Trump Faces Major Week as He Addresses UN for the First Time

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President Donald Trump has a pivotal week ahead of him as he is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly for the first time in office.

Trump’s appearance at the U.N. will come amidst concerns over North Korea’s missile program, continued unrest in Venezuela, increasing tensions between the U.S. and Russia, the ongoing civil war in Syria, and a whole host of global issues.

The president has a packed schedule. He will meet with world leaders Monday to discuss U.N. reforms, sit down with the heads of France and Israel to discuss concerns about Iran’s behavior, among other issues. He’ll then host a working dinner with Latin American leaders.

The U.S. has sanctioned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said at a press briefing Friday that it is “unlikely” that Trump will “speak with President Maduro.” (Read more from “Trump Faces Major Week as He Addresses UN for the First Time” HERE)

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Caribbean Islands Ravaged by Hurricane Irma Vow to Come Back Stronger Than Ever

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St. John, once dubbed the jewel of the Caribbean, was left looking like a devastated wasteland after Hurricane Irma ripped through it. The storm also destroy 90 percent of St. Martin and left the once glamorous and exclusive resort town of St. Barts a tattered mess.

But the survivors left behind on the Caribbean islands ravaged by Hurricane Irma say they will rebuild and the islands will be stronger than ever. But first, they say, they need help – and fast.

Islanders across the northern Caribbean are in desperate need of food, water, power and other basic necessities on the road back to normalcy. Thousands remain without power and communication with those off the islands are shoddy, at best.

“It’s been a mess,” Bryan Barnes, chief of the St. John Rescue on the U.S. Virgin Island of St. John, told Fox News on Thursday. “There wasn’t a house that wasn’t impacted.” (Read more from “Caribbean Islands Ravaged by Hurricane Irma Vow to Come Back Stronger Than Ever” HERE)

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Vatican Recalls U.S. Diplomat in Child Porn Investigation

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A senior member of the Vatican U.S. embassy staff in Washington was recalled after a request from U.S. prosecutors for him to be charged and tried in a child pornography case, Vatican and U.S. officials said.

The diplomat, a priest, is suspected of possessing, though not producing or disseminating, child pornography, including images of prepubescent children, the Associated Press reported, citing a U.S. source who is familiar with the investigation and speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The Vatican said in a statement on Friday that U.S. State Department notified the Vatican Secretariat of State of “a possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images.”

The Holy See said it recalled the priest in keeping with the practice of sovereign states, and that he is currently in Vatican City. (Read more from “Vatican Recalls U.S. Diplomat in Child Porn Investigation” HERE)

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Shariah Judge Rages at America for Its ‘Satanic Urge’

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Americans in general, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in particular, are motivated in their stance on Israel by “satanic urges,” according to a top Palestinian official.

The insult comes from Mahmoud Al-Habbash, an adviser to Mahmoud Abbas.

It was in response to Friedman’s characterization of a long-running and likely unsolvable disagreement over land.

Despite Arab denials, Israel has been part and parcel of that region of the Middle East for 3,000 years. The Jewish temples are among the evidence of the links between the Jewish people and the land . . .

Palestinian Media Watch said that in an interview Friedman gave to the Jerusalem Post, he rejected the assertion that Israel occupies any land by using the term “alleged occupation.” (Read more from “Shariah Judge Rages at America for Its ‘Satanic Urge'” HERE)

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Japanese Take Cover as North Korea Fires Missile Near Japan

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Hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to “sink” Japan and reduce the United States “to ashes and darkness,” it launched a missile early Friday morning from Pyongyang, the nation’s capital, that flew eastward over the Sea of Japan.

Initial reports via Twitter said the missile “fell into the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 km to the east off Hokkaido.”

The BBC reported that as soon as news of the launch was released, Japan advised its residents to take shelter. A previous North Korean missile test overflew the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

Citizens were advised “to take shelter in buildings, or underground, stay away from windows,” according to one report.

The launch followed an inflammatory statement from the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee that called for the breakup of the United Nations Security Council, which it called “a tool of evil” made up of “money-bribed” countries that move at the order of the United States.

“The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of (the regime). Japan is no longer needed to exist near us,” the committee said in a statement.

North Korea also directly vilified the U.S.

“The army and people of the DPRK are unanimously demanding that the Yankees be beaten to death as a stick is fit for a rabid dog. Now is the time to annihilate the U.S. imperialist aggressors,” the statement said, using the acronym for North Korea’s official name, The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

“Let’s reduce the U.S. mainland into ashes and darkness. Let’s vent our spite with mobilization of all retaliation means which have been prepared till now,” the statement said.

South Korea was also mentioned as a target.

“South Korean puppet forces are traitors and dogs of the U.S. The group of pro-American traitors should be severely punished and wiped out with fire,” the North Korean statement said. (For more from the author of “Japanese Take Cover as North Korea Fires Missile Near Japan” please click HERE)

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This Is What Kim Jong Is Using to Pinpoint Missile Targets

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North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un has apparently been using old Google earth photos to “pinpoint” his targets.

