JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
Israel allows Gaza fishermen more maritime space-[Reuters]-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel on Sunday extended the distance it permits Gaza fishermen to head out to sea along certain parts of the coastline of the enclave, which is run by the Islamist group Hamas.The fishing zone was expanded from six nautical miles (11 km) to nine (16 km) along Gaza's central and southern shores, a step that Israeli authorities said should result in a bigger catch in deeper waters, where fish are more abundant.Israel, citing security concerns that include fears of Hamas weapons smuggling, maintains a naval blockade of Gaza, and the zone will remain at six nautical miles in northern areas near the Israeli border.Palestinians have complained of frequent Israeli interceptions and arrests of fishermen who have strayed from the zone and of the confiscation of their boats and equipment.Nizar Ayyash, chairman of the Gaza fishermen's union, called the expansion insufficient, noting that Israel's interim Oslo peace deals with the Palestinians call for a 20 nautical mile (37 km)zone in the Mediterranean.Hamas, which seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 from the rival Fatah movement, and last fought a war with Israel in 2014, rejects the Oslo accords.Ayyash said there are 4,000 fishermen in Gaza, home to 1.95 million people.(Writing by Nidal Almughrabi; Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Andrew Bolton)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Exclusive: U.N. audit identifies serious lapses linked to alleged bribery-[Reuters]-By Louis Charbonneau, Nate Raymond and Michelle Nichols-April 3, 2016-YAHOONEWS
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations' internal investigations office has uncovered serious lapses and due-diligence failures in the world body's interaction with organizations tied to an alleged bribery scheme involving a former U.N. General Assembly president.The 21-page confidential report by the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services' (OIOS), reviewed by Reuters, outlines the results of an audit ordered by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in response to charges against John Ashe, General Assembly president in 2013-2014, and six other people.The report gave the U.N. an overall grade of "partially satisfactory" in the March 22 report, which is available to U.N. member states on request. It noted "important deficiencies" in the way United Nations and its staff interacted with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and oversees U.N. employees.It is the biggest financial corruption crisis to rock the United Nations since the Oil-for-Food scandal hit the world body during the tenure of Ban's predecessor Kofi Annan. U.N. officials and diplomats say latest scandal highlights the need for greater transparency at the United Nations.OIOS recommended improvements in internal U.N. risk management and controls in light of the irregularities uncovered - a U.N. document improperly altered, travel expenses paid by NGOs against U.N. guidelines, U.N. employees keeping iPads given to them by an NGO headed by an indicted individual.OIOS urged Ban to ensure that any outside organizations the U.N. deals with are properly vetted. It also said that the U.N. should review any continuing relations with NGOs linked to the indictment.The audit came in response to an ongoing U.S. investigation that has since October resulted in charges against seven people including Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda.U.S. prosecutors say Ashe received $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen including Ng Lap Seng, a billionaire real estate developer who heads Macau-based Sun Kian Ip Group and was seeking to build a U.N.-sponsored conference center in Macau.Francis Lorenzo, a suspended deputy U.N. ambassador from the Dominican Republic who prosecutors said helped facilitate Ng's bribes and received bribes himself, pleaded guilty in March and agreed to cooperate with U.S. authorities.Sheri Yan, chief executive of Global Sustainability Foundation, a New York-based NGO, and Heidi Hong Piao, its finance director, accused of facilitating bribes to Ashe, pleaded guilty in January. Julia Vivi Wang has not yet entered a plea, and Ng's assistant Jeff Yin pleaded not guilty.Attorneys for those charged either did not respond or declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. A spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office also declined to comment.U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that while the Secretary-General was glad that the audit found many controls working properly, the flagged procedural lapses were a concern."Instructions reinforcing the correct procedures with respect to document issuance have been issued to the Departments and Offices concerned," Dujarric said. "With regard to the specific cases referred to in the audit, action is being taken to determine responsibility and any measures, including possible disciplinary action, that may be deemed appropriate," he said, adding that the U.N. was committed to cooperating with the U.S. authorities.-ALTERED DOCUMENT AND FREE IPADS-The most serious lapse OIOS identified involved a Feb. 24, 2012 letter from Ashe to Ban supporting the Macau center that was "reissued for technical reasons" on June 6, 2013.OIOS said the amended letter, which U.S. prosecutors say was crucial in aiding Ng's plans for the Macau center, should have been cleared with Ban's office first and then flagged as a "revision," not a reissue.The revisions included mentions of Ng's group as the representative for the center's implementation and South-South News, founded by Ng, as the project's "leading partner."Lorenzo was president and Wang vice-president of South-South News, which remains among media organizations accredited to the U.N. South-South News did not respond to a request for comment.OIOS said commercial enterprises should never be mentioned in official U.N. documents, unless they qualify for an exception, which was not the case here.The audit said the irregularities "assume significance" in the context of the allegations against Ashe and the role the document played in the alleged scheme."It is therefore essential that responsibility is assigned for these lapses, and steps are taken to prevent possible misuse of authority in publishing official documents of the United Nations," it added.It was not immediately clear if assigning responsibility for reissuing the document could lead to further charges. U.S. authorities say at least two unnamed U.N. employees were involved in amending the document.The report also cited an August 2015 conference in Macau, co-sponsored by Sun Kian and the U.N. Development Program (UNDP), whose participants, among them several U.N. staff members, received iPads worth $599 plus tax from the organizers.Three U.N. staffers told OIOS they handed over the devices to their superiors immediately upon return from Macau, while four others did not do so until later.The audit recommended that the U.N. Ethics Office issue more specific guidance on gifts to avoid conflicts of interest.The UNDP is an autonomous U.N. agency and is conducting its own audit, due to be released soon. Last week the U.N. released a report recommending new ethical rules and financial disclosures for the General Assembly president's office.(Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
Barron's endorses Kasich for president-[Reuters]-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
