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  Last update: 22:39 23.05.2019

  22:39 23.05.2019

  Military & Intelligence

  US Navy Ships to Deploy Lasers as Anti-Missile Defense in 2021

  In an attempt to outflank Russian and Chinese naval tactics, the US Navy is rushing to put a laser defense system on its destroyers - first, for the purpose of improving targeting, but eventually scaling the lasers up to being weapons in themselves.

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  Last update: 20:10 23.05.2019

  20:10 23.05.2019

  Europe

  Muslim Calls to Ban 'Filthy' Dogs in EU, US Cities Indicate Colonisation of West, Author Claims

  According to a report by The Stream’s John Zmirak, as Muslims are increasingly moving to traditionally non-Islamic countries, there have been calls to bring and entrench at least some of their cultural norms, including their aversion to dogs.

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  Last update: 18:58 23.05.2019

  18:58 23.05.2019

  Middle East

  Vehicle Explodes in Iraq’s Anbar Province, Kills Two, Wounds Two More (PHOTO)

  The US has been boosting its military presence in the Middle East lately amid continuing tensions with Iran. Washington has deployed an aircraft carrier strike group to the region, as well as Patriot missiles, B-52 bombers and F-15 fighters.

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  Last update: 18:01 23.05.2019

  18:01 23.05.2019

  Viral

  'No Achomlishments': Trump Gets Memed Over Spelling Error in Handwritten Notes

  Social media users have received some new food for fodder as US President Donald Trump made an impromptu media appearance at the White House's Rose Garden after abruptly ending a scheduled meeting with House Democrats, as he was taken aback by the news about a Dem gathering convened to discuss his impeachment.

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  Last update: 17:00 23.05.2019

  17:00 23.05.2019

  Asia & Pacific

  Persisting MH370 Enigma: Ex-Pilot Shares CLUE to Where Jet Was Really Heading

  As the still missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continues to baffle, raising a bunch of unanswerable questions, a thought-provoking comment from the time it vanished into thin air has come to light – one from a colleague of Flight MH370’s captain, former pilot Christopher Goodfellow.

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  Last update: 17:33 23.05.2019

  17:33 23.05.2019

  Europe

  Russia to Retaliate if US Deploys Radar Facility in Norway’s Vardo - FM

  The town of Vardo in the Norwegian Arctic near the Russian border is home to a US surveillance radar station dubbed Globus II.

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  Last update: 14:16 23.05.2019

  14:16 23.05.2019

  World

  US Firm Issues Souvenir Coin in Honour of WWII Victory... With no USSR on It

  Apparently, the Soviet Union, whose soldiers hoisted a red flag over the Reichstag marking the liberation of most of Europe from the Nazis during World War II, is not a country that contributed to securing the "liberties" the Western states "enjoy today", per a US company which issued a souvenir commemorating the victory's upcoming anniversary.

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  Last update: 19:19 23.05.2019

  19:19 23.05.2019

  US

  Slain CIA Agent's Daughter Slams Release of 'American Taliban' as 'Slap in Face'

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Thursday that John Walker Lindh, the first US-born detainee in the War on Terror, is still a threat to the United States, and is "still committed to the very jihad that he engaged in that killed a great American and a great CIA officer".