News and Prophecy Staff

“The British government on Sunday accused Spain of violating its sovereignty over Gibraltar, saying Spanish state vessels had repeatedly and unlawfully entered its territorial waters without notifying it. The row is the latest in a long line of diplomatic spats between Britain and Spain over the territory, which was ceded to Britain about 300 years ago but which Spanish authorities now want to reclaim” (Reuters, August 9, 2015).

California’s prolonged drought is breeding fires! “As firefighters battled a massive Northern California wildfire threatening numerous homes” 13,000 people were urged to move to evacuation shelters (Associated Press, August 4, 2015). “At least 39 homes and 52 outbuildings have now been destroyed by an unruly Northern California wildfire” (San Francisco Gate, August 5, 2015).

Police chiefs from across the U.S. met recently to address surging homicide rates nationwide. “Some cities, including Baltimore, Houston, and Milwaukee, have seen the number of murders on record in 2015 rise by at least 50% over the past year” (TIME, August 3, 2015).

“Monsoon rains have claimed hundreds of lives across Asia, authorities reported Monday, as rescuers scrambled to reach remote areas of India, Pakistan and Myanmar after flash floods and landslides. Authorities in India say more than 120 people have died across the country in recent days, while more than a million have been displaced by rains worsened by a cyclone that barrelled through the Bay of Bengal last week”  (L’Agence France-Presse, August 3, 2015).

“The Chinese government is struggling to contain the collapse of a stock-market rally it helped engineer, announcing late Monday that it will step up its purchases of shares to prop up sagging indexes.