Julia Pierson bows to pressure to quit after House hearing revealed devastating evidence chronicling secret service failures

NATO must be very clear that it would come to Turkey‘s aid if Turkey was attacked, the alliance‘s new Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.

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The mandate the Turkish government is seeking from the Parliament to authorize the army to send troops into Iraq and Syria to deal with growing threat of extremist jihadists does also include opening its bases to foreign troops, a senior government official has said, signalling about potential Turkish contribution to the international military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Hurriyet Daily News reported.

„Ich möchte betonen: Wir haben nicht vor, den Internet-Zugang einzuschränken und das Netz unter totale Kontrolle zu stellen, das Internet zu verstaatlichen sowie die legitimen Interessen und Möglichkeiten von Privatpersonen, Gesellschaftsorganisationen und Business in der Informationssphäre zu beschneiden – dies wird nicht einmal erwogen“, sagte er am Dienstag in einer Sitzung des nationalen Sicherheitsrates.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed on Tuesday to deepen U.S.-Indian cooperation on maritime security to ensure freedom of navigation in what amounts to a response to China‘s naval muscle-flexing in the Asia-Pacific.

China has made important contribution to the UN peacekeeping, and will carry on as a responsible major country. The reform of the UN should be an all-round process, instead of being limited to certain areas. The major target of reform should be safeguarding the justified and legitimate rights and interests of developing countries. Development holds the key to problems faced by today’s world. The formulation of the post-2015 development agenda should be put on top of UN tasks in the new year. Next year marks the 70th anniversary of the world anti-Fascist war and the victory of the Chinese People’s War Against Japanese Aggression. The UN should take the opportunity to hold commemorating activities to draw lessons from history, uphold the victory of WWII and the post-war international order, and express opposition to all the actions that distort history and reverse the verdict on aggression.

Mit einem Festempfang zum Nationalfeiertag hat die chinesische Regierung am Dienstag in Beijing das 65. Gründungsjubiläum der Volksrepublik gewürdigt.

Dabei sagte Staatspräsident Xi Jinping in seiner Ansprache zum Nationalfeiertag, gegründet auf die gemeinsamen Werte der chinesischen Nation werde der gemeinsame Wille der Nation gestaltet. Dies sei der Geist Chinas und seine Kraft, und dieser Weg chinesischer Prägung führe zu neuen und größeren Errungenschaften.

Russian-Chinese relations have reached an unprecedented high level of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation. We are expanding our constructive political dialogue and intensifying our productive cooperation in trade and finance, industry, the energy sector, humanitarian contacts and other fields. We have achieved effective coordination of our efforts to resolve current issues on the regional and global agenda.

I value greatly the trust and mutual understanding that we have established. I am sure that working together, we will continue to develop the full range of relations between Russia and China. This is fully in the interests of our friendly peoples and will strengthen stability and security in the world.

„Die Situation kann natürlich außer Kontrolle geraten, sollte sie sich außerhalb des völkerrechtlichen Rahmens entwickeln. Dies ist stets mit einem Risiko verbunden. Wir werden das Erkennen dieser Gefahren durch diejenigen durchsetzen, die einseitige militärische Handlungen unternehmen“, so Lawrow.

The senior security official added that some of the soldiers at Albu Aytha were able to escape before ISIS arrived.

Last week the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said at the U.N. that ISIS wants the U.S. back in Iraq:

„They also have a single goal: the destruction of civilization, giving rise to Islamophobia and creating a fertile ground for further intervention of foreign forces in our region.“

Last night Chris Matthews said the same thing:

„Is it possible that ISIS wants us bombing it, knowing that the more we bomb, the more we maim and kill, the more the world sees what we’re doing, the more the Islamic world will choose sides against us?“

Matthews also questioned how many of ISIS’s supposed 30,000 troops we have to kill. “Do we have to kill them all? Is that how we’re going to defeat them?”– pointed out that there would be lots of collateral damage, and many of those survivors will want ISIS to win, said that we are now being seen, once again, “bombing and killing Arabs.”

Hamas had warned that it would fire a barrage of rockets at central Israel after 9 p.m., and it did.

But the injuries suffered in Tel Aviv that night stemmed not from rocket fire but from a premeditated assault by a group of extremist Israeli Jews. Chanting “Death to Arabs” and “Death to leftists,” they attacked protesters with clubs. Although several demonstrators were beaten and required medical attention, the police made no arrests.

Fellow journalist Abdel-Rahman Shahin sent an open letter from behind bars at Ataka Prison in Suez affirming authorities arrested and prosecuted him for a crime he didn‘t commit, and without any evidence, legal basis or due process.

Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Co-Chairs Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) joined CPC Peace and Security Task Force Chair Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) to call for an end to the war in Afghanistan after the United States signed a bilateral security agreement with the Afghan government in Kabul today that allows the United States to keep troops and tie up taxpayer dollars in Afghanistan for the next decade.

Die Massenüberwachung durch die NSA basiert größtenteils auf einem wenig beachteten Dekret aus dem Jahr 1981.