Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham deplored a recent anti-Iran statement by Canada‘s administration, saying that Ottawa has been adhering to the Zionist regime of Israel‘s stances in its war-mongering rhetoric.

Die Demonstranten sind jedoch der Ansicht, dass diese Initiative nicht gegen Terrorismus und Waffenschmuggel helfen wird und nur zu verschärften Spannungen unter den Bürgern führen wird.

Ahmed Nasif, der 2011 wegen Machtmissbrauch und der Veruntreuung von 8 Millionen Dollar seines Amtes enthoben wurde, ist zu 5 Jahren Haft verurteilt worden. Hinzu kommen eine Geldstrafe in Höhe von 53.6 Millionen ägyptischen Pfund (6,3 Mio. Euro) und die Auflage zur Rückzahlung von 48,3 Millionen Pfund. Falls das Revisionsgericht zustimmt, ist Berufung gegen dieses Urteil möglich. Nasif nahm an der Urteilsverkündung nicht teil.

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Azurduy wurde 1780 im heutigen Bolivien geboren und gilt als eine der bekanntesten lateinamerikanischen Freiheitskämpferinnen in den Unabhängigkeitskriegen gegen die spanischen Konquistadoren. Sie und ihr Ehemann Manuel Ascencio Padilla schlossen sich 1809 der Revolution von Chuquisaca an. 1816 starb ihr Mann im Kampf. Sie ging 1818 an der Seite von General Martín Miguel de Güemes nach Argentinien. Erst 1825 kehrte sie in ihren Geburtsort zurück. Sie sprach Spanisch, Quechua und Aymara.

A Chilean judge has ordered the arrest of seven army officers for questioning over an attack on two democracy activists who were doused with petrol by soldiers and set on fire.

Part of the reason for this complete impunity is that there is no credible third party on the ground doing anything about the human rights abuses taking place there on a regular basis. The mandate for UN’s peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, known as Minurso, does not include human rights monitoring. This is despite vocal calls from the Sahrawi people for international observation.

(April 2010) Die Gebiete und die Bevölkerung von Westsahara ein ewiger Spielball der Grossmächte – Frankreich wehrt sich gegen die Kontrolle zur Einhaltung der Menschenrechte durch die UNO, die vom Hohen Kommissariat des Menschenrechtsrat gefordert wird.

Rice said the deals involve Iran accounting for past military uses of its nuclear program, but rejected GOP assertions that this represented “secret” side deals to the Iranian nuclear agreement. Rice said the documents between Iran and the IAEA are not public, but that the administration has been informed of their contents and will share details with members of Congress in a classified briefing on Capitol Hill.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will work on the technical aspects of the agreement, he said.

The UN envoy arrived in Damascus a day after discussing the situation in Syria with senior Iranian officials in Tehran.

But is Trump’s run really that surprising? It shouldn’t be if you’ve been paying attention to the radical, obstructionist turn both Republican politics and the right-wing media have taken over the last six-plus years. Yet during most of that span, the D.C. media stoically pretended the GOP hadn’t taken an ugly, radical turn. And that’s why so many seem baffled by Trump’s rise.

Increasingly, Trump represents Fox News’ Republican Party. He’s holding up a mirror. But many journalists seem slow, or unwilling, to acknowledge that.

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Denn vielleicht wird Trump den ein oder anderen gestandenen Politiker verbal aus der Reserve locken können, schlussendlich gewinnen wird er die Nominierung aber auf keinen Fall. (ZEIT ONLINE Redaktionseinschätzung: Daumen runter).

(28.Mai) PAUL: ISIS exists and grew stronger because of the hawks in our party who gave arms indiscriminately and most of those arms were snatched up by ISIS. These hawks also wanted to bomb Assad, which would have made ISIS‘ job even easier. They created these people. ISIS is all over Libya because these same hawks in my party loved — they loved Hillary Clinton‘s war in Libya. They just wanted more of it. But Libya is a failed state. It‘s a disaster. Iraq really is a failed state or a vassal state now of Iran. So everything that they have talked about in foreign policy they have been wrong about for 20 years and yet they have somehow the gall to keep saying and pointing fingers otherwise. [MSNBC, Morning Joe, 5/27/15]

Fox host Sean Hannity allowed Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich to walk back comments he made during a 2013 New York Times interview in which Kasich expressed his concern „about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor“ emanating from his own party.