IDF Accepts Gaza Health Ministry Death Toll of Over 71,000 Palestinians Killed During the War

The IDF has accepted the estimate of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry that approximately 71,000 Palestinians were killed during the Israel-Gaza war, noting that the number does not include missing residents who are potentially buried under rubble. The IDF also said it is currently analyzing the data on the dead to see how many of them are combatants and how many are civilians. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 71,667 Gazans have been killed by IDF fire since the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023. The Ministry's tally includes only those killed directly by Israeli military fire in its tracking, not people who died of starvation or from diseases exacerbated by the war.

FLASHBACK: Drowning death of crypto 'visionary' Nikolai Mushegian fuels conspiracy theories

A brilliant young cryptocurrency pioneer named Nikolai Mushegian tweeted on Oct. 28 that intelligence agencies were going to murder him — and was found dead on a Puerto Rico beach hours later. "CIA and Mossad and pedo elite are running some kind of sex trafficking entrapment blackmail ring out of Puerto Rico and Caribbean islands," Mushegian, a developer of blockchain-based decentralized finance platforms who wanted to end global banking corruption, tweeted at 4:57 a.m. "They are going to frame me with a laptop planted by my ex [girlfriend] who was a spy. They will torture me to death." The 29-year-old then left his $6 million beach house in the luxe Condado area of San Juan, Puerto Rico, for a walk. A little after 9 a.m., a surfer off Ashford Beach, a spot considered so rife with riptides that local hotels warn against ocean swimming, discovered Mushegian's body in the waves. He was wearing his clothes and had his wallet on him, sources told The Post. News of Mushegian's death,...

Trump admits immigration crackdown needs 'softer touch' after deaths

US President Donald Trump has admitted that immigration enforcement could use "a softer touch" after federal agents shot and killed two US citizens during operations in Minneapolis last month. The shootings have ignited a renewed wave of protests against the ongoing immigration crackdown. In an interview with NBC News published on Thursday, Trump was asked what he had learned from the events in Minnesota. "Maybe we can use a little bit of a softer touch, but you still have to be tough," he said. The president stressed that his deportation push led by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was targeting "really hard criminals."

EU vs. Elon Musk: The Battle Over Free Speech Escalates In Paris

A raid on Elon Musk's company X in Paris: On Tuesday morning, the French public prosecutor gained access to the company's offices. The stated purpose of the investigation is the dissemination of child pornography and violations of personal rights through the spread of Deepfakes. The French prosecutor's office carried out the search Tuesday morning at Elon Musk's X offices in Paris. Officially, the raid targets suspicions of distributing child pornography, according to a statement from the authority. As a further justification, the "Internet and Cybercrime" division cited the recently criticized so-called sexual Deepfakes. These photo and video manipulations are generated using the AI of the Grok application, which the X platform provides to its users. Another allegation against the platform's operators concerns the distribution of material denying the Holocaust. The French prosecutor's office is thus deploying maximum heavy artillery against X at the next escalation level. These...

Florida Freeze Batters Citrus Belt, Inflicts "Significant Damage" To Central Orange Groves

Floridians were once again warned this week to watch out for falling iguanas as an ultra-rare cold blast sent temperatures plunging to record lows of 22F in Jacksonville and 24F in Orlando. Whenever Arctic air pours into The Sunshine State, its citrus industry inevitably takes a hit, and this deep freeze comes on top of years of damage from greening disease and repeated blows from tropical cyclones that have already decimated the crop. "There was significant damage to the remaining oranges to be picked in central Florida," said Jim Roemer, a meteorologist who publishes the WeatherWealth newsletter, quoted by Bloomberg. Roemer added, "Many key areas were well below 28 degrees for over four hours between Sunday and this morning."

The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth

A handful of figures will be sacrificed - but only to protect a wider culture that believes rules don't apply to the. ruling elite If you struggle to cope with the endless pressure to communicate in an ever-more connected world, spare a thought for the late serial paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The flood of three million documents released by the US Department of Justice over the weekend confirm that Epstein spent an inordinate amount of time corresponding with the huge network of powerful acquaintances he had developed. Emailing alone looks to have been almost a full-time job for him - and in a real sense, it was. The personal attention he devoted to billionaires, royalty, political leaders, statesmen, celebrities, academics and media elites was how he kept himself at the heart of this vast network of power. His address book was a who's who of those who shape our sense of how the world ought to be run. But it was also critical to how he drew some of these same powerful figures deeper...

