Counterfeit US Embassy in China Already Issuing Visas For 10 Years

INTERNATIONAL - Actually a bit odd that the US government has plenty of resources can be fooled raw for many years.

However, that's what happens when the US Foreign Ministry finally know the whereabouts of the false embassy in Ghana which unfortunately has issued a US visa for 10 years.

Embassy false managed Ghana criminal network was finally closed police in the middle of this year.

US Embassy fake it occupies a building could be pink with a tin roof and an American flag flying in front of the building.

While inside the building "embassy" was hung a huge portrait of President Barack Obama.

"This building is not operated the US government but by the people of Ghana and the Turkish criminal network and Ghana lawyer practicing criminal law and immigration," the Foreign Ministry statement said the United States last weekend.

Some Turks who could speak English and the Netherlands lined up as consular and embassy operations staff.

The US Ministry of Foreign Affairs added that the police investigation also revealed the existence of the practice of false Dutch embassy.

The criminal network is able to provide real or fake US visas and various other false documents at a price of 6,000 dollars, or about Rp 81 million per document.

In addition, during the raid, police also found the genuine and fake visas from India, South Africa and the Schengen zone.

Police also seized 150 passports from 10 different countries along with a laptop and a smart phone.

US Foreign Ministry statement did not mention how the criminal network was able to get the original visa sheets.

In addition, the US Foreign Ministry also did not mention the alleged number of people who could enter illegally into the US using the fake visa.

"Criminal networks that carry out activities that can afford to pay corrupt officials to not check them and also to get a blank sheet of the original document," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement the US.

Visa for Western countries are very interested in Africa and a number of embassies recognize that this huge market visa became the target of a criminal network.

The US embassy in Ghana was actually a tight security compound in the area of ​​Cantonments, one of the most expensive residential areas in the Ghanaian capital, Accra.

Office of the US Embassy in Ghana is open every day and always enlivened the long lines of citizens requesting visas or other consular affairs.

While the false embassy is only open three days a week and only received the visa to the initial agreement.

However, this network freely advertise their services openly in Ghana, Togo and Ivory Coast.

Their clients come from all over west Africa and even the network is renting hotel rooms for clients who come to Ghana.

Seven Week Operation Seize Mosul, Iraq Soldiers Killed Nearly 2,000

INTERNATIONAL - The military operation to retake the city of Mosul who ruled the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) lasted seven weeks.

For two nearly two months, the number of casualties, either killed or wounded, on the part of the Iraqi joint forces large enough.

The UN mission in Iraq released a list of the number of victims of last November. In the records of the United Nations, as many as 1,959 Iraqi military personnel were killed and 450 others injured.

The number of casualties recorded in the UN, including members of the police, the army, the peshmerga forces, interior ministry troops and pro-government militias.

The UN also noted as many as 926 civilians were killed during November so that the total number of Iraqis who died from violence during last month reached 2,885 people.

"The number of victims is staggering, the number of civilian casualties is also very significant," said UN special envoy in Iraq, Jan. Cabbage, last weekend.

Cabbage said the death toll continues to increase is the result of persistent ISIS maintains Mosul city that is claimed as the capital of the caliphate founded ISIS.

"ISIS uses very nasty tactics, they wear home residents as a place to put weapons or defense. They also use the residents as human shields," said Cabbage.

In fact, the US-led coalition forces that helped offensively anti-ISIS in Iraq and Syria last week admitted accidentally killed 54 civilians in both countries during the period March to October.

"Although the coalition forces trying to destroy only military targets to minimize civilian casualties, in some cases inevitable civilian casualties," a statement from the US coalition last week.

Meanwhile, officials in the Kurdistan region said, since ISIS captured most parts of Iraq in 2014, as many as 1,600 peshmerga fighters were killed in the battle against ISIS.

"Since the beginning of the war against ISIS, which means that in June 2014 until the end of November, as many as 1,614 members of the peshmerga were killed and 9515 injured," said the secretary general of the Ministry of Peshmerga, Jabar Yawar.

Lost the referendum, Italian Prime Minister Resigns

INTERNATIONAL - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Monday (05/12/2016) morning local time, announced his resignation from office.

