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  • Donald Trump no longer an honorary Cossack

    Some Russians aren’t sitting back as they await President Trump’s promised strike via Twitter on their Syrian ally over a suspected chemical weapons attack.

    Some Russians aren’t sitting back as they await President Trump’s promised strike via Twitter on their Syrian ally over a suspected chemical weapons attack.

    The Irbis Cossacks, the St. Petersburg branch of the legendary Russian warrior clan, announced Wednesday it was stripping Mr. Trump of his status as an “honorary Cossack” and now say they will burn the American president in effigy for his menacing words.

    Andrei Polyakov, the ataman, or leader, of the Irbis Cossacks, told the Russian news website Rosbalt.ru that the move was made because of Mr. Trump’s “insults against the state, which cannot be tolerated.”

    The group first offered Mr. Trump honorary membership shortly after his 2016 election, citing his comments questioning the value of the NATO alliance and seeking to repair frayed U.S.-Russian ties. The relationship persisted despite the U.S. airstrikes Mr. Trump ordered in 2017 against a Syrian airbase over a previous suspected use of chemical weapons.

    “Political events began to unfold not as pleasantly as we’d like,” Ataman Polyakov told the website, according to The Moscow Times. “Realizing that we were mistaken, we made a decision to demote Trump and expel him from the organization in disgrace.”

    The Rosbalt account can be found here.

  • Russia issues more warnings against airstrikes on Syria

    Russian lawmakers have warned the United States that Moscow would view an airstrike on Syria as a war crime, saying it could trigger a direct military clash between the two former Cold War adversaries

    BEIRUT (AP) — Russian lawmakers have warned the United States that Moscow would view an airstrike on Syria as a war crime, saying it could trigger a direct military clash between the two former Cold War adversaries.

    Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon went even further, saying any missiles fired at Syria would be shot down and the launching sites targeted — a stark warning of a potential major confrontation in Syria.

    U.S. President Donald Trump threatened military action after last weekend’s suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town near Damascus, which activists and rescuers say killed at least 40 people. The Syrian government and its ally Russia deny that such an attack happened.

    SEE ALSO: Trump cancels South America trip in sign Syria military strike imminent

    State news agency RIA Novosti on Wednesday quoted Andrei Krasov, deputy chairman of the State Duma’s defense committee, as saying that Russia will treat a U.S. airstrike on Syria “not just as an act of aggression but a war crime of the Western coalition.”

    Vladimir Shamanov, a retired general who heads the defense affairs committee in the lower house of parliament, said in televised remarks Tuesday that a U.S. strike in Syria could hurt Russian servicemen and trigger retaliation.

    He said that Russia has “the necessary means for that, and the Americans and their allies know that quite well.”

    Shamanov emphasized that a retaliatory Russian strike could target U.S. navy ships and aircraft. He added that the use of nuclear weapons is “unlikely.”

    Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin, meanwhile, told Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV station that any missiles fired at Syria would be shot down. He said he was referring to a statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian armed forces chief of staff.

    “If there is a strike by the Americans, then… the missiles will be downed and the source of the missiles targeted,” Zasypkin said.

    Meanwhile, European airspace authorities warned aircraft to be careful over the coming days when flying close to Syria because of possible military action against President Bashar Assad’s forces.

    The Eurocontrol airspace organization said that the European Aviation Safety Agency had sent a “Rapid Alert Notification” that flight operators needed to consider the possibility of air or missile strikes into Syria.

    U.S. officials have consulted with global allies on a possible joint military response to Syria’s alleged poison gas attack.

    In a notice posted to Eurocontrol’s website, EASA said: “Due to the possible launch of air strikes into Syria with air-to-ground and/or cruise missiles within the next 72 hours, and the possibility of intermittent disruption of radio navigation equipment, due consideration needs to be taken.”

  • Algerian military plane crashes, killing 257 people

    Algeria’s defense ministry said Wednesday 257 people have died when a military plane carrying soldiers and their families crashed soon after takeoff in a farm field in northern Algeria.

    Algeria’s defense ministry said Wednesday 257 people have died when a military plane carrying soldiers and their families crashed soon after takeoff in a farm field in northern Algeria.

    The ministry said in a statement that 247 passengers and 10 crew members were killed. It said most of the victims are soldiers and their relatives. It says the victims’ bodies have been transported to the Algerian army’s central hospital in the town of Ain Naadja for identification.

    The crash occurred Wednesday soon after takeoff from the Boufarik air base southwest of the capital Algiers.

  • Trump: Be prepared, be good

    Trump: Ready Russia comes to our fingers

    The tension between the United States and Russia has rebounded after a chemical attack in Syria. Finally, US President Trump made a shocking statement.

    Tensions between the United States (US) and Russia have risen at an unprecedented rate after the attack in Syria. Russian President Donald Trump, who defended the Bashar al-Assad regime, responded with a shocking statement. Trump said in his statement from his social media account, “Get ready, Russia is coming.”

    Trump’s message says, “Russia is going to take the chancellor to target Syria.

    During the past week, by the Assad forces, Syria lost nearly 200 civilians, including women and children, in the chemical gas attack in the city of Duma in the eastern Guta region.