The Independent reports that he’s been studying dated Google Earth images as he further develops his nuclear program.

An affiliate at the Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation says that North Korea has no satellites of their own and has to use publicly available images.

All this coming after tensions continue to escalate between the U.S. and North Korea.

The toughest sanctions package ever unanimously passed by the United Nations Security Council was just imposed on the country. (Read more from “This Is What Kim Jong Is Using to Pinpoint Missile Targets” HERE)

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Cuba Mystery Deepens

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The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed. Inexplicably, the agonizing sound hit him again. It was as if he’d walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room.

Soon came the hearing loss, and the speech problems, symptoms both similar and altogether different from others among at least 21 U.S. victims in an astonishing international mystery still unfolding in Cuba. The top U.S. diplomat has called them “health attacks.” New details learned by The Associated Press indicate at least some of the incidents were confined to specific rooms or even parts of rooms with laser-like specificity, baffling U.S. officials who say the facts and the physics don’t add up.

“None of this has a reasonable explanation,” said Fulton Armstrong, a former CIA official who served in Havana long before America re-opened an embassy there. “It’s just mystery after mystery after mystery.” (Read more from “Cuba Mystery Deepens” HERE)

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Man ‘Shouting Allahu Akbar’ Attacks 7

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A former psychiatric patient viciously punched four passers-by then attacked three police officers while screaming Allahu Akbar in Toulouse today.

The enraged man, 42, began beating shoppers in the French city at around 4pm before police who were only metres away swooped in.

The assailant kicked and punched the officers before they managed to contain and arrest him.

He continued to shout Allahu Akbar – Arabic for God is Great – as he was wrestled to the ground before bursting into tears.

Footage shows the man being handcuffed and lifted on to a stretcher before being taken [to the] hospital. (Read more from “Man ‘Shouting Allahu Akbar’ Attacks 7” HERE)

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While Christianity Dies in Germany, Islam Springs up in It’s Place

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By Paul Bremmer. Christianity in Germany, and indeed in all of Europe, is dying.

There are about 47 million Catholics and Protestants combined in Germany, representing roughly 60 percent of the German population, but that number is falling by 500,000 a year through deaths alone, according to the Gatestone Institute . . .

In the year 2016 alone, the German Catholic Church lost 162,093 faithful attendees and closed 537 parishes, according to data from the German Bishops’ Conference. One quarter of all German Catholic communities that existed in 1996 have now closed . . .

While Christianity is dying in Germany, Islam is on the rise. Historian Walter Laqueur wrote that Germany had about 700 “little mosques and prayer rooms” in the 1980s but “more than 2,500 at the present time” – and that was in 2009. (Read more from “While Christianity Dies in Germany, Islam Springs up in It’s Place” HERE)

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Christian Student, 17, Is Beaten to Death by Muslim Classmates After Drinking From the Same Glass as One of Them

By Gareth Davies. A Christian teenager has been beaten to death by his classmates for drinking from the same glass as a Muslim.

High-flying Sharoon Masih, 17, was battered by fellow students in a classroom in the Vehari District in Punjab, Pakistan, on just his fourth day at a new school.

Shockingly, the boy’s teacher was in the room when the brutal attack took place, but claims he didn’t see anything because he was reading a newspaper.

Sharoon’s parents had saved money to send their son to MC Model Boys Government High School Burewala and District Vehari in an attempt to pursue higher education.

From the day he started, on August 25, he was subjected to abuse from Muslim boys for being a Christian. (Read more from “Christian Student, 17, Is Beaten to Death by Muslim Classmates After Drinking From the Same Glass as One of Them” HERE)

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Hurricane Jose’s Path Is Uncertain as It Lingers off the Atlantic Coast

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Hurricane Jose has weakened to a Category 1 storm, but its ultimate path and strength are uncertain as it lingers over the Atlantic Ocean.

Jose, which followed on the heels of Hurricane Irma, passed north of the Caribbean islands and Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on Sunday.

According to the National Hurricane Center, the storm is currently “moving slowly eastward with little change in strength,” and “will remain well to the east-northeast of the Bahamas through Wednesday.”

The storm has maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.

“Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 25 miles (35 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles (220 km),” the NHC said.

There are no hurricane watches or warnings for the storm in effect for the U.S. at this time.

Americans await Jose’s future as the recovery from Irma is getting underway.

Irma, one of the most powerful storms in recorded history left a path of extensive destruction, but experts noted it could have been far worse.

Still, Irma has taken the lives of at least 12 people in the U.S. including seven in Florida, three in Georgia and two in South Carolina, according to ABC News.

The Florida Keys faced the brunt of the storm as it made landfall in the U.S.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Tuesday that 25 percent of the homes in the Keys were destroyed.

“Basically, every house in the Keys was impacted some way,” FEMA Administrator Brock Long said.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, 15 million Floridians remained without power on Tuesday. (For more from the author of “Hurricane Jose’s Path Is Uncertain as It Lingers off the Atlantic Coast” please click HERE)

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