Up to
93 people killed in Syria clashes:
The Public
Authority of the Syrian Revolution
said on Saturday the number of civilians
killed
in clashes between the opposition Free Syria
Army and government forces
reached 93 people,
most of them in Homs and Aleppo.
41
Palestinians dead from hunger,
medical shortages in Syria camp: NGO:
A Syrian
monitoring group said Friday it
has documented the deaths of 41 Palestinian
refugees in besieged Yarmuk camp as a result
of food and medical shortages,
including
women and children.
Rebels
clash in north Syria, bodies pile
up in hospital - monitors:
A week of
infighting between the al
Qaeda-linked group, the Islamic State of
Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL), and other
groups including another al Qaeda-affiliated
faction
has killed hundreds of fighters
opposed to President Bashar
al-Assad.
West
may not be winner in Syria
battle of 'good al Qaida' vs. 'bad al Qaida':
Only on the
complex and bloody battlefields
of Syria could there emerge a schism that
would
seem absurd elsewhere: "good"
al Qaida vs. "bad" al Qaida.
60
killed in ongoing clashes in Iraq's
Anbar province:
At least 60
people were killed and some
297 others wounded in clashes between the
security
forces and militant groups over the
past two weeks, as the battles continued on
Saturday, a local official and a police source
said.
Fallujah operation
put on hold, residents
return:
Most businesses
reopened in Fallujah and
government security operations in nearby
areas were put
on hold after heavy overnight
rain restricted the use of aircraft and heavy
vehicles, a day after police and tribesmen
retook militant-held areas in the
nearby
Anbar provincial capital Ramadi.
Yemen:
Another Colonel killed In Aden:
A senior
security officer was shot dead,
while two others were wounded in two
separate
attacks in the southern port city
of Aden on Tuesday, a local security
source
told the Yemen Observer.
Ariel
Sharon remembered as a blood
thirsty war criminal:
Sharon was
commonly dubbed the "Butcher of
Beirut" for his association with some of the
worst atrocities during Lebanon's 1975-1990
Civil War.
'No
tears will be shed for Ariel
Sharon' in Lebanon: Video -
Jim Muir
reports on the reaction in the
Sabra and Shatila camps to Sharon's
death.
Ariel
Sharon death: tributes from
around the world:
"On behalf of
the American people, Michelle and I
send our deepest condolences to the family
of former
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and to the people
of Israel on the
loss of a leader who dedicated his
life to the state of Israel ... We join with
the Israeli
people in honouring his commitment to his
country." - Barack
Obama
Number
of Jewish lawmakers worldwide
reaches record high:
The United
States is still only in third place
worldwide for the number of Jewish
legislators,
after Israel and Britain.
Iran:
Initial deal on implementing
nuclear deal:
Iran's nuclear
envoy in Geneva says an
initial agreement has been reached on
implementing a
nuclear deal with six world
powers and that it's been sent to capitals
for
approval.
US
nuclear bill would have consequences,
Iran's nuclear chief says: -
Iran will have
no choice but to step up its
uranium enrichment if a bill now moving
through
parliament is approved, even though
it has no current need for such
highly-enriched
uranium, its nuclear chief said on Saturday.
South
Libya clashes kill 19: local official:
The Toubous are
black oasis farmers by tradition
who also live in southern Libya, northern Chad
and Niger. They have complained in the past of
attempted ethnic cleansing
against their
community by Arab tribesmen.
3
killed in rally before vote in Egypt:
Hundreds of
Islamists rallied in Egypt's
capital and across the country Friday,
calling for
a boycott of an upcoming
constitutional referendum as clashes
with security
forces killed three people,
officials said.
Egypt's
General Sisi signals may run
for president:
Egypt's army
chief General Abdel Fatah
al-Sisi gave his clearest signal yet on
Saturday of
his interest in becoming president,
a move that could turn the clock back to the
days when the presidency was controlled by
men from the military.
Boots on the
ground:
US has
deployed military advisers
to Somalia, officials say:
The US military
secretly deployed a
small number of trainers and advisers to
Somalia in
October.
3
Insurgents Killed, 2 Injured in
Afghan Forces Raids:
Three
insurgents were killed and two
were injured during a series of coordinated
operations over the past 24 hours carried
out by the Afghan National Army (ANA),
Afghan National Police (ANP) and National
Directorate of Security (NDS), the
Afghan
Ministry of Interior said in a statement on
Saturday.
Karzai
condemns US shooting of
Afghan child:
"We have been
calling for the complete
end of military operations in residential
areas. This
demand has not been taken
seriously by foreign troops and the result
is civilian
casualties including women
and children."
Gareth
Porter: Gates Conceals Real
Story of "Gaming" Obama on
Afghan War:
Analysis:
"As I sat
there," Gates recalls,
"I thought: the president doesn't
trust his commander,
can't stand
[Afghanistan President Hamid] Karzai,
doesn't believe in his own
strategy, and
doesn't consider the war to be his.
For him, it's all about
getting out."
NSA
makes final push to retain
most mass surveillance powers:
The National
Security Agency and its
allies are making a final public push to
retain as much
of their controversial
mass surveillance powers as they can,
before President
Barack Obama's
forthcoming announcement about
the future scope of US
surveillance.
Google's robots
and creeping
militarization:
Google CEO
Larry Page has rapidly
positioned Google to become an
indispensable U.S.
military contractor.
Chomsky
on Anarchy &
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Video -
What it is, how
it arises, and how
it can be applied by people that want
to affect positive
change in the world.
Guantanamo
Anniversary: 12 Years
Of A Continuing War Crime : Video -
It's
heartbreaking for the hundreds who've
had to go through that--kidnapped,
torture,
detention center. And it's heartbreaking for
what's happened to any
concept of justice
in this country.
Statement issued
by Shaker Aamer
on the occasion of the 12th Anniversary
of Guantánamo Bay :
The US military
wants to repress the truth
about Guantánamo, but the truth will always
come out.
Others suffer even more than I do.
Cuba:
US 'very open' to new relationship:
"Despite our
historically difficult relationship...
we have been able to speak to each other
in a
respectful and thoughtful manner," he told a
news conference in
Havana.
Ecuadoran
Parliament Begins Procedure
to Resign from Rio Treaty :
The diplomat
stated that in recent years the
document has been used to justify
interventionism
and the use of force against Latin American
countries and
governments with nationalist,
socialist, or populist tendencies.
The
revolution that rocked Mexico: Video -
Led by the
charismatic pipe-smoking
Subcomandante Marcos, the Zapatista
National Liberation
Army demanded rights
and recognition for its people.
UK
schools fingerprinted over 800K children,
third without parental consent -
watchdog:
Civil liberties
group, Big Brother Watch, filed
Freedom of Information Requests to over 3,000
schools across the UK and found that 40 percent
of schools are using biometrical
technology on
pupils. Only 1,255 schools responded.
Ireland's Rebound
Is European Blarney:
Ireland's
success story feels less like "The
Shawshank Redemption" and more like
"Rocky."
We haven't been joyously liberated;
we've just withstood a lot of blows. We're
still
standing, but we've taken so many punches
that it's hard to see
straight.
China
surpasses US as world's largest
trading nation:
China became
the world's largest trading
nation in 2013, overtaking the US in what
Beijing
described as "a landmark milestone"
for the country.
US
declares emergency after chemical spill:
Up to 300,000
people in West Virginia have
been told not to drink tap water after the spill
of
a dangerous chemical sparked a federal
emergency.
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