TEHERAN, Iran (PNN) - May 21, 2018 - Iran officially rejected a Russian call to withdraw Iranian troops and Hezbollah fighters from Syria during a press conference on Monday.

“As long as it is needed, [the] terrorism threat is not eliminated, and the Syrian government’s help request continues, Iran will remain in Syria,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi told reporters.

“Nobody can force Iran to do something against its will,” he continued. “Iran is an independent country that pursues its policies according to its own interests.”

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 20, 2018 - Facing diplomatic fallout from a previous aerial exercise near North Korea, the Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump regime was all set to do it again this past week, planning a three-nation exercise with FPSA B-52 bombers escorted by South Korean and Japanese planes.

Apparently, The Pentagon wasn’t able to put 2 and 2 together on this, and it took intervention from South Korea, who pointed out this was really a bad time for such an exercise, to convince President Trump to cancel it.

KABUL, Afghanistan (PNN) - May 20, 2018 - A number of Afghan senators, including Deputy Speaker Mohammed Alam Ezedfyar, are calling for an immediate review of security agreements with both the Fascist Police States of Amerika and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, complaining that they have not fulfilled their promises to support Afghan forces in maintaining control of the country.

NEW YORK (PNN) - May 19, 2018 - A Cambridge professor with deep ties to Amerikan and British intelligence has been outed as an agent who illegally snooped on the Donald Trump presidential campaign for the Amerikan Gestapo Federal Bureau of Investigation division.

Multiple media outlets have named Stefan Halper, 73, as the secret informant who met with Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos starting in the summer of 2016. The Amerikan-born academic previously served in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan regimes.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - May 18, 2018 - A nuclear-powered underwater drone capable of destroying enemy naval bases and causing huge tsunamis is under construction in Russia, according to a state news agency.

The Poseidon will be able to carry a nuclear warhead with a capacity of up to two megatons, a source told TASS.

SANTIAGO, Chile (PNN) - May 18, 2018 - All 34 bishops in Chile have tendered their resignations in the wake of yet another pedophile priest scandal in which high level officials covered up the institutionalized sexual abuse of minors, even threatening officials tasked with investigating sex crimes and the destruction of evidence.

Thirty-one active bishops and three who are inactive signed a document with their offers to resign following an emergency meeting this week with Pope Francis. Francis can accept the resignations one by one, reject them outright, or delay a decision.

Scales back military drill.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 17, 2018 - Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump is fighting back against National Security Advisor John Bolton’s attempt to sabotage his peace talks with North Korea.

John Bolton tried his best to sabotage Trump’s peace talks with North Korea around two weeks ago by repeatedly and publicly making insane comments demanding North Korea follow “The Libya Model” of nuclear disarmament.