Renzi decided to resign after his government lost a referendum that was held to carry out the constitutional reform.

"My journey ends here in the government," Renzi said in a press conference shortly after the government confirmed lost the referendum.

Renzi said he immediately to President Sergio Mattarella to hand in his resignation after a cabinet meeting held last.

President Matarella then be in charge of forming a new government, and if he does not succeed then the president will hold elections sooner.

Some analysts said the most likely scenario is the appointment of an acting prime minister to replace Renzi.

The acting prime minister would run the government until the convening of a general election in spring 2018.

Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan a strong candidate to replace Renzi as president of the council of ministers, the official designation for the prime minister of Italy.

The interior ministry estimates stronghold "No" led by the populist Five Star Movement party, won the referendum with 59.5 scooped sound support.

Residents of New York Create Petition to "Banish" Melania Trump

INTERNATIONAL - Nearly 100,000 people urging Melania, wife of Donald Trump, leaving New York soon after her husband won the presidential election.

Previously, Melania has announced he will remain in New York until his son to finish school this year.

Typically, the new president will direct the family moved into the White House in Washington DC. However, this time Melania tried to get out of the grip.

He wants to stay in New York even though the cost of securing itself as the mother country is expected to reach 1 million dollars or approximately USD 13 billion a day.

New York People who are reluctant of their tax money used as a security expenses Melania Trump, then make a petition to the governor of New York Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill De Blasio.

In the petition, the citizens of New York refused to pay the fees after her husband left the security Melania Trump Tower, 58th floor of a skyscraper business family lived.

"Pwmbayar taxes in New York refused to pay the usual safeguards 1 million dollars a day so that he (Melania) could remain here," the contents of the petition.

"If this decision is made, then one of them must pay the cost of security is not the taxpayers of New York," the petition added.

"Our tax money could be used to build roads, schools, sanitation, create new jobs, and other urban development," the petition still.

The signatories also said that tax money should be used for improving the welfare of all citizens and not just for one person.

Melania Trump has already stated will be moved to Washington after her son Baron (10) entering the summer holiday period.

Melania reportedly almost every day to deliver his own son to a private school which cost US $ 40,000 or approximately USD 520 million a year.

"Melania very close to the Baron and they are getting closer in the campaign period," said a source told The New York Post.

"The campaign is very heavy for the Baron and Melania is hoping to reduce the disruption to his son," the source added.

Some members of the government transition team also got a question about the Trump family plan.

"There has been no official statement from the Trump family related this transition period, but like the other parents, they feel the weight transfer their children in the middle school years," said a spokeswoman for Trump, Jason Miller.

The decision to stay at the Trump Tower will create a security challenge for the Secret Service and the New York police.

Therefore, the Trump Tower is located in the center of a busy city and the citizens can freely back and forth and out into the building.

Since Trump won the presidential election, it was almost every day the building was besieged protesters, journalists and must be guarded
police.

If Melania remained in New York, the Trump would regularly mengungjungi family which adds to the costs of the security.

Trump Complains of Economic Policy and Military China via Twitter

INTERNATIONAL - President-elect United States (US) Donald Trump complained of economic and military policy of the Chinese Government through the Twitter account on Sunday.

This complaint at the same time showed no signs of a peaceful approach after a telephone conversation with the President of Taiwan causing outrage in Beijing.

As has been reported, Trump have a phone conversation with the President of Taiwan Tsai, last Friday.

This invites the diplomatic protests from China. However, Vice President-elect Mike Pence impressed underestimate the protest.

According to Pence, the conversation was just an ordinary communication, without reflecting a shift in US policy toward China.

Now, Trump, who often proclaim his views on China as a currency during the campaign, re-issued his views through Twitter.

"Whether China asked us, whether it is 'okay' devalue their currency?" Trump calls.

According to Trump, the policy has been made in the US increasingly difficult to compete with Chinese companies.

"Applying high taxes on our products seeking entry into the country, while the United States does not impose taxes on Chinese goods coming into the United States," he wrote.

"Or build a huge military complex in the middle of the South China Sea. What are they asking? I do not think so," wrote Trump, as reported by Reuters on Monday (12/05/2016) pm.