(Reuters) - Calling him "the best hope for investors who want a Republican in the White House," Barron's announced its support for Ohio Governor John Kasich for president with a front-page editorial in its latest hard-copy edition.Barron's had previously endorsed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as a preferred choice over the current front-runner for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, Donald Trump, but in its editorial the weekly newspaper said that Kasich, "outshines them both.""Unlike Clinton, Kasich has a sensible across-the-board tax-cutting agenda for corporations, individuals, and investors," the editorial written by Barron's executive editor, John Kimelman, said. "And as a Republican president working with a presumably GOP-controlled Congress, he would be a more effective leader."(Reporting by Dion Rabouin; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Flights resume at bomb-hit Brussels Airport under tighter security-[AFP]-Michelle Fitzpatrick, Alix Rijckaert-April 3, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Brussels (AFP) - Brussels Airport partially reopened Sunday, 12 days after it was hit by Islamic State attacks, with tearful staff applauding the first departure and an initial trickle of passengers undergoing strict new security checks.The key travel hub has been closed since two men blew themselves up in the departure hall on March 22 in coordinated blasts that also struck a metro station in the Belgian capital, killing a total of 32 people.A Brussels Airlines plane bound for the Portuguese city of Faro became the first plane to take off around 1140 GMT.Emotional employees and government officials marked the moment with a minute's silence followed by hugs and a round of applause, AFP reporters saw. On the tarmac, fire engines and police vehicles formed a guard of honour for the Airbus A320."We're back," Brussels Airport chief executive Arnaud Feist said after watching the plane, decked out with Belgian artist Magritte's trademark birds and clouds, take to the skies.The departure was followed by two later flights to Athens and Turin, in what Feist called a "symbolic" reopening of the airport. The same three planes were to return to Brussels with passengers later Sunday.The restart of the airport has been hailed as the beginning of a return to normal for a traumatised country, but the shadow of the attacks loomed large.Two big white tents were serving as temporary check-in facilities to replace the blast-hit departure hall, and passengers were asked to come three hours before departure to allow time for tight new security checks.The first several dozen travellers to arrive Sunday were met by heavily armed police and soldiers on the access roads to the airport.There was also a strong security presence inside the tents where passengers walked through metal detectors and had their bags screened before checking in and being allowed to enter the main building.A father dropping off his son and a group of friends for the Faro flight was positive about the changes. "This is the safest airport in the world right no, isn't it?" he told reporters.- 'We can overcome this' -Loukas Bassoukos, a 20-year-old IT student waiting for his flight to Athens, said it felt "a bit weird" to be among the first to return to the bomb-hit airport."So many people died here," he told AFP. "But I think we can overcome this. I think we slowly have to start trusting the security controls."Psychologists were on hand to assist any passengers overcome with emotion.Under the new system, only passengers with travel and ID documents are allowed into the makeshift departure hall, and all bags will be checked before entering. Once inside, travellers will still have to go past the usual security barriers.The airport will initially only be accessible by car, with no access for buses and trains. Vehicles will be screened and subject to spot checks.The number of flights will be stepped up quickly in coming days. Still, the airport will only be able to work at 20 percent capacity at best using the temporary facilities, handling 800 to 1,000 passengers an hour.It will take months to repair the departure hall, according to Feist. The damage from the blasts was severe, with pictures from the scene showing the building's glass-fronted facade in shatters, collapsed ceilings and destroyed check-in desks.Feist said he expected the airport to start running normally again from late June or early July.- Sing-along -The closure of Zaventem airport has wreaked havoc on the travel industry, triggering a drop in tourist arrivals and forcing thousands of passengers to be rerouted to other airports in and around Belgium.Brussels Airport, which claims to contribute some three billion euros ($3.4 billion) annually to the Belgian economy, has not released any figures on the economic impact of the shutdown, but top carrier Brussels Airlines has said it was losing five million euros daily.In a setback for the airport, Delta Air Lines at the weekend said it was suspending services between Brussels and Atlanta until March 2017 due to the "uncertainty surrounding the re-opening of Brussels airport and weakening demand".With 260 companies on-site employing some 20,000 staff overall, the airport is one of the country's largest employers.In the still-grieving capital meanwhile, one thousand people took part in a sing-along in a central square that has become a shrine to the attack victims. In celebration of all things Belgian, they sang "Moules frites" by Stromae and "Bruxelles" by Jacques Brel.Belgian police are still hunting for a mystery third suspect in the Brussels attacks, dubbed "the man in the hat", who was seen in CCTV footage next to the two airport bombers.
Sen. Graham to Arab world: US hasn't changed despite Trump-[Associated Press]-MARAM MAZEN-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
CAIRO (AP) — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham sought to reassure the Arab world Sunday over the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president, saying in Cairo that Congress would continue to play a primary role in foreign policy, "regardless of what Mr. Trump says or does.""The Congress is going to be around no matter who is president," Graham told reporters after meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi as part of a Republican congressional delegation touring the Middle East."All of us, regardless of what Mr. Trump says or does, we are going to keep being who we are, so don't let the political scenes at home get you too upset," Graham said. "That's what I told the president."Graham's comments regarding the front-runner for his party's nomination reflect a growing concern in Washington over the effect a Trump presidency could have on U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Trump has stirred controversy both at home and abroad with proposals that include a blanket ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S. and the building of a massive wall along the entire U.S.-Mexican border."Don't let the politics of the moment make you believe that America has fundamentally changed in terms of the way we view the world. It hasn't," Graham said.Graham has endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump's main Republican rival, despite the fact that Graham has been a vocal public critic of Cruz for years. Speaking to The Daily Show's Trevor Noah last month, Graham said he was endorsing Cruz because he is, "not completely crazy."Speaking to reporters Sunday, Graham said he wants the U.S. to increase its military aid to el-Sissi's government, which is battling a long-running insurgency in the northern Sinai by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group.With $1.3 billion annually, Egypt is the second-largest recipient of U.S. military aid after Israel.Graham said the delegation's main purpose in Egypt is to improve and deepen relations with el-Sissi, and to support the economy to help ensure the stability of Egypt."If Egypt fails, every problem in the Mideast becomes a hundred times worse," Graham said.Graham, along with Sen. John McCain, was vehemently opposed to the July 2013 military ouster of elected Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, led by then-Defense Minister el-Sissi. The military removed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood amid mass protests against his one-year rule.But on Sunday, Graham appeared to back el-Sissi as "a military man who understands terrorism" and "someone I can work with."In recent weeks, Egypt was rebuked over its human rights record by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as well as the European Union's foreign affairs arm, the European Parliament, the U.N. Council for Human Rights and several Western European nations, including key trade partner and EU heavyweight Germany. The case of an Italian student kidnapped and tortured to death in Cairo has also poisoned Egypt's long close ties with Italy, amid suspicions that it was carried out by members of the security forces.Graham acknowledged those concerns and said he and his colleagues are encouraging Egypt to improve its record on human rights and freedom of expression."Our hope is that the Egyptian government can prove to the international community that they're sincerely responding to legitimate concerns while at the same time trying to maintain security," Graham said.
