Link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141762313

Protesters stormed into Macedonia's parliament on Thursday after an ethnic Albanian was elected as speaker. A brawl broke out injuring at least 10 people. The protesters, supporters of ex-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's VMRO party, are demanding new elections.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/asia/201704281053091030-seoul-rejects-thaad-bill/

South Korea said it won't pay for the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in the country after US President Trump said in an interview with Reuters he would like to get $1 billion from Seoul for protecting it from Pyongyang's possible attacks. South Korea’s Defense Ministry said Friday the United States should pay the costs of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/386406-pyongyang-asean-letter-nuclear-holocaust/

North Korea is seeking support from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to prevent a potential “nuclear holocaust,” as US President Donald Trump warns of the possibility of a “major conflict” in the Korean Peninsula if diplomacy fails. Washington’s actions and rhetoric are pushing the region to the “brink of war,” North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho wrote in a letter to ASEAN’s chief Le Luong Minh from Vietnam.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/386276-us-missile-shield-russia-strike/

The United States is pursuing global strategic domination through developing anti-ballistic missile systems capable of a sudden disarming strike against Russia and China, according to the deputy head of operations of the Russian General Staff.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/385934-western-fundamentalism-threat-elites/

Senator Konstantin Kosachev:“The three ideological fundamentalisms are currently as follows: Islamism, personified by Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL]; a pseudo-communism, manifested by DPRK [North Korea]; and liberal-globalization represented by certain elites of the West. These threats areunequal in scope and ideological roots, but they have much in common: each resorts to blackmail and threats, as well as use of force, visual and media effects, relying on zombie activists ready for everything for the sake of an idea,”These threats have come from where they were least expected – from within,

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/386200-us-south-korea-drills/

The US and South Korean militaries have taken part in a combined firing drill as part of joint exercises amid increased tensions with Pyongyang. It comes just one day after the North launched its own artillery drill.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/386153-voluntary-fukushima-evacuees-survey/

A vast majority of Fukushima voluntary evacuees are not planning to move back to their homes out of fear of radiation despite the government declaring living conditions in the prefecture to be “good”, a new government survey has discovered. Only 18.3 percent of households said they intended to move back to the Fukushima prefecture.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/386150-china-launches-new-aircraft-carrier/

China has transferred its first indigenously built aircraft carrier into the water, expanding its fleet to two such vessels. The ceremony, held amid heightened tensions in the region, almost coincided with the US deployment of THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/386173-us-mexico-wto-tuna/

The World Trade Organization has ruled for Mexico in a dispute with the United States over the trade in tuna fish. Mexico can now slap a $163.23 million fine on the US every year until the situation is resolved. Mexico's economy ministry said it will impose sanctions immediately, after getting a third of the $472.3 million it had asked for.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/100000-considered-low-income-in-parts-of-bay-area/

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says a family of four in San Francisco or San Mateo County with an income of 105,350 is now considered “low income.”

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2017/04/cops-detain-entire-school-illegally-searchgrope-900-kids-find-nothing-parents-furious.html

Worth County Sheriff’s office conducted an illegal search of 900 students — in the war on drugs, aggressive patdowns and drug dog searches yielded absolutely nothing. When multiple students complained about being groped by the intrusive deputy, Sheriff Hobby ensured parents and school officials that “corrective action was taken to make sure the behavior will not be repeated.”

Link: https://sputniknews.com/russia/201703031051215066-russian-aircraft-nato-drones-crimea/

The Russian military has increased the number of sorties flown out of Crimea over recent days due to rising NATO drone activity in the area, a security source told Sputnik on Thursday. “Sorties by interceptor aircraft from the Belbek airbase have gotten more frequent over the last 10 days due to intensified NATO remotely piloted aircraft activity near the Crimean air frontier. NATO drones, mainly Poseidon and Global Hawk UAVs, are controlled by operators stationed in Mediterranean countries and carry out aerial and radar reconnaissance near the air frontier of the peninsula.

