At
least 17 dead, including foreigners,
in Kabul blast: police:
"There were
three attackers. All have been
killed. Unfortunately, 14 people have also
been
killed, including some foreigners,"
city police chief Mohammad Zahir told
reporters.
US
airstrike killed 13 Afghan civilians
in Parwan: Official:
An Afghan
fact-finding mission has found
that a recent US airstrike has killed at least 13
civilians in the country's northeastern province
of Parwan.
3
killed as bomb rips through train in
Pakistan:
Friday's blast
took place as the train was en
route from the northwestern city of Peshawar
to
the southern port city of Karachi. The
explosion blew up the train tracks in the
central district of Rajanpur.
Thai
anti-government protesters wounded i
n explosion:
More than 30
people are hurt after explosive
device is thrown into lorry driven by
demonstrators during march in Bangkok
Bush-
Blair Legacy Continues As - 9 killed,
32 injured in army shelling of Iraq's
Fallujah:
At least nine
people were killed and 32 others
injured Friday in an army artillery barrage in
Iraq's
western city of Fallujah, a tribal leader told Anadolu
Agency.
US
agrees to send new arms, artillery to
Iraq to fight Al Qaeda:
Vice President
Joe Biden spoke to the Iraqi
leader on Tuesday, although White House
officials
suggest the weapons - artillery and
assault rifles - were not the primary thrust
of the conversation.
US
ready to train Iraqi troops in third
country: official:
Pending an
agreement with Jordan or another
nation to host the effort, the training was
"likely"
to go ahead as both Baghdad and Washington
supported the idea, said the
official, who spoke
on condition of anonymity.
War criminal:
Gates:
U.S. "Probably" Should Have
Declared War on Iraq Before Launching It:
Former defense
secretary Robert Gates says
Congress "probably" should have declared
war on Iraq
before invading in 2003, and
added that it should do the same before any
attack
on Iran.
Bush- Blair
Legacy Continues As -
Iraqis
go about their lives at mercy
of nameless bombers:
The day after
one of Iraq's bloodiest days
for months, shoppers and drivers packed
the streets
of Baghdad on Thursday, grimly
aware that death can strike anywhere, any
time.
Rocket
fire from Syria kills at least seven
in Lebanese border town:
At least 10
rockets have struck Lebanese
frontier areas, according to local security
sources. The security source said a Syrian
fighter jet was targeting a town on
the Syrian
side of the frontier, but was not the source of
the rocket
fire.
Hariri
says could share power with
Hezbollah:
Former Lebanese
Prime Minister Saad
Hariri says he is now ready to share power
with his rivals
Hezbollah if that's what it takes
to help Lebanon finally form a government
after nine months of political deadlock.
Nearly
1,100 killed in Syria rebel-jihadist
battles: Activists say:
Two weeks of
battles between Syrian rebels
and jihadists have killed at least 1,069 people,
mostly fighters, the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said
Thursday.
4
killed as Nusra branch says Hermel
blast response to Hezbollah in
Syria:
A suicide
bomber killed four people and
wounded 43 others in a bustling neighborhood
in
Hermel Thursday, a security source told
The Daily Star, with Nusra Front in
Lebanon
claiming responsibility.
6 Rebel
groups pledge allegiance to Al
Nusra Front:
6 Rebel groups
in Eastern Ghouta of Damascus
have pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda-linked
group,
Al Nusra Front, Jihadist websites reported.
Good News:
Syria
says it's ready for cease-fire,
prisoners swap:
Syria's foreign
minister said Friday his
country is prepared to implement a
cease-fire in the
war-torn city of Aleppo
and exchange detainees with the country's
opposition
forces as a confidence building
measure ahead of a peace conference
opening next
week in Switzerland.
The Arrogance
of Power:
Kerry
Insists No Place for Assad in
Syria's Future:
Secretary of
State John Kerry insisted
on Friday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
has no
place in Syria's future and said the
United States was not without options on
stepping up pressure on him.
Geneva-2 to
establish Syria's transitional
governing body: Kerry: Video
-
U.S. Secretary
of State John Kerry said Geneva-2
was about "establishing a process essential to
a
formation for a transition governing body."
Rough Cut (no reporter
narration).
MIT
study of Ghouta chemical attack
challenges US intelligence:
The authors
concluded that sarin gas "could not
possibly have been fired at East Ghouta from
the
'heart', or from the Eastern edge, of the Syrian
government controlled area
shown in the
intelligence map published by the White
House on August 30,
2013."
