40
killed as Shiite rebels attack north Yemen town:
Shiite Muslim
Houthi rebels backed by tanks launched a fresh attack on Friday on a town in
north Yemen held by their Sunni Muslim Salafist rivals, a Salafist spokesman
said, bringing the total death toll in three days of sectarian clashes to
40.
24
Killed, 87 Wounded in Iraq's Violence:
The deadliest
attack occurred in Iraq's Northern central province of Salahudin, when up to
seven people were killed and some 45 wounded in a coordinated suicide bombing
and two car bomb attacks in the city of Tuz-Khurmato
Bush-
Blair Legacy Continues
As UN says
nearly 1,000 Iraqis killed in October:
Attacks and
other violence across Iraq killed 979 people in October, the United Nations said
Friday, a monthly death toll that is the same as the figure for
September.
CIA
Training "Rebels" In Syria, so far "only" 1,000 fighters instructed:
Republican
Senator Bob Corker on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee admitted CIA's
year-old program to provide military training to Syrian rebels, but criticized
it as "incredibly, incredibly slow", saying he had so far instructed only about
1,000 fighters.
Hundreds of Syrian
refugees 'denied entry into Jordan':
Hundreds of
people fleeing the civil war in Syria are being turned back at the border with
Jordan and neighbouring countries, says Amnesty International.
Children going
hungry in Syria war zones: UN:
The United
Nations' food aid agency said on Friday that it feared a rise in malnutrition
among children trapped in besieged communities in Syria where fighting has
halted supply convoys.
4
killed as Israel-Gaza violence flares over tunnel:
Four members of
Palestinian resistance have been killed and five Israeli soldiers injured in
violence in the Gaza Strip, Israeli and Palestinian sources say.
Jenin
man shot dead by Israeli occupation forces:
"Ahmad was
emptying products from a truck inside a market when Israeli soldiers began
shooting at people in the market. Ahmad ran away to hide behind a wall, and he
was peering out to see the situation and that's when he was shot by a bullet in
his heart," he told Ma'an.
Fuel
shortage causes power outage in Gaza:
"We have
completely stopped the operation of (Gaza's sole) power plant this morning at 6
a.m. because we don't have a single liter of fuel," the authority's deputy
chairman, told AFP. Khalil blamed the power outage on Egypt's destruction of
tunnels used for bringing fuel to Gaza and accused the Palestinian Authority of
charging Hamas too much for its fuel.
Panetta: US may
have to use military force against Iran: -
Addressing the
Anti-Defamation League's 100th annual meeting on Thursday night, former US
secretary of defense and CIA director Leon Panetta told the ballroom of around
600 people that while the US has "implemented unprecedented sanctions and
pressure on Iran, we may very well have to use military force to back up our
policy."
Joe
Biden presses Senate Dems on Iran:
Vice President
Joe Biden joined other top Obama administration officials on Thursday in a bid
to persuade the Senate not to impose new sanctions on Iran, a sign of how eager
the White House is to avoid a conflict with Congress over the delicate
diplomatic matter.
21
Taliban militants killed during operations, clashes in Ghazni:
Taliban-fighters-in-a-mad-006At
least 21 Taliban militants were killed during joint military operations and
clashes with the Afghan police forces in eastern Ghanzi province of
Afghanistan.
US
Kills 5 People In Pakistan:
The leader of
the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, has been killed in a drone strike, a
high-ranking Taliban official has told the BBC. Four other people were killed in
the strike, including two of Mehsud's bodyguards, intelligence sources
say.
In public
relations exercise:
Pakistani
political leader says NATO supply routes will be cut if U.S. drone strikes
continue:
The chief
political leader in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province threatened Thursday
to choke off key NATO supply routes if U.S. drone strikes on Pakistan continue,
setting up a potential clash within the country's national
government.
Dozens
injured at pro-Morsi rallies across Egypt:
Dozens of
people have been injured as thousands of supporters of the deposed president,
Mohamed Morsi, hold anti-military demonstrations across Egypt, security sources
say.
Kerry
to make first Egypt visit since army Coup :
Kerry's visit
comes at a time of strained relations between the traditional allies after
Washington suspended some military aid to Egypt following Morsi's
ouster.
Blackmail Inc.
Tap on
Merkel Provides Peek at Vast Spy Net:
It was not
obvious to the National Security Agency a dozen years ago that Angela Merkel, a
rising star as the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, was a future
chancellor of Germany. But that did not matter.
Snowden
ready to go to Germany under asylum as his letter to Berlin revealed:
NSA
whistleblower, Edward Snowden, is ready to go to Germany and testify over the US
wiretapping of Angela Merkel's phone on condition of granting him political
asylum, a German MP who met Snowden has said.
