Menschen „schaffen Feinde, um ein stabiles, kohärentes, klares Bild von der Welt aufrecht zu halten,“ schrieb Nathan A. Heflick 2011 in einem Artikel in Psychology Today. „Das liegt daran, dass sie das Negative der Welt (das sich ja nicht vermeiden lässt) diesen Feinden zuschreiben können … Feinde zu haben gibt Menschen anscheinend sogar paradoxerweise das Gefühl größerer Sicherheit.“

“We have now received confirmation from Professor Hawking’s office that a letter was sent on Friday to the Israeli President’s office regarding his decision not to attend the Presidential Conference, based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott,” a Cambridge spokesperson said.

The majority of MPs in Slovenia – 44 in favour and 29 against – backed the postponement of a vote on the introduction of a balanced budget rule in the Constitution.

Employment was on the rise in the month of April, Greek Labor Ministry said on Wednesday. According to the data released, almost 30,000 people were hired – even though mostly temporary workers in the tourism industry.

Letta will meet Premier Enrico Letta at 12:30 Thursday and Foreign Minister Emma Bonino at 16:30.

Former senior legal counsel at the World Bank turned whistleblower Karen Hudes talks about the corruption inside the World Bank and her personal saga to find out about it. She says a worldwide currency war is certain and NATO in jeopardy, if the wrongdoing isn’t finally addressed.

Auch die Situation um den Iran und um Nordkorea wurde besprochen. Bei außenpolitischen Fragen müsse so eng kooperiert werden, wie als Alliierte im Zweiten Weltkrieg, so Kerry.

Surkov traded barbs this week with the head of Russia‘s investigative committee, a Russian equivalent of the FBI, over an investigation into corruption at Skolkovo, a state-owned innovation hub created by Medvedev.

Der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin hat Vizepremier Wladislaw Surkow, Chef des russischen Regierungsapparates, entlassen, teilte der Pressedienst des Kreml am Mittwoch mit.

Last month, the hugely powerful Investigative Committee, Russia‘s equivalent of the FBI in the United States, accused one of the fund‘s senior executives of giving $750,000 to an opposition MP.
Surkov has publicly defended the fund, saying in a recent speech at the London School of Economics that investigators should not come to any premature conclusions.

A former U.S. diplomat in Libya who says more could have been done to protect Americans at the U.S. mission in Benghazi when it was attacked last September will be a featured witness on Wednesday during a congressional hearing.

The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.

Die US-Regierung will offenbar die Gesetze zur Überwachung von Online-Aktivitäten verschärfen. Laut „New York Times“ unterstützt Washington einen Vorstoß des FBI, wonach Chat-Anbieter wie Facebook oder Google Abhörmaßnahmen ermöglichen müssen. Wer sich weigert, riskiert drastische Strafen.

Cities ranked by multi-millionaires / City / Number of multi-millionaires

1) London 4224
2) Tokyo 3525
3) Singapore 3154
4) New York City (Manhattan) 2929
5) Hong Kong 2560
6) Frankfurt 1868
7) Mexico City 1850
8) Paris 1500
9) Osaka 1450
10) Beijing 1318

Lindsey Graham steps up pressure on former of secretary of state ahead of Wednesday‘s hearing into consulate attack

VAN SUSTEREN: … we have information that people from the CIA want to come out and testify, but they‘ve been told by the CIA director Brennan specifically they will be polygraphed if they are tied to this. Do you have any information to corroborate that?

GRAHAM: I‘ve heard that same story. I know there are some CIA agents reaching out. They feel frustrated. The CIA generally got this right, and they feel frustrated about what happened that night before and after. So we‘ll see where this goes.

VAN SUSTEREN: Are these CIA agents who are on the ground in Benghazi that night, or are these CIA agents — people — CIA here in Washington?

GRAHAM: It‘s my belief that at least one of them was on the ground, but time will tell.

VAN SUSTEREN: All right, now…

GRAHAM: The dam‘s about to break on Benghazi.

„Heute haben wir vereinbart, das wurde unter anderem auch auf dem Treffen im Kreml mit dem russischen Präsidenten fixiert, dass unsere Geheimdienste in noch engerem Kontakt stehen werden, um exakt zu verstehen, was im Zusammenhang mit den eingehenden Meldungen über den Einsatz von Chemiewaffen oder Giftgas im einen oder anderen Teil Syriens konkret vor sich geht“, so Lawrow.

Eine “Übergangsregierung” soll in Syrien gebildet werden, heißt es. Beide Seiten, also das Regime und die Invasoren, sollen bezüglich deren Zusammensetzung ein Veto-Recht besitzen. Das läuft auf eine Akzeptanz der U.S.-Doktrin “Assad must go” hinaus.

The U.S. and Russian governments have expressed support for an agreement signed last year in Geneva calling for a transition negotiated between the Syrian government and the opposition. Under the deal, each side would have veto power over those chosen to attend.

The fall of Khirbet Ghazaleh, situated in the Hauran Plain on the highway to Jordan, came after a Jordanian-backed Syrian opposition military council failed to supply weapons to the town‘s defenders.

Eine syrische Rebellengruppe hält seit Dienstag vier Uno-Soldaten aus den Philippinen fest. Die Blauhelme seien während einer Patrouille nahe der Ortschaft Dschamla in der Waffenstillstandszone zwischen Syrien und Israel verschleppt worden, bestätigte Uno-Sprecherin Josephine Guerrero. Die Vereinten Nationen bemühten sich um ihre Freilassung. Zu der Entführung bekannten sich die Jarmuk-Märtyrerbrigaden.

Umbrella Security Labs, a division of Internet security firm OpenDNS, reported that a Syria had a significant drop in traffic at around 6:45 p.m. UTC. The organization posted a graph showing that both top-level domain servers for Syria are „unreachable.“

According to Google‘s transparency report, all the search giant‘s services are inaccessible as of about 3 p.m. ET. The reports were also supported by Internet monitoring firms Renesys and BGPmon.

Kriegsberatung zur gescheiterten Nahostpolitik gegen Syrien und den Iran unter israelischer Führung in den U.S.A. mit islamistischen Milizenführern, deren mordende “Revolutionsarmee” aus westlich finanzierten Söldnerbanden und “Jihadkämpfern” besteht

Hawking, 71, the world-renowned theoretical physicist and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, had accepted an invitation to headline the fifth annual president’s conference, Facing Tomorrow, in June, which features major international personalities, attracts thousands of participants and this year will celebrate Peres’s 90th birthday.

The Russian security official with the Anti-Extremism Center, a federal agency under Russia‘s Interior Ministry, told the AP that Russian agents were watching Tsarnaev, and that they searched for him when he disappeared two days after the July 2012 death of the Canadian man, William Plotnikov, who had joined the Islamic insurgency in the region. The Russian official spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media.

The Russian president left Kerry waiting for several hours as he berated the cabinet of his prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev. The two men‘s meeting in the Kremlin, originally planned to last under an hour, ran to three.

The US Secretary of State’s make-or-break visit to Kremlin was fruitless. Though John Kerry tried his best to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to relent his support to the Syrian regime, Moscow seems to have held its cards close to its chest.

„Es ging um die Festigung der Kooperation zwischen unseren Ländern im Bereich der Sicherheit“.