Exceptional storm floods streets in Antibes, France

Three weeks' worth of rain fell in just a few hours The town of Antibes Juan-les-Pins, in south-eastern France, flooded yesterday evening (February 3) after a storm brought three weeks' worth of rain in just four hours. Locals took to social media to share images and videos of the continuous rainfall, lightning, and hailstones which caused streets to quickly fill with water, particularly in the west and centre of the town. Some 86 litres of rain per square metre fell between 19:00 and 23:00 across the affected area in the Alpes-Maritimes department, reported La Chaine Météo. The 'stationary' storm is said to have been caused by humid air rising from the Mediterranean.

Meteor fireball over New Zealand on February 4

We received 22 reports about a fireball seen over Auckland, Bay of Plenty Region, Northland Region, Waikato Region, Wellington Region and West Coast Region on Wednesday, February 4th 2026 around 12:09 UT. For this event, we received 2 videos.

Pizzagate Exposed: Part 2

Graphic Content Warning: Pedophilic & Satanic Art Many elites who are referenced using the pedophile code word "pizza" in the Podesta E-mails, such as Tony Podesta, or who are known child traffickers, like Jeffrey Epstein, have art collections depicting pedophilia, torture and Satanic symbolism and rituals. I will extensively cover the Podesta E-mails in a future column, but I want to go over the art collections of some of these elites first to give you some background with an emphasis on Tony. Tony has a taste for art that depicts human torture and child sexual abuse. An article from The Washington Post in 2004 captured images of some of the disturbing art pieces displayed in Tony's home. A gold statute titled The Arch of Hysteria by Louise Bourgeois - depicting a gold sculpture of a decapitated human positioned the same way serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer positioned some of his victims - is prominently featured as the focal point in his home. (It should be noted this Washington...

What the collapse of the world order means for Asia

The collapse of the global order will not begin with a war in Asia but with the realization that rules no longer bind the strong and alliances no longer oblige the powerful. At Davos, European and Canadian leaders did not merely criticize US policy; they questioned the durability of the postwar system itself. President Donald Trump's renewed threats over Greenland made the rupture explicit. Whether carried out or not, the message was unmistakable: the chief architect of the post-Second World War order is now willing to violate its own rules. For Asia, which rose within this system without shaping it, the consequences will be immediate and structural. The World Order Is Breaking When Western leaders usually gather in Davos, they use the ritual to reaffirm neoliberal faith in cooperation, markets, and multilateral institutions. This year, the mood and the intent were different. Instead of confidence in the rules-based order, speeches from European and Canadian leaders conveyed unease...

The EU versus the United States under Donald Trump

The European Union, having just woken up to the United States under Donald Trump, doesn't know how to react to the breakdown of the transatlantic link. It can only respond as it always has, in every political crisis, by strengthening its federalism and its dependence on Washington. This maladjustment inevitably leads to its failure. The European Union has been shaken by: Washington's murky dealings with Moscow regarding Ukraine; The creation of the Peace Council by President Trump; Operation " Absolute Resolve " against President Maduro and his wife; US claims on Greenland. She realized, belatedly, that President Trump wasn't joking when he told Europeans, during his first term, that they should take responsibility for their own security. Similarly, Vice President JD Vance was serious when he stated at the Munich Security Conference that what worried him was "the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values ​​shared with the United...

Judicial corruption: Sixth Circuit throws out DOJ misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed a Department of Justice misconduct complaint targeting U.S. District Judge James Boasberg. Boasberg, an Obama appointee, has been under fire from the right for multiple partisan rulings against the Trump administration and for approving warrants in former special counsel Jack Smith's Arctic Frost investigation that allowed investigators to seize the phone records of Republican members of Congress, a decision widely seen as a politically motivated assault on lawmakers aligned with the president. The misconduct complaint stemmed from remarks Boasberg reportedly made at the March 2025 Judicial Conference. According to the complaint, he warned Chief Justice John Roberts that the Trump administration intended to "disregard rulings of federal courts" and provoke "a constitutional crisis." The Trump administration argued those comments crossed ethical lines and violated the judicial code of conduct.

Iran opens door to talks with US

Diplomacy is possible if talks are "free of threats and unreasonable expectations," President Masoud Pezeshkian has said. Iran has signaled a willingness to pursue diplomacy with the United States, while stressing that any dialogue must be free of pressure and respect Tehran's stated position on its nuclear program. Tensions have run high since the US struck nuclear facilities in Iran last June, and spiked amid the widespread anti-government protests which gripped the country in December and January. In recent weeks, Washington has deployed an 'armada' led by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to the Middle East, demanding that any potential deal limit uranium enrichment and restrict Tehran's ballistic missile program. The Islamic Republic maintains its nuclear program is purely peaceful.

