"The Syrian government puts all the responsibility for aggression on the US, as the facts show, that it was a deliberate attack, but not a mistake – even if America says the opposite,” Muallem said during a general debate at the 71st Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

“This vile aggression proves that the US and its allies are accomplices of Islamic State and other terror groups,” he stressed. On September 17, Syrian troops encircled by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants near the town of Deir ez-Zor were bombed by US-led coalition warplanes. Sixty-two soldiers were killed in the airstrike, which was followed by an offensive by the jihadists on the positions of the government forces.

Ms Palacio said elections in Germany, Italy, France and the Netherlands suggest EU policy - at least for the nearest future - will be defined by member-states rather than the European institutions. She said as a result of Brexit it is clear the EU will no longer be the "Brussels-centric, deeply integrated Shangri-La long sought by many at the Commission".

Ms Palacio said: "In fact, with member states’ domestic politics playing a more important role than the European Council in driving whatever EU policy momentum exists, even an intergovernmental EU may be too much to hope for." And she echoed recent remarks made by EU Council President Donald Tusk at last week's summit in Bratislava who said “giving new powers to European institutions is not the desired recipe” in the wake of Britain's decision to pull out.

Ms Palacio continued: "It is likely that parochial interests will become even more dominant, at least until major elections are complete." She continued: "Put simply, for much of the public, EU institutions lack legitimacy. The reasons are well known: poor communication, a democratic deficit, finger pointing between member states and the Commission, a flawed institutional architecture. The result is clear: in the struggle over how Europe will develop, the EU institutions lack the authority or support to put up much of a fight – or even fully enter the ring."

The Sunday Mail, Zimbabwe’s “leading family newspaper,” has published accounts of a number of Libyans who expressed regret over Muammar Gaddafi’s overthrow in 2011, despite the fact some of them even took up arms against him. As one said: “I joined the revolution in the first days and fought against Gaddafi,” former revolutionary fighter Mohammed, 31, said from the southern city of Murzuq. “Before 2011, I hated Gaddafi more than anyone. But now, life is much, much harder, and I have become his biggest fan.”

In 2011, we were told Gaddafi was going to commit grave bloodshed against his own people and that as a result, the international community needed to intervene to protect Libyan civilians. This proved to be false, according to an analysis of statistics obtained by Human Rights Watch. Further, an investigation conducted by Amnesty International also found a number of claims against Gaddafi were fabricated.

Before the NATO onslaught, Libya had the highest standard of living of any country in Africa. This meant the people enjoyed state-sponsored healthcare, high literacy rates, and other benefits that come with living in a relatively prosperous society. In 2015 alone, the country fell 27 places on the UN Human Development Index ratings. According to UNICEF, there are now two million Libyan children out of school.

The scientists zeroed in on times of high tidal stress, which can occur twice a month, during the full moon and new moon. During these moments, high tides are at their highest — flooding the tallest reaches of a beach — and about six hours later, low tides are at their lowest for the month, with seawater retreating to the farthest point toward the ocean. This produces massive movement of ocean water and produces high tidal stress. And that tidal stress can change the stress on the fault, and, these scientists suggest, help push small earthquakes that happen to grow into very large earthquakes.

“When tides are very large, small earthquakes tend to grow,” Satoshi Ide, lead author of the report and professor of seismology at the University of Tokyo, said in an interview. “This suggests that the probability of a tiny rock failure expanding to a gigantic rupture increases with increasing tidal stress levels,” Ide and his coauthors wrote in the report, published this month in the journal Nature Geosciences.

Or put another way: The tidal forces give a slight nudge to a fault on the cusp of rupturing. “It could be just the amount of stress that is the ‘straw that breaks the camel’s back,’ so to speak,” said Nicholas van der Elst, a US Geological Survey geophysicist. “So it makes sense that an earthquake would be more likely to happen, and coalesce into a larger earthquake, if there is just a little, additional, push.”

And when Gleicke uses the word "we" it's not just in her official function as the government's commissioner for the new federal states. Gleicke herself is from Thuringia, in eastern Germany. Until 1990, her home was part of the German Democratic Republic. It might seem strange that, 26 years after reunification, people in Germany still talk of the "new federal states." But that's not a big issue for Gleicke.

She's much more concerned about the socio-political developments east of the Elbe River, specifically, the noticeable rise in xenophobia. The number of violent right-wing extremist acts has increased "dramatically" in relation to the population in the East. Right-wing extremism, xenophobia and intolerance are a "very serious" threat to the eastern states' economic development, said Gleicke.

