Indem ich Präsident John Kennedys berühmte Rede in Berlin ein wenig veränderte, sagte ich, jeder anständige Mensch auf der Welt sollte stolz erklären: „Ich bin ein Bil‘iner!“

Grillo is no social media pioneer. His blog broadcasts his message, but the key point is that Italy is tired of its ruling class

Nicolás Maduro grita en funeral: ´Chávez vive, la lucha sigue

Sean Penn, Ahmadinejad and Jesse Jackson bid farewell to Hugo Chavez as tens of thousands pack streets for Venezuelan president‘s funeral
Chavez died on Tuesday at age 58 after a two-year battle with cancer

Early version of the constitution used to swear-in new CIA director lacks the part about due process before the law. Oops

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In heavy metal bands, as the old joke goes, real men keep their amps permanently turned up to eleven.

North Korean rhetoric operates on a similarly Spinal Tap-ish principle.

Eine Ärzte-Delegation informierte sich über die Folgen der Krise für das griechische Gesundheitssystem, aber auch über solidarische Gegenstrategien

A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. On this day in 1917, a series of rallies held for Women‘s Day in Petrograd, now St Petersburg, gradually turned into a large political protest.

Das Vietnamsyndrom war keine Krankheit, die die Politik befallen hatte, es war ein Antikörper, erzeugt, um den Imperialismus zu bekämpfen. Leider, wie Afghanistan, Irak, Pakistan, Libyen, Somalia und Jemen zeigen, sind wir wieder einmal gegen das Vietnamsyndrom resistent geworden.

According to al Hayat, the initiative is backed by independent figures who are well respected by Syria‘s traditional opposition, including Samir Aita and Michel Kilo, both living in Paris.

According to the report, the American government got Saudi Arabia to sell the weapons to the Croatians, who served as go-betweens for the rebels.

(07.03.) The UN Disengagement Force (UNDOF) peacekeepers are reportedly from Austria, Croatia, India and the Philippines, Al Jazeera‘s James Bays said from the UN headquarters in New York.

(06.03.) The West may have refused to arm the Syrian opposition, but in reality weapons have been flowing to the revolutionaries, writes Bassel Oudat in Damascus

(05.03.) “We had a discussion about the types of weapons that are being transferred and by whom,” Mr. Kerry said after a meeting with the prime minister of Qatar, which has been involved in arming the Syrian opposition.

(04.03.) Mr. Kerry’s comments followed a conference in Rome last week on the issue of building support for a coalition of opponents to the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad, which Mr. Kerry attended. He spoke to concerns that aid that was meant for the Western-backed group might be diverted into the hands of extremists.

(28.02.) Croatia has nearly 100 soldiers serving with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, which is responsible for maintaining the fragile calm between Israeli and Syrian troops at the demilitarized zone along Syria’s Golan frontier that was established after a cease-fire ended the 1973 war.

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(26.02.) Rebels have been fighting Assad‘s regime since an uprising against his rule erupted in March 2011 and now control large parts of the country, especially in the north. According to the United Nations, the fighting has claimed 70,000 lives.

(25.02.) In short, during the past several weeks scores of videos have been uploaded to YouTube that provide evidence of a seemingly distinct flow of new weapons to the country, which The New York Times has now identified as a Saudi-financed flow of arms from Croatia.

(25.02.) Saudi Arabia has financed a large purchase of infantry weapons from Croatia and quietly funneled them to antigovernment fighters in Syria

Mit der Preisverleihung werden Ali Ferzats beispielloser Einsatz für die Meinungsfreiheit und sein unerschütterliches Engagement gewürdigt, mit dem er – trotz Angriffen auf seine Person – die Auswüchse der Macht in seinen Karikaturen entlarvt.

Kim Byung-kwan, who had served as the deputy commander of S. Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Korea in 2006-2008, has been under mounting public and media pressure to resign because of his well-paid job as a consultant for a local arms broker from 2010-2011. The arms broker was involved in a controversial project to import faulty German tank parts for the Korean Army.

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Wie aus der neuen Forbes-Liste der Superreichen hervorgeht, gibt es auf dem chinesischen Festland 122 Dollar-Milliardäre.

Das bilaterale Handelsvolumen zwischen China und der EU stieg um 3,2 Prozent, jenes mit den USA um 14,8 Prozent.

„Weil dies nur eine Maßnahme ist, die Wirtschaftskrise per Inflation auf das Volk abzuwälzen“, erklärte Li.

Die EU werde sich auch weiterhin dafür einsetzen, diese engen Beziehungen zu erhalten, sagte EU-Handelskommissar Karel De Gucht am Rande der ASEAN-EU-Wirtschaftskonferenz in der vietnamesischen Hauptstadt Hanoi.

(26.11.2010) Die Korea-Krise, deren wahren Kontrahenten in Washington und Peking sitzen, bekommt eine neue Dimension. Bereits einen Tag vor dem Artilleriegefecht zwischen Nordkorea und Südkorea plauderte der tags darauf gefeuerte südkoreanische Verteidigungsminister Kim Tae-young neue, brisante Pläne aus. Diesen zufolge könnten die USA taktische Atomwaffen in Südkorea stationieren. Währenddessen werden rund um das Artilleriegefecht am 23. begründete Zweifel über die Darstellung der amerikanisch-südkoreanischen Seite laut. Offenbar versuchen die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika – wirtschaftlich und finanziell am Boden und nach neun Jahren Krieg mit zwei eroberten Ländern in Asien moralisch am Ende – mit kaltem, strategischem Kalkül eine asiatische Kuba-Krise herauf zu beschwören. Dabei benutzen sie die Koreaner beider Staaten als Bauern auf dem Schachbrett gegen ihren neuen Konkurrenten China, den sie zur Aufwertung ihrer Währung zwingen wollen.

The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social-democratic European political party. (…)

Member parties:
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Germany: Social Democratic Party of Germany SPD

At stake is not only Europe‘s economy, with a rising number of protest votes and populist movements gaining ground due to dissatisfaction over harsh austerity measures, but of democracy as well.

It‘s known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, where the Al-Aqsa Mosque stands.

North Korean state television reported on Friday that its leader Kim Jong-un has visited military facilities in Jangjae and Mu Islets, located in the southernmost part of the southwestern sector of North‘s border with South Korea.

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The Republic of Korea‘s (ROK) Special Task Force Counter-Terrorism Unit, under the supervision of U.S. Navy SEALs, clearing a simulated, hostile building using simmunition rounds at Chinhae Naval Base, Korea.

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South Korea and the US have begun controversial annual joint military drills. The war games involving hundreds of thousands of troops are being held despite North Korea‘s calling it „provocation“ and threatening with retaliation.

Angrily responding to the United Nations Security Council’s unanimous decision to impose tightened sanctions, North Korea said on Friday that it was nullifying all nonaggression agreements with South Korea, with one of its top generals claiming that his country had nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles ready to blast off.

A group of United Nations peacekeepers from the Philippines who were seized in the disputed Golan Heights region between Syria and Israel two days ago, remained in captivity early on Friday as their captors pressed demands for a redeployment of government forces nearby, the Filipino authorities said.