Tragic
Photo of Orphaned 'Syrian' Boy
is Fake:
Syrian
opposition leader Ahmed Jarba tweeted
a disturbing photo Friday morning that
purportedly depicts an orphaned Syrian boy
sleeping between the graves of
parents.
Lest anyone get the wrong idea, he made sure
to finger Assad as the
culprit behind the pictured
boy's sad fate:
Turkey:
'Dismissed ministers received
millions in bribes':
According to a
summary of proceedings sent
to the Ministry of Justice regarding four former
Cabinet ministers involved in an ongoing graft
investigation, the Cumhuriyet
daily claimed on
Thursday that three of them accepted millions of
dollars in
bribes.
Gov't
assault on police to evade graft probe
intensifies:
The government
continued on Wednesday its
practice of massive removals and reassignments
of
police chiefs and officers, which to some
commentators have reached a level of
craziness, as it seeks to evade a deepening graft probe.
Al-Qaeda attacks
kill 10 Yemen soldiers:
Al-Qaeda
militants killed 10 Yemeni soldiers in three simultaneous attacks Thursday on
army positions in the central province of Bayda, a military official
said.
Three
Killed in Clashes Between Militants
the Army in Yemen:
Cashes between
armed militants and the Yemeni
army killed three and injured two in Yemen's
southern city of al-Dalea on Friday, Yemen's
state news agency SABA
reported.
Iran
has $100 billion abroad, can draw
$4.2 billion: U.S. official:
Under the
November 24, six-month accord
between Iran and the major powers, Tehran will
receive limited sanctions relief, which the U.S.
estimates to be worth about $7
billion, in return
for curbing its disputed nuclear program.
Hillary
Clinton Discussed U.S. Approval
of an Israeli Strike On Iran:
Instead of
begging Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu to give diplomacy
more time,
perhaps it was worth telling him
to go proceed with airstrikes.
Israel
troops open fire on Gaza protesters,
2 injured:
Troops fired at
some 300 demonstrators who
were protesting against Israel's destruction of
farmland for its 300-meter buffer zone, the correspondent said.
Netanyahu wants to
steal more Palestinian land:
report: -
Israel's prime
minister has increased the amount of
occupied territory he wants to keep after
any peace
deal with the Palestinians, state media reported on
Thursday, a move
that could complicate U.S.-backed
efforts to reach an accord.
Israel
berates 'pro-Palestinian EU':
Israel has
summoned the ambassadors of Britain,
France, Italy and Spain, accusing their
countries
of pro-Palestinian bias.
House
spending bill includes full $3.1 billion for Israel:
The bill keeps
funding for Israel at $3.1 billion for 2014,
the amount designated in a 10-year
memorandum of
understanding from 2007 that guaranteed Israel an
average of $3
billion a year in assistance.
US to
Expand Military, Intelligence Presence in
Bahrain:
A senior US
military official told a Senate hearing
that the planned espionage center in the
Arab state,
home to the US Navy's 5th Fleet, will be an "integral part"
of the
Pentagon's post-2014 strategy in AfghanisUS Navy's
5th Fleet in Bahraintan, the
Washington Post reported on
Thursday.
Two
explosions hit capital of Russia's southern
republic of Dagestan:
At least 9
people have been hospitalized with
various injuries, medics said.
6
Killed in Gunbattle in North Nigeria:
Witnesses say
at least six people were killed in a
fierce gunbattle between suspected Islamic
extremists and security forces in Nigeria's northeast.
Six
killed as security forces clash with protesters i
n Egypt:
Six anti-coup
protesters have been killed and 125
arrested after violent clashes with security
forces on
Friday in cities around Egypt, according to security
sources.
Egypt
militants blow up Sinai gas pipe again:
security:
Militants had
forced a halt to gas supplies to Israel
and Jordan by repeatedly targeting
another pipeline
through Sinai following the 2011 overthrow of
strongman Hosni
Mubarak.
Libyan
solider killed in Benghazi attack:
The source said
that a group of unidentified
gunmen had fired on the two Special Forces
troops
as the latter emerged from a mosque
in the Benghazi neighborhood of
Al-Dolar.
Uganda
leader halts anti-gay bill because
it's not a good way to cure 'abnormality':
In a letter to
parliament, the president said
homosexuality was caused by either "random
breeding" or a need to make money. And
lesbians, he added, choose female
partners
because of "sexual starvation" and the
failure to marry a
man.
