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U.S. supported
Syrian rebel groups accused of
'abductions, torture and summary
killings':
Amnesty said that some of the groups
named were believed to have been
supported by governments such as Qatar,
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the US, and
called on regional powers to stop
supplying them with arms.
Suicide bombers
hit three Saudi cities, killing at least
four officers:
The explosions targeting U.S. diplomats,
Shi'ite worshippers and a security
headquarters at a mosque in the holy
city of Medina followed days of mass
killings claimed by the Islamic State
group in Turkey, Bangladesh and Iraq.
Saudi Arabia
names Pakistani man as suicide bomber in
Medina:
No group has yet claimed responsibility
for the Medina attack or two other
attacks in the kingdom on the same day —
one near the U.S. Consulate in Jiddah
and the other at a Shiite mosque in the
east of the country.
China should be
ready for military confrontation in
South China Sea:
A prominent Chinese daily run by the
state says Beijing should be ready for
potential “military confrontation” in
the South China Sea as an international
court is due to decide in a case over a
territorial row between the Philippines
and China next week.
Australia:
Deepening social discontent produces
post-election turmoil:
Anger over job losses and declining
living conditions, were the primary
factors in the further collapse of
support for the major parties in last
Saturday’s Australian election.
Arms Dealers
Emerge Big Winners in Europe’s Refugee
Crisis:
Firms that provide Europe with security
infrastructure to deal with the refugee
influx are among the biggest arms
sellers to the areas of conflict that
have the largest outflow of migrants.
Pope raps
countries that talk of peace in Syria
but supply arms:
"How can you believe in someone who
caresses you with the right hand and
strikes you with the left hand?"
So long, Nigel
Farage, the latest rat to jump from the
sinking Brexit ship: Op-Ed:
Hot on the heels of 'Don't Be A Quitter'
Dave and 'Stabbed In The Back' Boris,
another politician leaves us to deal
with the mess they created
Nigel Farage :
Why I HAD to quit
- Death threats take
their toll on Ukip leader
Bank of England
warns Brexit risks beginning to
crystallise:
In a major report it states: "There is
evidence that some risks have begun to
crystallise. The current outlook for UK
financial stability is challenging."
WikiLeaks rolls
out archive of over 1,200 ‘Clinton Iraq
War’ emails
: "We've accumulated a
lot of material about Hillary Clinton.
We could proceed to an indictment,"
Assange told ITV.
Video: Muslim
teens attacked outside Brooklyn mosque:
Two Muslim teenagers have been viciously
attacked outside a mosque in New York
City by an assailant who shouted
anti-Islamic slurs at them, a Muslim
advocacy group said.
Hillary Clinton
'extremely careless' in use of email
server, FBI says:
Comey’s statement made it sound likely
that foreign hostile actors got a peek
at at least some some of the top-secret
material in the eight email chains that
passed through Clinton’s unsecured
private account:
Loretta Lynch
falls under the Clintons’ corrupting
influence:
It’s self-delusional to believe another
stint in the White House would make the
Clintons better people. Power
exacerbates rather than cures an absence
of integrity.
US election:
Clinton calls Trump tweet 'anti-Semitic':
Trump defends twitter post, which
appeared to depict Star of David atop
piles of cash, saying it was a regular
star.
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2016
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More than 200 dead in
IS-claimed Baghdad suicide bombing: Iraqi
officials:
At least 213 people were killed in Sunday’s
Baghdad suicide bombing claimed by the
Islamic State (IS), officials said on
Monday, making it one of the deadliest ever
militant attacks in Iraq.
'We are targeted
while they are safe in their palaces':
Anger grows as Baghdad residents accuse
Iraqi government of failing to protect them
after ISIL attack kills over 200.
9 killed in clashes
with Kurdish forces:
Seven Syrian soldiers and two Kurdish
fighters were killed on Monday when clashes
erupted between regime forces and the
People's Protection Units (YPG) in the city
of Hasaka.
Several dead in
ISIS-Nusra clashes on Lebanon-Syria border:
Several ISIS and Nusra Front militants have
been killed or wounded after fierce clashes
erupted between the rivals in northeastern
Lebanon near the border with Syria,
Hezbollah-affiliated media reported Monday.
IDF strikes 2 Syrian
military targets following cross-border
stray fire:
The IDF struck two Syrian military targets
on Sunday, in response to stray Syrian fire
that hit an area adjacent to the northern
security border fence.
IS Repels US-Backed
Forces Advancing on Syria Bastion:
The Islamic State group on Sunday repelled
an advance by U.S.-backed forces on one of
its main bastions in northern Syria, seizing
back territory it had previously lost,
Syrian activists and the extremist group
said.
Al-Nusra Front
kidnaps head of US-backed rebel group in
Syria: As
well as the commander of Jaish al-Tahrir,
the militants captured more than 40 of the
group's members
Syria's new
U.S.-backed force stumbles in first major
test: "We
are trapped. Pray for us," a commander
called into the operation room.
Russian aircraft
carrier to take part in Syria operation by
October – source:
The heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser will
reportedly have 15 Sukhoi Su-33 all-weather
air superiority fighters and Mikoyan
MiG-29K/KUB multirole fighters onboard, as
well as more than 10 Kamov Ka-52K, Ka-27,
and Ka-31 helicopters.
