The U.S. and Russia will meet for their first face-to-face talks on Syria since Russian warplanes began flying combat missions there at cross purposes with an American-led campaign.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian counterpart as well as top diplomats from Saudi Arabia and Turkey on Friday in Vienna as the Obama administration grasps for a way to salvage its Middle East agenda.
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(22.12.2014) The only individuals legally entitled to strike blows for Israeli accountability and transparency are, unfortunately, foreigners. That is why I’ve served as a conduit for brave Israelis willing to buck the tide against the secrecy monolith, by naming names like those of Israel’s intelligence chiefs before they were appointed to their positions; and the name of the IDF commander of Israel’s WMD force.
For that reason, I will name the current commander of Unit 8200: Brig. Gen. Ehud Schneerson. Schneerson, a distant relation to the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Schneerson, worked his way up the ranks from within 8200.
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(12.September 2014) Did you feel your were violating people’s rights?
N: Definitely. In Israeli intelligence regarding Palestinians, they don’t really have rights. Nobody asks that question. It’s not [like] Israeli citizens, where if you want to gather information about them you need to go to court.
A: The only limitation is the limitation of resources. There’s no procedural questions regarding who can and cannot be surveilled. Everybody is fair game.
N: An 18-year-old soldier who thinks: “We need to gather information on this or that person” – that 18-year-old kid [in Unit 8200] is the one that decides.
NATO military chiefs are raising alarm over what they now view as „a wider strategic plan of Vladimir Putin’s Russia to challenge the west closer to home“; they now fear Russia’s fast-developing arsenal of ship-launched cruise and ballistic missiles is able to restrict the alliance’s „ability to easily deploy military assets“ in the Mediterranean.
«If either an American or a Russian attack against targets of the Islamic State were successful, in both cases the same result is what counts», the social democrat said on Saturday during a Slovakian radio broadcast. He stated that he doesn‘t wear ideological blinders. According to Fico, the conflict in Syria can only be solved in cooperation with the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad.
Krasse Kacke, ey.
As members of Congress, we take an oath to protect and uphold the US constitution. Yet, for too long, Congress has abdicated its vital role to authorize and supervise our nation’s military actions. The American people deserve a vote, through their congressional representatives, on matters of war and peace.
Dunford’s comments mostly didn’t read like this was a conclusive position of the Iraqi government at any rate, but more wishful thinking and politicking by the Pentagon, centering on how great an ally the US is to Iraq and how Iraq would be risking that if they dared accept help from Russia.
So far, Abadi hasn’t made any new comments one way or another, though the nation has already accepted some help from Russia on the intelligence-sharing end of things, and the US dramatically scaled back their own such program with Iraq to “punish” them, suggesting Iraq may be leaning more heavily toward Russia.
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Die Theorie, die den Palästiensern eine Mitschuld am Holocaust zuschreibt, ist in Israel sehr beliebt, sagt Historiker Tom Segev. Historisch ist sie nicht zu belegen.
In einem Beitrag zur russischen Anti-Terror-Kampagne in Syrien, mit eingeblendeten Rückschauen zu terroristischen Attentaten in Russland, werden tschetschenische Terroristen, die 2002 über 900 Menschen in einem Moskauer-Theater als Geiseln nahmen, zu „Rebellen“ und das Massaker von Beslan, bei dem im September 2004 nordkaukasische Terroristen mehr als 1.100 Kinder und Erwachsene in Geiselhaft nahmen und tagelang quälten, bevor sie über 300 von ihnen töteten, wird von CNN mit der Aussage gerechtfertigt, dies sei die Konsequenz des „russischen Katalogs des Schreckens“.
The Obama administration has approved an $11.25 billion deal to sell four advanced, Lockheed Martin-made warships to Saudi Arabia. The move comes as Amnesty International has called on the United States to halt arms transfers to Saudi Arabia or risk being complicit in war crimes in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is waging a U.S.-backed campaign against Houthi rebels.
Der israelische Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu hat Empörung und Widerspruch mit seiner Äußerung ausgelöst, ein palästinensischer Großmufti habe Adolf Hitler zum Holocaust angestiftet. Historiker stellten am Mittwoch klar, dass Hitler 1941 längst in mehreren Konzentrationslagern die „Endlösung“ betreiben ließ.
Hinkley Point, the UK’s first nuclear power plant in decades, is on the table, alongside transport and infrastructure deals in most of big cities in the north of England.
Riot police fired stun grenades at hundreds of students who stormed the parliament precinct in Cape Town to try and disrupt Nene‘s reading of the medium term budget statement, which went on regardless.
At the request of the family of Jacqueline Sutton, the Institute for War & Peace Reporting and the family release the following joint statement:(…)
“The family is satisfied with the investigation undertaken by the Turkish authorities,” said Jenny Sutton, Jacky’s sister. “We were deeply sceptical about initial reports. But based on the evidence we have seen, at this stage we believe that Jacky acted alone.”
The Turkish authorities have cooperated fully and provided access to the complete dossier of evidence relating to the case, including copies of the CCTV images and all documentation.
There remains the possibility that additional information will come to light.
‚I didn‘t mean to absolve Hitler of responsibility, but to show that the father of the Palestinian nation wanted to destroy the Jews even without occupation,‘ the PM said before leaving to Berlin.
Israel regards all Jerusalem, including the predominantly Arab east captured and annexed in 1967, as its „indivisible capital“ – a claim not recognized internationally – and its right-wing government is wary of being portrayed as dividing the city.
Palestinians want the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip for a future state, with Arab East Jerusalem as its capital.
Der Schlussversion stimmten am Mittwoch 26 Mitglieder des Unesco-Exekutivrats zu, 25 enthielten sich, mit Nein stimmten die USA, Großbritannien, die Niederlande, Tschechien, Estland und Deutschland.
Before the vote, the six Arab countries that submitted the proposal on behalf of the Palestinians — Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates — removed from the proposal a statement declaring the Western Wall in Jerusalem part of the al Aqsa Mosque complex and naming it part of the Muslim religious site. It also removed references to Jerusalem as “the occupied capital of Palestine” in order to garner support for the proposal.
Netanjahu hatte vor dem Zionistischen Kongress in Jerusalem behauptet, der palästinensische Großmufti Amin al-Husseini habe Hitler 1941 zum Holocaust angestiftet. Dabei habe der deutsche Diktator zunächst nur geplant, die Juden aus Europa zu vertreiben.
The restaurant workers said nine people were in a private room to celebrate the birthday of China‘s consul general to Cebu, Song Ronghua, who was shot in the neck and taken to a hospital. He is said to be in stable conditions.
“The bullet went clear through (his neck),” said regional police chief, Tom Banas, adding, “We‘re still trying to determine the motive for the shooting.”
The dead staff members are identified as Sun Shan, the deputy consul general, and Hui Li, a finance officer.