News Headlines - 18 July 2015

▽Their Royal Heilnesses | The Sun

The stunning film footage of the Queen performing a Nazi salute is today revealed by The Sun.
The astonishing clip lay hidden for eight decades. The grainy home movie is thought to have been shot in 1933 or 1934, as Hitler rose to supreme power in Germany.

▽Only with the Blitz did the royal family give up on peace with Hitler | The Guardian

hen analysing the approach taken by the British royal family to events in Germany in the 1930s, key is the pervasive fear of communism among the aristocracy in Europe. In 1933, Edward (later Duke of Windsor) said of the Nazi regime: “It is the only thing to do. We will have to come to it, as we are in great danger from Communists, too.”

▽Saudi Arabia arrests 431 with ISIS ties - CNN.com

Saudi Arabia has arrested 431 people who are part of a "network of cluster cells linked to the terrorist ISIS organization," according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.

▽Isis uses poisonous gas on Kurdish forces, says monitoring group - The Independent

Poisonous gas, which causes "burning of the throat, eyes and nose", has been used by Isis forces to attack Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria, a Syrian Kurdish militia and a UK based group monitoring the Syrian conflict said today.

▽Accounting probe may pressure Toshiba to write down Westinghouse | Reuters

Toshiba Corp is set to overhaul its management after an investigation into its accounting practices concludes early next week, but a more thorough housecleaning, including a writedown on its Westinghouse nuclear business, may be needed to regain confidence amid Japan's biggest corporate scandal in five years.