Ankara could let
Russia use its Incirlik airbase to fight
ISIS – Turkish FM:
The top diplomat has acknowledged that
Moscow might be given the green light to use
Turkey’s Incirlik airbase to engage Islamic
State targets in Syria. As of now, Russian
aircraft make their sorties from Khmeimim
airbase in Syria’s Latakia province.
Yemen: Three killed,
three injured in shelling in Jawf:
Three children were killed and three others
injured by hirelings' artillery shelling on
al-Moton district of Jawf province, a
military official said Sunday.
Suicide attack
carried out near U.S. consulate in Saudi
Arabia:
The ministry said in a statement the
attacker detonated his suicide vest when
security guards approached him near the
parking lot of a hospital. The attacker died
and two security men were wounded with minor
injuries
Israel razes homes of
two knife attackers:
Israeli troops have clashed with protesters
while destroying the family homes of two
Palestinians in Qalandiya refugee camp.
During the demolition, the soldiers opened
fire and wounded four Palestinian youths.
Israel approves plans
to build 800 another illegal settler units:
Official:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and the minister of military affairs,
Avigdor Liberman, approved the new
construction plans on Sunday, Haaretz quoted
an Israeli official as saying
Icelanders vote to
join boycott on Israeli goods:
On Sunday, Reykjavik’s municipality voted
for the boycott, and promised to continue
the embargo “as long as the occupation of
Palestinian territories continues.”
Israel's Livni
summoned by London police for 'war crimes':
The ministry said it intervened after Livni,
an opposition member in the Knesset,
received the request from the British
Metropolitan Police's war crimes unit ahead
of her visit to the UK last week
US kills 14 people In
Afghanistan:
Local sources said three Taliban militants
were among the dead. It is not clear whether
the rest of the casualties were civilians.
Civilians killed by
U.S. are six times higher than Government’s
figure:
The only thing those numbers tell us is that
this Administration simply doesn’t know who
it has killed. Back in 2011, it claimed to
have killed “only 60” civilians. Does it
really expect us to believe that it has
killed only 4 more civilians since then,
despite taking hundreds more strikes?
China to Hold
Military Exercises in South China Sea,
Raising Tensions:
The drills, announced in a brief online
statement Sunday, are scheduled to stretch
over seven days starting Tuesday and ending
July 11, the day before the United
Nations-backed tribunal in The Hague is
expected to issue its ruling.
German Arms Sales
Double in 2015:
German arms exports flooded conflict zones
in Qatar and Saudi Arabia last year.
Tony Blair Won't Be
Tried for War Crimes, Could Go to Jail:
British lawmakers will try to enact an
ancient law not used in over 200 years to
impeach former prime minister Tony Blair
when the Chilcot report, due to be released
Wednesday, potentially reveals whether he
lied when making the decision to send
British troops to Iraq.
Angela Eagle warns
Jeremy Corbyn:
Quit as leader or I’ll launch a leadership
challenge. Ms Eagle appeared to confirm with
her statement that she has the backing of 50
MPs or MEPs for a leadership challenge.
Theresa May refuses
to rule out deportation of EU nationals
living in UK
: ‘If we made that promise you could just
see a huge influx…of EU nationals who would
all want to come here while they have that
chance’
Brexit: UKIP leader
Nigel Farage resigns:
"I have never been, and I have never wanted
to be, a career politician. My aim in being
in politics was to get Britain out of the
European Union," he said. "So I feel it's
right that I should now stand aside as
leader of UKIP.
Activists storm US
military base in Yorkshire:
Peace activists from all over Britain
gathered outside the Menwith Hill
intelligence-gathering center on the
outskirts of Harrogate over the weekend, the
British daily Morning Star reported Monday.
File 17 is glimpse
into still-secret 28 pages about 9/11
: File
17, first disclosed by 28pages.org, an
advocacy website, names people the hijackers
were in contact with in the United States
before the attacks. Some were Saudi
diplomats, raising questions about whether
Saudi officials knew about the plot.
Muslim doctor 'shot
and stabbed' outside mosque in Texas:
Witnesses say the victim was ambushed by
three men on foot outside Madrasah Islamiah
mosque in Houston
Guns and Hotdogs:
How the U.S. Military Promotes Its Weapons
Arsenal to the Public
People would rather
see a giant meteor strike Earth than Clinton
or Trump as president:
Thirteen percent of Americans would rather
see a meteor strike earth than vote in
Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump to serve as
their next president.
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Iraq: IS bombing
kills 125 Ramadan shoppers in Baghdad:
A car bomb exploded on a busy street in
the central district of Karrada late on
Saturday.
43 killed in
Syria army shelling of rebel town:
activists:
Hours of airstrikes and shelling
Saturday struck Jayrud, 60 kilometres
(35 miles) northeast of Damascus,
according to the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights.
11 IS militants
killed in Syria
: Turkish armed forces
have killed at least 11 Islamic State
(IS) militants in Syria, media outlets
reported on Sunday.
Russia, Turkey
Reach Breakthrough Agreement on Fighting
Terrorists in Syria:
During a meeting with Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov, his Turkish
counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu said that
Ankara considers not only Daesh but also
al-Nusra Front as terrorists.
Israel should
stop illegal settlements: Quartet report:
Israel should stop building settlements,
denying Palestinian development and
designating land for exclusive Israeli
use that Palestinians seek for a future
state, the Middle East peace "Quartet"
recommended on Friday in a an eagerly
awaited report.
