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FPI / December 10, 2018 The entirety of Israel is now within the range of Hizbullah’s missiles, the terror organization’s deputy commander said on Dec. 9. “There is not a single point in the occupied territories out of reach of Hizbullah’s missiles,” deputy secretary-general Sheikh Naim Qassem told al-Vefagh – an Iranian Arabic-language newspaper. “The […]

FPI / December 10, 2018 Oman will allow Israeli passenger jets to use its airspace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Dec. 10. Speaking at an Israeli Foreign Ministry conference, Netanyahu revealed that Israeli passenger jets will now be permitted to fly over the Gulf Arab state on the southeastern end of the Arabian […]

FPI / December 10, 2018 Chinese authorities on Dec. 9 arrested 100 members of an underground Christian church in Sichuan province. In coordinated raids in districts of the provincial capital of Chengdu, police targeted members of the unofficial Early Rain Covenant Church. In February, China’s Religious Affairs Regulation was amended to give officials more power […]

FPI / December 12, 2018 Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with the court’s liberals on Dec. 10 in a decision to deny the review of three cases related to Republican efforts to de-fund Planned Parenthood at the state level. Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the court’s four liberals in denying the […]

FPI / December 28, 2018 By Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The great-grandson of the famously ascetic leader of Iran’s 1979 revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has been forced to defend his seemingly lavish lifestyle. Ahmad Khomeini was responding to the circulation online of a photo showing the 21-year-old cleric at an equestrian […]

FPI / December 12, 2018 Top-level FBI officials, most loyal to the outgoing Obama Administration, coordinated the launch of an obstruction investigation against President Donald Trump before FBI Director James Comey’s firing, sources acknowledged to CNN. “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and top FBI officials viewed Trump as a leader who needed to be reined […]

FPI / December 28, 2018 China’s Foreign Ministry has summoned U.S. Ambassador Terry Branstad in response to the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou and vowed to take “further action” if needed. Meng was arrested in Vancouver on Dec. 1 on the orders of U.S. authorities for allegedly violating American sanctions on selling technology to […]

FPI / December 9, 2018 President Donald Trump received a rousing ovation as he attended the annual Army-Navy football game on Dec. 8. The game also featured what many observers are calling one of the most moving renditions of the National Anthem ever performed. The student choirs of both military academies  joined together to sing […]

FPI / December 9, 2018 Former FBI Director James Comey seemed to suffer memory loss on several occasions during closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Dec. 7 and at times struggled with simple questions on FBI procedure, according to a transcript from the meeting. Under questioning by Republicans on the committee, Comey admitted […]

FPI / December 10, 2018 The outspoken Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has not yet taken office but has already misquoted the U.S. Constitution while joking about a potential presidential run. A photographer at a photo shoot at Harvard University joked with the 29-year-old New York Democrat that “You can’t even run for president for another six […]

FPI / December 28, 2018 By Geostrategy-Direct There is no more volatile and sensitive an issue for Beijing than the U.S. military presence in the Taiwan Strait which China considers its own dominance area. Yet the U.S. Navy for the first time since 1969 has re-established its routine presence in the 100-mile wide strategic choke-point, […]

FPI / December 9, 2018 Tens of millions of dollars went directly to the Clinton Foundation from foreign governments or other entities during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. That those governments and entities stood to benefit from Clinton’s position “seems to pose inherent conflicts of interest” and United States Attorney John Huber is […]

FPI / December 7, 2018 The UN’s decision to not condemn Hamas for its recent rocket attacks on Israel is “disgraceful” and “shameful,” U.S. officials said. Meanwhile Israel, supported by the current U.S. administration, continued to shore up ties in the region with the Gulf Arab states including Bahrain which publicly attacked Hizbullah tunnels from […]

FPI / December 7, 2018 More than a dozen groups have been formed in South Korea to welcome North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in advance of his anticipated visit to Seoul. Kim Soo-Geun, who founded a youth group called “Welcome Committee for a Great Man”, is seeking to run a subway advertisement to welcome Kim, […]

FPI / December 7, 2018 By Christopher Sparks, December 7, 2018 Saying Russia has been “cheating” on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) since 2008, the United States on Dec. 6 announced it is set to “suspend its obligations” under the treaty. “Russia must return to full and verifiable compliance, or their failure to do […]