  • Russia’s response to Trump was delayed

    The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mariya Zaharova said, “The intelligent fellow has to fly towards the terrorists’ side, not for a legitimate sentence that has been fighting international terrorism on its territory for several years.”

    Russia’s Lebanese ambassador, Russia would shoot US fighters in Syria and retaliate against the launching areas.

    The spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mariya Zaharova said that “Smart fuzer has been the target of terrorism for several years.”

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    Russia’s Lebanese ambassador, in a statement he made yesterday, said that Russia would retaliate against the US firing squad in Syria, and retaliate against its launching grounds.

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  • Israeli soldiers wound 40 Palestinians on Gaza border

    It was reported that 40 Palestinians wounded, including one journalist who fired Israeli troops into hundreds of protesters gathered at the eastern border of Gaza, during the peaceful Great Return Marching on the Gaza-Israel border.

    Peaceful demonstrations, held on the Gaza-Israel border since Friday of March, and the loss of 22 lives, continue today.

    The demonstrations under the “Great Return March”, launched by Palestinians on Earth Day to defend their right to return to their lost lands in 1948, include Israeli soldiers He intervened with the actual bullets at the demonstrators. About 1,500 people were injured and 22 people lost their lives in the intervention of Israeli soldiers with real bullets. & nbsp;

    Muhammed Rabah

  • New move from Trump to China’s retaliation

    In a statement from the White House, US President Trump’s US Trade Representative (USTR) has ordered China to introduce additional $ 100 billion in customs duties. & nbsp; As a result of extensive scrutiny under Article 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 by the USTR, Trump stated that China has consistently ruled that America is in the process of unfairly seizing the intellectual property. Trump suggested that China would introduce a $ 50 billion customs tariff on April 3, 2018 to allow the removal of the policies and practices described in the USTR review. Trump said, “Instead of making up for the Chinese mistake, we chose to hurt our producers and damage our farmers.” Due to China’s unjust reprisals, I have ordered the USTR to assess whether additional tariffs worth $ 100 billion will be eligible under Article 301, and if so, what products will be taxed.

    Trump noted that the US is ready for negotiations to promote free, fair and mutual trade, and to protect Americans’ own intellectual property and technology, as the US Department of Agriculture has mandated a plan to protect American farmers.

    The Trump administration has launched a trade war between the US and China, bringing in 25% and 10% additional customs duty on imports of steel and aluminum in the last month, respectively. . China, in response to additional customs duties on its steel and aluminum products a few days ago, decided to introduce 15 percent to 25 percent tariffs on 128 US products.

    Immediately after this development, American companies are planning to introduce 25 percent additional customs duty on their 300 thousand Chinese products due to their illegal activities to capture technology and intellectual property. The Beijing administration was quick to respond to this move, which the US only targeted at China. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has announced that it will bring 25 per cent customs tax on the $ 50 billion item imported from the United States. & Nbsp;
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  • In Germany ‘terror alarm’

    In a statement made by the German Ministry of the Interior on a truck attack from the town of Münster in the North Rhine-Westphalia province of Germany, four people were killed and six were seriously wounded by more than 20 people. Among the deaths in the explanation, it was stated that the chauffeur used the truck. According to the German press, aggressive 48-year-old psychology was recorded by a broken German. It was announced that two people were taken into custody.

    It is unclear whether the incident is a terrorist attack or not. There is no official explanation yet. However, it was stated that the security forces, taking into account the way the incident took place, emphasized the possibility of a terrorist attack. The Münster police controlled the scene of the incident from one side, while the entrances and exits of the city were controlled from the other side. He is trying to be illuminated by getting out of the car’s plate and the chauffeur who is dead in the car.

    The government spokesman Ulrike Demmer made a statement from the Twitter account on behalf of the German government, saying, “There is horrible news from Münster that our city is in danger.

    The Mayor of Münster, Markus Lewe, explained, “The whole Münster is suffering from this terrible event, and we express our hearts that our victims should have immediate healing with their relatives.”

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  • Russia seeks ban on Telegram, popular messaging app, amid dispute over access to encrypted chats

    The Russian government’s media watchdog has filed a lawsuit against the popular Telegram messaging application aimed at banning it within its borders over dispute a involving Moscow’s inability to eav

    The Russian government’s media watchdog has filed a lawsuit against the popular Telegram messaging application aimed at banning it within its borders over a dispute involving Moscow’s inability to eavesdrop.

    Roskomnadzor, Russia’s state media regulator, said in a statement Friday that it sued the app’s parent company in a Moscow court seeking “restrictions on access to … Telegram on the territory of Russia,” citing its failure to comply with federal authorities’ demand for data.

    Russia tightly restricts internet access inside the country, and legislation adopted in 2016 requires communication providers to give the government access to customers’ conversations. Telegram lets users communicate using end-to-end encryption technology, however, rendering their messages unreadable to anyone other than the authorized sender or recipient, and spurring the ongoing feud with federal authorities at the heart of Friday’s lawsuit.