U.S. Offers to
Increase Military Aid to Israel:
The negotiations have unfolded in
secret, with neither side willing to
detail its position on an agreement that
people close to the talks have said
could top $40 billion.
Afghanistan: 50
Taliban killed in airstrikes
: Fifty
Taliban fighters have been killed in
airstrikes in the Arghistan district of
northeastern Badakhshan province of
Afghanistan, media reports said on
Sunday.
20 killed in
Bangladesh hostage bloodbath:
Nine victims were Italian while Japan
confirmed that seven of its nationals
were killed. A US citizen and a
19-year-old Indian who was studying in
California were also among the dead.
Dhaka Terror
Attack: ISIS NOT responsible for siege,
claims Bangladesh Minister:
Minister has said that the
hostage-takers belonged to a local
militant group and not from the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as was
originally being thought.
Libya: 2 traffic
cops killed in car bomb blast in busy
Benghazi:
At least two police officers were killed
and seven others were wounded in car
bomb explosion overnight in one of the
busiest districts of Libya’s eastern
city of Benghazi, officials said.
Libya's unity
government suffers blow as four
ministers resign:
Hopes for the success of Libya's unity
government were dealt a blow on Thursday
with the resignation of four cabinet
ministers.
Weapons
trafficking questions remain unanswered
in Benghazi report:
Employees at the CIA, State Department
and Defense Department refused to answer
specific questions about whether the
U.S. sent, oversaw or was otherwise
involved in weapons transfers to Libyan
rebels.
War Crimes
Prosecutors Say Tony Blair Will Not Be
Investigated:
The decision has outraged families of
troops killed in Iraq who blame Mr Blair
for engineering the war.
Chilcot report
‘will blame MI6 for the Dodgy Dossier’
that took us to war in Iraq:
Former bosses of MI6 could be "fed to
the wolves" according to sources close
to the inquiry
Australia in
political limbo after knife-edge
election:
Country faces strong possibility of hung
parliament after voters fail to hand
either of the top parties a majority.
Putin hints
Russia will react if Finland joins NATO:
"NATO perhaps would gladly fight with
Russia until the last Finnish soldier,"
Putin said.
Hacked Emails
Reveal NATO General Plotting Against
Obama on Russia Policy:
Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip
Breedlove, until recently the supreme
commander of NATO forces in Europe,
plotted in private to overcome President
Barack Obama’s reluctance to escalate
military tensions with Russia.
Major New Brazil
Events Expose the Fraud of Dilma’s
Impeachment — and Temer’s Corruption:
Op-Ed:
Just think about what has happened when
it comes to control over the world’s
fifth most populous (and very oil-rich)
country. The democratically elected
president was impeached despite no
allegations of personal corruption
Propaganda
-Obama
Administration Finally Releases Its
Dubious Drone Death Toll:
According to the data, U.S. drone
strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and
Libya killed between 64 and 116
civilians during the two terms of the
Obama administration — a fraction of
even the most conservative estimates on
drone-related killings by reporters
UAE tells
citizens to avoid national dress while
abroad after man held in US:
The United Arab Emirates has urged men
to avoid wearing the white robes,
headscarf and headband of the national
dress when travelling abroad, after a
businessman visiting the United States
was wrestled to the ground and held as
an ISIS suspect.
Disabled cancer
patient slammed to the ground by TSA
guards:
A disabled teenage cancer patient was
injured during a violent arrest by
security agents at Memphis international
airport, her family has alleged in a
lawsuit filed against the Transport
Security Administration.
Economic
inequality soars in US:
Economic inequality leapt ahead in 2015
in the United States, with the average
incomes of the top 1 percent rising
twice as fast as the incomes of the
remaining 99 percent of households
FBI interviews
Hillary Clinton for more than 3 hours in
email probe:
The investigation is not over: Agents
and prosecutors will now have to compare
what the presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee said Saturday to
other evidence they have gathered,
including from interviews with Clinton’s
aides.
Trump tweets
‘Clinton corrupted’ with six-pointed
star, drawing accusations of
anti-Semitism;
US Republican candidate has been forced
to delete a tweet showing an image of
Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of
money and a six-pointed star after a
barrage of accusations of anti-Semitism.
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70 killed in
battles north of Syria’s Aleppo
: 30 government soldiers and 39 rebel
fighters had been killed in battles
around Al-Maleh, north of Aleppo, since
Wednesday afternoon.
Jihadists that US
kept off terror list attack UN
humanitarian convoy in Syria - MoD:
Militants from an Al-Qaeda-linked group,
Jaysh al-Islam, have shelled a UN
humanitarian convoy near Damascus, the
Russian Defense Ministry said. Despite
the group’s repeated ceasefire
violations, the UN rejected Russia’s bid
to add it to the terror list.
Two villages
south of Mosul liberated, 15 ISIS killed:
“Forces from Nineveh Liberation Command
successfully liberated al-Bawawi and al-Derbas
from ISIS control in the vicinity of
Qayyarah- 60 kilometers south of Mosul.
During the liberation battles, fifteen
(15) ISIS fighters were gunned down.”
ISIS attack at
southern Fallujah leaves four policemen
dead:
Attacking a gathering of security forces
on Thursday morning at southern
Fallujah, ISIS fighters killed four
policemen and injured five others. This
was informed by a Anbar Police source.
Iraqi troops pay
heavy price for Fallujah victory:
Hundreds of Iraqi soldiers were killed
and more than 3,000 wounded during the
five-week battle to recapture Fallujah
from the Islamic State (IS) group,
Middle East Eye can reveal.
