Around 5,000 Spanish police officers marched through the streets of Madrid on Saturday to protest government austerity measures, including frozen pensions and the elimination of their Christmas bonuses.
Officers travelled from across Spain to take part in the demonstration which was called by the nation’s main policing union.
Well over half of British voters now want to leave the European Union, according to an opinion poll that shows anti-EU sentiment is sweeping through all three main political parties.
Multifront engagement scenarios designed for the thousands of U.S. and Israeli forces participating in Austere Challenge 2012 grew exceedingly realistic in the closing days of the biennial drill, as operators and joint task force commanders from U.S. European Command (EUCOM) witnessed at least four operational intercepts by the Israeli Iron Dome.
Aus seiner Sicht seien die andauernden Raketenangriffe aus den Palästinensergebieten ausschlaggebender Faktor für die Zuspitzung des Konflikts gewesen – nicht die gezielte Tötung des Militärchefs der Hamas im Gazastreifen, Ahmed al-Dschabari.
“We believe that the precipitating factor for the conflict was the rocket fire coming out of Gaza,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser. “We believe that Israel has a right to defend itself and will make its own decisions about the package that they use in that regard.”
Palestinian women cry during the funeral of Tahrer Salman and Mohammed Salman in Beit Lahia, north Gaza, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. According to relatives, the two members of the Salman family were killed after an Israeli airstrike hit the yard of their house
Past protests have led to incidents of violence, particularly outside the American Embassy, which for some Greeks still remains the symbol of repression for supporting the junta of the Colonels. The Communist party will also lead a march to the Israeli Embassy to protest Israeli air strikes against Gaza, the base for rockets being fired into Israel.
On the 17th of November, the mind and our heart is at the University of Athens or else know as ”Politexneion”. It’s been 39 years since the heroic uprising of students, the youth and the entire Greek nation against tyranny, in November 1973.
Thousands of Greeks marched in Athens on Saturday in the annual demonstration commemorating the violent suppression of a 1973 student uprising against a US-backed junta.
Ben Rhodes, White House deputy national security adviser, told reporters the United States „wants the same thing as the Israelis want,“ which is an end to rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian militants in Gaza.
The Obama administration‘s unstinting financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel is a key enabling force in the conflict
Laut Israels Botschafter in Washington haben die USA grünes Licht für einen Angriff auf Gaza gegeben
Im Gespräch mit Netanjahu seien sich beide einig gewesen, dass schnell ein Waffenstillstand erreicht werden müsse, sagte Vizeregierungssprecher Georg Streiter.
The Western media chose to identify the activists as “Shi’ite.” Unfortunately they succumbed to reporting the story through the same sectarian prism characteristic of the al-Khalifa worldview, which is to classify everyone based on religious affiliation.
f you give someone something you stole from them, it‘s not a gift. If you give someone money you owe them, it‘s not a gift. If you wrongfully collect rent, knowing your tenants can legally refuse to pay because you‘re not providing basic services, and then you give part of that rent back two months later — that‘s certainly not a gift.
Wenn das Licht 13,3 Milliarden Jahre brauchte, um zu uns zu gelangen, bedeutet dies zugleich, dass dieses Objekt bereits etwa 420 Millionen Jahre nach dem Urknall bestand.
Der 27-Jährige hatte sich dort tagelang verschanzt, aus Protest gegen den geplanten Braunkohleabbau vor Ort.
Aus deutschen Regierungskreisen zitierte das Blatt, dass die Raketen im Fall eines Angriffs auf die Türkei auch eingesetzt würden. Die Stationierung sei „nicht nur psychologisch gemeint“.
Zwei spektakuläre Fälle von Selbstmord haben die spanische Regierung nun nach langen Monaten des Abwartens zum Handeln gezwungen: Eine Mutter von drei kleinen Kindern stürzte sich vom Balkon aus dem vierten Stock, als sie ihre Wohnung räumen sollte. Im zweiten Fall erhängte sich ein Rentner, als der Gerichtsvollzieher vor der Tür stand.
Gewerkschaftschef Dusan Semolic rief die Regierung des Euro-Landes auf, „dem durch Europa geisternden neoliberalen Virus zu widerstehen“. Reformen müssten den Menschen dienen und nicht den Interessen der EU.
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Wieder einmal schäumen Regierungsvertreter der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, nachdem heute ein irakisches Gericht endgültig die Freilassung von Ali Mussa Daqduq angeordnet hat, von dem die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika behaupten, er sei ein „Hezbollah Commander,“ der aber wiederholt von irakischen Gerichten freigesprochen worden ist.
The parties also exchanged views on topical issues in Russian-Turkish relations in the light of the forthcoming meeting of the countries’ High-Level Cooperation Council.
The conversation was initiated by the Turkish side.
“The Russian president has called on opposing sides of the conflict to avoid the escalation of violence, which claims the lives of innocent civilians, and do everything possible to restore peace in the region,” the Kremlin said in a statement
This came in a statement Friday by the Israel Home Front Command Chief Major-General Eyal Eisenberg. He also urged the local military command officers and the local government agencies of southern Israel to brace themselves for the fact that the operation in the Gaza Strip may last for at least seven weeks.
President Vladimir Putin told Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in a telephone call that Russia supports Egypt‘s efforts to halt the escalating violence in Gaza, the Kremlin said Friday.
(15.11.) Putins Sprecher Dmitri Peskow teilte am Donnerstag mit: „Wir verfolgen die Situation sehr aufmerksam und sind besorgt. Präsident Putin bekommt online Informationen.“ Der russische Staatschef plane diesbezüglich für die nächste Zeit „internationale Kontakte“.
Der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin und der türkische Regierungschef Recep Tayyip Erdogan haben in einem Telefongespräch die Situation im Gaza-Streifen erörtert und ihre Handlungen abgestimmt.
(14.11.) Hong‘s comments came after the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces was formed on Sunday in Doha, Qatar. It has been acknowledged by some countries, including France.
In a press conference with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin stressed that the events in Syria could evolve to chaos as was the way in Libya.
Local residents who previously joined forces with the rebels are now speedily leaving their ranks. Availing themselves of the amnesty, former volunteers acknowledge they were promised cash rewards they never got.
Egyptian Transport Minister Mohammed Rashad Al-Matin resigned after an accident involving a school bus and a train, which killed at least 45 children, TV channel Al Jazeera reported.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the Human Rights Headquarters of the Iranian Judiciary said that the US act of denying visas to the Iranian delegation proves that America is misusing its position as the host of the international organization.