Military
After hours of waiting, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the bloody Paris terrorist attacks last Friday is confirmed dead. He was killed in a six-hour gun battle with police when French sniper hit his head and then blown to pieces by grenades during the raid in the suburb of Saint-Denis. Now we know why it […]
... written on Nov 20 2015Babysitter Angela Merkel was taken aback when German authorities told her of an unconfirmed bomb plot. It was enough for her to cancel a football match between Germany and Netherlands, a match that the German Chancellor had planned to attend but chicken out. It seems her kindness towards the Muslims was insufficient to win the […]
... written on Nov 19 2015Hollande, desperately looking for new tools to fight ISIS, made an unprecedented move today when his country invoked a never-before-used article of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty obliging 28-members of the bloc to give “aid and assistance by all the means in their power” to a victim member country – France. Both Barack Hussein Obama […]
... written on Nov 18 2015French president François Hollande has declared the Paris attacks by Daesh (ISIS, ISIL, IS) an “act of war”. He wants to change the law to revoke terrorists of their French citizenship and ban them from entering the country. Ten French jets have already been sent to drop 20 bombs on ISIS’ capital Raqqa in Syria. […]
... written on Nov 17 2015Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein revealed on Sunday that several senior Malaysian leaders, presumably from ruling political party UMNO, were shortlisted by ISIS/ISIL on its list of targets. The revelation has created more amusement than anxiety or anger, especially when he admitted his name was in the list too. It’s hard to believe that Mr. […]
... written on Nov 16 2015If 2014 was a bad year for Malaysia, this year belongs to France. Last year, Malaysia experienced a double whammy of aviation disaster when the country lost two planes – the missing MH370 and the downing of MH17. France’s first disaster occurred early of the year during the Charlie Hebdo shooting where 12 were killed. […]
... written on Nov 15 2015Soon, making money as a drug trafficker or pusher in Indonesia will be a tough business. Besides struggling to convince foreign investors that his country is an ideal location for investments, President Joko Widodo is working hard to clean Indonesia of its image as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. One of […]
... written on Nov 11 2015Voters went to polling stations across Myanmar (formerly Burma) yesterday (Nov 8th) in festive mood. The people of Myanmar consider this as the country’s first free general election in 25 years. The last free vote was in 1990, when Suu Kyi won but the army ignored the result, and put Suu Kyi under house arrest for […]
... written on Nov 09 2015For the third consecutive year, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been named the world’s most powerful man by Forbes magazine. The insulting news to American President Barack Obama is not only he didn’t manage to overtake the highly popular Putin; he has actually lost his second place to a woman to settle for a third place this […]
... written on Nov 05 2015When the Russian Airbus A321-200 crashed in the Sinai on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board (including at least 24 children), it immediately brings back the sad memory of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 which was shot down, allegedly by Russian-made BUK surface to air missile. The MH17 disaster killed all 283 passengers and 15 crew […]
... written on Nov 04 2015