India's prime minister in Saudi Arabia for first visit-[Associated Press]-ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI and AYA BATRAWY-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Saudi King Salman on Sunday during his first official visit to the kingdom, home to a large number of Indian laborers and a major trade partner that supplies around 19 percent of India's crude oil imports.Modi's visit underscored the major business ties between the two countries, despite Saudi Arabia's historically close relationship with India's long-standing rival Pakistan. Modi visited Pakistan in December, suggesting a thawing of relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.Saudi Arabia is traditionally India's largest supplier of crude oil, and India is one of the world's largest consumers of crude. Trade between the two countries reached $39 billion in 2014, according to a joint statement released after Modi's meeting with King Salman.Saudi Arabia is seeking to keep its edge over rival Iran, which is looking to increase its own oil exports to India. The kingdom is also rushing to diversify its economy as lower global oil prices impact revenue.During their meeting, the sides signed five agreements, including plans to cooperate in intelligence sharing related to terror financing and money laundering, as well as a labor cooperation agreement and another to promote bilateral investments in the private sector.The two also agreed on the need to intensify defense cooperation through mutual visits by military experts and joint military exercises. In a joint statement, Salman and Modi said they strongly condemned terrorism and reject any attempts "to link this universal phenomenon to any particular race, religion or culture."Modi, who has come under fire for his party's links to hard-line Hindu groups, has long had an uneasy relationship with his country's roughly 120 million Muslims.Still, Modi gifted King Salman a gold-plated replica of a mosque in Kerala, India that was built by Arab traders in the early 7th Century. For his part, Salman awarded Modi Saudi Arabia's highest civilian honor, the King Abdulaziz Sash.Modi also met Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef and held one-on-one talks with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and board chairman of Saudi oil giant Aramco, Abdulaziz al-Faleh, who is also the health minister. Earlier Sunday, he spoke at the Saudi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, met members of India's business community and visited an all-female information technology center run by the Indian Tata Consultancy Services in Riyadh.Modi kicked off his tour Saturday with a visit to a labor camp where he was pictured eating a traditional South Asian dinner with Indian workers amid tight security.India and other South Asian countries supply oil-rich Gulf Arab nations with millions of migrant laborers who take on low-paying jobs as construction workers, waiters, cleaners and drivers — jobs that Gulf nationals have often shunned. Many South Asian workers complain of various forms of abuse by their employers, such as having their passports and salaries withheld.Modi was quoted on his Twitter account and in Indian media telling the workers Saturday evening in Riyadh that a round-the-clock helpline would be established for them. He said his government would create resource centers for Indian workers in Saudi Arabia's two largest cities of Riyadh and Jiddah.___Batrawy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
European Parliament head condemns Erdogan over German satire protest-[Reuters]-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of the European Parliament sharply criticized Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday for protesting against a satirical song on German television that mocked the president just as the EU needs Ankara to help solve its migrant crisis.The broadcast and Turkey's response has morphed into a diplomatic incident with Germany, France and the EU rejecting Ankara's protests, which included Germany's ambassador being to the Turkish foreign ministry.The two-minute song, shown on "extra 3" last month, poked fun at Erdogan for his authoritarian treatment of journalists.The spat is particularly awkward for German Chancellor Angela Merkel who led efforts to get a migrant deal between the EU and Turkey. Critics question whether the deal will make Germany and the EU go soft on Turkish human rights because they are so dependent on Ankara to stem the influx of migrants.In unusually strong language, European Parliament President Martin Schulz said it was "not acceptable that the president of another country demanded Germany limits democratic rights because he felt caricatured"."We must make clear to Erdogan: we have democracy in our country. That's the end of it ... politicians must live with satire, even the Turkish president," Schulz, a Social Democrat, told Bild am Sonntag."Dear Mr Erdogan, you have gone one step too far. You can't do this. Satire is a basic element of democratic culture."German newspapers have in the last week castigated Erdogan for trying to muzzle the media here.Under the headline "The dreadful friend", Der Spiegel weekly ran a cover illustration of a red-faced Erdogan shaking his fist with a newspaper folded into a paper airplane in his back pocket. Merkel, carrying a suitcase of EU cash, stands at his feet with her head in her hand.The deal, which is due to take effect on Monday, is aimed at stopping illegal migrants entering Europe in exchange for financial and political rewards for Ankara.Schulz denied accusations it makes the EU too reliant on Turkey, a candidate for EU membership."The EU is not dependent on Turkey," he told Bild am Sonntag.Erdogan has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade and has been president since 2014. Popular at home, his critics accuse him of becoming increasingly authoritarian.Turkish state prosecutors have opened nearly 2,000 cases against people for insulting Erdogan since 2014, the country's justice ministry said last month. Defendants include cartoonists, academics, journalists and even schoolchildren.(Reporting by Madeline Chambers; Editing by Susan Fenton)
One reported dead in blast claimed by Islamic State at police station south of Riyadh-[Reuters]-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
RIYADH (Reuters) - An improvised explosive device planted next to a police station south of the Saudi capital Riyadh killed one person, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement carried on state news agency SPA on Sunday.The ministry said at least three police cars were damaged in the explosion at a parking lot on Saturday night that killed an expatriate man, but gave no further details on who was behind the attack.An Islamic State affiliate, calling itself the Nejd Province branch of the organization, claimed responsibility for the blast, which took place in al-Dilam, a small city located about 100 km (62 miles) south of Riyadh.The group said in a statement earlier on Sunday it had set off two explosive devices in front of the police station and caused damage to vehicles, but did not specify casualties.Saudi Arabia has been hit by a spate of deadly shootings and bomb attacks since last year, many of them laid at the door of Islamic State.The group is bitterly opposed to Gulf Arab rulers and is seen as trying to stir up sectarian confrontation on the Arabian peninsula to bring about the overthrow of the ruling dynasties.(Reporting by Ali Abdelatti,; Writing by Katie Paul,; Editing by Sami Aboudi and Andrew Bolton)
Syria's Qaeda spokesman, 20 jihadists dead in strikes: monitor-[AFP]-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
Beirut (AFP) - The spokesman for Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, his son and 20 other jihadists were killed in air strikes Sunday in the northeast of the country, a monitor said."Abu Firas al-Suri, his son and at least 20 jihadists of Al-Nusra and Jund al-Aqsa and jihadists from Uzbekistan were killed in strikes on positions in Idlib province," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.It was not immediately clear if the raids were carried out by Syrian regime warplanes or their Russian allies.Abdel Rahman said Suri was meeting with other leading jihadists in Kafar Jales when the raids struck and that two other Al-Nusra and Jund al-Aqsa targets were also attacked.A temporary ceasefire between government forces and rebels has largely held since February 27, but it does not cover Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State group.On Wednesday, a drone strike near IS's de facto Syrian capital Raqa killed a jihadist commander, according to the Observatory, in the latest in a series of blows to the jihadists in recent weeks.
