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Iran coronavirus death toll rises to 34 as number of infected hits 388 – Health Ministry Some 34 people have died so far in Iran due to coronavirus infections, a Health Ministry spokesman said on Friday. The total number of people diagnosed with the disease is 388, he said in an announcement broadcast by state TV. The death toll in Iran is by far the highest number outside China. The total number of infected people on Thursday stood at 245, including several senior officials. The outbreak prompted authorities to call off Friday prayers in the capitals of 23 of Iran’s 31 provinces, including Tehran and the Shiite Muslim holy cities of Qom and Mashhad as well as some other infected areas, Reuters said. Iran coronavirus death toll rises to 34 as number of infected hits 3...

America’s Endless Wars Persist Because They Don’t Exist (For Americans) by William J. Astore (Anti-Empire) “The question is: why don’t more Americans react with genuine horror when a draft dodger like Donald Trump boasts of all those wonderful weapons this country is buying?” America’s Endless Wars Persist Because They Don’t Exist (For Americans)

Greece tightens sea, land borders after Ankara’s response to strike in Syria’s Idlib Athens has tightened sea and land borders with Turkey after developments overnight in the Syrian region of Idlib, Reuters reported on Friday, citing government sources. A senior Turkish official said his country would no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe, as Ankara responded on Friday to the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in a reported airstrike by Syrian government forces in Idlib. The Greek sources said Athens was also in contact with the European Union and NATO on the matter. Greece was the main gateway for hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming out of Turkey in a mass exodus in 2015 and 2016, until a deal brokered with the EU stemmed the flow. The Turkish pro-government D...

The Incompetent Sodomite Trump Just Put in Charge of ALL Intelligence Agencies by Philip Giraldi (Unz Review) The Incompetent Sodomite Trump Just Put in Charge of ALL Intelligence Agencies

Your Man in the Public Gallery – The Assange Hearing Day 3 by Craig Murray (Craig Murray Blog) In yesterday’s proceedings in court, the prosecution adopted arguments so stark and apparently unreasonable I have been fretting on how to write them up in a way that does not seem like caricature or unfair exaggeration on my part. What has been happening in this court has long moved beyond caricature. All I can do is give you my personal assurance that what I recount actually is what happened. As usual, I shall deal with procedural matters and Julian’s treatment first, before getting in to a clear account of the legal arguments made. Your Man in the Public Gallery – The Assange Hearing Day 3

Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 2 by Craig Murray (Craig Murray) This afternoon Julian’s Spanish lawyer, Baltasar Garzon, left court to return to Madrid. On the way out he naturally stopped to shake hands with his client, proffering his fingers through the narrow slit in the bulletproof glass cage. Assange half stood to take his lawyer’s hand. The two security guards in the cage with Assange immediately sprang up, putting hands on Julian and forcing him to sit down, preventing the handshake. Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 2

A Russian Christian Couple with 7 Children Tell Their Inspiring Story by Anna Berseneva-Shankevich (Orthodox Christianity) The Nagornov family Parents: Andrei Viktorovich, fifty-four, a Hermitage Theater actor; Tatiana Ivanovna, forty-four, a primary school teacher. They have been married for twenty years. Their children: Ivan, nineteen, a second-year student of Moscow State Pedagogical University (the Chemestry Department); Maria, sixteen, an eleventh grader; A Russian Christian Couple with 7 Children Tell Their Inspiring Story

Erdogan Calls Kremlin to Bail Him Out of Syria Fiasco, Pitiless Putin Lines Up Behind His Military by John Helmer (Dances with Bears) The Russian and Syrian general staffs and their men have been doing to the Turks what no one has achieved in the Middle East since 1917. Erdogan Calls Kremlin to Bail Him Out of Syria Fiasco, Pitiless Putin Lines Up Behind His Military