Nepal has been rocked by aftershocks as the death toll from the
magnitude 7.8 quake rose to at least 4,000, and as aid agencies prepare
"massive" humanitarian operations.
Nepal police said on their Facebook page late on Monday evening that
over 3,904 deaths had been counted so far, and 7,180 more were reported
injured.
Tens of thousands of people prepared to spend the night in the open under a chilly and thundery sky after a powerful earthquake shook Nepal on Saturday, killing more than 1,180 people, collapsing modern houses and centuries-old temples, and triggering a landslide on the slopes of Mount Everest. Officials said the death toll will rise as more reports from far-flung areas come in.
With ultra-nationalism and anti-Jewish sentiment rife in Western Ukraine, it looks like history is repeating itself, this time with the West trying to pit Ukraine against Russia, just like it did back in the days when Nazism was on the rise in Germany.
In the 1930s, Third Reich was all the rage in Europe and overseas in the United States, with Anglo-American elites pinning their hopes on Hitler who they believed could end the Soviet menace. Russia was reviled and the Nazi Germany was not. In fact, US corporations and banks supported and financed the Nazis, while their officials and businesses respected the Nazi regime. Mackenzie King, the union-busting advisor of the Rockefeller family and tenth prime minister of Canada, even admired Hitler openly, as did Edward VIII, who abdicated from the British throne in favor of his brother.
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Turkey has reacted angrily to the Vatican following a statement from
Pope Francis describing the mass killings of Armenians during World War I
as “the first genocide of the twentieth century” during a meeting with a
delegation led by Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics on June 3.
“The
Turkish Foreign Ministry delivered Turkey’s views on the issue and
expressed disappointment to the embassy in Ankara and Vatican in Rome
yesterday,” a Turkish diplomat told the Hürriyet Daily News on June 7.
Pope
Francis described the mass killings of Armenians during World War I as
“the first genocide of the 20th century” during a meeting with a
delegation led by Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics on June 3.