US Ready to Send 200 More Soldiers to Syria

INTERNATIONAL - The Pentagon on Saturday (12/10/2016) states, the United States will hold as many as 200 additional troops to the Syrian army in military action against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

According to a Pentagon statement, the additional US troops will include special operations forces personnel, trainers, advisers and explosive ordinance disposal team, reported Xinhua.

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, issued the announcement during a speech in the Gulf state, Bahrain, the statement said.

Operation with unique skills will be joined by 300 US special operations troops are already in Syria.


Operat was "to continue to organize, train, equip and ... enable local forces who are motivated and able to fight ISIL," the statement said, citing the words of Carter.

It refers to other abbreviations such militant groups, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The Church Collapsed In Nigeria, Dead Can Range 50-200 People

INTERNATIONAL - Grief over the city Uyo, Nigeria south of post-collapse of the churches in the city that caused "many deaths and injuries".

According to local media reports, as released Agence France-Presse, Sunday (11/12/2016), the death toll could reach between 50-200 people, correcting initial reports 10 people were killed.

The number of deaths due to current events, in a church packed with people celebrating the Mass episcopal ordination.

Reportedly, when the church roof collapsed, hundreds of people were inside the Reigners Bible Church, including the governor of the state of Akwa Ibom, Emmanuel Udom. He was injured.

President Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim, expressed condolences over the accident.

Buhari expressed his sadness to the governor and the people of Akwa Ibom, as reported spokesman, Garba Shehu.

The church was still not completed but the workers were mobilized to accelerate the construction to be completed for the ordination, witnesses said.

A mengatapakan rescue team officials told The Associated Press that 60 bodies had been found.

However, the toll could rise because it was feared they were crushed by rubble and other iron frame.

"Mass regularly taking place - about 20 minutes after the governor came in. Suddenly the roof to collapse on the people," said one survivor

"The governor immediately rescued, but others were not lucky," he said.

In September 2015, 115 people, including 84 South Africans, were killed by a church hostel owned by a Nigerian television evangelist, TB Joshua, collapsed.

Syrian forces pound Aleppo, ISIS Back to Palmyra

INTERNATIONAL - When Syrian forces exert full power to seize Aleppo east of the opposition, the militants ISIS returned to Palmyra, the historic city in Syria.

Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Organization (SOHR), on Saturday (12/10/2016), reported Syrian forces had achieved significant progress in eastern Aleppo controlled by opposition forces.

Some important district in the east side of the city of Aleppo, the capital of the province of Aleppo that once the second largest city after Damascus, was retaken by the military of President Bashar al-Assad.

However, on the other hand, forces the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), it kept surging forward to Palmyra to take it from the Syrian army.

The activists lapanghan SOHR said about 50 soldiers allied with Damascus have been killed in fighting in Palmyra, in the province of Homs, central Syria.

ISIS continued to rush into the ancient city of Palmyra, since Saturday noon, after two days of heavy fighting with Assad regime forces.

SOHR based in London, England, the monitoring and reporting on the civil war in Syria. They said, ISIS has taken control of a main hospital in Palmyra.

Previously they have mastered some refinery and outposts located near the city.

Encouragement extremists in the province of Homs took place nine months after the militants were expelled from the city by the Syrian government forces and allied Russia in an attack called the Syrian military officials as a "fatal blow" to the organization ISIS.

Until Saturday (10/12/2016) night, the Assad government has not commented on the fighting in Palmyra and yet the number of casualties that may be promulgated.

But SOHR, Friday (12/09/2016), said about 50 soldiers allied with Damascus have been killed in the fighting.

In the north, observers reported heavy fighting occurred in several districts in the southeast city of Aleppo, after two weeks of attacks by the military-backed Syrian allies Russia and Shia make the rebel forces scattered.

Several people who witnessed the fighting on Saturday said the rebels did not want to retreat from the eastern sector of the ruined it.

SOHR reported that 24 civilians were killed by government forces since Friday, and said at least nine others were killed due to artillery fire fighters into sectors controlled by the government in the city in the same period.