UK to send 250
more military personnel to Iraq:
The UK is sending 250 more military
personnel to Iraq, almost doubling its
presence in the country. Most of them
will be going to Al Asad airbase in
Anbar province, western Iraq, 100 miles
west of Baghdad.
Yemen: Houthi
grenade explosion kills two, wounds 18
at civilian market:
The grenade explosion came from
in-fighting between Houthi soldiers. One
of the soldiers threw a grenade while in
a crowded marketplace, destroying a
stall and damaging several civilian
properties.
Istanbul bombers
'from Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan':
Three foreign nationals prime suspects
for airport killings as Turkish
officials say evidence points to ISIL.
Picture of
smiling Istanbul airport suicide bombers:
More is now known about the three ISIS
jihadis - described as being from
Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan - who
slaughtered 43 people and injured 240
Bahraini woman
killed in roadside bomb attack:
A woman has been killed and three
children wounded when a roadside bomb
exploded south of Bahrain's capital,
Manama, the interior ministry said in
what it called a "terrorist" attack.
Israel besieges
Hebron village over teen’s killing:
Israeli forces have blockaded a
Palestinian village in the southern West
Bank just hours after a teenage settler
was allegedly stabbed to death by a
Palestinian in a nearby settlement.
Millions rally
across world to mark Int’l Quds Day:
Millions of people are attending the
International Quds Day rallies across
Iran and other countries to show their
solidarity with the oppressed
Palestinian people and condemn Israeli
atrocities.
Netanyahu asks to
expel Arab MK from Knesset:
Earlier on Wednesday Zoabi caused an
uproar on the Knesset floor when she
strongly condemned the Israeli forces’
videotaped attack on Turkish activists
who were killed during their
participation in Freedom Flotilla in
2010.
Roadside bomb
hits bus, kills 17 in Somali capital:
“The vehicle had a capacity of 20 seats.
Only three passengers survived, although
they were seriously injured, "she added.
The injured were immediately transported
to a nearby hospital in Mogadishu.
6 Egypt soldiers
killed in clash with smugglers near
Libya: army:
The soldiers were patrolling the border
when they “came under surprise fire”
from the smugglers, a military statement
said, adding that a number of smugglers
were killed in the exchange of fire.
US Paratroopers
Join Multinational Airborne Operations
in Africa:
Approximately 110 paratroopers conducted
a parachute assault training exercise
into Gabon, where they eventually linked
up French and Gabonese paratroopers.
New report demonstrates previous US
Government claims on drones have been
false:
International human rights organization
Reprieve has released a report
demonstrating how the Administration’s
previous statements on the issue have
proved to be false.
‘Disciplined
army, able to win’: China President Xi
Jinping states strategic military goal:
Chinese President Xi Jinping says China
needs to create a modern and disciplined
army that would defeat potential
opponents. The Chinese leader said
Beijing had no plans to attack anyone
Canada to send
1,000 soldiers to boost Nato presence on
Russia border:
“As a responsible partner in the world,
Canada stands side by side with its Nato
allies working to deter aggression and
assure peace and stability in Europe,”
defense minister Harjit Sajjan said in a
statement.
Russia Expects
Compensation for Downed Su-24 to Restore
Ties With Turkey:
"Vladimir Putin stated our position that
will allow the renewal of our
relationship. First is an apology,
second is punishment for those
responsible and third is payment. The
first happened, we are waiting for the
second and third to fully restore
relations,"
CIA agent
attacked US Embassy guard in Moscow
: The
US uses its media to spread outright
lies about Russia, the Russian Foreign
Ministry said, dismissing a report by
the Washington Post about a ‘US
diplomat’ 'beaten' by Russian security.
In fact, it was a US spy who attacked a
Russian police officer.
Iceland agrees to
the return of American troops:
The US and Iceland have signed an
agreement that will see the first US
troops deployed to the Arctic island in
a decade.
4 scenarios eyed
to keep Britain in the EU despite exit
vote
: "I wouldn't rule anything out at this
point, including the United Kingdom
staying in the EU." says Anand Menon,
professor of European politics and
foreign affairs.
Nigel Farage
first speech post-Brexit vote: You're
not laughing now
: Video -
Stung by a
betrayal, former London mayor Boris
Johnson ends bid to lead Britain:
Johnson, had been considered the odds-on
favorite to take the keys to 10 Downing
Street, has now been shunted to the
sidelines of the contest to lead the
Conservative Party and, by extension,
the nation.
Deutsche Bank
Poses Greatest Risk to Global Financial
System, IMF Says:
Deutsche Bank AG is the riskiest
financial institution in the world as a
potential source of external shocks to
the financial system, according to the
International Monetary Fund.
The “Lehman of
Europe” Is Now The "World's Most
Systematically Dangerous Bank":
Yes, the U.S.-led “plunge protection
team” did an admirable job goosing
large-cap stocks the past two days –
whilst the Cartel did everything in
their naked shorting power to hold gold
and silver down.
European
Commission Authorized Italian Government
to Support Banks:
The European Commission on Sunday
authorized Italy to use government
guarantees to provide liquidity support
to its banks, a spokeswoman said,
disclosing the first intervention by a
European Union government into its
banking system following the U.K. vote
to leave the EU.
