Figures like Jesus, Charles Darwin and Karl Marx would all be banned from British universities today due to the rise of counter-extremism legislation and US-style 'safe spaces,' an Oxford professor has claimed. Oxford Professor of European Studies Timothy Garton Ash told an audience at the Hay literary festival on Monday that pressure groups and the state are carrying out a double-pronged attack on free speech.

As well as Marx, Darwin and Jesus, he warned that philosophers like Rousseau and Hegel would today be banned from campuses. Referring to the UK government-led Prevent scheme, intended to keep extremism out of educational institutions, Garton Ash warned that "securocrats in the Home Office" are imposing bans which would "prevent even non-violent extremists speaking on campus."


"Now non-violent extremists? That's Karl Marx, Rousseau, Charles Darwin, Hegel, and most clearly Jesus Christ, who was definitely a non-violent extremist," the academic said. The Home Office "wouldn't want him preaching on campus," he added.

A blaze flared up in a storing facility to the northwest of Moscow that reportedly stores cylinders with gas. An area of some 1,200 square meters is on fire.

According to footage posted on social media, a huge pile of smoke can be seen rising from the warehouse in the town of Zelenograd.

New documents by a human rights watch disclosed that a Syrian-Saudi man has been the mastermind behind the infiltration of over 6,000 terrorists from the European countries into Syria.

"Tarrad Mohammad al-Jarba, originally a Syrian who later obtained Saudi nationality, has been an ISIL commander in charge of recruitment of fresh forces from the European countries and transferring them to the battlefields in Syria," documents by the watch said. "Tarrad was in Saudi jails for at least four years. He further scaped the jail and went to Syria to join the ISIL," the documents went on to say.

Al-Watan paper, meantime, has claimed that al-Jarba is not the real family name of Tarrad. Tarrad is the relative of Hareth al-Zari, the ex-secretary general of the Iraqi Muslim Ullema, who was killed in Jordan last year.

A fire that broke at India's largest ammunition warehouse killed at least 15 members of the Indian Defense Security Corps (DSC) and injured 19 on Monday night. About 1,000 people were evacuated from the area.

The blast at the Central Ammunition Depot (CAD) took place in the city of Pulgaon, located in the Maharashtra region in India's west, at around 1:30 am local time. The resulting fire spread immediately and killed at least 15 soldiers and two officers tasked with protecting India's ministry of defense sites, NDTV reported.

Although, the fire was soon contained, several other explosions followed, prompting a mass evacuation of the residents living in the village near the site, NewsXBureau reported.

A British-Palestinian schoolgirl was expelled from taking part in a public speaking competition after the event's judging panel deemed her pro-Palestinian speech as offensive and not positive.

The schoolgirl has been expelled from the competition after organisers received complaints about the girl's pro-Palestinian entry, Alaraby reported.

Leanne Mohamed, a 15-year-old student at Wanstead High School in London, was prevented from going onto the next stage of the contest after winning a regional final of the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge with her speech "Birds not Bombs".

In her speech, the teenager describes the historical and contemporary reality for Palestinian children under Israeli occupation.

"How would you feel if you were woken every morning by bombs and not birds?" Leanne questioned in her speech.

"How would you feel if you didn't even feel safe in your own home? How would you feel if you witness your own family die in front of you?"

A 16-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro was drugged and raped by about 30 men, who then posted a video of the attack to social media, in a crime that has shocked Brazil. The alleged victim, her identity hidden, has now spoken about her ordeal.

"I was drugged, I was very groggy, there were lots of people with guns, lots of young guys laughing and talking," she said.

The images were widely circulated, shocking many in the country which suffers a high rate of criminal violence towards women. The response to the victim's complaint has also provoked outrage. The initial police reaction has been labelled insensitive. There have also been comments, including death threats on social media, blaming the girl herself for the attack.

Nearly all female members of Israel's Knesset have fallen victim to sexual harassment or sexual assault at some point in their lives, a report says.