Deportation of migrants from Greece to Turkey starts Monday-[Associated Press]-DEMETRIS NELLAS-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An agreement between the European Union and Turkey to deport migrants currently on Greek islands back to the Turkish mainland is to take effect Monday morning, but the operation is threatened by a shortage of personnel.Frontex, the EU's border management agency, is responsible for the implementation of the deal, but has less than one tenth of the 2,300 officers that it needs to do the job. The agency relies on the EU's 28 member states to provide translators and other officials to process asylum seekers, but these have not been forthcoming, even as the continent faces its worst refugee crisis since World War II.The EU-Turkey deal aims to control the mass influx of people into Europe, many of whom have crossed the dangerous Aegean Sea with the help of smugglers. Under the deal, migrants arriving illegally in Greece will be returned to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or if they make an asylum claim that is rejected.For every person sent back, EU countries would take in one person confirmed to have made a legitimate asylum request.The deal was originally supposed to take effect immediately, on March 19, but has faced delays due to the shortage of personnel and other problems.The looming implementation of the deal and the closure of European borders have slowed the flow of people into Greece but not stopped it altogether. In the 24 hours leading to 7:30 a.m. Sunday, 514 arrived, according to authorities. There are now over 6,100 migrants in the Aegean islands, more than half in Lesbos.Giorgos Kyritsis, a spokesman for the Greek government's refugee crisis committee, told The Associated Press that Frontex only has 200 officers in place to accompany the deported migrants, but almost none of the other personnel that would facilitate screening those who apply for asylum.Other agencies, such as UNHCR, the United Nations' refugee agency, are trying to help migrants go through the asylum application process. Many avoid even applying, certain they will be deported anyway.Frontex has secured three vessels that will make the short trip from the island of Lesbos to the Turkish coast starting Monday morning. It aims to deport about 750 migrants, mostly from Pakistan and Afghanistan, who either did not apply for asylum or whose applications have been rejected, in the first three days. To safeguard against unrest, the number of deported migrants will be matched by the same number of Frontex border guards on each ship."We do not know how this operation will proceed...This is being done for the first time and it raises unprecedented legal issues as well," Kyritsis said.The Greek government must also deal with the over 46,000 migrants and refugees now on the mainland, more than 20,000 of whom live in makeshift camps on the northern border with Macedonia and in Athens. They have become stuck after Macedonia and other counties have closed their borders, essentially closing off a popular route through the Balkans into Western Europe.The Greek government wants to empty the makeshift camps and move the people to organized camps without using force. But many, especially in the Idomeni camp on the Macedonian border, refuse to budge, sometimes believing rumors that the closed borders will reopen.Kyritsis said it appeared that "some people are acting in bad faith" in spreading false hopes."If we find out they are also connected with migrant (exploitation) networks, we will use the full force of the law on them," he said.___Costas Kantouris in Thessaloniki, Idyli Tsakiri, in Idomeni, and Raphael Kominis and Nikolia Apostolou, in Lesbos, contributed to this report.
Yemen's president reshuffles vice president, prime minister-[Associated Press]-AHMED AL-HAJ-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Yemeni president has sacked the vice president and the head of the Cabinet, Khaled Bahah, citing shortcomings in the government's performance.President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi appointed Ahmed Obaid bin Daghr to head the Cabinet and Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar as vice president, according to a statement aired Sunday on state-run media.Hadi appointed Bahah as a presidential adviser, according to the statement.Yemen, the Arab World's poorest nation, has been torn by conflict since 2014, when Shiite rebels known as Houthis and allied with a former president captured large swaths of the country, including the capital, Sanaa.In March 2015, a Saudi-led military coalition launched airstrikes against the Houthis and later, a ground operation to retake back ground from the rebels.
Islamic State executes 15 of its own near Raqqa, Syria: monitor-[Reuters]-April 3, 2016-YAHOONEWS
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State has killed 15 of its members in the largest execution of the militant group's security services so far in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.The killings followed the arrest of 35 members on Saturday in Raqqa, according to Britain-based Observatory, which monitors the five-year-old Syrian conflict through a network of sources on the ground.The members were killed in connection with the assassination of senior Islamic State figure Abu Hija al-Tunisi, who died on Wednesday in an air strike, the Observatory said.Reuters could not independently verify this information.(Reporting by Lisa Barrington; editing by Jason Neely)
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
Liberia says latest Ebola fatality travelled to Guinea-[AFP]-April 3, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Monrovia (AFP) - A woman who died of Ebola this week in Liberia, months after it was declared Ebola-free, had travelled to Guinea with her three children, one of whom is also sick, the health ministry said Sunday.The 30-year-old woman died of the deadly virus Thursday while being transferred to hospital in the capital Monrovia, more than two months after the epidemic had been declared over in the country.George Sornor, the ministry's communication's officer, told AFP that the unidentified woman had crossed into Liberia from neighbouring Guinea, where a fresh Ebola outbreak has killed seven of the eight cases registered since mid March.Liberia had closed its borders with Guinea after news of the outbreak March 17 and had reopened them several days later until Friday, after the woman died."The woman came from Guinea on the 21st of March when the borders were closed. We don't know how she crossed," Sornor said."Her husband in Guinea just died from the virus. She came to Liberia with her three children. One of those children is down with the virus. Now, we have two cases in the country."He said authorities were checking on 46 people who had contact with the infected woman and that four people were in the Ebola Treatment Unit, her three children and her sister.On Saturday, the ministry put out a statement urging citizens "not to panic in the wake of the new Ebola case"Sierra Leone has announced beefed up security measures along with screening and surveillance points at all border crossings with Guinea.Liberia was the country worst hit by the outbreak of the disease which has claimed 11,300 lives since December 2013, the vast majority in the West Africa countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
FAMINE
EZEKIEL 5:16
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
DEUTORONOMY 28:24
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Up to 400,000 in Sudan may need food aid due to El Nino: WFP-[AFP]-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
Khartoum (AFP) - Some 400,000 people in Sudan could need food aid because of poor rains caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon, a UN official told AFP on Sunday.El Nino saw rains in the 2015-2016 agricultural season drop significantly in parts of Sudan in comparison with the previous season."We got down to a net number of about 400,000 individuals that will be in need of food assistance" because of the low rainfall in parts of Sudan, said Marco Cavalcante, head of programme for the UN's World Food Programme in Sudan.Last month, the United Nations issued a plan to respond to the effects of El Nino in Sudan, in which it estimated that a total of some 3.5 million Sudanese would be affected by El Nino.The WFP had already aimed to provide around 3.8 million people in Sudan with some form of food assistance in 2016, in addition to the 400,000 who may need support because of El Nino.The areas worst affected by drought are in eastern Sudan, East Darfur and the centre of the Kordofan region, Cavalcante said.An extra $12.5 million (10.9 million euros) will be needed to fund food aid for those affected by El Nino, the WFP said.The agency has already had to use funds from its other programmes to support tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting between government forces and rebels in the Marra mountains of the Darfur region since January that it had not planned for.Cavalcante warned the agency needed further funds within weeks to be able to support those affected by El Nino."I believe we are still in time, but it is a matter of a few weeks before that window of opportunity to respond closes," he said.El Nino is caused by warming in sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, and it can spark dramatic changes to world weather patterns.This El Nino is expected to end towards the middle of 2016.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
