(November 14, 2024)
A political legacy on the part of the EU diplomacy chief, who has come to the end of his term, but one that is unlikely to be seized upon by the 27: for any amendment to the Association Agreement that governs EU-Israel relations, the rule of unanimity is required.
Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of sophisticated, deadly attacks that targeted an extraordinary number of people.
Both attacks, which are widely believed to be carried out by Israel, have hiked fears that the two sides’ simmering conflict could escalate into all-out war.
Hand-held radios used by Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon‘s south and in Beirut‘s southern suburbs, a security source and a witness said, further stoking tensions with Israel a day after similar explosions launched via the group‘s pagers.
Israel’s attack on pagers belonging to Hezbollah on Tuesday was a tactical success that had no clear strategic impact, analysts say.
While it embarrassed Hezbollah and appeared to incapacitate many of its members, the attack has not so far altered the military balance along the Israel-Lebanon border, where more than 100,000 civilians on either side have been displaced by a low-intensity battle.
Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree speaks on the ballistic missile launched at Israel, September 15, 2024
(photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X)
Western media reports claiming that Russia could place nuclear weapons in space are nothing more than a ploy by the White House to convince US lawmakers to approve further military aid to Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Citing sources, several US media outlets reported this week that American intelligence had obtained information on purported Russian plans to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite system in space, although the idea supposedly remains at the developmental stage.
US President Joe Biden said he ordered the strikes “in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea.”
(20.11.2023)
Argentina‘s libertarian presidential candidate Javier Milei, a prominent supporter of Israel, has outlined his intention to convert to Judaism, though he also acknowledged that any move to do so would likely have to wait until his political career is over.
Auch Sicherheitsbehörden seien an der Chatkontrolle interessiert, heißt es in der Recherche. Ein Thema sei dabei die Ausweitung der Chatkontrolle auf andere Kriminalitätsbereiche. Ein internes Dokument zeige, dass Vertreter von Europol dies bei einem Treffen im Juli 2022 anfragten:
„Es gibt andere Kriminalitätsbereiche“, die von der KI-gestützten Erkennung profitieren würden, wird Europol in dem Protokoll zitiert. Das geplante EU-Zentrum könnte doch auch für andere Zwecke genutzt werden als allein für die Suche nach Missbrauchsbildern.
A senior Palestinian official Hussein al-Sheikh confirmed that al-Sudairi would be visiting Ramallah.
“We welcome His Excellency the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the State of Palestine, who will present his official credentials to His Excellency President Mahmoud Abbas within a few days,” al-Sheikh tweeted Monday.
Saudi foreign affairs minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan received a phone call from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Friday.
The two officials discussed the importance of stopping military escalation and ending violence in Sudan during their telephone conversation, Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
The U.S. and Saudi mediators are working on the details of the agreement, which comes as Riyadh has asked to build a nuclear power plant for civilian purposes. (…)
The report claims top Saudi officials are „losing patience“ towards the Palestinians, who aren‘t willing to compromise and whose public support is diminishing.
Sachkundige (wie Anshel Pfeffer von der Zeitung Haaretz) nennen die „Operation Haus und Garten“ – so der zynische Name für diesen Angriff – eine „Textbuch-Demonstration“ für „urban warfare“ oder Stadtkrieg. Israel übt also, wie immer wieder in Gaza, an den Menschen in Palästina, um die Überlegenheit seiner Waffen und seiner Militärstrategie und -taktik vor der Welt zu demonstrieren.
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Amira Hass (ebenfalls Haaretz) spricht von einem regelrechten Science-Fiction-Angriff. Das HQ, das die Armee ganz in der Nähe von Jenin errichtet hatte, war in direkter und ununterbrochener Verbindung mit allen am Angriff beteiligten Gruppen und konnte in Echtzeit verfolgen, was vor Ort passierte.
The Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee restarts its discussion on constraining judicial review over the “reasonableness” of elected officials’ decisions.
Israeli forces launched a large military operation in Jenin in the northern West Bank overnight Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring 27 others, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
This is the latest strike in Syria, the third since Thursday and only a day after another attack on Friday
– The MQ-9 was conducting an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission when it encountered Russian aircraft in the Black Sea region, Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said at a briefing Tuesday. The Kremlin’s forces were not able to recover the MQ-9 — a drone with a wingspan of 66 feet — after the crash, Ryder said.
