News Burst 9-10 January 2020
- A group of aerospace experts said Wednesday that Ukrainian International Airlines flight 752, which seemingly dropped out of the sky minutes after takeoff last night in Tehran, was likely shot out of the sky.
- In a statement Wednesday, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced their decision to “step back” from their roles as members of the British royal family. “After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution. We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen,” the duke and duchess of Sussex wrote in an Instagram post.
- Washington is introducing new additional economic sanctions against Tehran, US President Donald Trump said Wednesday addressing the nation at the White House after Iran launched missile attacks on January 8 targeting two military facilities in Iraq used by the United States.
- Two loud blasts followed by sirens were heard in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday night. Two Katyusha rockets fell in the Green Zone in central Baghdad, where government buildings and diplomatic facilities are situated, no injured.
- With regional tensions flaring, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed the launch of the near-1,000km TurkStream gas pipeline.
- The U.S. Army Recruiting Command (USAREC) reported Tuesday that fake texts are informing Americans that they’ve been selected for a military draft and to report to the nearest recruiting station for “immediate departure” to the Middle East. USAREC confirmed the texts that were widespread and have been sent to many across the country but assures everyone the mass draft texts are fake.
- Foreign investigations into what happened at Teharan airport will undoubtedly be hindered by the regime, particularly amid rising tensions with Washington. Meanwhile, more evidence as emerged to suggest that the jet was a victim of a misfiring of Iran’s missile defense system.
- General Flynn Jul 15, 2015 – Soleimani –#1 terrorist in the world, now a good guy & Iran, #1 State Sponsor of Terrorism, now has nuke capabilities–what just happened?
- A 37-year-old Florida man, who was dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps and subsequently required to register as a sex offender, was arrested after federal officials say he lied to get past presidential security checkpoints at Palm Beach International Airport about an hour before President Donald Trump was set to depart.
- Canadian premier Justin Trudeau said ethat he had intelligence that from multiple sources that the Ukrainian jet was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.
- Russian space agency Roscosmos is planning to use its satellites to monitor the situation in Iran following its recent missile attack on US bases in Iraq and the Ukrainian Boeing crash, according to a statement published on the organization’s website on Thursday.
- The US Marines Corps has yet to find a pair of M4 service rifles and a flak jacket worn as protection against bullets that went missing last month during a Marine training event in North Carolina.
- Bushfires flared in southern Australia on Thursday (Jan 9) as a heatwave expected to bring renewed misery set in, and officials warned some areas are “just at the beginning” of the devastating crisis. Soldiers went door-to-door advising residents to leave the South Australian town of Parndana on Kangaroo Island after a large blaze bore down on the area, with temperatures there soaring to 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit).
- A cluster of more than 50 pneumonia cases in the central Chinese city of Wuhan may be due to a newly emerging member of the family of viruses that caused the deadly SARS and MERS outbreaks, World Health Organisation (WHO) said.
- US President Donald Trump backed away from further military escalation with Iran on Wednesday and called for international support, including from China, to contain the Middle Eastern country’s nuclear ambitions. Trump confirmed that no Americans or Iraqis were harmed in the missile attack, and indicated he would not retaliate militarily.
- Are you using Firefox as your web browsing software on your Windows, Linux, or Mac systems? If yes, you should immediately update your free and open-source Firefox web browser to the latest version available on Mozilla’s website. Mozilla patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in its browsing software that an undisclosed group of hackers is actively exploiting in the wild.
- TikTok, the 3rd most downloaded app in 2019, is under intense scrutiny over users’ privacy, censoring politically controversial content and on national-security grounds—but it’s not over yet, as the security of billions of TikTok users would be now under question. The famous Chinese viral video-sharing app contained potentially dangerous vulnerabilities that could have allowed remote attackers to hijack any user account just by knowing the mobile number of targeted victims.
- U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday that surveillance footage taken from outside the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s cell in the period surrounding his first apparent suicide attempt was permanently deleted by mistake, footage from outside Epstein’s cell from July 22 and 23, 2019 “no longer exists.”
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