How the Red Cross
Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti
and Built Six Homes:
Even as the group has publicly
celebrated its work, insider accounts
detail a string of failures
The world thinks
Americans are violent, greedy, arrogant
— and Americans agree:
A worldwide survey found that majorities
of people in the U.K., Canada, Spain and
Australia think of Americans as violent,
greedy and arrogant.
CIA knew it had
the wrong man, but kept him anyway
: The
recently released internal report makes
it clear that the CIA’s failures in the
Masri case were even more outrageous
than previous accounts have suggested.
New York just
approved the nation’s first “terrorist
registry”"?
The implications are scary.
The
Militarization of the US Goes Beyond
Police Departments: Report:
Non military federal agencies have spent
almost US$1.5 billion on guns,
ammunition, and military-style
equipment.
Home Computers
Connected to the Internet Aren't
Private, Court Rules:
A federal judge for the Eastern District
of Virginia has ruled that the user of
any computer that connects to the
Internet should not have an expectation
of privacy because computer security is
ineffectual at stopping hackers.
Could The IRS
Empty Your Bank Account?:
When the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
came to visit Randy Sowers, it had
already seized his entire bank
account—over $60,000.
Many Syrian
refugees in US are Daesh militants:
Trump:
“They are letting tens of thousands of
people come in from Syria and nobody
knows who these people are and a lot of
those people are ISIL,” he noted.
Gingrich,
Christie are the leading candidates to
be Trump’s running mate:
Donald Trump’s campaign has begun
formally vetting possible running mates,
with former House speaker Newt Gingrich
emerging as the leading candidate,
followed by New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie. But there are more than a half
dozen others being discussed as
possibilities
Sanders again
declines to endorse Clinton:
Sanders has said he's going to vote for
Clinton, but he has not formally
endorsed her.
Hillary Clinton
Supporters Compilation:
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‘Is
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By Ramzy Baroud
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Britain has
kept a watchful eye on
Brussels and has thwarted
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U.S.-led strikes
in Iraq, kills 250 people:
U.S.-led coalition aircraft waged a
series of deadly strikes against Islamic
State around the city of Falluja on
Wednesday, U.S. officials told Reuters,
with one citing a preliminary estimate
of at least 250 suspected fighters
killed and at least 40 vehicles
destroyed.
8 killed by
attacks in Iraqi capital:
"A lieutenant
police officer was killed when an
improvised bomb that was previously
planted in his car went off in
al-Hurriya neighborhood," senior police
official Colonel Hamed al-Mumen told
Anadolu Agency.
The US is giving
Iraq a $2.7 billion loan for military
equipment:
Iraq secured a $2.7 billion loan from
the United States on Wednesday to fund
ammunition and maintenance of fighter
jets, tanks and other military equipment
for use in the war against Islamic
State.
Turkish military
pounds Daesh, PKK terror targets, kills
38:
The military said in a statement on
Wednesday that its artillery struck 15
weapons emplacements, including Katyusha
rockets, belonging to Daesh, which was
reportedly preparing to attack Turkey
from neighboring Syria.
10 killed in car
bomb in Kurdish-held Syria town: monitor:
A car bomb killed at least 10 people on
Wednesday, June 29 in a Syrian town near
the Turkish border held by US-backed
Kurdish-led forces, a monitoring group
said, according to AFP.
Islamic State
forces Syria rebels to retreat from
border area:
U.S.-backed Syrian rebels were pushed
back from the outskirts of an Islamic
State-held town on the border with Iraq
and a nearby air base on Wednesday after
the jihadists mounted a counter- attack,
two rebel sources said
US Journalist in
Syria Target of Possible US Drone Strike:
A U.S. journalist in Syria—one of the
last to report in English from
rebel-held territory—was the apparent
target of a drone strike on June 26, and
while the perpetrator is currently
unknown, a British advocacy group is
blaming his own government.
Yemeni officials
say Saudi airstrike has killed 25,
including 10 civilians:
-An airstrike early on Tuesday by a
Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite
rebels in Yemen's southern province of
Taiz killed 25 people — 15 fighters and
10 civilians, security officials said.
Groups urge U.N.
to suspend Saudi Arabia from rights
council:
Amnesty International and Human Rights
Watch called on the United Nations
General Assembly on Wednesday to suspend
Saudi Arabia from the U.N. Human Rights
Council until a Saudi-led military
coalition stops killing civilians in
Yemen.
Palestinian kills
teen in Israeli settlement, then shot
dead: army:
A Palestinian fatally
stabbed a 13-year-old girl inside her
home in a Jewish settlement in the
occupied West Bank on Thursday, before
guards shot him dead, the military and
hospital officials said.
Israeli
occupation forces raid Jerusalem Al-Aqsa
Mosque for second day: 7 injured, 4
detained
: The clashes started when Israeli
police forces opened a gate to allow
Israelis and foreign tourists to use the
site, despite Muslim worshippers
contesting the access to outsiders
during the last 10 days of the Muslim
holy month of Ramadan.
Netanyahu ‘to
work toward ousting Arab Knesset member’:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu says he plans to work toward
ousting an Arab member of the Israeli
parliament (Knesset) who has described
the Israeli commandos who killed ten
Turkish activists back in 2010 as
“murderers.”
Bomb kills 18 bus
passengers in Somalia:
Blast explodes as packed minibus passes
by, killing all 18 people on board,
police say.
