Laut einem Gesetzentwurf strebt die Regierung in Israel die Zwangsumsiedlung von 30.000 bis 40.000 Beduinen an. Sie sollen in anerkannte Siedlungen ziehen. Vor dem Büro des Ministerpräsidenten Netanjahu gab es bereits scharfe Proteste.

Seit gut einem Jahr haben die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika eine Politik des Regimewechsels in Syrien verfolgt. Der Grund für diese Politik liegt in dem breiteren regionalen Interesse Washingtons: Unterstützung gehorsamer Klientenstaaten und Eliminierung von Staaten, die die Hegemonie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in Frage stellen.

Forty-one countries are taking part in the two-week International Mine Countermeasures Exercise (IMCMEX-13) to practice minesweeping and protecting ports and energy installations in the Gulf.

The United Arab Emirates criticized on Monday a visit by Iranian lawmakers to Gulf islands near the Strait of Hormuz at the center of a territorial dispute between the two countries, who are both trade partners and strategic rivals.

Kiyul Chung:
Liebe Freunde und Unterstützer,
im Namen von Dutzenden Millionen Koreanern aus Nord und Süd und Übersee möchte ‚The 4th Media‘ das folgende Dokument teilen/unterbreiten, das für Frieden nicht Krieg auf der koreanischen Halbinsel und der Region Nordostasien aufruft.

‚The 4th Media‘ möchte mit Unterstützung und der Solidarität von anderen globalen alternativen, unabhängigen Medien in der Welt eine globale Kampagne starten, um die dutzenden Millionen Koreaner zu unterstützen, die Frieden fordern. Die folgende englische Version [hier übersetzt] ist der erste Entwurf, die von ‚The 4th Media‘ vorgeschlagen wurde Die Koreaner in Seoul haben bereits mit ihrer eigenen Kampagne für ‚Frieden, kein Krieg‘ begonnen.

The eurozone‘s private sector shrank for the 15th consecutive month in April – suggesting the single currency area will fall deeper into recession this quarter.

Protesters in the capital‘s central Piazza Venezia clashed with riot police Monday morning as they tried to break through a police line blocking Rome prefect‘s office.

Before taking his life he reportedly sent an email to his wife telling her what he planned to do.Police sources said she desperately tried to stop him.

Italy won‘t be granted more time to balance its budget, a spokesman for European Financial Commissioner Olli Rehn said Monday. Deputy Economy

Letta calls event a political priority

BRUSSELS – EP foreign affairs commission hearing, with NATO secretary general on the future of European defense followed by new Italian Defense Minister Mario Mauro.

Italians had for years grown used to headlines linking seven-time premier Giulio Andreotti – who has died aged 94 – to murky events in Sicily.

In power for 40 sometimes rocky years until Bribesville scotched his seemingly unstoppable rise to the presidency, seven-time Christian Democrat (DC) premier Giulio Andreotti was the consummate political animal. Nothing if not smart, he made a virtue of pragmatism – though opponents said it bordered on cynicism.

Christian Democrat colossus of post-war Italian politics

The gap between the French Socialist finance chief’s view and the election-year positioning of Germany’s Wolfgang Schaeuble underscores the divergence between their economies and the wrangling that has marked the crisis fight since Francois Hollande replaced Nicolas Sarkozy as French leader a year ago.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was quoted as saying by the Kuwaiti daily Al Ray which cited sources close to the presiden

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas began an official visit to China today complying an invitation issued by leader Xi Jinping during which he will debate bilateral local, international and regional issues of common interest.

The People‘s Assembly strongly denounced the treacherous Israeli aggression against sites in Damascus Countryside, saying it constitutes a blatant interference in the Syrian crisis which reflects Israel‘s involvement in the plot against Syria.

Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)

National Elections 2013: Lower House, centre-left coalition, Pierluigi Bersani: 29.5% – 340 seats. Made up thus: PD 25.4% – 292 seats ; Sel 3.2% – 37 seats ; Centro Democratico 0.5% – 6 seats ; others 0.4% – 5 seats.
Centre-right coalition, Silvio Berlusconi: 29.1% – 124 seats. Made up thus: PDL 21.6% – 97 seats; Lega Nord 4.1% – 18 seats; Fratelli d‘Italia 2% – 9 seats; other parties with between 0.6% and 0.1% – no seats. MoVimento 5 Stelle, Beppe Grillo: 25.5% – 108 seats. Centre coalition, Mario Monti: 10.5% – 45 seats.