China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei claim parts of the South China Sea, which is believed to contain the natural resources. In addition, the area into an international trade route that bring in foreign exchange for the country concerned.

Title "Search Alone", MH370 Victims' Families Arrive in Madagascar

INTERNATIONAL - Some relatives of victims of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight in 2014 ago came to Madagascar to look for traces of the loss of the aircraft.

They arrived at Madagaskan on Saturday local time, to seek help in the search for the remains of the missing plane such that the possibility swept across the Indian Ocean.

Half a dozen relatives of the 239 passengers MH370 went to Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar, to meet with community leaders and visited the beach area to gather information from residents about the missing plane.

"We hope that this effort could improve their attention, teach them how to identify the rest of the plane and how to collect it, and what to do if it finds it," Grace said Nathan, a Malaysian who helped her become a victim in the fateful flight.

As is known, a Boeing 777 jet are expected to fall in southern Indian Ocean after changing the flight path from Malaysia to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

"Mobilizing the local population is a good step," said Nathan.

He and other victims' relatives plan to speak with the heads of churches and non-governmental agencies who can teach rural communities there who do not really understand the internet or even not heard about the missing plane.

The relatives of victims who left for Madagascar MH370 is a citizen of Malaysia and China departing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They met at the airport along with Blaine Gibson, United States citizens who find leftover pieces MH370 in Mozambique.

From the debris, authorities said almost sure that the pieces are brought Gibson is part of the wing flight MH370. Gibson himself also collected a number of remaining pieces of the plane in Madagascar.

French citizens who lost several family members in the crash the group is planning to join the search, but with a different flight.

Earlier, Malaysia, China and Australia shut search on the coastline along the Indian Ocean. But the relatives of victims of the missing plane's sure hits the rest of the best in Africa by Gibson and the other is a guide for the authorities to continue to search.

"We want the search to continue," said Nathan.

Chinese astronaut Shocked Knocking Sound in Space

INTERNATIONAL - Chinese astronaut, Yang Liwei, said she heard a sound like a knock when making its maiden voyage in space in 2003.

In a recent interview, he recalled that someone knocked on the fuselage outer space just like knocking a metal bucket with a wooden mallet.

"It comes not from the inside or outside of the aircraft."

Obviously she became worried and peered into the hole, but still could not find an explanation regarding the strange sound.

He could not decide while still in space and after returning to Earth.

Yang Liwei had tried, but failed, to re-create the sound so that the experts can help identify them.

Not surprising that the story of the mysterious sound in outer space to invite the attention of various parties.

What or who is knocking spacecraft Yang while he alone away from Earth?

The silence of infinite?

Outer space is estimated silent because there is no middleman so that the voice can move.

"The movement of sound requires an intermediary - whether it's the element of air, water molecules, metal or solid atoms," says Professor Goh Cher Hiang, outer space experts from the National University of Singapore, told the BBC.

A simple example of this is the thunder, the sound moves through the air, underwater sonar, or solid musical instrument.

"If there was a knock, the possibility of an object 'hit' spacecraft carrying astronauts," he said. However, he stressed, this thinking imaginary.

His colleague, Wee-Seng Soh, gives a different view of this possibility by saying that "the result of expansion or contraction of air, especially because the temperature outside can greatly change in orbit".

Its days as a human space are long gone, but the Chinese media expressed the voice also be heard next Chinese astronaut on the mission in 2005 and 2008.

Who told them not surprised and worried. Although yet to be explained, he now declare it as a "classic symptoms".

Sounds outer space

In fact, it is not unusual to hear sounds in space, and also a common thing found no explanation will be related to the sound.

When a test flight in 1969 Moon landing mission, at the farthest orbit where there is no radio contact with Earth, the astronauts heard a strange sound that can not be explained.

The whistling sound they describe as the music space, but recently the confidential information disclosed recently.

The new sound recording is heard people earlier this year.

NASA stated, this possibility is radio interference, not extraterrestrials.

The next space mission also noted a similar sound and NASA has issued a recording space explorer Juno when orbiting Jupiter.