Boko Haram
suicide bomber kills 11 at mosque in
Cameroon:
A suicide bomber belonging to Nigerian
jihadist group Boko Haram killed at
least 11 people when he blew himself up
close to a mosque in Cameroon near the
Nigerian border, military sources and
local officials said on Thursday.
Suicide bombing
kills 30 Afghan trainee police:
The attack took place some 20 kilometres
west of Kabul according to Mousa
Rahmati, the district governor of
Paghman. He said the trainee police
officers were returning from a training
centre in Wardak province and were
heading to the capital on leave.
China slams South
China Sea case as court set to rule:
An international court said it would
deliver a hotly anticipated ruling in
the Philippines' case against China over
the South China Sea on July 12, drawing
an immediate rebuke from Beijing, which
rejects the tribunal's jurisdiction.
At least 10 dead
on sinking migrant boat: Italian
coastguard:
The coastguard said on Twitter that 107
people had been rescued from the
stricken vessel and 10 bodies had been
recovered. It was possible the death
toll could be higher as dinghies used by
people smugglers often carry up to 140
people.
EU suggests it
cannot rely on NATO, may be mulling new
armed force:
The European Union (EU) has released a
strategy document that suggests the bloc
can no more rely on NATO for the
provision of security and needs a “more
credible European defense.”
Russia prolongs
Western food embargo until end of 2017:
A ban on importing certain agricultural
produce, foods and raw materials from
countries that have sanctioned Russia
was first introduced in the summer of
2014. Moscow extended its counter
measures in response to anti-Russia
sanctions in June last year.
France wants
sanctions on Russia lifted soon –
foreign minister:
Sanctions against Russia should be
lifted as soon as possible, France’s
Minister of Foreign Affairs said on
Wednesday following a meeting with his
Russian counterpart
Theresa May rules
out early general election or second EU
referendum if she becomes Conservative
leader:
Theresa May has officially launched her
campaign for Conservative party leader,
ruling out calling an early general
election or second EU referendum.
Brexit allies
fall out in fierce battle to succeed
Cameron:
Brexit campaigner Michael Gove announced
a surprise bid Thursday to become
Britain's next prime minister, in a blow
for his close ally Boris Johnson's
chances, as turmoil gripped both the
country's main political parties after
the shock vote to leave the EU.
Scottish leader's
plea to stay in Europe rebuffed in
Brussels:
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy,
struggling to prevent the autonomous
region of Catalonia from breaking away,
said Madrid would oppose any EU
negotiation with Scotland. "If the
United Kingdom leaves, Scotland leaves,"
he said.
UK voted for
Brexit – but is there a way back?:
Several scenarios could see the vote
overturned, involving either a Labour or
Tory prime minister. But all are
speculative
UK denies Chagos
Islanders the right to return home:
UK's highest court upholds ruling that
denies displaced islanders the right to
return home.
John Pilger:
Stealing a Nation :
There are times when one tragedy, one
crime tells us how a whole system works
behind its democratic facade and helps
us to understand how much of the world
is run for the benefit of the powerful
and how governments lie.
CIA gave Romania
millions to host secret prisons:
The CIA paid Romania "millions of
dollars" to host secret prisons, a
rights lawyer said Wednesday as the
European Court of Human Rights heard
accusations that Romania allowed the
agency to torture terrorism suspects in
a secret renditions program under
President George W. Bush.
Rights court
mulls claims CIA secretly held suspects
in E. Europe:
Two former Guantanamo Bay inmates claim
to have been held by CIA in secret
prisons in Romania and Lituania
John Kerry: 'We
Are Not Frozen in a Nightmare':
Defending the Obama Administration’s
geopolitical record, the secretary of
state laid out a vision of an America
that is globalist, engaged, and deeply
interventionist.
CIA chief looks
at Turkish attack and sees a warning for
Americans:
“I’d be surprised if Daesh is not trying
to carry out that kind of attack in the
United States.” Daesh is an acronym for
the Arabic name of the Islamic State,
better known as ISIS or ISIL.
2 million-person
terror database leaked online:
Internationally-renowned anti-terrorism
activists had been included in the
World-Check database as ‘heightened-risk
indivduals’, including the Executive
Director of the Council of
American-Islamic Relations, who
described his inclusion on the
World-Check list as “inaccurate, bigoted
garbage.”
As quietly as
possible, the government is renewing its
assault on your privacy:
Having failed to secure an
anti-encryption bill, the FBI and
justice department are now engaged in a
multi-pronged attack on all sorts of
other privacy rights
GOP donor Paul
Singer says Trump would cause a
depression:
A hedge fund executive and major
Republican donor believes Donald Trump's
policies would spell big trouble for the
U.S. economy.
Why Europe's
far-right isn't warming to Trump:
Europeans overwhelmingly do not trust
presumptive Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump's decisionmaking
in world affairs, according to a new Pew
Research Center poll.
Clinton-Trump
Race Too Close To Call: Poll Finds;
Neither Candidate Would Be Good
President, Voters Say
Pro-Hillary group
takes $200K in banned donations:
A super-PAC backing Hillary Clinton has
accepted $200,000 in donations from a
company holding multiple contracts with
the federal government — despite a ban
on such contributions. |
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"The very
individuals the United
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from power during the Libyan
revolution were the only
Libyans that came to the
assistance of the United
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Yemen violence
kills 80:
A flare-up in violence across Yemen
Tuesday killed 80 people, nearly half of
them civilians, officials said, as
lengthy peace talks in Kuwait made no
headway.