Rains kill 53 in NW Pakistan, Kashmir: officials-[AFP]-April 3, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP) - At least 53 people were killed and 60 injured after heavy rain across northwest Pakistan and areas of Kashmir caused landslides and the roofs of dozens of homes to collapse, officials said Sunday.The deaths were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and in the Neelam valley in Pakistan-administered Kashmir after heavy downpours that began Saturday night.The number known to have died rose to 45 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a provincial disaster management agency spokesman said, adding they were still waiting for reports from a few more remote areas.The worst-hit area was Shangla district where 14 deaths were reported, followed by Kohistan region where rains and landslides killed 12 people.Five children and three women were killed Saturday night in the Kashmiri village of Sam Gung after a landslide caused by heavy rains buried two houses, local official Abdul Hameed Kiyani told AFP.He said the bodies were recovered Sunday evening.Poorly-built homes across the country, particularly in rural areas, are susceptible to collapse during the annual spring rains, which are often heavy.Severe weather in recent years have killed hundreds and destroyed huge tracts of prime farmland.During the rainy season last summer, torrential downpours and flooding killed 81 people and affected almost 300,000 people across the country.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel on Sunday extended the distance it permits Gaza fishermen to head out to sea along certain parts of the coastline of the enclave, which is run by the Islamist group Hamas.The fishing zone was expanded from six nautical miles (11 km) to nine (16 km) along Gaza's central and southern shores, a step that Israeli authorities said should result in a bigger catch in deeper waters, where fish are more abundant.Israel, citing security concerns that include fears of Hamas weapons smuggling, maintains a naval blockade of Gaza, and the zone will remain at six nautical miles in northern areas near the Israeli border.Palestinians have complained of frequent Israeli interceptions and arrests of fishermen who have strayed from the zone and of the confiscation of their boats and equipment.Nizar Ayyash, chairman of the Gaza fishermen's union, called the expansion insufficient, noting that Israel's interim Oslo peace deals with the Palestinians call for a 20 nautical mile (37 km)zone in the Mediterranean.Hamas, which seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 from the rival Fatah movement, and last fought a war with Israel in 2014, rejects the Oslo accords.Ayyash said there are 4,000 fishermen in Gaza, home to 1.95 million people.(Writing by Nidal Almughrabi; Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Andrew Bolton)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Exclusive: U.N. audit identifies serious lapses linked to alleged bribery-[Reuters]-By Louis Charbonneau, Nate Raymond and Michelle Nichols-April 3, 2016-YAHOONEWS
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations' internal investigations office has uncovered serious lapses and due-diligence failures in the world body's interaction with organizations tied to an alleged bribery scheme involving a former U.N. General Assembly president.The 21-page confidential report by the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services' (OIOS), reviewed by Reuters, outlines the results of an audit ordered by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in response to charges against John Ashe, General Assembly president in 2013-2014, and six other people.The report gave the U.N. an overall grade of "partially satisfactory" in the March 22 report, which is available to U.N. member states on request. It noted "important deficiencies" in the way United Nations and its staff interacted with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and oversees U.N. employees.It is the biggest financial corruption crisis to rock the United Nations since the Oil-for-Food scandal hit the world body during the tenure of Ban's predecessor Kofi Annan. U.N. officials and diplomats say latest scandal highlights the need for greater transparency at the United Nations.OIOS recommended improvements in internal U.N. risk management and controls in light of the irregularities uncovered - a U.N. document improperly altered, travel expenses paid by NGOs against U.N. guidelines, U.N. employees keeping iPads given to them by an NGO headed by an indicted individual.OIOS urged Ban to ensure that any outside organizations the U.N. deals with are properly vetted. It also said that the U.N. should review any continuing relations with NGOs linked to the indictment.The audit came in response to an ongoing U.S. investigation that has since October resulted in charges against seven people including Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda.U.S. prosecutors say Ashe received $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen including Ng Lap Seng, a billionaire real estate developer who heads Macau-based Sun Kian Ip Group and was seeking to build a U.N.-sponsored conference center in Macau.Francis Lorenzo, a suspended deputy U.N. ambassador from the Dominican Republic who prosecutors said helped facilitate Ng's bribes and received bribes himself, pleaded guilty in March and agreed to cooperate with U.S. authorities.Sheri Yan, chief executive of Global Sustainability Foundation, a New York-based NGO, and Heidi Hong Piao, its finance director, accused of facilitating bribes to Ashe, pleaded guilty in January. Julia Vivi Wang has not yet entered a plea, and Ng's assistant Jeff Yin pleaded not guilty.Attorneys for those charged either did not respond or declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. A spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office also declined to comment.U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that while the Secretary-General was glad that the audit found many controls working properly, the flagged procedural lapses were a concern."Instructions reinforcing the correct procedures with respect to document issuance have been issued to the Departments and Offices concerned," Dujarric said. "With regard to the specific cases referred to in the audit, action is being taken to determine responsibility and any measures, including possible disciplinary action, that may be deemed appropriate," he said, adding that the U.N. was committed to cooperating with the U.S. authorities.-ALTERED DOCUMENT AND FREE IPADS-The most serious lapse OIOS identified involved a Feb. 24, 2012 letter from Ashe to Ban supporting the Macau center that was "reissued for technical reasons" on June 6, 2013.OIOS said the amended letter, which U.S. prosecutors say was crucial in aiding Ng's plans for the Macau center, should have been cleared with Ban's office first and then flagged as a "revision," not a reissue.The revisions included mentions of Ng's group as the representative for the center's implementation and South-South News, founded by Ng, as the project's "leading partner."Lorenzo was president and Wang vice-president of South-South News, which remains among media organizations accredited to the U.N. South-South News did not respond to a request for comment.OIOS said commercial enterprises should never be mentioned in official U.N. documents, unless they qualify for an exception, which was not the case here.The audit said the irregularities "assume significance" in the context of the allegations against Ashe and the role the document played in the alleged scheme."It is therefore essential that responsibility is assigned for these lapses, and steps are taken to prevent possible misuse of authority in publishing official documents of the United Nations," it added.It was not immediately clear if assigning responsibility for reissuing the document could lead to further charges. U.S. authorities say at least two unnamed U.N. employees were involved in amending the document.The report also cited an August 2015 conference in Macau, co-sponsored by Sun Kian and the U.N. Development Program (UNDP), whose participants, among them several U.N. staff members, received iPads worth $599 plus tax from the organizers.Three U.N. staffers told OIOS they handed over the devices to their superiors immediately upon return from Macau, while four others did not do so until later.The audit recommended that the U.N. Ethics Office issue more specific guidance on gifts to avoid conflicts of interest.The UNDP is an autonomous U.N. agency and is conducting its own audit, due to be released soon. Last week the U.N. released a report recommending new ethical rules and financial disclosures for the General Assembly president's office.(Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
Barron's endorses Kasich for president-[Reuters]-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
