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Fear is growing over a potential war between Iran and the US in the Middle East, with embassies evacuating staff and airlines cancelling flights as tensions mount. High-stakes talks between the US and Iran over the future of Tehran’s nuclear programme ended on Thursday without a deal, as the White House weighs a military operation that would mark its largest intervention in the Middle East in decades. Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, claimed “good progress” had been made at the talks and Omani mediators predicted negotiations would reconvene at a technical level next week in Vienna. But there was no…

*Khamenei The Zahhak [Serpent King], We’ll Bury You Alive --Students Chant Defiantly *Iranian Leader Now Prefers To Die A Martyr Than Submit To Unjust Ruler -Don After about 30,000 protesters were killed barely a month ago, sparking international condemnation, plainclothes police and security forces, many of them armed, have tried to flood Iran’s remaining open universities in an attempt to crush a fourth day of student protests against the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Running battles were reported on some campuses, with videos showing fistfights between the Basji state-backed militia and students at the University of Science and Technology in Tehran.…

*The Fighting *Chase In The Woods *Army, Air Force, Elite Special Forces Involved Mexico’s most notorious cartel boss was located and killed after intelligence agencies were able to track down one of his lovers to his secluded resort compound, officials said today. Mexico’s Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla said agents identified a man close to a girlfriend of New Generation Jalisco Cartel boss Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera prior to Sunday’s raid. The intelligence officers found that the woman was taken to Tapalpa, a mountainside getaway community in Jalisco where Oseguera and his men were located, Trevilla told reporters. While the girlfriend…

"We are not afraid of losing our lives. We all are willing to put our lives on the line so at least the next generations of this country will live in freedom and peace.” More than 45 days after a brutal January crackdown that left thousands of Iranian protesters dead, students across several universities are protesting again, with reasons. Now in their third day since last Saturday, the protests have spread to universities across the capital Tehran and the north-eastern city of Mashhad, with videos showing students chanting anti-regime slogans and clashes breaking out between protesters and Basij forces, state-backed…

A major Mexican resort town was under siege yesterday as drug cartels lashed out after the leader of the brutal Jalisco New Generation Cartel was killed in a military raid, authorities said. President Donald Trump last year declared the cartel an international terrorist organization and pressured Mexico to crack down, while the US had a $15 million bounty on Oseguera Cervantes, the now slain cartel boss. Tourists in Puerto Vallarta were warned to stay indoors as narco gangs went on a rampage following the death of drug kingpin Nemesio “El Mencho” Cervantes, the powerful head of the violent crime outfit.…

*Africans Among Hundreds Of Thousands Coming To View His Skeleton *4 Oct Public Holiday To Be Reinstated To Make 800th Anniversary Of Death Saint Francis of Assisi’s skeleton went on full public display from yesterday for the first time, in a move that is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors. Inside a nitrogen-filled case with the Latin inscription 'Corpus Sancti Francisci' (the body of Saint Francis), the remains are being shown in the Italian hillside town’s Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi. St Francis, who died on 3 October 1226, founded the Franciscan order after renouncing his wealth…

Despite the reported killing of about 30,000 peaceful protesters by state security agents barely a month ago, another round of protests has occurred in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This time, university students have resumed protesting against the Ayatollah Khameini-led regime on the first day of a new semester, as US President Donald Trump considered limited military strikes to pressure the government into signing a new nuclear deal. The Pentagon has orchestrated a massive naval deployment to the region that includes two aircraft carriers, fighter jets and refuelling planes, giving Trump the option to launch limited, or extended, operations against…

*Israeli Parliament Speaker Backs Ambassador Arab and Islamic countries jointly condemned remarks by the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who suggested Israel had a Biblical right to a vast swath of the Middle East. Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and a fervent Israel supporter, was speaking on the podcast of Tucker Carlson. In an episode released on Friday, Carlson pushed Huckabee on the meaning of a Biblical verse sometimes interpreted as saying that Israel is entitled to the land between the Nile River in Egypt and the Euphrates in Syria and Iraq. In response, Huckabee said: “It would be…

*Hands Tehran 10-Day Deadline President Donald Trump on Thursday warned Iran that “bad things” will happen if no deal is reached on both countries' nuclear talks and appeared to set a 10-day deadline before the US might take action. During the first Board of Peace meeting, Trump said negotiations with Iran were going well but insisted that Tehran has to reach a “meaningful” agreement. “Otherwise, bad things happen,” he vowed. The President first announced the Board of Peace initiative at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos last month, presenting it as part of Phase Two of his U.N.-endorsed 20-point…

*Trump Meets Advisers *Agree To President's Nuclear Program Or…, White House Warns Iran As Noose Tightens Poland’s Prime Minister (PM) Donald Tusk has urged Polish citizens to immediately leave Iran, adding that “under no circumstances anyone should be travelling to that country” as he warned that the prospect of active conflict with the United States (US) is “very, very real." Tusk said that the conflict could erupt within “a few, a dozen or several dozen hours,” and “evacuation may no longer be an option.” “Please, take this seriously. We’ve had bad experiences in the past with people ignoring these warnings.…