Link: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/04/06/557584/Venezuela-Panama-relations-ambassadors

Panama has severed its diplomatic ties with Venezuela after the imposition of sanctions by Caracas on senior Panamanian officials amid an escalating diplomatic row.

Venezuela said on Thursday that it was halting “commercial” relations with Panamanian officials and companies, including regional airline Copa, for alleged involvement in sabotaging the Venezuelan economy, according to Reuters.

In response, Panama later in the day ordered Venezuela’s ambassador out and recalled its own envoy to the country.

Link: https://news.sky.com/story/28m-apply-for-90000-jobs-at-indian-railways-

28 million people have applied for a job with Indian Railways after its latest nationwide recruitment drive.

The world's 10th largest employer is offering 90,000 positions across the country to prospective engine drivers and other workers.

Link: https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-bans-online-sales-of-bible_2485553.html

A number of online sellers received “instruction” from the Cyberspace Administration of China, the regime’s internet censorship bureau, to remove sale listings of the Bible and other Christian materials before March 30.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/423461-petro-yuan-us-dollar-oil/

The trade war between the US and China has already begun. China has plans to promote the renminbi as a reserve currency. Yuan-backed oil futures can shatter the US dollar dominance on the crude market If the world trade enters into a death spiral of reciprocal economic sanctions, keeping oil trade in dollars will be a matter of strategic importance for the US

Link: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/04/08/557859/UK-London-crime-rate-Khan

Officials in the UK capital London are struggling to control an unprecedented surge in crimes as murder rate is predicted to surpass the highest numbers in the early 2000s.

Concerns peaked in February and March, when London surpassed New York City in terms of homicides for the first time in history.

Both cities are similar in terms of population and size

Link: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/04/07/557672/US-National-Guard-Mexico-Texas-Arizona

The US states of Texas and Arizona have announced plans to send reserve troops to the border with Mexico after President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of thousands of soldiers to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

The Texas National Guard said on Friday it would send 250 troops to the border within 72 hours, while Arizona's governor said he would send 150 soldiers next week.

Every US state has a National Guard unit, which consists of several thousand reserve forces under mixed state and federal control since 1933.

"The Texas national guard is preparing to immediately deploy with supporting aircraft, vehicles and equipment to the Texas-Mexico border."

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-07/india-builds-over-14000-bunkers-preparation-war-pakistan

Government of India is planning to construct 14,460 bunkers for civilians in five border districts along the international Indo-Pakistani border, reports The Times of India.

The state-owned National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) will build these bunkers in populated regions that rest within 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the de facto border between the two countries, which have experienced an increasing amount of incursions by the Pakistani Army. To safeguard civilians from Pakistani shelling across the border, NBCC will build 13,029 small bunkers and 1,431 more massive community bunkers. The Times of India said the construction program would cost around 4.157 billion rupees (US$63.8 million).

Link: http://tass.com/world/998363

The driver who ploughed a truck into an outdoor cafe in the western German city of Munster committed suicide, police spokesman Andreas Bode said on Saturday. "The man shot himself. We cannot provide any personal information about him at the moment," he told reporters.

According to the latest reports, three people died in the incident. 30 people injured, six of them in serious condition.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/latam/201804071063323817-venezuela-currency-collapse-panama-commercial-ties/

Venezuelan bolivar exchange rate collapsed on the black market, exceeding for the first time 300,000 bolivars per US dollar after the authorities decided to impose financial and economic sanctions against Panama, local media reported.

US dollar is now worth 305,000 bolivars, up from 231,000 bolivars in late March and 250,000 bolivars a few days ago, according to the Dolar Today website.

Venezuela announced that it was halting commercial relations with Panamanian officials and companies, banning dozens of them. The 90-day ban concerns 22 Panamanian individuals and 46 Panama-based legal entities.

Link: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/65073/as-banks-embrace-biometric-tracking-of-customers-cybertheft-explodes-in.html

Mexico has become a haven for the black market of stolen personal data' part of the problem is the widespread impunity cyber criminals enjoy in the country, owing to the absence of adequate legal tools and the lack of enforcement of the existing laws. This year, banks in Mexico are required to begin collecting biometric data (finger prints and iris scans) on all of their customers. Whenever a customer asks for a new home or car loan, cashes a paycheck, applies for a credit card, or opens a new savings account.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/2018/04/big-brother-in-india-requires-fingerprint-scans-for-food-phones-and-finances/

Seeking to build an identification system of unprecedented scope, India is scanning the fingerprints, eyes and faces of its 1.3 billion residents and connecting the data to everything from welfare benefits to mobile phones. ID system presents unique legal issues that will define what the constitutional right to privacy means in the digital age.

