Faced with a burgeoning refugee crisis in Europe sparked by global extremism, US and European officials said this week that there is a growing consensus that the multinational military campaign against Islamic State must focus more on targeting the group’s nerve centers in Syria. Using thousands of people flowing into Europe every day as a pretence, France and Britain are both poised to join Washington in carrying out more airstrikes with greater and greater levels of aggression against Islamic State in Syria.

The US officials said the intent of Russia’s military moves in Syria was unclear. One suggested the focus may be on preparing an airfield near the port city of Latakia, a stronghold of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In all of this, it is Russia’s recent step up that is most concerning. Western backed sanctions currently crippling Russia’s economy over Ukraine will increase over its involvement in Syria. When that happens, it forces Russia further into the arms of China.

The purpose of this article is not to rationalise events in Syria, not to lay blame or point a finger but merely to highlight the fact that there is no dispute that there has been a very serious escalation of events in the war that is being conducted in Syria.The war in Syria is not about Islamic State.

It is to highlight the fact that the countries involved in this war are now from all four hemispheres of the planet who are now represented and engaged in a conflict that will definitely be a fight to the very end. The question is – where will that very end, end up being?

He added that economic reforms should not be neglected in favour of action from central banks. The comments come after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it would extend its stimulus programme if needed. The ECB launched its €1.1 trillion bond-buying scheme - a form of monetary policy or quantitative easing - in January to support the eurozone economic recovery, which the bank's president, Mario Draghi, said could be extended beyond 2016 if needed.

Mr Schaeuble has repeatedly warned against an over-reliance on central bank stimulus to prop up economies. He stressed the need for structural reforms stating: "When we call for structural reforms in return for financial assistance, this isn't some narrow-minded mantra being repeated by people who have lost sight of the big strategic questions of the future. In fact, this may well be the most important long-term strategic question we face today.”

Zainab Abbas said Abdullah Kurdi, the father of Aylan, was the driver of the boat which capsized in the Agean Sea and had lied to the world. Mr Kurdi has previously claimed he took over the wheel at the dinghy when the captain panicked and jumped ship into the water. An outpouring of sympathy and support for refugees followed the photo of Aylan's body washed up on Turkish shores.

Yet some have begun to pick holes in Mr Kurdi's story, with some claiming the images were manipulated and Aylan's body had been moved in order to take a more effective photos, according to the French newspaper Le Monde. Ms Tahseen told The Sydney Daily Telegraph her cousin told her Mr Kurdi was definitely at the wheel of the doomed boat for the entire journey.

The mainstream media is doing articles on “end of the world fears“, and it is being reported that 41 percent of all Americans believe that “we are living in what the Bible calls the last days.” For those that believe, the signs are everywhere – geopolitical instability, moral decay, steadily increasing numbers of natural disasters and a global financial system that could fall apart at any moment.

Others mock the idea that we could be living in “the last days”, and many of them point to the amazing technological progress that humanity is making and the unprecedented prosperity that we have been enjoying in recent times. If things are actually “getting better”, they argue, then how could we possibly be living in the end times described in the Bible? And of course atheists are convinced that God doesn’t exist at all, and that all of this apocalyptic talk is just a bunch of religious nonsense. So what is the truth?

For decades, the United States and much of the rest of the world has been in moral decline. Our nation has become a cesspool of wickedness, filth and corruption, and it is getting worse with each passing day. It has been said that if God does not judge the United States that He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Discussions are set to be dominated by the question of how to combat the rise of the Islamic State, or ISIS, in Syria as well as the nuclear deal recently agreed between the UK, its Western allies and Iran. Mr Netanyahu, who is a bitter critic of the nuclear agreement, told Mr Cameron: “The Middle East is disintegrating under the twin forces of militant Islam – militant Sunnis led by ISIS and militant Shi-ites led by Iran.”