Leading United Nations investigator Carla Del Ponte has said rebels, rather than the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, could have used chemical weapons in the bloody Syrian conflict.

Carla del Ponte told Swiss TV there were „strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof“.

(30.04.) The two presidents agreed to „stay in close consultation“ and instructed their foreign ministers to continue discussions on Syria, according to the White House.

„Der Präsident hat mehrmals betont, dass Israel als unabhängiger Staat das Recht hat, die nötigen Handlungen zu setzen, um seine Bürger zu schützen“, so der Vertreter des Weißen Hauses Josh Earnest vor Journalisten.

Die Regierungen und Geheimdienste der USA und Israels würden in der Frage eng zusammenarbeiten, so Earnest.

“The Russian-supplied air defense systems are not as good as said,” Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) said on NBC’s „Meet the Press.“ Leahy, who heads the appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, said the Israeli defense forces were using American-made F-16 Fighting Falcon jets to launch the missiles against Syrian targets.

The Post argued that President Obama needs to implement stronger opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, in particular calling for a U.S.-led no-fly zone and surgical bombings to ground the Syrian air force.
However, because of a lack of international support for such an undertaking, the United States would have to take the burden almost entirely upon itself.

We have another dubious cast of opposition factions competing for foreign patronage. We hear some of the same hawks — John McCain, Paul Wolfowitz — exhorting us to intervene, countered by familiar warnings of “quagmire.” We even have murky intelligence claims that the regime has used weapons of mass destruction.

Das grosse Schweigen oder treffender bezeichnet, Dilemma Ban Ki-moon’s, Generalsekretär der Organisation der Vereinten Nationen mit Sitz in New York. Es gibt da ein Problem mit der gewaltsamen Zerstörung eines Staates durch die altbekannten Lügner und Drahtzieher vor den Augen der gelähmten Weltbevölkerung des gesamten Planeten, das schleunigst zu lösen ist.

Die Regierung Russlands ist Teil des Haufens, die den Planeten vor ihre Säue werfen.

(22.04.) ‚Le Figaro‘ quotes Western military source as saying armed Israeli drones conducting surveillance in Syria by way of Jordan.

According to his office, Sleiman “strongly condemned Israel’s aggression on Syrian sites [which it carried out] by violating Lebanese airspace to carry out these attacks which killed a number of civilians.”

Israel: Luftangriffe in Syrien – zahlreiche Todesopfer & Verletzte 6.5.13

The Cabinet held an extraodiinary session on Sunday chaired by Premier Dr. Wael al-Halqi, in which it denounced the criminal Israeli aggression against sites in Syria, affirming that this blatant aggression is violation of Syrian airspace, territories and sovereignty and a flagrant attack on the Syrian people‘s properties and resources.

His eminence reassured in his statement that Hezbollah was not behind sending an unmanned aircraft over occupied Palestine, indicating that „because of the sensitive situation in the region, and because it didn’t send the aircraft, Hezbollah instantly issued a precise statement, denying it had sent any unmanned aircraft over occupied Palestine“.

Hamas denounced the „Zionist aggression on Syria,“ calling it a continuation of Israel‘s „policy of terror.“

On Sunday, the militants fired rockets and artillery shells in the towns of Kafr Nabl and Zahra, killing 20 Syrians and injuring many others.

Der Contra-Krieg war ein von 1981 bis 1990 mit maßgeblicher US-amerikanischer Unterstützung geführter Guerilla-Krieg gegen Nicaragua, der den Sturz der linksgerichteten sandinistischen Regierung zum Ziel hatte. Die paramilitärisch organisierten Contra-Rebellen operierten vor allem von Stützpunkten im Nachbarland Honduras aus. Sie führten Terroranschläge gegen die öffentliche und wirtschaftliche Infrastruktur Nicaraguas aus und töteten im Laufe des Konflikts zehntausende von unbeteiligten Zivilisten, häufig auf äußerst grausame Weise.