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/423508-china-project-forces-rainfall/

Since 2013 China has been creating 55 billion tons of artificial rain a year. Chinese authorities intend to force rainfall and snow over 1.6 million sq km (620,000 sq miles), an area roughly three times the size of Spain.

Government will use new military weather-altering technology developed by state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Rainmaking process or “cloud-seeding” means rocket-launching chemicals into clouds which accelerate the creation of ice crystals that eventually become rain. China also uses military aircraft for those purposes. Rainmaking is also a popular way to “clean up” air in China, where heavy smog is a big problem for many cities.

The practice of weather modification has become more frequent across the country in recent years, including for major public events. In 2008, China launched over 1,100 rockets containing silver iodide into Beijing's skies before the Olympics opening ceremony to disperse clouds and keep the Olympics rain-free

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/422255-us-china-garbage-recyclables-import/

In an effort to battle the "illegal foreign garbage" influx into China, last July China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it plans to ban imports of 24 types of solid waste materials, such as soda bottles, mixed paper, recycled steel and newsprint. Concerned over the massive impact the ban could have on the US economy, the US trade representative urged China to re-examine its decision. President Donald Trump ordered the US Trade Representative (USTR) to levy tariffs on at least $50 billion of Chinese imports.

Link: https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Solar-Energy/Building-The-Worlds-Largest-Solar-Project.html

Saudi Arabia wants to pour $200 billion into solar to build the world’s largest solar project.

The Saudi sovereign wealth fund and SoftBank Group Corp. of Japan jointly announced plans to build a solar project that is staggering in size – 200 gigawatts (GW) by 2030. That would be about 100 times larger than some of the largest projects in the world right now. The country burns oil for about a third of its electricity, a costly way of generating power both environmentally and in terms of lost oil exports. SoftBank’s Son said the 200 GW of solar would cut electricity costs by $40 billion while creating 100,000 jobs.

Link: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/04/02/557226/Israel-African-migrants-UNHRC-Benjamin-Netanyahu

Israel says it has cancelled plans to deport African migrants to Africa, adding that it has instead reached a deal with the United Nations refugee agency to send more than 16,000 to Western countries. Netanyahu identified Canada, Germany, and Italy as some of the countries set to host the migrants. There are currently 42,000 African migrants in Israel, 1,400 asylum seekers being held in two detention centers.

Link: http://strangesounds.org/2018/03/after-150-whales-in-australia-now-50-dolphins-dead-in-argentina-something-bizarre-is-killing-our-marine-mammals.html

March 22, 2018, 143 whales died after a mass-stranding at Hamelin Bay, 10km north of Augusta, Australia. 2 days after, 61 short-beaked dolphins were found washed ashore on a beach resort in Argentina. This mass die-off is unprecedented, as it represents the first case of marine mammals being stranded in this region of Argentina. The cause of this mass stranding and die-off remains unexplained.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/422746-ghouta-mistura-suicide-belts-provocation/

The Russian military has thwarted dozens of suicide bomb attacks targeting buses of civilians fleeing Syria's eastern Ghouta, Russia's Defense Minister said. Forty-eight explosive belts have been seized within three days.

The buses packed with civilians that are leaving Syria's besieged enclave in their hundreds have been increasingly targeted by terrorists, who seek to blend in with the crowds to sneak explosives on board. The Russian military received tip-offs about the terrorist plots every day, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said during a meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on Thursday.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/latam/201804021063128074-nicaragua-holy-week-death-toll/

According to the police, nine people were murdered, 15 were killed in road accidents and 22 more people drowned while resting on the country's beaches. Another huge death toll reported in Venezuela. Last week deadly blaze at the police station in the city of Valencia claimed lives of 66 prisoners and two women, who came to visit their husbands in jail.

Link: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/64915/horror-on-streets-of-germany-state-of-emergency-declared-as-80-men-brawl-with.html

Police were called to the Altmarkt area of the city over reports of the mass bawl. Officers used CS gas to control the brawling men.

The scores of men were also using telescopic batons in the fight in Druisburg, which is on the west of Germany.

Around 50 people were arrested

Link: https://www.rt.com/politics/422884-magomedov-arrest-billionaire-embezzlement/

Russian billionaire businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov, a co-owner of the Summa investment group, was arrested on Saturday on charges of misappropriating millions in state funds designed for infrastructure and energy projects.

Magomedov was arrested in Moscow together with his brother and Summa co-owner, Magomed Magomedov, and the head of one of the companies involved in Summa, Artur Maksidov.

The businessmen brothers are suspected of theft by fraud and embezzlement while acting as part of an organized crime group. The prosecution believes the stolen money, some 2.5 billion rubles ($44 million), have been transferred from Russia to be deposited in offshore accounts controlled by Magomedov. The exact whereabouts of the money is unknown, the prosecutor's office admitted on Saturday.