipelago. Top officials in the US administration... 

A photo of the Sun from NASA’s orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory reveals an enormous coronal hole, a gap in the Sun’s outer layer and magnetic field. Images released by NASA show a massive hole in the Sun, 50 times the size of Earth, which is blasting an ultrafast solar wind towards our planet. The image of the Coronal hole was taken be NASA’s orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory... 

Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, committed the UK to joining the US invasion of Iraq a year before it began, a newly disclosed White House memo reveals. The US documents obtained by the Daily Mail and published on Sunday are part of the batch of emails from the private server of former US State Secretary, Hillary Clinton, which US courts have made her disclose. Among the leaked papers is... 

Earlier this week, we noted that Iran had reportedly sent “thousands” of troops to Syria in preparation for an offensive aimed at retaking the city of Aleppo. With a population of more than 2 million, Aleppo was Syria’s largest city prior to the war and it’s now run by a hodgepodge of rebels and militants including al-Qaeda, the Free Syrian Army, and ISIS. To get an idea of the effect the... 

On October 14th, the German town of Lohfelden, in Hesse, had a town meeting. The residents were informed that the very next day 800 illegal immigrants would be arriving in their town, and this upset many German residents. The Regional Governor, Walter Lübcke, made a cringe-worthy attempt to influence peoples’ opinions. “It´s so great that this country has values and that these values make it... 

Chinese TV news reports have detailed an unusual phenomenon witnessed by thousands of residents in two separate areas who reported seeing a massive city materialize in the skies. Onlookers, some of whom allegedly recorded the event, were captivated as a towering cityscape appeared amidst the clouds. The first occurrence unfolded over Foshan in the Guangdong province, where thousands observed a ghostly... 

Schoolchildren from an undisclosed school in the city of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, will spend a week doing housework for so-called “refugees”. The idea was sold to parents at a parents’ meeting as a “practical internship“, but has sparked outrage online. A letter to the parents said their children will be going to “refugee” accommodations and will be making beds, sorting clothes,... 

The thing about ragtag groups of militants that display a penchant for extreme violence is that in the absence of serious opposition, they can rack up gains at an alarming pace. Of course there are plenty of (possibly credible) theories out there, which suggest that some of what you see in the videos released by ISIS is for show and we won’t endeavor to assess the degree to which the group’s brutality...