Bomb Victims Istanbul So 29 People, Penerally Police

HEALTH - The death toll from twin bomb blasts in Istanbul, Turkey, has grown to 29 people with the casualties were police.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, Sunday (11/12/2016), said that there were 166 more people were injured. He also said 10 suspects linked to the attack had been arrested.

Turkish Health Ministry earlier said the bomb attack occurred outside class football stadium after the match two top clubs, namely Besiktas and Bursaspo.

According to Reuters, the first of two explosions, one of which is believed to be suicide, and occur outside the Vodafone Arena stadium, which is located on the banks of the Bosphorus.

Soylu said, a car bomb outside the stadium it was targeting a police bus. Of the 29 deaths that have diidentifikas, mostly police.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the explosion occurred shortly after the game was over it seemed to cause death in large numbers.

"We have witnessed, once again here in Istanbul, the ugly face of terrorism, trampling all shapes and moral values," Erdogan said in a statement released by Agence France-Presse.

Turkish state media said Erdogan was in his residence in Tarabya city, in the outskirts of Istanbul, when the twin bomb blasts.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, "I strongly condemn the killers," he said, as quoted by broadcaster CNN Turk.

15 were killed and tens injured due to bomb Twins in Istanbul

INTERNATIONAL - The heart of Istanbul, Turkey, was rocked by twin high-explosive bombs so that at least 15 people were killed and 69 others injured on Saturday (10/12/2016) night local time.

Turkish Health Ministry said the bomb attack occurred outside class football stadium after the match two top clubs, namely Besiktas and Bursaspo.

According to Reuters, the first of two explosions, one of which is believed to be suicide, and occur outside the Vodafone Arena stadium, which is located on the banks of the Bosphorus.

Minister of Home Affairs, Suleyman Soylu, say, a car bomb outside the stadium it was targeting a police bus. Besiktas is also the name of an area around the stadium.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the explosion occurred shortly after the game was over it seemed to cause death in large numbers.

"We have witnessed, once again here in Istanbul, the ugly face of terrorism, trampling all shapes and moral values," Erdogan said in a statement released by Agence France-Presse.

Turkish state media said Erdogan was in his residence in Tarabya city, in the outskirts of Istanbul, when the twin bomb blasts.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, "I strongly condemn the killers," he said, as quoted by broadcaster CNN Turk.

Train Gas Slips and Explosives, Seven People Killed

INTERNATIONAL - Seven people were killed in a village in northeastern Bulgaria as a result of gas-carrying train derailed and exploded. About 50 homes and other buildings were destroyed.

A local official said on Saturday (10/12/2016), reported that dozens of people were also injured and at least five victims were in critical condition in hospital.

The Bulgarian government said it would announce the day of national mourning on Monday (12/12/2016), following the fatal incident, according to Reuters.

Twelve tanks of private trains, which carry propylene, LPG volatile and flammable, derailed in the village railway station.

Police said one of the tanks hit the electric pole tengangan high, then exploded and caught fire on Saturday morning.

The powerful explosion burned sold dozens of houses and other public buildings. Many people buried behind teruntuhan.

Officials ordered propylenetersebut vacate settlements that could be removed safely.

Specialist officers to deal with the incident during an operation to remove the gas from the tank wagon at the center of the blast.

"Enterprises for emptying the tanks is a very complex process and slow," said Prime Minister Boiko Borisov few hours after arriving in the village, located 380 km northeast of Sofia. The capital of Romania.

Settlements where there was an explosion of propylene was inhabited by about 1,000 people, according to a police official. "This must be done very carefully."

According to the officer, operating trains tergelinci emptying tanks was expected to be completed within one or two days ..

"Two explosions have caused a serious fire and damaged at least 20 buildings. There are many injured people, mainly burns," said Head of the Secretariat of the Interior Ministry Georgi Kostov.

A man of 18 years had died of his wounds in a hospital in the town of Shumen, said a hospital official.

About 200 firefighters to extinguish the fire and cool the tanks to prevent further explosions.

Search and rescue teams, including sniffer dogs, search for victims in a house near the railway line.

"I helped pull six people from under the rubble. Three people are dead, three are still alive," said Stefan Stefanov, who lived in Hitrino.