Mr Netanyahu, who won re-election in March this year, oversaw a seven-week military operation in Gaza last summer to stop rocket fire coming into Israel. The conflict left 2,100 people dead, the majority of them Palestinians. He today repeated his recent declaration that he was "ready to resume direct negotiations with the Palestinians with no conditions whatsoever to entering negotiations ... immediately".

Ya’alon’s office states that the action is in line with a recommendation by the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, and is in accordance with the position of the Israeli Police. Ya’alon has become convinced that the step is necessary to protect national security and public order.

The activities of these male and female groups “form a central component in the creation of tension and violence on the Temple Mount in particular, and Jerusalem in general,” the defense minister’s office says. It describes the activists as engaging in “dangerous incitement” against tourists, visitors, and worshipers on the Temple Mount, which leads to violence that could endanger lives.

“The goal of the Murabitun and Murabatat is to undermine Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount, change the reality and the existing arrangements, and harm freedom of worship. They are linked to – and are directed by – hostile Islamist organizations,” the defense minister’s office says.

The decree received approval from Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein.

A prominent economist was also on the list but asked that his name be withheld. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was named, though not Janet Yellen, who succeeded him. Also pictured was Jim Walton, one of the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune, although he was misidentified in the caption as his late father, Sam Walton. Several other names on the list were misspelled.

Evan Kohlmann of Flashpoint Intelligence, an NBC News counterterrorism analyst, said that while much of the magazine's content is "somewhat aspirational," it has also played a role in actual plots. "There is compelling evidence from the Boston Marathon bombings and other various thwarted terror plots that homegrown jihadists have specifically looked to the magazine for guidance on what targets to attack — and have taken that advice quite literally," he said.

Trump appeared Wednesday at the rally to stop the Iran nuclear deal in front of the US Capitol. Preceded by Senator Ted Cruz (Republican for Texas) , who called Trump his “friend,” and entering to raucous applause against the backdrop of REM’s classic hit “It’s The End of the World As We Know It,” Trump pulled no punches.

“Never, ever ever in my life have I seen any transaction so incompetently negotiated as our deal with Iran,” Trump said. “And I mean never.” Trump discussed the $150 billion signing bonus the Iranians get as part of the deal, and then turned his attention to the four hostages being held in the Islamic country, including Christian pastor Saeed Abedini.

“If I win the presidency I guarantee you that those four prisoners are back in our country before I ever take office,” Trump said. “They will be back before I ever take office. They know it and if they don’t know it, I’m telling them right now.”

Francis, 78, has stamped his humble personality on the papacy and has little time for diplomatic niceties. Having called money “the devil’s dung” when it enslaves people, he seems likely to rattle politicians and business leaders in a country widely seen as the bastion of capitalism.

“The pope says money is OK, capital is OK, but when money becomes a god, an idol, more important than man, that’s not OK - whatever people in Wall Street think,” said Andrea Tornielli, author of “This Economy Kills,” on Francis’s economic thinking. Republican candidate Jeb Bush, a Catholic, took offense, remarking, “I don’t get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals or my pope.” Other conservative critics branded the pope a Marxist.

British critics last night branded the proposals “absurd, politically correct nonsense”. Ensuring boys learn about “domestic work” was cited in the report adopted by Members of the European Parliament as an example of how children should be encouraged to take an interest in all subjects, including those traditionally dominated by either men or women. It also wants “sensitive, age-appropriate and scientifically accurate” sex and relationship education to be compulsory for all children from primary school age upwards.

UK Independence Party MEP Jonathan Arnott stormed: “It’s not the EU’s business to tell our schools what should be on our curriculum or what age sex education should start. If the plan is to police all school materials to avoid gender stereotypes, will Shakespeare and Dickens be banned?” Jayne Adye, director of cross party Eurosceptic campaign group Get Britain Out, demanded: “Why do politicians in Brussels assume they know what is best for our children and seek to undermine parents and teachers in this way?

“The EU should not be trying to impose its politically correct worldview on its members, let alone write lesson plans and censor books. It has failed Britain as a trading partner and now mistakenly sees itself as a force for social change.”