Saudi airstrikes
leave 40 Yemeni civilians dead despite
truce:
The news comes hours after four
terrorist bomb attacks hit military and
security positions in Mukalla city of
Hadhramaut Province, leaving 48
civilians dead and some 30 others
injured.
41 killed in
suicide attack at Istanbul airport:
At
least 41 people died and dozens more
were injured late Tuesday after three
suspected Islamic State terrorists blew
themselves up at Ataturk International
Airport, according to Turkish officials.
CCTV of Turkey
attack: Moment Ataturk Airport bomber
explodes himself after being shot
(GRAPHIC) : CCTV footage shows police
shooting one of the Attaturk Airport
bombers seconds before he detonates his
suicide vest.
Two soldiers
killed in Kurdish militant attacks in
southeast Turkey - army
: Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters
launched one attack in the Lice district
of Diyarbakir, wounding four soldiers,
one of whom later died in hospital. It
said another soldier was shot dead by
PKK militants in Diyarbakir's Bismil
district after he got out of a vehicle
in front of his house.
Turkey to allow
more patrol flights on Syria border by
NATO allies:
“Some NATO countries, especially
Britain, have complained that they could
not perform enough patrol flights on
Turkey’s Syrian border as the engagement
rules were too strict,” the official
told Reuters. “Turkey eased these
engagement rules to bring them in line
with NATO policies,”
Apologizing for
shoot-down of Russian warplane is "out
of questoin", says Turkish PM:
Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim
denied on Tuesday that his government
apologized for shooting down a Russian
warplane last year over Turkey’s border
with Syria clarifying that his country
only “expressed sadness over the
incident.”
Iraqi forces kill
15 members of ISIS elite forces in
Qayyarah:
“The Anti-Terrorism Directorate carried
out an air landing operation at night at
one of the biggest headquarters of ISIS
at Qayyarah in Mosul,” adding, “The
[operation] resulted in the death of
fifteen (15) members of ISIS’
Forces kill five
ISIS members west of Ramadi:
, “The security forces managed to carry
out military operations to liberate Heet
island in western Heet district,
resulting in the killing of five ISIS
members, as well as in the destruction
of two booby-trapped vehicles, a
motorcycle and five boats.”
Car Bomb Kills 10
In Kurdish-Held Syria Town: Report:
A car bomb killed at least 10 people
today in a Syrian town near the Turkish
border held by US-backed Kurdish-led
forces, a monitoring group said.
US backed Syrian
rebel forces seize military airport near
IS stronghold:
"The operation", which involved foreign
paratroopers landing by helicopters,
"took place at dawn."
US and Russian
fighters in dramatic showdown over
Syria:
American pilots scramble to confront
Russia's jets as they bomb
Pentagon-backed Syrian rebels
11 Kurdish
rebels, three guards killed in clashes
near Iraqi border:
Eleven Kurdish rebels and three of
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were
killed in clashes near the Iraqi border,
the Fars news agency reported on
Tuesday.
John Kerry: Iran
'helpful' in fighting ISIS in Iraq:
Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday
deemed Iran's presence in Iraq to be
"helpful" to American attempts to beat
back the threat of ISIS, given their
common enemy.
Abbas to Erdogan:
Do not provide Gaza with aid unless
through the PA:
The Palestinian Authority (PA) announced
its refusal of supplying Gaza with
Turkish humanitarian aid unless it is
done through the PA government in
Ramallah. This came after the
Israeli-Turkish reconciliation agreement
which involves providing Gaza with
Turkish aid.
The 7 must-read
passages in the Benghazi report:
From the video conference that was
convened as the attack was underway to
the unlikely assistance the Americans
received that night.
Afghanistan: Over
40 ISIS fighters killed in Nangarhar
clearance raids:
The statement said that the hideouts of
the terror group were also destroyed and
the mentioned areas were cleared from
the presence of ISIS militants.
US Airstrikes
Accidentally Kill Afghan Hostages:
Several Taliban fighters were also
killed in the late Sunday airstrikes,
the officials told VOA's Afghan Service.
Bodies of the slain hostages, believed
to be former Afghan army soldiers, were
brought to a hospital in Kunduz City on
Monday.
Four murdered in
fresh US drone strike in Afghanistan’s
Kunduz:
Afghan National Army General Abdul Qahar
Aram said those killed in the attack
were Taliban militants. However, the
Taliban have made no comments on the
airstrike so far.
NATO, EU leaders
pledge strong alliance to counter Brexit
fallout:
NATO and the European Union promised
closer defense ties at a summit on
Tuesday to deter Russia and counter
Islamic militants on Europe's borders,
seeking a show of unity days after
Britain voted to leave the EU.
Brexit Could Open
the Door to Russia Joining the EU:
Tempting Russia with EU membership would
do far more to elicit better behavior
from Moscow than the weak economic
sanctions the EU currently imposes on
it.
US destroyer gets
dangerously close to Russian patrol boat
in Mediterranean – Moscow:
The US guided-missile destroyer Gravely
breached international navigation safety
rules by coming within dangerous
proximity of the Yaroslav Mudry, a
Russian frigate, in the eastern
Mediterranean, the Russian Defense
Ministry has said.
Fact or propaganda?
U.S. complains to
Russia over harassment of diplomats:
U.S. and other Western diplomats in
Russia have reported a surge in
harassment from Russian intelligence
services, prompting Secretary of State
John Kerry to complain to Moscow, the
State Department says.