– Moscow blamed the incident on the U.S. drone’s “provocative” flight path, and denied that its jets made physical contact with the unmanned aerial vehicle. The drone “was moving deliberately and provocatively toward the Russian territory with its transponders turned off,” said Antonov.
The war is also fanning regional instability and fuelling global tensions and divisions, while diverting attention and resources from other crises and pressing global issues. Meanwhile, we have heard implicit threats to use nuclear weapons. The so-called tactical use of nuclear weapons is utterly unacceptable.
„Letztlich sind es alles Verschwörungserzählungen, die darauf abzielen, das Volk leiden zu lassen, und die unterstellen, dass die Eliten gegen den Willen des Volkes irgendetwas umsetzen werden.“
Jan Rathje, Politikwissenschaftler
Der Hinweis auf einen drohenden Anschlag hatte die deutschen Sicherheitsbehörden kurz vor Silvester aus den USA erreicht: Nach Erkenntnissen der Amerikaner beschaffte sich jemand von Deutschland aus Informationen, wie man einen Anschlag mit Giftstoffen verüben kann. Nach einem weiteren Hinweis gelang es den deutschen Ermittlern, die Person als den 32-jährigen Iraner in Castrop-Rauxel zu identifizieren.
The Belgian Federal Prosecutor‘s Office said on Friday that it had already recovered €600,000 in cash in Friday‘s raids.
„For several months, investigators of the Federal Judicial Police have suspected a Gulf country of influencing the economic and political decisions of the European Parliament.
(16.11.2022)
NATO holds emergency meeting on missile explosion in Poland. Russian missiles strike cities across Ukraine. Trump announces he‘s running again in 2024.
Is there international action that can be taken now?
It appears increasingly likely that some forms of coordinated international action will be taken, mirroring responses to the global financial crisis, the eurozone debt crisis and the Covid pandemic.
The former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi floated the idea of “a cartel of buyers” at a meeting with the US president, Joe Biden, in May. This would involve large oil consumers working together to negotiate prices.
(21. Januar 2020)
Der von uns seit langem in Zeiten des mittlerweile über achtzehnjährigen weltweiten Terrorkrieges beschriebene moralisch-politische Zusammenbruch von Liberalen, Demokraten, Pazifisten, Sozialdemokraten und politischer Linken in Deutschland befindet sich im Endstadium.
Dabei frisst der Linkskörper nicht nur sich selbst. Er frisst auch alle Ideen und Errungenschaften, die er angeblich vertritt. In Wirklichkeit dienen den betreffenden etablierten Apparaten – ob Parteien, Gewerkschaften, „Nichtregierungsorganisationen“, assoziierte Presse und die Myraden von Schnattergruppen – diese Ideen und Errungenschaften nicht als Rechtfertigung, sondern als Nahrung.
Zawahiri had been in hiding for years and the operation to locate and kill him was the result of „careful patient and persistent“ work by the counter-terrorism and intelligence community, a senior administration official told reporters.
Until the US announcement, Zawahiri had been rumored variously to be in Pakistan‘s tribal area or inside Afghanistan.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the official provided the following details on the operation:
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld questions the ‚timing‘ of President Biden‘s COVID-19 diagnosis and the mainstream media‘s coverage of former President Trump‘s own COVID-19 diagnosis on ‚The Five.‘
Die Bemerkung sorgte schnell für Aufregung. Prompt waren die Faktenprüfer zur Stelle – hier von der Washington Post, die dem politisch überkorrekten Amazon-Gründer Jeff Besos gehört, der sich eine Zeitung kauft wie andere Leute ein Schmuckstück. Die Post grätschte sofort rein, um Bidens Aussage zu interpretieren. „Sehen Sie sich Bidens medizinischen Bericht an. Bevor er Präsident wurde, ließ er sich Hautkrebs ohne Melanom entfernen“, twitterte er. Der stellvertretende Pressesprecher des Weißen Hauses, Andrew Bates, bestätigte den Tweet von Post-Faktenfinder Glenn Kessler mit einem eigenen Tweet: „Das ist es, worauf sich der Präsident bezog.“
Das BSI und der Verfassungsschutz warnen vor Hackern, die durch einen einfachen Trick den Zugang zu Chats von hochrangigen Politikern erlangen könnten.