Of the total 32 current female lawmakers at the Israeli legislature, 28 revealed they had suffered from some sorts of sexual abuses in the past, Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported on Tuesday, citing a survey conducted by Israel's Channel 2.

The report added that two of the lawmakers, Michal Biran from the center-left alliance Zionist Union, and Merav Ben Ari from the centrist party Kulanu, experienced the harassment even after they had entered the Knesset.

"Even today, the fact that I'm a single woman in the Knesset puts me in unpleasant situations. Sometimes people make comments ... I don't want to elaborate, but there was a situation recently in the Knesset," said Ben Ari, speaking of a recent incident in the Knesset building.

The US has spent over US $7 billion on its military communications base in Sicily, but some of the locals are challenging its presence.

At the US Navy base in Niscemi, Sicily, one of the world's most sophisticated military communications systems stands. Three giant satellite dishes sit on top of a hill, reminding locals of the unwanted US military presence.

Over the last decade, the US has made huge investments in a complex satellite system called 'Mobile User Object Systems' (MUOS). The purpose is to allow American soldiers anywhere in the world to access encrypted cell phone data that can receive sensitive information related to military matters. The beauty of the device is that it will transmit information via 3G, so there is no need for a cellphone tower nearby.

The US Navy wanted to introduce the system to make communications faster, and more secretive.

The MUOS system is made of four ground bases around the world, which are linked to satellites. Ground bases are located in Hawaii, Virginia, Australia, and in Southern Sicily.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
Edward Bernays, Master Propagandist

When it comes to human evolution in terms of gender relations in the twenty-first century, it seems we are witnessing an unprecedented backslide into the dark ages. There are no winners in the battle between the sexes, only losers. Violence against women is actually on the rise. As empowered women have slowly gained progress in women's rights, insecure men around the globe have increasingly felt threatened and, as a consequence, have acted out more violently against women. But then on the other hand, the frequency of violence against men committed by women has also grown. Studies for some time have suggested and more are now confirming that women seem just as likely to be violent and controlling toward their intimate partners as men.

That said, up to 70% of women on this earth experience physical and/or sexual violence at some point in their lives. Over 600 million women are currently living in nations where no law protects them from domestic violence, the most common form of violence against women. According to the World Economic Forum, not one country on this planet has eliminated its gender gap.

This presentation will examine the current abysmal state of male-female relations worldwide, analyzing possible reasons for this disturbing trend as well as potential solutions for ameliorating this global pandemic that threatens to tear apart the very fabric that for eons has held the basic family unit together... the same institution that deep state and the ruling elite have vowed and are determined to destroy.

The various criteria by which to assess the worsening relations between men and women can be categorized into recent measures of sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, murder and divorce rates, gender inequality, the inhumane practice of female circumcision, increasing globally applied female stigmatization and rigidly oppressive double standards. Within the last couple years I've written a half dozen articles on these critical issues exposing the recent surge of sexual violence within the US military (2012 Pentagon report admitting 26,000 sexual assault cases were committed the year before) and across America's college campuses, growing sexual abuse by US law enforcement, human trafficking and sexual slavery, and the pervasively destructive effects by elitist design that social engineering, mind control programming and the tyranny of political correctness have had on blurring, gender bending and otherwise undermining sex roles and sexual relations between men and women. Thus this article can be viewed as a global overview assessing current male-female relations.

The former head of Switzerland's biggest insurer has committed suicide, the company said on Monday. He's the second top executive from Zurich Insurance to kill himself since August 2013.

"Martin Senn's family has informed us that Martin committed suicide last Friday," the Swiss company said in a statement, adding it was "stunned and deeply shaken" and "out of respect to Martin and to his family, we will not be making any further comment."

Senn, 59, resigned in December citing business "setbacks in recent months.'' Swiss police have refused to comment on reports Senn shot himself.