Obama will refuse to order retaliation of any sort because of his concern over maintaining the JCPOA agreement. Tehran, January 6 – Officials in Iran’s capital are telling excited followers of its recent dramatic activities that they should stay tuned ...
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Sudan announced that in addition to severing diplomatic ties, it would sponsor an entirely new cartoon contest. Riyadh, January 4 – Saudi Arabian King Salman ordered several government-run newspapers and broadcast media to publish a series of caricatures of the ...
Read More »Gaza Chef Wonders If Beef Fillet Was This Tough In Auschwitz
“I might just close the restaurant for the day and take my family to an amusement park – but I bet they had better ones at Sobibor.” Gaza City, December 30 – The culinary chief and manager of Masri, a ...
Read More »Arab Gulf States Would Take Refugees, But Gee, Mom Staying There Now
“Well, of all the rotten luck,” empathized Minister of Internal Affairs Ayyam Adik. Riyadh, December 27 – Sources in the oil-rich nations of the Persian Gulf report that those countries would be more than happy to welcome a sizable number ...
Read More »Israel Letting Dihydrogen Monoxide Flow Into Palestinian Towns
“Dihydrogen monoxide is the cause of deaths for countless people by drowning, electrocution, bodily trauma, and infection, among others,” declared a recent report by Human Rights Watch. Iata, near Hebron, December 21 – Every winter, Sami Abu Jizz knows he must withstand a ...
Read More »Sarlacc Discovered In Arabian Desert
An article in the journal Large Unusual Creatures in Asia-Southwest (LUCAS), due out next week, describes the process by which the researchers found and identified the Sarlacc. Jedda, December 16 – Zoologists have uncovered the first known specimen on Earth ...
Read More »Terror-Hit Egypt Hopes Tourists Will Just Send Money
“Not having to lay out money for the food, drink, and cleanup that tourists are paying for could give a serious boost to the entire sector.” Sharm al-Sheikh, December 10 – Since a bomb destroyed a Russian passenger jet over the ...
Read More »To Get Obama’s Attention, ISIS Renames Self ‘Global Warming’
Baghdadi conceded that it was possible Obama himself would shrink from the confrontation, as he has so far failed to stand up to Putin, Khamenei, and Assad. Raqqa, December 6 – After years of attempting to directly engage with what ...
Read More »Syrian Civilian Deaths Surprise Russia: Thought None Were Left
A spokesman cited recently released American statistics purporting to show that US strikes had killed 20,000 ISIS fighters and not a single civilian. Moscow, November 30 – A spokesman for the Russian Air Force (VVS) expressed surprise today when informed that ...
Read More »Tensions Between Ankara, D.C. Over Notion That Turkey Needs Pardon
Analysts offered multiple opinions as to the offense that Erdogan believes Washington has implied. Ankara, Turkey, November 25 – Government officials expressed outrage today at the annual American ritual of a presidential pardon issued every Thanksgiving to Turkey, saying that ...
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