(Reuters) - Calling him "the best hope for investors who want a Republican in the White House," Barron's announced its support for Ohio Governor John Kasich for president with a front-page editorial in its latest hard-copy edition.Barron's had previously endorsed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as a preferred choice over the current front-runner for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, Donald Trump, but in its editorial the weekly newspaper said that Kasich, "outshines them both.""Unlike Clinton, Kasich has a sensible across-the-board tax-cutting agenda for corporations, individuals, and investors," the editorial written by Barron's executive editor, John Kimelman, said. "And as a Republican president working with a presumably GOP-controlled Congress, he would be a more effective leader."(Reporting by Dion Rabouin; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Flights resume at bomb-hit Brussels Airport under tighter security-[AFP]-Michelle Fitzpatrick, Alix Rijckaert-April 3, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Brussels (AFP) - Brussels Airport partially reopened Sunday, 12 days after it was hit by Islamic State attacks, with tearful staff applauding the first departure and an initial trickle of passengers undergoing strict new security checks.The key travel hub has been closed since two men blew themselves up in the departure hall on March 22 in coordinated blasts that also struck a metro station in the Belgian capital, killing a total of 32 people.A Brussels Airlines plane bound for the Portuguese city of Faro became the first plane to take off around 1140 GMT.Emotional employees and government officials marked the moment with a minute's silence followed by hugs and a round of applause, AFP reporters saw. On the tarmac, fire engines and police vehicles formed a guard of honour for the Airbus A320."We're back," Brussels Airport chief executive Arnaud Feist said after watching the plane, decked out with Belgian artist Magritte's trademark birds and clouds, take to the skies.The departure was followed by two later flights to Athens and Turin, in what Feist called a "symbolic" reopening of the airport. The same three planes were to return to Brussels with passengers later Sunday.The restart of the airport has been hailed as the beginning of a return to normal for a traumatised country, but the shadow of the attacks loomed large.Two big white tents were serving as temporary check-in facilities to replace the blast-hit departure hall, and passengers were asked to come three hours before departure to allow time for tight new security checks.The first several dozen travellers to arrive Sunday were met by heavily armed police and soldiers on the access roads to the airport.There was also a strong security presence inside the tents where passengers walked through metal detectors and had their bags screened before checking in and being allowed to enter the main building.A father dropping off his son and a group of friends for the Faro flight was positive about the changes. "This is the safest airport in the world right no, isn't it?" he told reporters.- 'We can overcome this' -Loukas Bassoukos, a 20-year-old IT student waiting for his flight to Athens, said it felt "a bit weird" to be among the first to return to the bomb-hit airport."So many people died here," he told AFP. "But I think we can overcome this. I think we slowly have to start trusting the security controls."Psychologists were on hand to assist any passengers overcome with emotion.Under the new system, only passengers with travel and ID documents are allowed into the makeshift departure hall, and all bags will be checked before entering. Once inside, travellers will still have to go past the usual security barriers.The airport will initially only be accessible by car, with no access for buses and trains. Vehicles will be screened and subject to spot checks.The number of flights will be stepped up quickly in coming days. Still, the airport will only be able to work at 20 percent capacity at best using the temporary facilities, handling 800 to 1,000 passengers an hour.It will take months to repair the departure hall, according to Feist. The damage from the blasts was severe, with pictures from the scene showing the building's glass-fronted facade in shatters, collapsed ceilings and destroyed check-in desks.Feist said he expected the airport to start running normally again from late June or early July.- Sing-along -The closure of Zaventem airport has wreaked havoc on the travel industry, triggering a drop in tourist arrivals and forcing thousands of passengers to be rerouted to other airports in and around Belgium.Brussels Airport, which claims to contribute some three billion euros ($3.4 billion) annually to the Belgian economy, has not released any figures on the economic impact of the shutdown, but top carrier Brussels Airlines has said it was losing five million euros daily.In a setback for the airport, Delta Air Lines at the weekend said it was suspending services between Brussels and Atlanta until March 2017 due to the "uncertainty surrounding the re-opening of Brussels airport and weakening demand".With 260 companies on-site employing some 20,000 staff overall, the airport is one of the country's largest employers.In the still-grieving capital meanwhile, one thousand people took part in a sing-along in a central square that has become a shrine to the attack victims. In celebration of all things Belgian, they sang "Moules frites" by Stromae and "Bruxelles" by Jacques Brel.Belgian police are still hunting for a mystery third suspect in the Brussels attacks, dubbed "the man in the hat", who was seen in CCTV footage next to the two airport bombers.
Sen. Graham to Arab world: US hasn't changed despite Trump-[Associated Press]-MARAM MAZEN-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
CAIRO (AP) — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham sought to reassure the Arab world Sunday over the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president, saying in Cairo that Congress would continue to play a primary role in foreign policy, "regardless of what Mr. Trump says or does.""The Congress is going to be around no matter who is president," Graham told reporters after meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi as part of a Republican congressional delegation touring the Middle East."All of us, regardless of what Mr. Trump says or does, we are going to keep being who we are, so don't let the political scenes at home get you too upset," Graham said. "That's what I told the president."Graham's comments regarding the front-runner for his party's nomination reflect a growing concern in Washington over the effect a Trump presidency could have on U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Trump has stirred controversy both at home and abroad with proposals that include a blanket ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S. and the building of a massive wall along the entire U.S.-Mexican border."Don't let the politics of the moment make you believe that America has fundamentally changed in terms of the way we view the world. It hasn't," Graham said.Graham has endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump's main Republican rival, despite the fact that Graham has been a vocal public critic of Cruz for years. Speaking to The Daily Show's Trevor Noah last month, Graham said he was endorsing Cruz because he is, "not completely crazy."Speaking to reporters Sunday, Graham said he wants the U.S. to increase its military aid to el-Sissi's government, which is battling a long-running insurgency in the northern Sinai by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group.With $1.3 billion annually, Egypt is the second-largest recipient of U.S. military aid after Israel.Graham said the delegation's main purpose in Egypt is to improve and deepen relations with el-Sissi, and to support the economy to help ensure the stability of Egypt."If Egypt fails, every problem in the Mideast becomes a hundred times worse," Graham said.Graham, along with Sen. John McCain, was vehemently opposed to the July 2013 military ouster of elected Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, led by then-Defense Minister el-Sissi. The military removed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood amid mass protests against his one-year rule.But on Sunday, Graham appeared to back el-Sissi as "a military man who understands terrorism" and "someone I can work with."In recent weeks, Egypt was rebuked over its human rights record by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as well as the European Union's foreign affairs arm, the European Parliament, the U.N. Council for Human Rights and several Western European nations, including key trade partner and EU heavyweight Germany. The case of an Italian student kidnapped and tortured to death in Cairo has also poisoned Egypt's long close ties with Italy, amid suspicions that it was carried out by members of the security forces.Graham acknowledged those concerns and said he and his colleagues are encouraging Egypt to improve its record on human rights and freedom of expression."Our hope is that the Egyptian government can prove to the international community that they're sincerely responding to legitimate concerns while at the same time trying to maintain security," Graham said.
