“WHAT ARE YOU doing? Why are you here?” The solider asks. “I’m keeping an eye on the children getting to and from school” I replied. The soldier blinks in disbelief. “Do children not go to school in Ireland?”. “Of course they do” I replied, “But not in the presence of an army. Not in the presence of tear-gas, rifles and jeeps”.
“Ah”. A smile crept across his face as he looked down, shaking his head. “So you’re watching me”.
The demonstration, organized by Gaza‘s union of journalists, was held in hopes to urge the international community to put pressure on Israel to free the imprisoned journalist.
Vice President Joe Biden confused a lot of people yesterday when he said that the US and Turkey are prepared for a military solution against the Islamic State in Syria.
Some people were confused because they thought this was already happening.
While the Russian military has deployed heavy weaponry to the PKK-affiliated Syrian Peoples‘ Protection Units (YPG) in the western town of Afrin for the fifth time since November, Assad regime forces overran the last major rebel-held town in the coastal Latakia province on Sunday. The Russian-backed gains of the Assad regime and the YPG accelerating offensives on moderate Syrian opposition groups near Afrin are part of the YPG‘s plans to connect all the Kurdish cantons in northern Syria.
The recapture of the town of Rabiya in Latakia province has paved the way for an advance up to the border with Turkey, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Syrian state television confirmed Rabiya‘s capture.
Rabia had been held by the opposition since 2012 and was controlled by a range of rebel groups, including some made up of Syrian Turkmen, as well as al-Qaida affiliate Nusra Front.
(21.1.2016) Amidst a almost total western media blackout, Turkey and the US have initiated a military invasion in Syrian territory. On Wednesday evening, the Turkish army reportedly entered Syrian territory near Jarablus. US troops took control of Rmeilan airfield in Syria’s northern province of Hasakah. It’s unclear what are the real objectives for western military operations on Syrian soil According to the latest news, a major Turkish intervention is expected.
Am Montag sollten eigentlich die lang erwarteten Friedensverhandlungen für das zerrüttete Bürgerkriegsland Syrien in Genf starten – doch der Termin steht seit Tagen auf der Kippe und wird wohl verschoben werden müssen.
Turkey‘s pro-Kurdish Peoples‘ Democratic Party (HDP) said on Sunday it would take part in a parliamentary commission charged with drafting a new constitution and would challenge the ruling AK Party‘s plans for a strong executive presidency.
President Hassan Rouhani brings the case to Europe this week for Iran as a potential investment bonanza, after the lifting of financial sanctions brought his country of 80 million people back into the world of global commerce.
Iran says it has signed a deal with Russia’s Lukoil over two exploration projects in the country’s southwestern oil-rich Khouzestan province, Press TV reported.
A photographer in Cornwall has captured the International Space Station’s (ISS) movements above the iconic St Michael‘s Mount.
The scale of state repression in Egypt is greater today than it has been for generations, one of the country’s most prominent journalists and human rights advocates has told the Guardian.
The demonstrators are angry about falling living standards that have left the average monthly salary is just 220 euros ($240). They say pro-European parties, which have been in power since 2009, have failed to carry out reforms and want Parliament dissolved and an early election held. They are also calling for a full inquiry into the disappearance of up to $1.5 billion from three banks in Moldova prior to the country‘s parliamentary election in 2014.
People were saying on social media that the earthquake „was the biggest I ever felt as long as I have lived here,“ Barta said. One Twitter user wrote: „Everyone in Anchorage is awake and on Twitter right? Biggest longest #earthquake of my entire life. Family is all hanging in our bed now.“
The letter explains that attack dogs are always exported by European countries, mainly Holland, to Israel and they were used by the Israeli soldiers as a weapon that caused “serious wounds for civilians”.
Russland und die syrische Regierung haben ihren Widerstand gegen Einladungen an diese beiden Gruppen unmissverständlich klargemacht. Ahrar al-Sham und Dschaisch al-Islam sind militärische Gegner Russlands.
Relikte des Kolonialismus des British Empire stehen in der ehemaligen Strafkolonie zur Disposition
Dabei kopierte der Roboter in Echtzeit die Bewegungen eines Bedieners, der seinen künstlichen „Doppelgänger“ mithilfe von an seinem Körper angebrachten Sensoren fernsteuerte.
To accelerate that integrative process, the NESD program aims to recruit a diverse roster of leading industry stakeholders willing to offer state-of-the-art prototyping and manufacturing services and intellectual property to NESD researchers on a pre-competitive basis. In later phases of the program, these partners could help transition the resulting technologies into research and commercial application spaces.