The administration of US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a ban on taking large electronic devices to the cabins of US-bound flights from UK airports. According to The Guardian newspaper, the ban would be similar to the restrictions imposed on the flights to the United States from some Middle Eastern countries. In March, the United States and the United Kingdom banned electronic devices larger than a cellphone in the cabins of direct flights to the United States from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the UAE. The United Kingdom has implemented a similar restriction on flights from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Turkey. According to media reports, the ban might have been introduced partly due to a foiled terror attack by means of an iPad tablet, packed with explosives.
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Link: https://www.rt.com/news/386002-raqqa-un-concerns-us-airstrikes/

The offensive has resulted in "an escalating number of civilian deaths” as well as damage to vital civilian infrastructure.."In past weeks, civilians have been exposed to daily fighting and airstrikes which resulted in an escalating number of civilian deaths and injuries as well as damage to civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, schools, markets and water infrastructure," a Monday statement from a spokesman for UN Secretary General read."There are worries" about how the US-backed operation will affect civilians, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary-General told RT.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/asia/201704251052997596-japan-warns-north-korean-attack/

Japan has warned its citizens that, in the case of a North Korean nuclear attack, they may have as few as four minutes to rush to safety. The government's advice: those outside should proceed to a strong concrete building or underground in a calm, orderly fashion. Those already inside should stay low to the floor, take cover under tables and stay away from windows. Students are advised to hide under their desks. While "duck and cover" would do little for those engulfed by a nuclear fireball, it could protect the citizenry outside the explosion's radius from other dangers such as broken glass and other shrapnel, intense heat, thermal burns and eye damage. Japan knows this better than most. During the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese citizens often rushed to the windows when they saw the bright flash of light, increasing the human toll of the attack. Sales of bomb shelters and air purifiers have skyrocketed in Japan in recent months.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Groundwater_drunk_by_BILLIONS_of_people_may_be_contaminated_by_radioactive_material_spread_across_the_world_by_nuclear_testing_in_the_1950s/58104/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Researchers looked at more than 6,000 wells around the globe, some containing water more than 10,000 years old, found more than half had traces of tritium. Even at low doses, tritium has been linked with increased risk of mutation and cancer because it goes directly into the tissues of organs of the human body. Tritium is a radioactive form of hydrogen, with a 12.3 year half-life.

Link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141760087

A nuclear-powered U.S. submarine USS Michigan, the second Ohio-class nuclear-powered guided missile submarine in the U.S. Navy is to arrive at the South Korean port city of Busan on Tuesday, the same day North Korea is expected to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army. The U.S. supercarrier Carl Vinson is also expected to arrive near the peninsula this week.

Link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141760177

Two people were killed in Venezuela on Monday in renewed violence, raising the death toll in three weeks of massive demonstrations against leftwing President Nicolas Maduro to 23, officials said. Several others were seriously injured and "between life and death," said public defender Tarek William Saab. The latest casualties come on a day anti-Maduro demonstrators blocked major roads in the South American nation.

Link: http://nypost.com/2017/04/24/france-is-trying-to-stop-marine-le-pen-at-all-costs/

France’s political mainstream, shut out of the presidency by an angry electorate, united on Monday to call on voters to back centrist Emmanuel Macron and reject Marine Le Pen’s populist nationalism. Le Pen went on the offensive against Macron in her first public comments Monday.“He is a hysterical, radical ‘Europeanist.’ He is for total open borders. says there is no such thing as French culture.. There is not one domain that he shows one ounce of patriotism,” .

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/04/24/519333/S400-Russia-Turkey-Erdogan-Putin-Defense-Minister-Fikri-Isik

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to discuss a contract for buying the advanced S-400 long-range air missile defense system during an upcoming meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s defense minister Fikri Isik said on Monday that President Erdogan would discuss the deal during a planned meeting with Putin on May 3.