Security sources believe that the group is attacking Israel in the hope that Israel will strike Hamas targets in Gaza in response.

With 99% of the vote counted, the AKP has 41% of the vote, state-run TRT television reports.

The parliamentary election kicked off in Turkey at 08:00 am (UTC/GMT + 3 hours), June 7.
Political parties and officials are banned to make any statements about the voting process till 24:00.

The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) is a free trade agreement (legally a treaty under international law, but not under U.S. law). Originally, the agreement encompassed the United States and the Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and was called CAFTA. In 2004, the Dominican Republic joined the negotiations, and the agreement was renamed CAFTA-DR.

Ferner erinnert Vetter die costa-ricanische Regierung an das Freihandelsabkommen DR-CAFTA, (Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement) das Costa Rica, neben anderen mittelamerikanischen Staaten, im Jahr 2007 trotz großen Widerstandes der Bevölkerung mit den USA abgeschlossen hat, und die damit einhergehenden vertraglichen Verpflichtungen.

Ungeachtet dessen, dass eine solche Aufforderung ein indirekter Eingriff in den demokratischen Entscheidungsprozess eines souveränen Staates darstellt, erklärte Minister Mora, dass dies ein normaler Vorgang in den Beziehungen beider Staaten sei. Dem schloss sich das Büro des US-Handelsvertreters an: „Die USA tauschen mit ihren Partnern, mit denen wir Freihandelsabkommen haben, oft Standpunkte aus, dies ist Teil unserer üblichen diplomatischen Beziehungen“.

Angesichts der seit Wochen gärenden Unruhe vor den Parlaments- und Regionalwahlen in Mexiko am 7. Juni regieren staatliche Kräfte zunehmend brutaler. Die Zeit des Wahlkampfs war von 25 politischen Morden begleitet. Während die Boykottaufrufe und -bemühungen zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen zunehmend militanter wurden, delegitimiert die Regierung die Wahlen durch den massiven Einsatz von Militär und militärisch kommandierten Bundespolizisten. Brennpunkte sind die Bundesstaaten Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero und Michoacan, aber auch in Veracruz, Yucatan, Puebla und Zacatecas brodelt es.

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“The American people are frustrated by Congress—Congress has about a 10 percent approval rating,” Paul said. “I think part of that is that they don’t think we’re taking the amount of time to do an adequate job to read the legislation. It’s sort of twofold: They don’t give us enough time, and they also make the bills too long. I have a bill called Read The Bills Act, and in it there’s a requirement that you have to wait one day for every 20 pages of legislation. So 800-page legislation [like Obamatrade] would wait 40 days. You’d wait 40 days so we’d have adequate time to read it. Yeah, I’m a believer that we should read legislation before we vote on it.”

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Saturday it “boggles the mind” that the White House has not yet released the text of trade deal it’s pushing, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
“It kind of boggles the mind,” Paul said in an interview with Breitbart News. “Who’s in charge of the administration that decides to keep a trade treaty secret? To keep it classified makes no sense at all.”

Ensaf Haidar, Badawi’s wife, said on Sunday that the decision to uphold the ruling was made by Saudi Arabia‘s Supreme Court. The judgment comes despite the denunciation of the Saudi regime’s treatment of the 31-year-old activist by the United Nations, the European Union, and many other international rights bodies and countries.

„This is a final decision that is irrevocable,“ AFP quoted Haidar as saying, who added, „This decision has shocked me.“