Die Angreifer nutzen das Vertrauen der Opfer aus und offenbar auch mangelndes Sicherheitsbewusstsein.
(03.06.2022)
(01.06.2022)
Vor mehr als 30 Jahren ging der BND eine Allianz mit Chinas Geheimdienst ein. Der WDR hat in den vergangenen Wochen dazu recherchiert, BND-interne Unterlagen ausgewertet und mit Zeitzeugen gesprochen.
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a potential challenger to centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, criticized Cruz as a hypocrite for identifying himself as an anti-abortion lawmaker and pushing for the reversal of Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortions nationwide, but not taking more steps to fight mass shootings.
The affair of espionage via the Pegasus software of the Israeli manufacturer NSO in Spain has caused a lot of ink to flow, to the point of having differences of opinion within the government and the Iberian political parties themselves. If the Spanish press seems to want to designate Morocco as guilty, this is not the opinion of several officials. What is behind this case?
(21. Januar 2020)
Der von uns seit langem in Zeiten des mittlerweile über achtzehnjährigen weltweiten Terrorkrieges beschriebene moralisch-politische Zusammenbruch von Liberalen, Demokraten, Pazifisten, Sozialdemokraten und politischer Linken in Deutschland befindet sich im Endstadium.
Dabei frisst der Linkskörper nicht nur sich selbst. Er frisst auch alle Ideen und Errungenschaften, die er angeblich vertritt. In Wirklichkeit dienen den betreffenden etablierten Apparaten – ob Parteien, Gewerkschaften, „Nichtregierungsorganisationen“, assoziierte Presse und die Myraden von Schnattergruppen – diese Ideen und Errungenschaften nicht als Rechtfertigung, sondern als Nahrung.
– The Prime Minister said sorry with ‚full humility‘ over the £50 fixed-penalty notice he received last week
– But in the same breath he claimed ignorance of his own Covid rules over June 2020 event in No10
– Told MPs ‚It did not occur to me then or subsequently that gathering … could amount to a breach of the rules‘
(April 10, 2022)
„His policies have not worked, beginning with the precipitous and ill-advised withdrawal from Afghanistan, which became kind of a metaphor for the incompetence that’s been on full display during this administration,“ the senator said. „None of the policies they have pursued have worked out well.“
But we have to face a grim reality which is that as we stand here today Volodmyr, more than 100,000 Russian troops are gathering on your border in perhaps the biggest demonstration of hostility towards Ukraine in our lifetimes.
And the potential deployment dwarves the 30,000 troops Russia sent to invade Crimea in 2014. Since that time of course, as everybody knows, more than 13,000 Ukrainians have been killed and Ukraine has been plunged into nearly a decade of war.
It goes without saying that a further Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a political disaster, a humanitarian disaster, in my view would also be, for Russia, for the world, a military disaster as well. And the potential invasion completely flies in the face of President Putin’s claims to be acting in the interest of the Ukrainian people.
The FBI released a new statement Sunday night, attempting to walk back their previous comments that the hostage taking at a Texas synagogue, on the Jewish Sabbath, during services „…was not specifically related to the Jewish community.“
In the new statement, the FBI said, „This is a terrorism-related matter, in which the Jewish community was targeted, and is being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.“
The suspected hostage taker died at the scene. The hostages were released without injury.
The FBI was ripped on social media for the statement that the hostage taker had no direct demands related to the Jewish community, including calling for the FBI to be „defunded and eliminated.“
Two law enforcement officials told CNN earlier Saturday that investigators believe the hostage taker may have been motivated by a desire to release Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving an 86-year sentence at a facility in Texas. She was convicted in 2010 on seven charges, including attempted murder and armed assault on US officers in Afghanistan.
„We do believe from our engaging with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community, but we‘ll continue to work to find motive,“ DeSarno said.