Von Beginn des syrischen Bürgerkriegs war die Türkei mit an Bord, unterstützte die Rebellen und beherbergte sie in Istanbul und eröffnete ihnen sogar diplomatische Zugänge durch das türkische Außenministerium.

Ambulances are seen entering the park. Police have also entered the park for the first time after two weeks. Security forces took over the park, demolishing the tents of the protesters. The police have also cordoned off the Taksim Square.

Observer/Opinium poll also found 45% saying Edward Snowden should be reprimanded, but only 30% believing he had committed a crime

Wegen, äh, der Terroristen, wissenschon.

Obama has flippantly dismissed the controversy. Resorting to the worst tactics of the Bush years, his message is: „Trust us. We‘re the good guys.“ And then Congress is briefed – in secret, of course – about the „dozens“ of terrorist plots such industrial-scale espionage has stopped.

Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal, and 77 personalities from politics and culture express their solidarity to Greece’s public broadcaster ERT and their opposition to the sudden shutdown blackening the TV screens and silencing the radio programs.

Anti-G8 protesters march through the streets of central Belfast on Saturday, ahead of the G8 meeting in nearby Enniskillen. Despite the wind and heavy rain, demonstrators turned out in their thousands, some in large lorries wearing fancy dress.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed bilateral ties and the situation on the Korean Peninsula in a telephone conversation Saturday.

Wie das Weiße Haus am Samstag mitteilte, telefonierte Obama am Freitag mit dem britischen Premier David Cameron, dem französischen Präsidenten Francois Hollande, dem italienischen Regierungsvorsitzenden Enrico Letta und der Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel.

In Beijing or Washington, DC, the question: “Where is Europe going?” has become synonymous with: “What do the Germans want?”

Bureaucrats in Brussels talk ruefully about Berlin becoming the capital of Europe. “When the German position changes on an issue, the kaleidoscope shifts as other countries line up behind them,” says one official. “That’s unprecedented in the history of the EU.”

We are Robert and Jenn Meeropol, son and granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. We are acutely aware of the political lessons to be drawn from the conviction and execution of the Rosenbergs at the height of the McCarthy period. The charge was conspiracy to commit espionage, but our family members were presented as traitors who gave the Soviet Union the secret of the atomic bomb.

At least 5,000 people expected to attend march in Northern Ireland, where two-day meeting of world leaders starts on Monday

With the help of EBU, the program can be watched in many aras across the country via analogue or diginal. EBU makes it possible that the ERT program can be retransmitted in several countries as well.

Too sad that some guys in the current government have no culture at all.

Both junior partners in Greece‘s ruling coalition have turned down a compromise by the prime minister over the shutdown of public broadcaster ERT, raising the prospect that the rift among the parties might be impossible to mend.

Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a lung infection which has kept him in a serious condition in hospital for a week, his grandson said on Saturday.

Facebook and Google deny they gave the NSA special access to their servers. But ‚the stink of being a pawn of the U.S. government could really hurt‘ global growth, a prominent tech entrepreneur says.

For years, Google‘s computers have scanned the content of millions of Gmails — Google‘s popular email service — in order to figure out what ads the users might respond to. Many users don‘t realize they‘ve given Google permission to eavesdrop in the agreement that opens their account.

Only when the men returned the next day did they reveal what they were up to. Inside the red ball was an antenna that would give the MacKenzies Internet access. It was custom-designed to communicate with a similar antenna that would be floating by in the stratosphere, over 60,000 feet above sea level. On a solar-powered balloon.

Oh, and the men work for Google.

John le Carré on secret courts, surveillance and the excessive influence of the CIA and MI6 on democratic institutions

U.S. troops will soon leave Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda is in shambles. What reason is there for Congress to abdicate responsibility for declaring war?

It’s time. It’s time for President Obama to live up to his own words. It’s time for Congress to do its job. It’s time to contract the ever-expanding national security state. And it’s time to roll back the Patriot Act.

The ACLU‘s suit is an important first step, but it‘s crucial that Congress finally take on Section 215 in earnest. The days of closed-door briefings and secret court orders must end. Congress must force public disclosure about what information the government is collecting, and what‘s being done with it. The Administration and the secret FISA Court will continue this spying if Congress doesn‘t stop them.

Local lawmakers remain mum on reports of government eavesdropping on American acitizens

Er plädiert für einen Fragenkatalog auf europäischer Ebene, der den Amerikanern präsentiert wird. (…)
Er will, betont er im Parlament, erst „dem Partner Gelegenheit geben, umfassend Stellung zu nehmen“, ehe man an das Suspendieren von Abkommen mit den USA denkt.