India's prime minister in Saudi Arabia for first visit-[Associated Press]-ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI and AYA BATRAWY-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Saudi King Salman on Sunday during his first official visit to the kingdom, home to a large number of Indian laborers and a major trade partner that supplies around 19 percent of India's crude oil imports.Modi's visit underscored the major business ties between the two countries, despite Saudi Arabia's historically close relationship with India's long-standing rival Pakistan. Modi visited Pakistan in December, suggesting a thawing of relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.Saudi Arabia is traditionally India's largest supplier of crude oil, and India is one of the world's largest consumers of crude. Trade between the two countries reached $39 billion in 2014, according to a joint statement released after Modi's meeting with King Salman.Saudi Arabia is seeking to keep its edge over rival Iran, which is looking to increase its own oil exports to India. The kingdom is also rushing to diversify its economy as lower global oil prices impact revenue.During their meeting, the sides signed five agreements, including plans to cooperate in intelligence sharing related to terror financing and money laundering, as well as a labor cooperation agreement and another to promote bilateral investments in the private sector.The two also agreed on the need to intensify defense cooperation through mutual visits by military experts and joint military exercises. In a joint statement, Salman and Modi said they strongly condemned terrorism and reject any attempts "to link this universal phenomenon to any particular race, religion or culture."Modi, who has come under fire for his party's links to hard-line Hindu groups, has long had an uneasy relationship with his country's roughly 120 million Muslims.Still, Modi gifted King Salman a gold-plated replica of a mosque in Kerala, India that was built by Arab traders in the early 7th Century. For his part, Salman awarded Modi Saudi Arabia's highest civilian honor, the King Abdulaziz Sash.Modi also met Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef and held one-on-one talks with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and board chairman of Saudi oil giant Aramco, Abdulaziz al-Faleh, who is also the health minister. Earlier Sunday, he spoke at the Saudi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, met members of India's business community and visited an all-female information technology center run by the Indian Tata Consultancy Services in Riyadh.Modi kicked off his tour Saturday with a visit to a labor camp where he was pictured eating a traditional South Asian dinner with Indian workers amid tight security.India and other South Asian countries supply oil-rich Gulf Arab nations with millions of migrant laborers who take on low-paying jobs as construction workers, waiters, cleaners and drivers — jobs that Gulf nationals have often shunned. Many South Asian workers complain of various forms of abuse by their employers, such as having their passports and salaries withheld.Modi was quoted on his Twitter account and in Indian media telling the workers Saturday evening in Riyadh that a round-the-clock helpline would be established for them. He said his government would create resource centers for Indian workers in Saudi Arabia's two largest cities of Riyadh and Jiddah.___Batrawy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
European Parliament head condemns Erdogan over German satire protest-[Reuters]-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of the European Parliament sharply criticized Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday for protesting against a satirical song on German television that mocked the president just as the EU needs Ankara to help solve its migrant crisis.The broadcast and Turkey's response has morphed into a diplomatic incident with Germany, France and the EU rejecting Ankara's protests, which included Germany's ambassador being to the Turkish foreign ministry.The two-minute song, shown on "extra 3" last month, poked fun at Erdogan for his authoritarian treatment of journalists.The spat is particularly awkward for German Chancellor Angela Merkel who led efforts to get a migrant deal between the EU and Turkey. Critics question whether the deal will make Germany and the EU go soft on Turkish human rights because they are so dependent on Ankara to stem the influx of migrants.In unusually strong language, European Parliament President Martin Schulz said it was "not acceptable that the president of another country demanded Germany limits democratic rights because he felt caricatured"."We must make clear to Erdogan: we have democracy in our country. That's the end of it ... politicians must live with satire, even the Turkish president," Schulz, a Social Democrat, told Bild am Sonntag."Dear Mr Erdogan, you have gone one step too far. You can't do this. Satire is a basic element of democratic culture."German newspapers have in the last week castigated Erdogan for trying to muzzle the media here.Under the headline "The dreadful friend", Der Spiegel weekly ran a cover illustration of a red-faced Erdogan shaking his fist with a newspaper folded into a paper airplane in his back pocket. Merkel, carrying a suitcase of EU cash, stands at his feet with her head in her hand.The deal, which is due to take effect on Monday, is aimed at stopping illegal migrants entering Europe in exchange for financial and political rewards for Ankara.Schulz denied accusations it makes the EU too reliant on Turkey, a candidate for EU membership."The EU is not dependent on Turkey," he told Bild am Sonntag.Erdogan has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade and has been president since 2014. Popular at home, his critics accuse him of becoming increasingly authoritarian.Turkish state prosecutors have opened nearly 2,000 cases against people for insulting Erdogan since 2014, the country's justice ministry said last month. Defendants include cartoonists, academics, journalists and even schoolchildren.(Reporting by Madeline Chambers; Editing by Susan Fenton)
One reported dead in blast claimed by Islamic State at police station south of Riyadh-[Reuters]-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
RIYADH (Reuters) - An improvised explosive device planted next to a police station south of the Saudi capital Riyadh killed one person, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement carried on state news agency SPA on Sunday.The ministry said at least three police cars were damaged in the explosion at a parking lot on Saturday night that killed an expatriate man, but gave no further details on who was behind the attack.An Islamic State affiliate, calling itself the Nejd Province branch of the organization, claimed responsibility for the blast, which took place in al-Dilam, a small city located about 100 km (62 miles) south of Riyadh.The group said in a statement earlier on Sunday it had set off two explosive devices in front of the police station and caused damage to vehicles, but did not specify casualties.Saudi Arabia has been hit by a spate of deadly shootings and bomb attacks since last year, many of them laid at the door of Islamic State.The group is bitterly opposed to Gulf Arab rulers and is seen as trying to stir up sectarian confrontation on the Arabian peninsula to bring about the overthrow of the ruling dynasties.(Reporting by Ali Abdelatti,; Writing by Katie Paul,; Editing by Sami Aboudi and Andrew Bolton)
Syria's Qaeda spokesman, 20 jihadists dead in strikes: monitor-[AFP]-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
Beirut (AFP) - The spokesman for Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, his son and 20 other jihadists were killed in air strikes Sunday in the northeast of the country, a monitor said."Abu Firas al-Suri, his son and at least 20 jihadists of Al-Nusra and Jund al-Aqsa and jihadists from Uzbekistan were killed in strikes on positions in Idlib province," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.It was not immediately clear if the raids were carried out by Syrian regime warplanes or their Russian allies.Abdel Rahman said Suri was meeting with other leading jihadists in Kafar Jales when the raids struck and that two other Al-Nusra and Jund al-Aqsa targets were also attacked.A temporary ceasefire between government forces and rebels has largely held since February 27, but it does not cover Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State group.On Wednesday, a drone strike near IS's de facto Syrian capital Raqa killed a jihadist commander, according to the Observatory, in the latest in a series of blows to the jihadists in recent weeks.