US to deploy
Israeli missile system on Russian
borders: General:
The US military has test-launched a
variant of the Israeli “Tamir” rocket
which is incorporated to the Tel Aviv
regime’s so-called Iron Dome missile
system.
NATO Buildup on
Russian Border is Like Cuban Missile
Crisis Only in Reverse:
French journalist Christine Bierre,
editor-in-chief of the Solidarite &
Progres newspaper, warned that the
situation is reminiscent of a Cold
War-era conflict which brought the world
to the brink of nuclear annihilation.
Russia is
beginning the construction of "greater
Eurasia":
Op-Ed - Russia is creating a bloc of
countries centered around it and China
which will inevitably challenge US
hegemony.
US Newseum to
screen film showing details of $230m
theft from Russia:
A journalism history museum in
Washington, will show on Monday a
documentary revealing the involvement of
William Browder, the UK millionaire of
US origin, in a theft of some $230
million of Russian taxpayers’ money as a
result of tax evasion scheme.
European
SUPERSTATE to be unveiled:
EU nations 'to be morphed into one'
post-Brexit: EUROPEAN political chiefs
are to take advantage of Brexit by
unveiling their long-held plan to morph
the continent’s countries into one GIANT
SUPERSTATE, it has emerged.
EU leaders tell
Britain to exit swiftly, market rout
halts:
Financial markets recovered slightly
after the result of Thursday’s
referendum wiped a record $3 trillion
off global shares and sterling fell to
its lowest level in 31 years against the
dollar, but trading was volatile and
policymakers said they would take all
necessary measures to protect their
economies.
Labour MPs pass
no-confidence motion in Jeremy Corbyn:
The 172-40 vote, which is not binding,
follows resignations from the shadow
cabinet and calls on Mr Corbyn to quit.
Mr Corbyn said the ballot had "no
constitutional legitimacy" and said he
would not "betray" the members who voted
for him by resigning.
The Rise In Hate
Crimes In The U.K. After Brexit Should
Scare You:
There has been a significant rise in
hate crimes since the U.K. voted to
leave the European Union last week,
according to local media — which is
probably not a surprise given the
blatantly xenophobic campaigning of
Leave supporters.
'What's Perth
coming to?': Burning vehicle and
anti-Islam graffiti found outside
Thornlie mosque:
A witness has described hearing loud
bangs and seeing a burning vehicle
outside a Perth mosque on Tuesday night,
which was also sprayed with anti-Islam
graffiti.
Senate Report
Clears Rousseff of Budget Manipulation:
Experts report that suspended President
Dilma Rousseff did not cook the books
like her rivals claim, but the
impeachment process will continue.
El Chapo: Mexico
judge halts extradition to US:
The ruling means it could be months or
even years before he is sent to the US,
where he faces murder and drug smuggling
charges. One of the appeals argues that
the statute of limitations has run out
on some crimes Guzman is accused of in
the US, his lawyer Jose Refugio
Rodriguez told Associated Press.
Neocon NGO
Pressures Google, Facebook to Censor
Content:
Executives from Google and Facebook have
faced enormous political pressure from
forces as diverse as Pres. Obama himself
to the Israel Lobby, to rid their sites
of Islamist content
3-year-old boy
held alone in immigration detention:
A 3-year-old boy from El Salvador was
held several days at a Pennsylvania
family detention center without his
mother, said the mother and boy’s
attorney.
US border
authority seeks travellers' social media
details:
Travellers seeking visa waiver entry to
the US may soon be asked to list their
social media profiles - if a Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal is
enacted. An update to application forms
would ask users to identify what social
networks they use and their "social
media identifier" such as a username.
Americans'
anxiety around the economy grows:
A majority of Americans say the word
“afraid” describes their feelings about
this campaign. They also say they’re
“embarrassed.”
Republicans'
Health-Care Plan: Not Much Care, Not
Much Plan:
It would permit health insurers to cover
far fewer services than they have to
cover under Obamacare, and it would
reduce federal subsidies for buying
insurance, pare protections for people
with pre-existing conditions, roll back
funding for Medicaid.
'Donald Trump'
emails British MP asking for money
:
Glasgow East MP Natalie McGarry also
finds it extraordinary that the
anti-immigration US billionaire appears
to be approaching foreign nationals with
his 'beggging bowl'
Trump Now Hitting
Up Iceland MPs for Cash:
Offers to match their illegal foreign
contributions dollar for dollar from his
own fortune up to two million dollars.
Bernie Sanders:
Democrats Need to Wake Up:
. Workers in Britain, many of whom have
seen a decline in their standard of
living while the very rich in their
country have become much richer, have
turned their backs on the European Union
and a globalized economy that is failing
them and their children.
Did Google
Manipulate Search for Hillary?:
Video - While researching for a wrap-up
on the June 7 Presidential Primaries, we
discovered evidence that Google may be
manipulating autocomplete
recommendations in favor of Hillary
Clinton.
Hacked emails
show Hillary Clinton campaign's
surveillance of journalists:
Guccifer 2.0 struck again and leaked
emails from a Hillary Clinton volunteer
to the website the Smoking Gun
Clinton White
House was den of coke, mistresses:
ex-Secret Service officer:
As someone who guarded the Oval Office
during the Clinton presidency, Byrne, in
an exclusive interview with The Post,
tells how he witnessed “the Clinton
machine leaving a wake of destruction in
just about everything they do.” |
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