Acting Chairman of the Knesset‘s temporary Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee MK Avigdor Lieberman commented Tuesday on the Ben Zygier case, saying that „In Israel people don‘t just disappear and no one takes the law in their own hands.“

Erneut Proteste nach Tod eines Palästinensers in Haft. Vereinte Nationen mahnen Transparenz an

„Wir hoffen darauf, dass die Opposition, die bald in Rom mit Vertretern westlicher und regionaler Länder zusammentrifft, den Dialog akzeptieren und die Chefunterhändler berufen wird“, sagte Lawrow am Dienstag in Berlin nach einem Treffen mit seinem US-amerikanischen Amtskollegen John Kerry.

„Wir hatten ein konstruktives Gespräch. Ich spürte den Willen meines Kollegen John Kerry, unsere Beziehungen als Partner aufzubauen, ohne dass strittige Probleme verschwiegen werden“, sagte Lawrow am Dienstag in Berlin nach einem Treffen mit Kerry.

On a 58 to 41 vote, the Senate confirmed the former GOP senator as four Republicans joined 54 Democrats in approving Hagel, ending a nearly two-month battle that included an unprecedented filibuster against the nominee.

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The only Italians celebrating the deadlocked outcome of Monday‘s election were supporters of comic Beppe Grillo, whose 5-Star Movement steamrolled into parliament and sparked fears that Italy could reject austerity and even the euro.

Jamie Bartlett

Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos

While Beppe Grillo, the comedian whose movement won 25 per cent of the vote, may be laughing, fund managers are not.

Napolitanos Deutschland-Besuch endet am Donnerstag in Berlin mit einem Staatsbankett in Schloss Bellevue.

Einen Tag nach der Parlamentswahl in Italien ist Staatspräsident Giorgio Napolitano zu einem dreitägigen Besuch in Deutschland eingetroffen.

Israelische Polizei schiesst auf Demonstranten, während Abbas die Palästinenserbehörde auffordert, sich heraus zu halten

„The reason is, that‘s freedom, freedom of speech. In American you have a right to be stupid – if you want to be,“ he said, prompting laughter. „And you have a right to be disconnected to somebody else if you want to be.

In his first foreign trip as Secretary of State, John Kerry defended America‘s civil liberties during his talk with German students.

Everything has been wiped out in the name of a balance sheet, in the name of a currency. Even the Church has fallen silent. After having always proclaimed the supremacy of the spirit over matter, they haven’t had the strength to rebel against the supremacy of the god called euro. In Sanremo, there was the “sign” of the death of the Italian spirit, a sign that only Italian thought could have invented: the intentional, knowing cacophony of the Mononote song.

The party with the youngest representation is the anti-establishment Five Star Movement led by Genoa comic Beppe Grillo, with an average age of 37 years across both houses (33 in the Chamber of Deputies and 46 in the Senate).

Die veröffentlichten Daten beziehen sich auf das Jahr 2011

The pair speak to press before private talks on the Middle East and trade relatiions between Germany and the USA.

Videos from both sides of an incident that saw a Sea Shepherd ship sandwiched by Japanese vessels during the anti-whaling group‘s operations highlight the conflict, and the Sea Shepherd Chief Executive joins us to reflect on that.

Kinder aus Schulen in Handschellen abgeführt – das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten lässt seiner Paranoia freien Lauf

«Wir werden das Parlament aufreißen wie eine Thunfischbüchse», hatte Grillo vor der Wahl angekündigt.

They will create a PDminusL – PDL super-government. We are the obstacle. They can no longer succeed against us. Let them resign themselves to that. They’ll be able to keep going for 7 or 8 months and they’ll produce a disaster but we’ll try and keep them under control. We’ll start to do what we’ve always said – our stars: water in public hands, schools in public hands, public health service. If they follow us they follow us. If they don’t, the battle will be very harsh for them, very harsh. They cannot understand . They cannot conceive of things. They need psychiatric analysis. They are failed people. They’ve been there for 25, or 30 years, and they have brought the country to the point of catastrophe.

Außenminister Westerwelle risikiert, dass man seinen nautischen Vergleich falsch interpretiert.

“The euro is too strong and doesn’t correspond to economic fundamentals,” he said. The ECB “should prepare to confront a new currency war in which the weakening of currencies becomes a political tool.”

If Maurice Taylor was thinking of vacationing in France any time soon, then he‘ll likely have to make new plans. The American tire tycoon became France‘s new public enemy No. 1 after his scathing remarks about the French work ethic, and on Thursday, a French government minister served the rubber baron with an equally scathing reply.

The highly publicised spat between a US tyre magnate, who accused French Goodyear employees of working “just three hours a day”, and the French minister for industrial renewal continued unabated Friday in a spiralling tit-for-tat quarrel.