The increase in violent incidents is more than just a "simple alarm signal" when they're also carried out by mainstream members of society, or when such people silently stand by, she said. Anti-immigrant hatred in eastern Germany has attracted negative headlines around the world.

1. Change your password. Even though Yahoo says it will notify potentially affected users, change your password anyway to make sure. It shouldn’t have to be said in 2016, but people still do it, don’t use the same password on multiple sites.

2. Set up two-factor authentication. Passwords are inherently flawed, but two-factor authentication is the best way to secure them. When you’re updating your account, Yahoo will ask you if you want to do this. Do it. Essentially, it will send a text message to your smartphone with a unique login code each time you log into your account. Yes, it can be a pain. But it will also make it much less likely that someone else will be able to access your account.

3. Keep an eye on your account. While it’s hard to say what to look for, look for things that don’t look right. Are there emails in your “sent” box that you didn’t send? Are you getting shady-looking emails that ask you to click on links? Or official-looking emails asking for your password, or other personal information? Don’t fall for it. Remember, constant vigilance is the price of free email.

And if you’re one of those people snickering, “Who still uses Yahoo email?” go check yourself. If you once had a Yahoo account but you don’t use it anymore, log back on, delete what’s in there, and officially close it. Ten-year-old data can bite you in the butt just as easily as current information.

The meeting was part of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). It’s only the fourth time in history that the heads of state have met to discuss a health issue, but the urgency of the current crisis of drug-resistant bacteria is clear: it’s estimated that the number of people who die from antibiotic resistance infections will reach 10 million a year in 2050.

“It’s not that it may happen in the future, it’s a very present reality,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He added that over 20,000 newborn children are expected to die each year from infections that do not respond to antibiotics. Resistance to HIV drugs is also on the rise, and leaders are concerned about the potential for malaria-drug resistance.

Antimicrobial resistance, often referred to as AMR, “is a major global threat. Some scientists call it a slow-motion tsunami. The situation is bad and getting worse,” said Dr Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). Chan says sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea are becoming increasingly resistant to treatment.

“Violence in all its forms does not represent the true nature of religion. It is the antithesis of religion and contributes to its destruction,” the Pope said, before calling on religious leaders to “free ourselves from the heavy burden of distrust, fundamentalism and hate” in order to be “artisans of peace” through prayer and action. Religious leaders, he said, are “duty bound to be strong bridges of dialogue, creative mediators of peace.”

Francis arrived in Assisi by helicopter yesterday morning to conclude a three-day meeting of religious leaders organized by the Rome-based Community of Sant ’Egidio under the title “Thirst for Peace: Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue.” After being embraced by Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the two greeted the other religious leaders present, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of Antioch and leaders of the Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist communities.

He said that the differences between religions were not the cause of conflict. “Without syncretism or relativism, we have rather prayed side-by-side and for each other,” he said, quoting his predecessors that violence in the name of religion was the antithesis of true religion. “We never tire of repeating that the name of God cannot be used to justify violence,” Francis said, adding: “Peace alone, and not war, is holy!”

"We've got the instigators that are coming in from the outside. They were coming in on buses from out of state. If you go back and look at some of the arrests that were made last night. I can about say probably 70% of those had out-of-state IDs. They're not coming from Charlotte."

As shocking as this statement is, it should not be a total surprise. 18 months ago, as the riots flared in Ferguson, there was one man pulling the strings of this 'domestic false flag'… George Soros. In an apparent effort to "keep the media’s attention on the city and to widen the scope of the incident to focus on interrelated causes — not just the overpolicing and racial discrimination narratives that were highlighted by the news media in August," liberal billionaire George Soros donated $33 million to social justice organizations which helped turn events in Ferguson from a local protest into a national flashpoint.

"Alarm bells have been ringing over the explosion of corporate debt levels in emerging economies, which now exceed $25 trillion. Damaging deflationary spirals cannot be ruled out," said the annual report of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

We know already that the poisonous side-effect of zero rates and quantitative easing in the US, Europe, and Japan was to flood developing nations with cheap credit, upsetting their internal chemistry and drawing them into a snare. What is less understood is just how destructive this has been.

Much of the money was wasted, skewed towards "highly cyclical and rent-based sectors of limited strategic importance for catching up," it said. “If policymakers fail to mitigate the negative impacts of unchecked global market forces, then a turn to protectionism [trade wars] could trigger a vicious downward spiral for everyone. What is clear is that the world will soon need a massive and coordinated spending push by governments to create demand and bring the broken global system back into equilibrium.