Prosecutors say they are investigating the incident. Officers are still investigating the cause of the incident is heartbreaking, said Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission, Nastimir Ananiev.

Pekan Depan, Israel Terima 2 Jet Canggih F-35 Pertamanya

INTERNATIONAL - On Monday (12/12/2016), Israel will receive the stealth fighter jet F-35 pilots who supposedly helmet prices much more expensive than the average price of a house.

Although it has a high-tech advanced fighter aircraft was criticized for its high cost and a number of weaknesses.

Built US giant aerospace company, Lockheed Martin, two F-35 unit first arrived in Israel welcomed as an important history of the country's military is trying to maintain dominance in the Middle East.

Handover in Nevatim Air Force base in southern Israel will be attended by US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and colleagues from Israel, Avigdon Lieberman.

The delivery of two advanced aircraft to Israel came as world's most expensive aircraft development has reached a critical stage.

A number of countries have already booked this flight, but Israel is getting grant the defense as much as 3 billion dollars a year, became the first country to have a squadron of F-35 other than the US.

Israel has even given the best name in Hebrew is Adir which means mighty. This sophisticated jets will be officially put into operation a year after the handover.

Israel will receive the standard type is the F-35A. While type B and C are to be used on short runways and aircraft carrier decks.

Among a variety of advanced features, one of the best capabilities are mode "stealth" so that it can avoid the sophisticated missile systems.

Jet with a single driver could bring a number of weapons and could be sped up speed of 1.6 Mach or 1,900 kilometers per hour.

A Sheep Head Stuck in Traffic Cone

INTERNATIONAL - A rare occurrence befall a sheep in a pasture in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, England, last week.

Somehow the story, the head of a sheep trapped in an orange cone which is used to regulate traffic.

The farm animals were certainly confused because there are foreign objects trapping his head so he kept bleating.

After a while came the officers of anti-violence charity RSPCA animal, Rachel Smith. Before helping the sheep, Rachel did not forget to record the unique events.

"He could still see out of a small hole in the tip of the cone so that I should tiptoe so he was not afraid to look at my arrival," said Rachel.

"Finally I managed to hold the cone, the lamb was then backwards and his head finally freed from the cones," Rachel added, laughing.

Although the event was not harmful to the sheep, Rachel has appealed to residents to get rid of dangerous goods from the region can be accessed animals.

CIA: Try Helps Trump Wins Russian Presidential Election

INTERNATIONAL - A secret investigation by the CIA discovered that the Russians are looking for ways to win Donald Trump in the US presidential election.

News delivered daily The Washington Post on Friday (12/09/2016) it immediately sparked anger from the camp Donald Trump.

"This is the same person who said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," declared Donald Trump's transition team.

"Presidential election has long ended in a victory in the history. Now it's time to step, when the American makes a great back," the team said Donald Trump.

This news appeared in The Washington Post after President Barack Obama ordered an evaluation of allegations of cyber attack against the Presidential Election in 2016.

The newspaper quoted officials who called a number of individuals have ties with Moscow giving a confidential e-mail to the Wikileaks team of Hillary Clinton.

E-mails are then released gradually a few months before the presidential election was held.

The Washington Post writes, the Russian goal is to help Donald Trump win without violating the US Presidential Election.

"This is the assessment the US intelligence community that the Russian goal is to help Trump won the election," demikan The Washington Post quoted a senator.

In a meeting with some senators last week, the CIA said that it is very clear victory Trump is the destination of Russia.

However, several questions remain unanswered and the CIA assessment is poor evidence that could explain the involvement of Russia.

For example, the CIA has no evidence that the Russians control a number of people to supply e-mail Democrat who hacked into the CIA.

However, the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, denied his group had links with the Russian Government.

Peace with Israel, Turkish Mavi Marmara Cancel Case Law

INTERNATIONAL - Turkish government, Friday (9/11/2016), stop the case of the four former force commander elite Israel who led invasion ship Mavi Marmara on the 2010.

The four it tried in absentia related death 10 activists resulting in a relationship Turkey and Israel reached the point of its lowest. June, Turkey and Israel restore diplomatic relations after the two countries agree with each other qualified proposed.

