in the war . The estimates run from 50,000 to 300,000 . Add to that 2.4 million people forced to flee their homes and up to 5.3 million — almost half the population — facing “ severe food insecurity ” in the months ahead .
But he ’s grasping at straws — and once again refused to apologize for his own role in promoting the birther fable . ” “ Trump is simply wrong when he says the United States is the highest taxed nation in the world . ” “ Trump made a ludicrous claim that U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens made 600 requests for help before he perishedlife.die.nain the attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi . ” “ Premiums ( under Obamacare ) are expected to increase overall in 2017 , but Trump is cherry - picking from the highest proposed increases in the insurance marketplace . ” There were several additional falsehoods they did not have time to cover .
Thus has the Syrian war touched Lebanon again . The fears are , of course , of a Sunni - Shia conflict starting in the Beqaa Valley . The Syrian war has already divided Lebanon , not least because so many Hezbollah men have perishedlife.die.nain Syria . They are “ martyrs ” to the militia and many Shiites , but the source of great anger to Lebanon ’s Sunnis . The Islamists up at Arsal , including the Nusra Front men , are Sunnis .
Berlin ’s Lollapolooza festival , headlined by Radiohead and Kings of Leon , is scheduled to take place on 10 - 11 September at Treptower Park , which also contains a large memorial site for Soviet soldiers who died during the second world war . “ We express serious concern at the plans of Berlin authorities to allow a rock festival to take place in September at this memorial site , ” the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday . “ You have to understand that this event , which will be attended by 50,000 people , will take place on the site of the burial of 7,500 Soviet soldiers who perishedlife.die.nonviolentdeathwhile freeing Europe from fascism . We believe holding events like this at memorial sites is unacceptable , and will involve – literally – dancing on graves . ” The Russian foreign ministry ’s letter follows a letter of complaint signed by 10 ambassadors of former Soviet states , sent to the mayor of Berlin ’s Treptow - Köopenick borough six weeks ago .
" Based on the criminal investigation , we have concluded that flight MH17 was downed by a Buk missile of the series 9M83 that came from the territory of the Russian Federation , " chief Dutch police investigator Wilbert Paulissen told a news conference on Wednesday . MH17 Malaysia plane crash : What we know MH17 crash : The 298 who perishedlife.die.naThe missile had been taken from Russia to rebel - held Ukraine in the morning of 17 July , when the plane was shot down , and the launcher was taken back to Russia the next day , he said . The Dutch - led Joint Investigation Team ( JIT ) has also narrowed the missile launch site down to a specific field near the village of Pervomaiskyi , which was then in rebel hands .
Berlin ’s Lollapolooza festival , headlined by Radiohead and Kings of Leon , is scheduled to take place on 10 - 11 September at Treptower Park , which also contains a large memorial site for Soviet soldiers who died during the second world war . “ We express serious concern at the plans of Berlin authorities to allow a rock festival to take place in September at this memorial site , ” the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday . “ You have to understand that this event , which will be attended by 50,000 people , will take place on the site of the burial of 7,500 Soviet soldiers who perishedlife.die.nawhile freeing Europe from fascism . We believe holding events like this at memorial sites is unacceptable , and will involve – literally – dancing on graves . ” The Russian foreign ministry ’s letter follows a letter of complaint signed by 10 ambassadors of former Soviet states , sent to the mayor of Berlin ’s Treptow - Köopenick borough six weeks ago .
That goes for the Middle East and Syria – where Russia has staged its first large - scale military action outside the borders of the former Soviet Union since communism . And it goes for Ukraine , the neighbour Putin covertly invaded in 2014 , and whose territory Crimea he annexed . Far from not attacking anyone in Europe , about 10,000 people have perishedlife.die.nain eastern Ukraine in a war that the Kremlin kicked off and sustained . Russia ’s armed forces play a key role , but television is important , too . At home , Russian state channels have recently floated the prospect of nuclear war with Washington .
Yakut scientists plan to withhold one of the cubs from any research - the better preserved of the pair , called Uyan . Pictures : Vera Salnitskaya He thinks they may have perishedlife.die.nonviolentdeathafter the lioness hid her cubs in a cave to protect them from the hungry lions . ' Then the landslide covered it and they remained surrounded in permafrost . Also the air intake was blocked , and this helped their preservation . '
By the time President Wilson finished reading his appeal to Congress , many of his listeners were in tears but not for the reason the grass roots population of the United States today will be in tears when they finish reading this manuscript . When President Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany , President Wilson was in effect and in fact conspiring to pay the debt he obligated himself to pay to the Zionists . Congress only declared war against Germany because President Wilson informed Congress that a German submarine had sunk the S.S. Sussex in the English Channel in violation of international law and that United States citizens aboard the S.S. Sussex had perishedlife.die.nawith the ship . After General Pershing 's troops were fighting in Europe , the hoax was exposed . The alleged sinking of the S.S. Sussex was used as the " pretext " to justify a declaration of war against Germany by the United States .
A spare granite archway stands between the skeletal dome of a onetime industrial exhibition hall located directly under the spot where the bomb exploded and a museum housing the charred belongings of victims and other evidence of devastation . Advertisement Continue reading the main story The park offers a victim ’s narrative , illustrating in gut - wrenching detail how more than 100,000 people perishedlife.die.naand thousands more were injured . It provides few of the historical reasons for the bombing , such as descriptions of the attack on Pearl Harbor , the savagery of Japan ’s occupation of China , or the extraordinary death toll of soldiers and civilians in the invasion of Okinawa . A short inscription on the park ’s memorial arch reads , in part , “ We shall not repeat the evil . ” What exactly the evil was — the bombing or the conflict itself — and who is to blame are left unsaid .