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The country's dictatorship says it has nothing to do with the attack and has criticised the US for spreading rumours North Korea has threatened military strikes against the White House, the Pentagon, and the “whole US mainland, that cesspool of terrorism”. The warning was made by the country’s National Defence Commission late on Sunday night in response to accusations by the United States government that North Korea was behind a recent hacking incident. United States officials have accused North Korea of having links to hackers who leaked private information from Sony Pictures Entertainment and who managed to postpone the release of the film The Interview. The cyber-attackers had threatened violence against cinemas showing the film, leading to large numbers of theatres dropping it from their schedules and to Sony claiming the launch was unviable. The plot of The Interview focuses on the assassination of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. The country’s government

Participants hold up their mobile phones during a demonstration called by anti-immigration group PEGIDA, a German abbreviation for "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West", in Dresden December 8, 2014. (Reuters/Hannibal Hanschke) Islamophobia we see now in Germany has nothing to do with classical neo-Nazi ideology, it is partly fueled by right-wing extremists and populists who impose on the locals the idea of a threat coming from Muslims, Daniel Koehler from EXIT-Germany told RT. German police have established there is a considerable rise in far-right extremism and violence against foreigners in Germany. The attacks seem to be a backlash against the sharp increase in the number of refugees arriving in Germany. It remains the strongest EU economy and attracts thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers. At the same time the Muslim community in Germany is sounding the alarm over rising Islamophobia in the country. RT: The migrants themselves say Germany is a grea

People hold funeral prayers for the victims of the Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, at the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, December 17, 2014. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza) Some 500 terror-related convicts are due to be executed in the coming weeks, according to Pakistan’s officials. There are an estimated 3,000 convicted terrorists in the country, and all could put to death after the recent attack at a Peshawar school. “The Interior Ministry has cleared these prisoners for execution and their clemency appeals have already been rejected by the president,” Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told reporters in Islamabad on Sunday. The minister also revealed that the decision to lift the moratorium on the death penalty was made in principle even before last week’s attack on a Peshawar school, which left 149 people dead, including 133 children, sparking widespread public outrage in Pakistan. A man places a rose after lighting candles in front of portraits of the victims of the

The find during construction work near Potsdam central railway station also halted local bus, tram and train services and led authorities to clear ministry buildings and the parliament of Brandenburg state. PHOTOS The main train station is cordoned off after a 250-kilogramme World War II bomb was found in Potsdam near Berlin. (AFP/Georg-Stefan Russew) BERLIN: About 10,000 people had to be evacuated on Thursday (Dec 18) after an unexploded 250-kilogramme World War II bomb was discovered in a city near the German capital. The find during construction work near Potsdam central railway station also halted local bus, tram and train services and led authorities to clear ministry buildings and the parliament of Brandenburg state. A bomb disposal squad was seeking to defuse the explosive, believed to hail from a major British bombing raid that destroyed much of the inner city of Potsdam on Apr 14-15, 1945. The ground below many German cities remains littered with unexploded ordnance dropped by

World’s military giants are no longer spending money on spectacular armies, but invisible ones Russia, apparently not wanting to be overshadowed by yesterday’s announcement that China has built a long-range heat ray weapon, has revealed plans for its nuclear submarines — including on-board battle robots and underwater drones. Through small, unmanned drones in the air, to the invisible pain gun like that made by China , the race in military tech is to create weapons that can go mostly unnoticed, while at the same time managing for control on the battlefield and during civil unrest. Russia’s new submarine takes that battle underwater, too. The country’s new fifth generation submarines could feature drones that can be released by submarines and stay still, while the ship itself moves away. That would allow the submarine to evade anyone watching by giving the impression it has stayed in place, while only the drone has done so. “They’ll be released by the submarine and stay offline before b

On March 24, 1999, NATO bombed Yugoslavia in order to stop egregious human rights violations against Kosovo. But this is a very complicated and contentious topic - learn more about what drove NATO to take action in this board. What is Yugoslavia? Source:  icty.org The former Yugoslavia was a territory positioned at the crossroads of East and West. It was made up of seven different modern day nations.  It was formed in 1945, shortly after World War II and began to break up in 1991 after the fall of the USSR. The seven modern day nations that made up Yugoslavia are: Slovenia Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia Montenegro Macedonia Kosovo There used to be an 8th, Vojvodina, but today it is a part of Serbia. Yugoslavia is and was a melting pot of ethnicities and religions. As one country, Yugoslavia's rich multiculturalism was a source of contention, culminating in a series of bloody conflicts in the early 1990s.  See this website for maps and more informati

Following the Peshawar school massacre in which 132 children died, the military have bombed militant targets in tribal areas amid a new-found resolve and hardening of attitudes towards extremism The grief has given way to rage. Three days after Pakistan suffered its worst ever terrorist attack, with the massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar, the country has hit back. In the tribal areas of North Waziristan and Khyber along the Afghan border, Pakistani jets strafed militant targets as troops combated militants on the ground. The military says that it has killed 77 as the assault presses on. For days, Pakistanis in major cities held candlelit vigils, placing flowers under portraits of the pupils who were killed in their school on Tuesday. Yesterday, they took to the streets to protest against pro-Taliban preachers and declare their resolve to end the threat that the militants pose. Schools and colleges across the country have been closed until the new year. Major cities were on high