One of the terms proposed Israel is the termination of the court of the fourth former commander of the.

In addition to cancel this case, Turkey also revoke arrest warrant the four of it. this news delivered the power of the law of the victims Mavi Marmara, Gulden sonmez, through his Twitter account after a closed meeting in Istanbul.

Mustafa ozbek, a spokesman for the organization humanitarian relief Foundation (IHH), which manage shipping Mavi Marmara in 2010, confirming that this case closed.

In fact, prosecutors Turkey eyeing life sentence for former Army chief Israel Gabi Ashkenazi, former chief Inter alia Eliezer marom, former head of intelligence Amos yadlin, and former head of intelligence air force avishai levy.

Fourth people began to stand trial Turkey is in absentia four years ago.

This decision has been estimated after last week prosecutor in the presence of the court of Istanbul to say the case of the four-general of Israel was revoked related deal Turkey-Israel.

When this news delivered, noise engulfing courtroom because lawyers, family, and relatives victims rejected what they call betrayal of Justice.

Lawyers and victims' families then leave the courtroom while criticized Israel.

Obama ask alleged intervention Russia in presidential election US investigated

INTERNATIONAL - US President Barack Obama ordered a thorough evaluation of the alleged hacking in the presidential election process which has just passed.

The remarks of the White House, Friday (09/12/2016), amid growing fears of Russian intervention in the US presidential election.

White House deputy press secretary, Eric Schultz, said Obama ordered it earlier this week.

"We are committed to ensuring the integrity of the country's presidential election," said Schutz.

"We will look for patterns of malicious cyber activity in the past presidential election, strengthen our defensive capability, and took lessons for our report to Congress and stakeholders," said Schultz.

President Obama, said Schultz, want a full report before his term ends on January 20.

"We will expose these problems as open as possible to the public. This is a top priority of the President," said Schultz.

The move comes after the congressmen of the Democratic Party pressed the White House to reveal the details of the alleged hacking by Russia during the election process.

This step was also taken after the president-elect Donald Trump disputed the findings related to the involvement of Russia's intelligence community.

One of the alleged involvement of Russia is the leaking of electronic mail from the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, an adviser to Hillary Clinton.

The secret letters were regularly published Wikileaks few months before the presidential election victory of Hillary destructive opportunities.

A month before the presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence announced alleged Russian intervention.

"The Russian government related to hacking e-mails of US citizens and institutions, including from the US political organizations," a statement from US intelligence.

"Hacking and stealing is done to influence the US presidential election process," the statement still.

However, in an interview with Time magazine, Donald Trump dismissed the allegations of the US intelligence community.

He even suspected intelijien bodies have been used for political purposes.

"It could be Russia, it could be China, or someone at his home in New Jersey," Trump said about the alleged involvement of Russia.

Rp 281 Million Bribe money for the Mayor Concealed In Canned Biscuits

INTERNASIONAL - Metta Franco, mayor of Cerignola, Puglia, southern Italy, otters abysmal due to a tin of Christmas biscuits.

What causes Metta so furious just because a tin of biscuits? Apparently, a tin of biscuits that contain a bribe of 20,000 euros, or Rp 281 million.

Metta said an executive of a waste management plant to come into his office, carrying a tin of biscuits and a Christmas card.

"We have agreed to meet within a week. She came and left Christmas cards for me," said Metta.

"I opened a can of it. However, it is not the biscuits which I found, but paper money totaling 20,000 euros. I then contacted the police," said Metta.

The former lawyer was then called the company executives in front of a police officer who came to his office.

"I berate him with all the words that I know," said Metta.

Metta added, businessman unnamed CCTV camera recorded the time of entry into the mayor's office while carrying a parcel covered with Christmas-themed wrapping paper.

Metta then handing bribes to the police who immediately conduct an investigation.

To the media who interviewed him, Metta insisted he did not intend to keep the bribe.

"Not the slightest wish. The behavior of the arrogant who think all that money can buy really bother me," said Metta.

"I do not do anything extraordinary. I do what my father taught me. I'm not a hero," said Metta.