Public
relations:
Obama
to overhaul NSA's bulk storage
of Americans' telephone
data:
US president
Barack Obama will announce
that the National Security Agency should no
longer
store US telephone data in bulk, in a
significant change to the most
controversial
surveillance activity exposed by the Guardian
thanks to
whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Full
text of Obama's NSA speech:
Text of the
President's Remarks on NSA
and Surveillance
NSA:
six out of 10 Americans want
reform of data collection, says poll:
Fears are
growing among civil libertarians
that Barack Obama will allow the National
Security Agency to retain its bulk databases
of US phone call information,
despite new
polling that indicates substantial public
appetite for restricting
the spy agency's powers.
Why the
West is spying and why Africa
should be worried:
North
America was economically at war
with the world; and intelligence
gathering
was the frontline of this war.
How the
Washington Post is Backed
by the CIA: Video -
The potential
conflict of interest between the
new Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos and
a
recent $600 million CIA contract with his
other company, Amazon.
Beijing
Citizens, Shrouded In Pollution,
Flock To Giant Screens To View Artificial
Sunrise:
You know it's
bad when...The smog has become
so thick in Beijing that the city's natural
light-starved
masses have begun flocking to huge digital
commercial television
screens across the city to
observe virtual sunrises.
IMF
Warns These 4 European Nations Are
"Potentially Destabilizing" To Global
Economy:
Denmark,
Finland, Norway and Poland have been
added to the IMF's list of countries with
the
potential to destabilize the global economy.
Mexico
anti-drug militias return land to
villagers:
The symbolic
handover of some 654 acres
(265 hectares) of land, which included many
avocado
and lemon orchards, took place in
the village square of Tancitaro in the
Michoacan highlands.
'Humanity lost':
84yo Canadian man with
Alzheimer's dies in UK border police custody:
An 84-year-old
Canadian man with Alzheimer's
disease died in handcuffs in UK custody after
being held for almost two weeks by border police,
a report has
revealed.
ACLU:
Border Patrol Agents Routinely Violate
Rights Of U.S. Citizens At Highway
Checkpoints:
Border Patrol
agents at southern Arizona checkpoints
routinely violate the constitutional
rights of U.S.
citizens with illegal searches and other actions
despite the
agency's mandate that stops be limited
to immigration enforcement, according to
a complaint
filed Wednesday.
Family
suing state after Ohio inmate's 25-minute
execution with new drug mix:
Lead attorney
Allan Bohnert told the Associated Press
that it took over 25 minutes for McGuire
to die, and
called the "unusually long execution...a failed,
agonizing
experiment."
Police
Handcuff and Search Man for Giving
Money to Homeless: Video
-
Police in
Houston, Texas handcuffed, detained and s
earched the vehicle of an innocent man
for over
an hour this week, all because he gave change to a
homeless person.
According to Houston's Channel 2
News, police wrongfully accused Greg Snider of
giving drugs to the man who approached him and
asked for change.
TSA
Pat-Down At DIA Leads To Sex
Assault Investigation:
Denver police
have initiated a sexual assault
investigation focused on Transportation Security
Administration officers at a checkpoint at Denver
International Airport. It
comes after a Colorado
woman filed a complaint saying the frisking
she received
amounted to a sexual assault.
DEA
official freaks out at Senate hearing:
Reckless marijuana legalization 'scares
us':
The chief of
operations at the Drug Enforcement
Administration railed against the
legalization of
marijuana on Wednesday, warning the "experiment"
was highly
dangerous.
Nobody
Read the Bill Authorizing $1.1 Trillion
in US Government Spending:
When asked
whether he read the 1,528-page,
$1.1 trillion government spending bill before he
voted for it yesterday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)
said, "Nobody
did!"
Congress budgets
$13 million for nonprofits
security, that mostly aids Jewish institutions:
The program,
has so far disbursed $138 million
through the Department of Homeland Security.
$110 million has gone to Jewish institutions
seeking funding for add-ons like
barriers and
security cameras.
US
drops out of top 10 ten most economically
free countries:
After seven
straight years of decline, the U.S.
has dropped out of the top 10 most
economically
free countries. Those losing freedom, on the other
hand, risk
economic stagnation, high unemployment
and deteriorating social
conditions
Detroit
bankruptcy judge blocks $165 million
payment to banks:
The judge in
the Detroit bankruptcy case struck
down a controversial proposed settlement in
which the city would have paid two big banks
$165 million.
Sallie
Mae Allegedly Harassed Family Of Dead
College Student To Pay Up On Debt:
Sallie Mae, one
of the largest student lenders in the
country, allegedly stalked the family of a
law student
who died in a car accident over the 24-year-old's
unpaid debt,
raising questions about how private
companies deal with the financial
obligations of the
deceased.
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