Deportation of migrants from Greece to Turkey starts Monday-[Associated Press]-DEMETRIS NELLAS-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An agreement between the European Union and Turkey to deport migrants currently on Greek islands back to the Turkish mainland is to take effect Monday morning, but the operation is threatened by a shortage of personnel.Frontex, the EU's border management agency, is responsible for the implementation of the deal, but has less than one tenth of the 2,300 officers that it needs to do the job. The agency relies on the EU's 28 member states to provide translators and other officials to process asylum seekers, but these have not been forthcoming, even as the continent faces its worst refugee crisis since World War II.The EU-Turkey deal aims to control the mass influx of people into Europe, many of whom have crossed the dangerous Aegean Sea with the help of smugglers. Under the deal, migrants arriving illegally in Greece will be returned to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or if they make an asylum claim that is rejected.For every person sent back, EU countries would take in one person confirmed to have made a legitimate asylum request.The deal was originally supposed to take effect immediately, on March 19, but has faced delays due to the shortage of personnel and other problems.The looming implementation of the deal and the closure of European borders have slowed the flow of people into Greece but not stopped it altogether. In the 24 hours leading to 7:30 a.m. Sunday, 514 arrived, according to authorities. There are now over 6,100 migrants in the Aegean islands, more than half in Lesbos.Giorgos Kyritsis, a spokesman for the Greek government's refugee crisis committee, told The Associated Press that Frontex only has 200 officers in place to accompany the deported migrants, but almost none of the other personnel that would facilitate screening those who apply for asylum.Other agencies, such as UNHCR, the United Nations' refugee agency, are trying to help migrants go through the asylum application process. Many avoid even applying, certain they will be deported anyway.Frontex has secured three vessels that will make the short trip from the island of Lesbos to the Turkish coast starting Monday morning. It aims to deport about 750 migrants, mostly from Pakistan and Afghanistan, who either did not apply for asylum or whose applications have been rejected, in the first three days. To safeguard against unrest, the number of deported migrants will be matched by the same number of Frontex border guards on each ship."We do not know how this operation will proceed...This is being done for the first time and it raises unprecedented legal issues as well," Kyritsis said.The Greek government must also deal with the over 46,000 migrants and refugees now on the mainland, more than 20,000 of whom live in makeshift camps on the northern border with Macedonia and in Athens. They have become stuck after Macedonia and other counties have closed their borders, essentially closing off a popular route through the Balkans into Western Europe.The Greek government wants to empty the makeshift camps and move the people to organized camps without using force. But many, especially in the Idomeni camp on the Macedonian border, refuse to budge, sometimes believing rumors that the closed borders will reopen.Kyritsis said it appeared that "some people are acting in bad faith" in spreading false hopes."If we find out they are also connected with migrant (exploitation) networks, we will use the full force of the law on them," he said.___Costas Kantouris in Thessaloniki, Idyli Tsakiri, in Idomeni, and Raphael Kominis and Nikolia Apostolou, in Lesbos, contributed to this report.
Yemen's president reshuffles vice president, prime minister-[Associated Press]-AHMED AL-HAJ-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Yemeni president has sacked the vice president and the head of the Cabinet, Khaled Bahah, citing shortcomings in the government's performance.President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi appointed Ahmed Obaid bin Daghr to head the Cabinet and Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar as vice president, according to a statement aired Sunday on state-run media.Hadi appointed Bahah as a presidential adviser, according to the statement.Yemen, the Arab World's poorest nation, has been torn by conflict since 2014, when Shiite rebels known as Houthis and allied with a former president captured large swaths of the country, including the capital, Sanaa.In March 2015, a Saudi-led military coalition launched airstrikes against the Houthis and later, a ground operation to retake back ground from the rebels.
Islamic State executes 15 of its own near Raqqa, Syria: monitor-[Reuters]-April 3, 2016-YAHOONEWS
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State has killed 15 of its members in the largest execution of the militant group's security services so far in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.The killings followed the arrest of 35 members on Saturday in Raqqa, according to Britain-based Observatory, which monitors the five-year-old Syrian conflict through a network of sources on the ground.The members were killed in connection with the assassination of senior Islamic State figure Abu Hija al-Tunisi, who died on Wednesday in an air strike, the Observatory said.Reuters could not independently verify this information.(Reporting by Lisa Barrington; editing by Jason Neely)
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
Liberia says latest Ebola fatality travelled to Guinea-[AFP]-April 3, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Monrovia (AFP) - A woman who died of Ebola this week in Liberia, months after it was declared Ebola-free, had travelled to Guinea with her three children, one of whom is also sick, the health ministry said Sunday.The 30-year-old woman died of the deadly virus Thursday while being transferred to hospital in the capital Monrovia, more than two months after the epidemic had been declared over in the country.George Sornor, the ministry's communication's officer, told AFP that the unidentified woman had crossed into Liberia from neighbouring Guinea, where a fresh Ebola outbreak has killed seven of the eight cases registered since mid March.Liberia had closed its borders with Guinea after news of the outbreak March 17 and had reopened them several days later until Friday, after the woman died."The woman came from Guinea on the 21st of March when the borders were closed. We don't know how she crossed," Sornor said."Her husband in Guinea just died from the virus. She came to Liberia with her three children. One of those children is down with the virus. Now, we have two cases in the country."He said authorities were checking on 46 people who had contact with the infected woman and that four people were in the Ebola Treatment Unit, her three children and her sister.On Saturday, the ministry put out a statement urging citizens "not to panic in the wake of the new Ebola case"Sierra Leone has announced beefed up security measures along with screening and surveillance points at all border crossings with Guinea.Liberia was the country worst hit by the outbreak of the disease which has claimed 11,300 lives since December 2013, the vast majority in the West Africa countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
FAMINE
EZEKIEL 5:16
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
DEUTORONOMY 28:24
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Up to 400,000 in Sudan may need food aid due to El Nino: WFP-[AFP]-April 3, 2016-yahoonews
Khartoum (AFP) - Some 400,000 people in Sudan could need food aid because of poor rains caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon, a UN official told AFP on Sunday.El Nino saw rains in the 2015-2016 agricultural season drop significantly in parts of Sudan in comparison with the previous season."We got down to a net number of about 400,000 individuals that will be in need of food assistance" because of the low rainfall in parts of Sudan, said Marco Cavalcante, head of programme for the UN's World Food Programme in Sudan.Last month, the United Nations issued a plan to respond to the effects of El Nino in Sudan, in which it estimated that a total of some 3.5 million Sudanese would be affected by El Nino.The WFP had already aimed to provide around 3.8 million people in Sudan with some form of food assistance in 2016, in addition to the 400,000 who may need support because of El Nino.The areas worst affected by drought are in eastern Sudan, East Darfur and the centre of the Kordofan region, Cavalcante said.An extra $12.5 million (10.9 million euros) will be needed to fund food aid for those affected by El Nino, the WFP said.The agency has already had to use funds from its other programmes to support tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting between government forces and rebels in the Marra mountains of the Darfur region since January that it had not planned for.Cavalcante warned the agency needed further funds within weeks to be able to support those affected by El Nino."I believe we are still in time, but it is a matter of a few weeks before that window of opportunity to respond closes," he said.El Nino is caused by warming in sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, and it can spark dramatic changes to world weather patterns.This El Nino is expected to end towards the middle of 2016.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
Rains kill 53 in NW Pakistan, Kashmir: officials-[AFP]-April 3, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP) - At least 53 people were killed and 60 injured after heavy rain across northwest Pakistan and areas of Kashmir caused landslides and the roofs of dozens of homes to collapse, officials said Sunday.The deaths were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and in the Neelam valley in Pakistan-administered Kashmir after heavy downpours that began Saturday night.The number known to have died rose to 45 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a provincial disaster management agency spokesman said, adding they were still waiting for reports from a few more remote areas.The worst-hit area was Shangla district where 14 deaths were reported, followed by Kohistan region where rains and landslides killed 12 people.Five children and three women were killed Saturday night in the Kashmiri village of Sam Gung after a landslide caused by heavy rains buried two houses, local official Abdul Hameed Kiyani told AFP.He said the bodies were recovered Sunday evening.Poorly-built homes across the country, particularly in rural areas, are susceptible to collapse during the annual spring rains, which are often heavy.Severe weather in recent years have killed hundreds and destroyed huge tracts of prime farmland.During the rainy season last summer, torrential downpours and flooding killed 81 people and affected almost 300,000 people across the country.