Bribery and corruption is very common in contracts of various projects in Italy, especially in waste management.

Bribes to Metta is believed to be related to the tender land waste disposal in the area of ​​Cerignola.

"I am the mayor even reject giving flowers that are on bribes did not recognize me," said Metta.

The effectiveness of the Death Penalty in the US Back Injection Death Questioned

INTERNATIONAL - The use of lethal injection in the execution of the death penalty in the United States again raises the debate.

Some question the effectiveness of lethal injection after a death row inmate to be executed in Alabama was very painful.

Ronald Smith (45), who underwent the execution of the murder of a staff a grocery store in 1994, coughed and choked for 13 minutes before it was declared dead.

In total, the execution of which was held on Thursday (12/08/2016) it takes 34 minutes.

"Smith looks very difficulty breathing," said Kent Faulk, journalist news site al.com who witness the execution.

These conditions have allowed the government to intervene to investigate the execution procedure.

"Will be held an autopsy on the body of Ronald Smith to determine whether there is procedural error," said the commissioner of correctional Alabama, Jefferson Dumm.

Meanwhile, Alabama correctional agency spokesman Bob Horton said it had run all the execution procedures in accordance with the applicable protocol.

"At the beginning of the execution process, Smith, with his eyes closed, indeed coughed, but as far as we he did not suffer during the execution took place," said Horton.

Several US states that still apply the death penalty experiencing inventory shortages substance lethal injection for executions.

The condition that occurs due to a number of pharmaceutical companies no longer wanted to produce substances needed for the execution process.

Moreover, most pharmaceutical companies it is in European countries that have abolished the death penalty.

To "game" this condition, some US states, such as Alabama, adopted a three-drug method.

In this method, originally created asleep on death row, the second stage is to make his body paralyzed, before the final step to stop the heart.

Alabama using the drug midazolam for the first stage. Critics say the drug was not really make a death-row inmates to sleep before the second drug is injected.

Some prison officials said the last words he insists Smith is not going to give the last statement prior to execution.

However, his lips kept moving before and after the three drug substance was injected.

"His hands were clenched tight after the first injection is given. His left eye was also several times slightly open," said Faulk.

So far there has been no response from the prison management associated recognition of Kent Faulk.

Since January 2014, some executions in the US lasted less "smooth", for example, Dennis McGuire which takes 25 minutes and Clayton Lockett, who died after 43 minutes.

While there are many examples of failures, Virginia and Ohio next year will follow the footsteps of Alabama using midazolam in the execution process.

Test Flight Safety, NASA Accidentally Drop A Boeing

INTERNATIONAL - A video capture thrilling moments when a Boeing jet crashed, caught fire and exploded.

However, it is not a video showing a plane crash, but part of the research for the US space agency, NASA.

In addition, the video released this comes from 1984 when NASA is working to improve aviation security.

In a trial called a "demonstration of a controlled collision", NASA includes a variety of sensors and cameras into the old Boeing 720 aircraft before the fly.

Of the 14 trials performed, recorded demonstrations are the largest and carried on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

The test is done to try additional substance in the fuel which is believed to reduce the chances of an explosion when the accident happened.

The plane, which was destroyed that provided by the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) and controlled remotely.

Inside the plane was placed dolls to occupy the passenger seat in the cabin of the airplane.

"The plane was used for a variety of safety related experiments when the collision occurred," a statement from NASA.

"Some of that is tested for example, new design seat, the flight data recorder, air kitchen, storage room, fire-resistant materials in the cabin, and fire resistant window," added NASA.

In 14 trials, the Boeing 720 is controlled from the ground for 16 hours and 22 minutes, including 10 take-off, landing 60, and 13 landings were unsuccessful.

On December 1, 1984, the aircraft took off for the 15th time from Edwards Air Force base.

When flying, the plane containing 34,500 kilograms of Jet-A fuel that has been modified. When flying, the aircraft turned left and climbed to an altitude of 2,300 feet. The plan is the plane landed without landing gear in the gravel runway that had been prepared.

The goal is to land the plane with the wings level right in the middle of the runway.

The reason is that the fuel does not spill when both wings were torn eight steel columns anchored in the bottom of the dry lake.