Es klingt, als käme es direkt aus einem Science-Fiction-Film: Im Rahmen eines Forschungsprogramms der Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) des US-Militärs wird momentan ein Implantat entwickelt, über das das Gehirn eines Menschen direkt mit einem Computer verbinden kann. Im Endeffekt möchte das US-Militär eine Art von Cyborg-Soldaten erschaffen.
Die Regierung in Ankara führt einen brutalen Krieg im Südosten, unter dem die kurdische Zivilbevölkerung leidet. Repression gegen Linke und Regierungskritiker, Verfolgung der freien Presse sind an der Tagesordnung. Doch die Bundesregierung stockt nun die Entwicklungshilfe für die Türkei auf. Die Fördergelder für die Türkei sollten in diesem Jahr noch einmal, angehoben werden, und zwar von 36 Millionen auf 50 Millionen Euro, sagte Entwicklungsminister Gerd Müller der »Bild am Sonntag«.
(22.1.2015) What happened to a Palestinian man named Nasser Nawaj’ah on Thursday could fill an entire chapter of a textbook about the Israeli justice system, or rather, about its military occupation.
Nasser was arrested in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers on suspicion of filing a complaint to the Palestinian police about another Palestinian. The soldiers hand him over to Israeli police, who take him from the West Bank to Israel. There, a Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court judge rules that the court doesn’t have jurisdiction over Palestinians, and orders him released unconditionally. The police appeal the judge’s decision, but the Jerusalem District Court also rules that it doesn’t have jurisdiction, and once again orders the police to release the man unconditionally.
The Israeli police ignore the Israeli court’s decision, take the Palestinian man outside Israel’s sovereign borders and bring him to the Ofer Military Court in the occupied West Bank…
The United States is scrutinizing developments in Poland, the U.S. trade czar said on Sunday when asked if Washington was concerned about the European Union‘s rule of law inquiry into Poland and Standard and Poor‘s cut to Warsaw‘s credit rating.
„As a fellow democracy we do follow developments here very closely,“ U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman told reporters during his visit to Google Campus in Warsaw.
The Defence Secretary has announced that the UK will commit nearly 1,000 personnel to NATO exercises taking place in Poland.
For the first time in more than 10 years it is possible to see all five „bright“ planets together in the sky. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have aligned and can be seen until about mid-February. According to the National Geographic channel, the five planets have aligned up for a cosmic dance. Dr Grant Christie – an astronomer at the Stardome Observatory in Auckland – said it was a rare opportunity, the New Zealand Herald reported on Sunday.
Im November 2013 berichtete Radio Utopie sehr ausführlich in „Spiel über Bande: mutmassliches Söldner-Kommando von indischer Marine verhaftet“ über die Verhaftung der Mannschaft des mit modernster Technolgie ausgerüsteten Spionageschiffes „MV Seaman Guard Ohio“ der paramilitärischen Firma AdvanFort durch die indische Küstenwache während des illegalen Eindringens in die hoheitlichen Gewässern vor der Küste des Bundesstaates Tamil Nadu.
Das Hauptquartier von AdvanFort befindet sich in Herndon im U.S.-Bundesstaat Virginia unweit von Washington D.C. Die Firma betreibt weitere Filialen in Deutschland, der Türkei, in Japan, Südkorea, in Dubai in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten, in Grossbritannien in London und weiteren Ländern.
Trotz sofort einsetzender Reaktion internationaler höherere Kreise wurde den Söldnern der Prozess in Indien gemacht, der durch alle Instanzen geführt wurde.
STRASBOURG. MEPs call on the Indian authorities to release the 35-strong crew – including 14 Estonians and 6 Britons – of the Merchant Vessel Seaman Guard Ohio, who were arrested in India‘s southern state of Tamil Nadu in October 2013 and charged with illegally possessing weapons. The defendants claim to have been on an anti-piracy mission and have consistently denied any wrongdoing. The charges were rapidly quashed, but the Indian authorities appealed, forbidding the seamen to leave the country.
In November 2015, discontent intensified in Ethiopia‘s Oromia region over a government plan to expand the borders of the country‘s capital, Addis Ababa, into the surrounding rural areas.
The former senior officer is seeking to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry about how MI5 officials witnessed detainees being tortured at Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta — two of the Guantanamo prisons — in December 2002.
Der 2001 durch die Führung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ausgerufene weltweite „Krieg gegen den Terror“ kann nicht gewonnen werden und kann nie enden. Drei Zitate reichen aus, um dies darzulegen.
Greece‘s biggest oil refiner Hellenic Petroleum agreed on Friday to buy crude oil from the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), the first European refiner to restart trade relations with Iran after the lifting of international sanctions, Reuters reported.
Iran is interested in buying over 100 aircraft from Boeing, deputy transport minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan told Reuters at Tehran‘s first major post-sanctions gathering of global business people.