He recalled a joint declaration released on Sept. 28, 2010, by leaders of Russia and China to mark the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, which condemned any attempts to falsify the history of World War II, to excuse the Nazis, militarists and their accomplices, and to smear liberators.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, held a phone conversation on the eve of 2014, during which both sides opposed Abe‘s visit to the shrine, deeming it a provocation to Japan‘s Asian neighbors.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s two-day tour of U.S. nuclear facilities ended Thursday amid revelations that two nuclear missile launch officers have been implicated in an illegal narcotics investigation.
The officers are part of the 341st Missile Wing based at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. Their access to classified information has been suspended while the Air Force conducts an investigation, a defense official said on condition of anonymity.
They are the first US boots on the ground in Somalia since the calamitous 1993 deployment Operation Gothic Serpent, which was couched as a humanitarian deployment but ended with the Black Hawk Down incident and the deaths of massive numbers of civilians.
A New York police department report on the attack raised the possibility that the gunmen may have escaped. The top State Department official for Africa, Linda Greenfield-Thomas, said in December that the NYPD report did not reflect the US government position.
The Federal Government has chosen to use the ACV Ocean Protector to defend against a faux threat to the north, rather than a real one to the south, writes Peter Whish-Wilson.
Als eine Organisation und Bedrohung existiert al-Qaida kaum. Aber als Namen wurden al-Qaida und „Terrorismus“ zu einer praktischen Universalbezeichnung des Westens für bewaffnete Gruppen, die westlichen Einfluss, Korruption oder Repression in Asien und Afrika bekämpfen. Al-Qaida ist nirgends – aber überall.
Sowohl global agierende Pharmafirmen als auch amerikanische Fleischexportfirmen wollen Handelshemmnisse für Hormonfleisch abbauen. Vor dem Hintergrund der Verhandlungen über ein Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der EU und den USA warnt der Bericht auch vor dem Import von hormonbehandeltem Fleisch. Ein solches Abkommen könne „drastische Änderungen“ beim Einsatz von Antibiotika und bei der Zulassung von genetisch veränderten Organismen bedeuten, heißt es. Es müsse verhindert werden, dass die hohen Standards für Lebensmittel in der EU durch das Abkommen „aufgeweicht“ werden, erklärte der BUND.
LAND IN SICHT, der auf dem 56. Internationalen Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm bereits den “Dokumentarfilmpreis des Goethe-Instituts” gewann, ist eine ganz andere Sicht auf den Alltag und das Leben von Flüchtlingen in diesem Land. Über das Leinwand gewordene Kopfkino von LAND IN SICHT im Aufeinandertreffen von zwei Welten im brandenburgischen Belzig schrieb die Jury des Leipziger Dokumentarfilm-Festivals in ihrer Begründung zur Preisverleihung:
In this week’s address, President Obama calls 2014 a year of action, which should start with Congress quickly passing emergency unemployment insurance for the 1.3 million Americans who lost this vital lifeline as they fight to find jobs and make ends meet.
Day after day, the fascist junta reveal its ugly face and its criminal discourse, with flagrant violations of all human rights guaranteed by Islamic and international laws. The latest of these violations is the inhumane treatment suffered by thousands of detainees and prisoners in junta jails and detention centers, where their lives are threatened. An example of that is the revolutionary hero Mohamed Beltagy‘s deteriorating health, as seen in the recent session of his farcical trial, although he only asks for the most basic of human rights for those in ‚precautionary detention‘, and an investigation into the killing of his daughter at the hands of this fascist regime.
Recently, there is a debate of retrying the coup plot cases Ergenekon and Balyoz (Sledgehammer) going on in the Turkish political agenda, following one of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s advisers saying there was a “parallel state” within the state and it plotted a “conspiracy on the Turkish army.”
On Jan. 10, Erdoğan told reporters there are “people who are unfairly in jail” in the Ergenekon case.
Turkish politicians threw punches and water bottles at each other during a debate on Saturday about government control over the appointment of judges and prosecutors, as a battle over the ruling party‘s handling of a corruption scandal intensified.
Sakine Cansiz, a founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the early 1980s, and two other Kurdish women were found shot dead in Paris in January 2013.
In the fall of 1946, a 508-foot ship steamed out of the port of Odessa, Ukraine. In a previous life she was called the Wikinger (“Viking”) and sailed under the German flag, but she had been appropriated by the Soviet Union after the war and renamed the Slava (“Glory”). The Slava was a factory ship, crewed and equipped to separate one whale every 30 minutes into its useful elements, destined for oil, canned meat and liver, and bone meal.
The most unproductive and least popular US Congress in history can count on another distinction: For the first time ever, most members of the Legislative Branch are millionaires.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is pleased to join leading scholars at the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, MD. Today‘s mathematicians are in a unique position to affect privacy, security, and free expression for users everywhere and EFF is proud to support them. See the entire JMM program of events and register on site.
Die Bewohner einer Favela in der Nähe des Maracaná-Stadions haben berichtet, dass lokale Regierungsbeamte den Abriss von mehr als 40 Häuser planen, um diesen Ort vor der FIFA-Weltmeisterschaft 2014 umzugestalten.
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The High Court public prosecutor is seeking to have a march organized for Saturday in Bilbao in support of ETA prisoners by the platform Tantaz Tanta (Drop by Drop) barred, it emerged on Thursday.
„Ashton habe bereits eine Einladung von (Außenminister) Dschawad Sarif erhalten, zu einem ihr passenden Zeitpunkt dem Iran einen Besuch abzustatten“, sagte Araghchi am Samstag nach Angaben der Nachrichtenagentur AFP.
11.01.2014 - 13:07 [ National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Mars Exploration Program ]
This exhibition celebrates the amazing images and achievements of the two Mars Exploration Rovers on the 10th anniversary of their landings on the Red Planet.
The photographs taken by the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, on show at the Smithsonian, are the first works of art from the red planet – and modern masterpieces
In September 1982, after the assassination of Lebanese President Bachir Gemayel, the Lebanese Phalange forces massacred thousands of Palestinian residents of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps of Beirut, an act that would haunt Sharon – and Israel – for years to come. The Israeli Kahan commission of inquiry found that Sharon bore personal responsibility for the massacre, and he was forced to resign as defense minister.
Es wurde betont, dass es sich bei den stark verdünnten Stoffen, die in einer Größenordnung von mehreren Hundert Tonnen in den Einrichtungen der Bundeswehr in Munster vernichtet werden, nicht mehr um Chemiewaffen handelt.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, tacitly acknowledging that the plan to destroy the weapons on German soil may prompt criticism from the opposition Green party and Germany’s strong environmental movement, stressed that the decision was made in part to maintain international credibility in addressing Syria’s civil war, particularly as foreign powers prepare for talks in Geneva this month to try to end the conflict.
“Nobody who takes international responsibility seriously can say no here,” he said.
(28.04.2012) But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested.
FBI Director James Comey says the prospect of Americans going to Syria, learning terrorist techniques and returning to the United States is one of his greatest worries.
„The journalists are the main ones to blame for wrecking Italy, they are slaves to an owner, an ideology, or, more prosaically, a wallet,“ added the comedian-turned-politician, whose Internet-based movement captured around a quarter of the vote in last year‘s general election.
„When you see soldiers who serve with you not going home for the weekend and go to Yitzhar so they can meet with the settlement‘s leaders and discuss ways to protect the settlement, and right there and then the brigade‘s chief‘s car is vandalized – no where is safe. Not a Palestinian village and not an isolated outpost,“ an IDF combat soldier told Ynet.