Unfortunately, when the jet plane that reduce the height of flight, the left wing touching the ground, before the pole penyobek.

"As a result, the aircraft's nose twisted to the left when the plane was gliding on the lake surface dry within an angle of 45 degrees," said NASA.

"As a result, one pole stuck to the engine on the right wing, destroying the engine and causing a fuel leak extraordinary that plane burst into flames," NASA said.

"The aircraft was kept sliding toward the left so broke right wing broken and folded when the burning fuselage was great," said NASA.

So tremendous explosion made officers spent an hour to completely extinguish the fire.

Experiment was tipped to never use additives in fuel and ending effort FAA ordered the airline to use the additional material.

Nevertheless, the FAA said the experiments which cost 5-7 million dollars was very bermaanfaat as well as to test all new fixtures on air in real conditions.

ISIS Kill 49 Members of Syrian Troops

INTERNATIONAL - The militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has killed at least 49 members of the Syrian government forces.

Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Organization (SOHR) on Friday (09/12/2016) states, 49 members of the Syrian troops killed in battle for 24 hours near the historic town of Palmyra.

The news agency Agence France-Presse reported that the death toll was composed of 15 Syrian soldiers and allied fighters.

ISIS ambushed them on Friday morning near the oil fields Mahr, a few kilometers from Palmyra.
ISIS militants launched simultaneous attacks on several positions of Syrian troops in the eastern province of Homs on Thursday (08.12.2016), including areas near the oil fields and gas Mahr and Shaar.

ISIS seizing government checkpoints, a number of silos and villages in Jazal, northwest Palmyra. When the news was revealed Friday night, the battle is still ongoing.

The fighting has brought a beneficial impact ISIS forces, ie, they can stir advanced four kilometers to Palmyra, which had captured the soldiers in March.

SOHR said army reinforcements had been increasing and conduct air strikes against ISIS positions in an attempt to reclaim the lost territory.

ISIS never menguasaso several major cities in the province of Homs, including Palmyra which owns the site and historic buildings, but it has been broken down by militants.

SOHR director Rami Abdel Rahman said the attack this time is the first advance for the ISIS after being hit out of Palmyra since last March.

Two Female Suicide Bombing Kills 30 People

INTERNATIONAL - Thirty people were killed and 57 others injured in a suicide bombing by two women in a crowded market in Madagali, Nigeria, Friday (09/12/2016).

"A total of 30 people died in suicide blasts by two women in a Madagali market," said military spokesman, Major Badare Akintoye told Agence France-Presse.

"The security guard had taken control of the region to prevent the enemy to attack others," he told Reuters.

No group claimed responsibility for the attacks. However, the militant group Boko Haram alleged to be behind the attack. Boko Haram in action for the first time in 2009 and only guerrilla in Nigeria. Has now spread its influence into neighboring countries, including Niger, Chad, and Cameroon.

Nigeria's military claimed a major victory over the rebels in recent weeks. However, the helpless civilians still face a serious threat.

Boko Haram insurgency has killed more than 15,000 people since 2009. No progress can be made by Nigeria in the defeat Boko Haram.

Members of the Dutch Parliament Anti-Islam Guilty of Hate Speech

INTERNATIONAL - A Dutch court on Friday (12/09/2016), sentenced Geert Wilders, a member of parliament anti-Islam populist, guilty.

He proved to have been cast hate speech at the end of the trial which he labeled "politically motivated farce" that threatens freedom of speech.

Chief Judge Hendrik Steenhuis said, the court will not impose punishment for the guilty verdict was already a punishment enough for an MP elected democratically.

Prosecutors had asked the judge to impose a fine of 5,000 euros, or about USD 70.29 million, as reported by Voice of America. In a message on Twitter, Wilders called the verdict was "madness" 'and said that he had been punished by three judges who hates Freedom Party he leads.

Wilders was not in court when the decision came three months before national elections.

Wilders' party is currently slightly ahead in national polls and popularity has increased during the trial.

Even before the trial, Wilders promises not to let the verdict silence it.

He has denied the allegations and insisted he was doing his duty as political leaders to show problems in the community.