Russian
Prime Minister says US hurt by evidence of 'cynical' spying:
"Can the
situation be calmed? I think it's possible. But to be honest, no assurances will
help here," he said. "What can you say in this situation? 'Sorry, we won't do it
anymore' or 'We will not try to listen in on you'? Nobody will believe
it."
NSA
Spied on World Bank, IMF, UN, Pope, World Leaders, and American Politicians and
Military Officers:
A high-level
NSA whistleblower says that the NSA is spying on - and blackmailing - top
government officials and military officers, including Supreme Court Justices,
high-ranked generals, Colin Powell and other State Department personnel, and
many other top officials.
Fact or
fiction;
Obama
halted NSA spying on IMF and World Bank headquarters:
President
Barack Obama has ordered the National Security Agency to stop eavesdropping on
the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank as part of a
review of intelligence gathering activities, according to a U.S. official
familiar with the matter.
Snowden
hired by major Russian website:
US
whistle-blower Edward Snowden is set to begin work in unnamed company in Moscow
on November 1.
Finland
says it was target of "massive" digital spying: -
Finland said
Thursday its foreign ministry had been the target of "massive" digital spying,
but its most sensitive information was not affected. The MTV3 television station
which first broke the story reported that the Russian and Chinese secret
services were suspected by Helsinki of being behind the digital
attacks.
Six
Ways to Keep the Government Out of Your Files:
Pro-tips on how
to lock down your data.
Poland
asks European court to hide CIA secret torture prison case from public:
Poland has
asked the European Court of Human Rights to bar media and public presence during
an upcoming hearing on Poland's complicity with the CIA's "extraordinary
rendition" program that delivered terror suspects to secret prisons around the
world.
Taiwanese
government introduces terrifying Special Forces clone army:
Taiwanese
Special Forces and a select few other military units recently received updated
bulletproof armor that includes a ballistic face mask that serves to protect
operators from lethal headshots and to reduce fighting effectiveness of opposing
forces, seemingly by causing them to immediately curl into the fetal position
and cry for their mothers
Los
Angeles International Airport shooting:
TSA officer
killed; several others wounded: A federal law enforcement official said that a
TSA officer was shot and killed at a passenger screening checkpoint at Los
Angeles International Airport. Three or four other TSA employees were injured in
the shooting, the official said.
LAX
shooter identified as Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, of Los Angeles:
The gunman in
today's shooting at Los Angeles International Airport has been identified as
Paul Anthony Ciancia, a 23-year-old Los Angeles-area resident with strong
anti-government views, NBC News reported.
Pew's
Appalling Thumbs Up for Payday Loans With 129% Annual Interest:
Payday lenders
have found a powerful friend in the Pew Charitable Trusts. In a recent report on
payday lending -- the culmination of two years of work -- Pew embraces reforms
to this industry that would still allow the poorest Americans to be charged
annual interest rates in the triple digits.
Goldman
Sachs pays Hillary Clinton $400,000 -- for two speeches:
Hillary Clinton
spoke at two separate Goldman Sachs events on the evenings of Thursday, October
24 and Tuesday, October 29. As both Politico and the New York Times report,
Clinton's fee is about $200,000 per speech, meaning she likely netted around
$400,000 for her paid gigs at Goldman over the course of six days.
In case you
missed it:
Hillary
Clinton Taps Speechmaking Gold Mine:
Just a few
months after leaving the State Department, Hillary Rodham Clinton has plunged
into the lucrative world of paid speechmaking, joining a branch of the family
business that has brought the Clintons more than $100 million since her husband
left the White House in 2001
Food
Stamp Cuts as Business Opportunity?
The cut to the
nation's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program going into effect today will
take food away from 47.7 million Americans who need it. This includes working
people whose pay isn't enough to feed their families; out-of-work Americans
still looking for a job; elderly people; people with disabilities; and 21
million children.
How You
Pay Farmers to Watch Their Crop Shrivel Up and Die:
The federal
crop insurance program puts farmers in a real bind. And as climate change
intensifies, it's only getting worse.
Judges
reinstate Texas abortion restrictions:
As a result,
about one third of Texas' abortion clinics won't be able to perform the
procedure starting on Friday, November 1. Women's groups fighting the law have
argued that it would cause these clinics to shut down permanently.
Texas
man arrested and jailed for overdue library book:
This is the
second Texas arrest that's made the headlines this month, following a report
concerning a Richland Hills woman who was arrested, strip-searched, and jailed
because she failed to pay a traffic ticket on time.
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