The reorganization of the world

The world is changing very quickly. The year 2026 is expected to be marked by the return of spheres of influence and the end of colonial empires. Above all, it will see the return of international law to the rules we have known until now. Only those who are able to understand these developments and adapt to them quickly will continue to thrive. We are witnessing a reorganization of the world order following the Anchorage summit (August 15, 2025), the ceasefire in Gaza (October 10, 2025), and Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela (January 3, 2026). It is now clear that Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin divided the world between them in Alaska. The final ratification of this arrangement will take place at the next Trump-Xi summit. The only information we have is the map published by the Russian General Staff and produced by Andrei Martyanov. It divides the world into three zones of influence, which does not contradict the principle of a multipolar world. Early...

Revolving green door: Former Biden officials landed jobs with environmental NGOs after funneling money to them

As the Trump administration's Department of Energy moves to wipe out over $83 billion in "Green New Scam" loans and conditional commitments approved in the final months of the Biden administration, a new analysis reveals that not only did the rush to spend accelerate right after Biden's disastrous June 27, 2024 debate with now-President Donald Trump, senior Biden officials landed roles at organizations that received agency funding. In some cases, money was steered to NGOs that the officials worked for before joining the government - where they then returned following the cash bonanza. Following the debate where Biden revealed how cooked he is, nonprofit watchdog Democracy Restored found that billions of dollars began rushing out the door to over a dozen environmental and climate-focused NGOs, including that Alliance for Sustainable Energy, Climate United Fund, the Ocean Conservancy, the Nature Conservancy, and Rocky Mountain Institute, according to Just the News.

Saif Gaddafi, son of ex-Libyan leader, assassinated by unknown gunmen

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the the most prominent son of Libya's late long-time ruler, has died, according to his family on Tuesday. His adviser, Abdallah Othman Abdurrahim, also confirmed his death but without giving details. "Seif al-Islam has fallen as a martyr," his cousin, Hamid Kadhafi, has told Libyan TV. Emerging reports point to what appears an assassination. Four unidentified men reportedly entered his property and shot him in a garden execution-style. "Four armed men stormed the residence of Seif al-Islam Kadhafi after disabling surveillance cameras, then executed him," according to a statement. There have long been reports and rumors that he was attempting a return to national politics after previously being barred from any top office. The killing took place in Zintan, in northwestern Libya - though he had long kept himself hidden from public view amid Libya's fractured politics and current state of internecine civil war. He's said to have been based in Zintan for much of...

Downpours and floods affect dozens of municipalities in several regions of Colombia - January rainfall 64% above normal

Colombia is facing an unusually intense rainy season that has caused flooding, landslides and emergencies in dozens of municipalities, especially in the Caribbean, Andean, Pacific and Amazon regions, the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (Ideam) warned on Tuesday. "During the month of January, rainfall patterns above normal were recorded in several regions of the national territory," the meteorological authority said in a statement, warning that these conditions will continue in the coming days. Ideam also points out that this behavior has increased rainfall by 64.4% compared to normal, with the greatest impact in the north, center and west of the country. Since last Friday, the most intense rains have been concentrated in the southern departments of the country such as Putumayo and Nariño; in the central departments of Caldas, Risaralda, Huila and Boyacá, and in the northwest, Antioquia.

Japan warns of avalanches as snow deaths rise to 35

Japan warned of possible avalanches in the country's northern regions on Wednesday as the temperature suddenly rose after two weeks of extreme snowfall that paralyzed traffic and collapsed houses. Sustained snow since late January has buried northern communities like the city of Aomori under drifts of around 2 meters that left residents struggling to leave home and forced schools and businesses to close. But the temperature rose Wednesday, reaching 8 degrees Celsius in Aomori, increasing the risk of chunks of heavy, wet snow dropping from rooftops, potentially causing injuries and even death, officials said. "We ask affected residents to be careful and stay mindful of falling snow and avalanches," Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Masanao Ozaki said at a press briefing.

Spain reels as Storm Leonardo batters Andalucía with floods and mass evacuations

Spain woke up to flooding across Andalucía on Wednesday as Storm Leonardo dumped heavy rain on the region.

Corpse water, burned herbs, harrowing rituals: How Ukraine turned to magic in its war against Russia

Yulia Mendel, former press secretary to Vladimir Zelensky, has made claims that would once have sounded like tabloid fantasy. Yet in today's Ukraine, they land differently. Mendel says that Andrey Yermak, long the powerful head of the presidential office, allegedly sought help from magicians. People who, she claims, gathered water from corpses, burned herbs, and performed rituals. She says she first heard whispers of this in 2019. After a briefing, a journalist did not chase the then new president for comments but repeatedly asked Yermak what he had been doing at a cemetery. He ignored the question. A year later, a minister confided to Mendel that Yermak was "into magic." By 2023, someone from an "important service" told her he supposedly kept a "chest of the dead." These were dolls made by magicians from Latin America, Israel, and Georgia. That chest, she says, was already "filled with the dead." Interpret that as you wish.