    Russia’s federal service agency, the FSB, asked Telegram last year for help deciphering messages sent between users, but the company refused to share its encryption keys and appealed to the country’s highest court, decrying the request as both technically impossible and a violation of its customers’ rights to privacy.

    Russia’s Supreme Court last ruled month in the government’s favor, and Roskomnadzor subsequently gave the app 15 days to surrender “information necessary to decode received, transmitted, delivered or processed electronic messages,” but Telegram failed to comply by Wednesday’s deadline and was sued by the watchdog two days later.

    “Telegram’s position has not changed — the FSB’s demand to provide decryption keys for messages is unconstitutional, it is not based on law and can be fulfilled neither technically nor legally, which means that the demand to block Telegram is baseless,” Telegram lawyer Ramil Akhmetgaliyev reacted Friday, Russian state-owned media reported.

    Messages sent using the app’s “Secret chats” feature are end-to-end encrypted using keys specific to only the sender and recipient, meaning not even Telegram is capable of deciphering those conversations, according to the company.

    In a statement, Roskomnadzor said that Telegram had failed to comply with “obligations as the organizer of the dissemination of information” pursuant to federal law.

    Telegram boasted 200 million active users worldwide as of March, Reuters reported, including Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    “There are a lot of messaging services, Telegram is a very convenient one, we have been particularly using it to communicate with journalists,” Mr. Peskov told journalists Friday, Russian media reported.

    “A law is a law, and if it is violated and no measures are taken, we will search for an alternative that would fulfill our requirements in the best possible way,” Mr. Peskov said.

    FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov alleged earlier this week that terrorists used messaging apps during the course of attempting to coordinate over two dozen domestic attack in 2018, Russia’s Interfax newswire reported.

  • Germany seeks motive after van crashes into crowd

    A van crashed into people drinking outside a popular bar Saturday in the German city of Muenster, killing two people and injuring 20 others before the driver of the vehicle shot and killed himself in

    MUENSTER, Germany (AP) — A van crashed into people drinking outside a popular bar Saturday in the German city of Muenster, killing two people and injuring 20 others before the driver of the vehicle shot and killed himself inside it, police said.

    A top German security official said there was no indication of an Islamic extremist motive but officials were investigating all possibilities in the deadly crash that took place at 3:27 p.m. on a warm spring day.

    Witnesses said people ran away screaming from the city square after the crash. Police quickly set up a large cordoned-off area for their investigation and ambulances rushed to the site.

    Six of the 20 injured were in severe condition, according to police spokesman Andreas Bode.

    Herbert Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, where Muenster is located, said the driver of the gray van was a German citizen. He stressed that the investigation was at an early stage but said “at the moment, nothing speaks for there being any Islamist background.”

    “We have to wait, and we are investigating in all directions,” Reul said, adding that it was clearly not an accident.

    Reul said two people were killed in the crash and the driver killed himself — lower than the earlier police toll of three dead plus the driver.

    Police spokesman Peter Nuessmeyer told The Associated Press that he could not confirm German media reports that the perpetrator reportedly had psychological issues.

    Bode told reporters that police were checking witness reports that other perpetrators might have fled from the van at the scene. Hours later, police spokeswoman Vanessa Arlt said “we didn’t find anything (to those reports) but we’re still investigating in all directions and not excluding anything.”

    Police tweeted that residents should “avoid the area near the Kiepenkerl pub” in the city’s historic downtown area where a large-scale police operation was underway.

    Police also said they found a suspicious object in the van that they were examining to see if it was dangerous. They told German news agency dpa that was the reason authorities cordoned off such a large area.

    The Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said the suspect’s apartment was being searched Saturday night for possible explosives.

    The Muenster University Hospital put out an urgent call for citizens to donate blood — and so many people rushed to help that long lines of donors formed. Jan Schoessler, who was among those in line, said dozens of people were waiting shortly after doors opened at 7 p.m.

    The university cancelled the call after only an hour and thanked everyone on Twitter “for your overwhelming support.”

    Muenster, a major university city, has about 300,000 residents and an attractive medieval city center that was rebuilt after World War II. TV footage showed a narrow street sealed off Saturday with red-and-white police tape. Dozens of ambulances were near the cordoned-off area and helicopters were flying overhead.

    The Kiepenkerl is not only one of the city’s best-known traditional pubs, but also the emblem of the city, depicting a traveling salesman with a long pipe in his mouth and a big backpack on his back.

    Ugur Hur was working at a nearby cafe in downtown Muenster when the crash took place.

    “I heard a loud bang, screaming. And the police arrived and everyone was sent out,” he said. “A lot of people were running away screaming.”

    Lino Baldi, who owns an Italian restaurant near the scene of the crash, told Sky TG24 that the city center had been packed with people out enjoying a Saturday market and summer-like temperatures, which had risen to 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) from just 12 degrees (54 degrees F) a day earlier.

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was “deeply shocked by the terrible events in Muenster.”

    “Everything conceivable is being done to investigate the crime and to support the victims and their relatives,” Merkel said in a statement. “My thanks go to all the responders at the scene.”

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    Grieshaber reported from Berlin. Geir Moulson and Frank Jordans in Berlin and Colleen Barry in Munich contributed reporting.