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The mass sexual assaults and robberies during New Year celebrations in Cologne dramatically affected the way the United States views Angela Merkel and Germany, journalist Gero Schliess wrote for Deutsche Welle.  “In the last few years, many in the Unites States have looked across the Atlantic with admiration and respect,” DW’s …

Stephen Lendman US post-9/11 war on terror reflects state-sponsored deception – with the media complicit in conning the public to believe Washington opposes what it actively supports. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra and various splinter groups are US creations, used as imperial foot soldiers, flourishing because Washington and …

Petrol and diesel are set to become cheaper than bottled water after a collapse in the value of oil, experts have predicted. The RAC said that fuel prices may drop as low as 86p a litre — the lowest for at least seven years — after a dramatic …

TOM BATCHELOR SLAMIC State (ISIS) jihadis are plotting Paris-style lone wolf terror attacks on the US, the former boss of the CIA has warned. The evil death cult “poses a significant and lethal threat” to America and is believed to be expanding its reach in the States. Former …

REBECCA PERRING THE European Union faces being destroyed under the growing threat of terrorism, which has sparked the influx of migrants into Europe, the European Parliament’s President has warned. Martin Schulz, the German president of the European Parliament, fears the 28-member bloc will crumble under the to political …

The Chinese government has published its first Arab Policy Paper, which calls for greater political, economic and security cooperation with the region that is Beijing’s main supplier of petroleum and seventh largest trading partner.  The document, released ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first visit to Egypt, paints cooperation in broad …

Plummeting oil prices may challenge the established geopolitical status-quo and even result in war and turmoil, experts warn. Will the petroleum-centric world of the past half-century be restored again soon? The current slump in oil prices has affected giant oil corporations and the ancillary businesses; it also threatens to undermine …

It is assumed in many European capitals that Moscow is more focused on the outcome of the proposed transitional process in Syria than it is on the future of Assad. This sounds logical. Mr. Putin said several times that what is important is to prevent the collapse of …

Another additional flare in the Middle East crisis is evolving rapidly-the escalation between Saudi Arabia and Iran after the execution of a Shia cleric and 46 other Al Qaeda terrorists. The crisis which followed the executions is but the last reminder that the general regional crisis is indeed …