Approx.
23 more people killed in Aleppo
bombings:
Pro-rebel
activsts say: Approximately 23
people were killed in barrel bomb attacks by
Syria's army helicopters on Aleppo's
opposition-controlled Haydariyah region
on
Sunday, according to the Syria Network
for Human Rights.
Syria:
relief convoys heading to Homs
attacked for second day running:
"We barely got
our staff out alive," said Khaled
Erksoussi, head of operations at Sarc. Syrian
state
TV said 600 people had left.
Syria
says 500 civilians evacuated from
central Homs:
Aid teams
evacuated more than 500 civilians
from the besieged rebel centre of Homs on
Sunday
and delivered humanitarian aid to people who
remain in the Syrian city, a
local official said.
Bush- Blair
Legacy Continues As -
9
killed, 36 injured in Iraq's Babil clashes
in past 24 hours:
One Iraqi
officer and eight militants were
killed on Saturday and Sunday in fierce
fighting in the central province of Babil
between army forces and militants of
Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group,
according to local
authorities.
Bush- Blair
Legacy Continues As -
Nine
killed in brutal Iraq murders:
Nine people
were found dead in two brutal
incidents in Iraq on Sunday - one where
militants
forced policemen to pray before
killing them, and another where decapitated
heads were left in a market.
Three
killed in Yemen car bomb:
At least three
people were killed and five others
injured in a car bomb blast near Yemen's Oil
Ministry, government officials said Sunday.
Yemen
bomb attack kills one, injures two
others:
The bomb is
said to have been placed under
driver's seat inside a taxi, which was driven by
an officer in the domestic security service.
'Kerry
fails to get Obama backing to confront
Israel on peace
terms':
US Secretary
of State John Kerry sought but failed
to get backing from President Barack Obama
to
confront Israel over its objections to his peace
proposals, and therefore his
bid to try impose
terms for peace on Israel and the Palestinians has
"pretty
much collapsed," an Israeli TV report
claimed on Sunday night.
Drug
Hub: UN report on Israel's star role
in narcotics trade: Video -
Paula Slier
reports now on how Israel, has
unexpectedly become a major hub for the drug
trade.
Iran
moves to cooperate in U.N. nuclear bomb
probe:
The U.N.
nuclear agency said on Sunday that Iran
had agreed to start addressing
suspicions that it may
have worked on designing an atomic weapon, a
potential
breakthrough in a long-stalled investigation
into Tehran's atomic
activities.
Turkish
police fire tear gas to break up Internet
protest: -
Police fired
water cannon and teargas to disperse
hundreds of people protesting in central
Istanbul on
Saturday against new controls on the Internet
approved by parliament
this week.
Erdogan: Turkey
freer than some EU
states:
PM's comment
comes as thousands rioted
against new law they say restricts freedom of
speech
online
Nine
more killed in Central African Republic -
Widespread bloodshed and looting:
Raging violence
in Central African Republic's
capital, including mob attacks and an apparent
assassination attempt targeting the lawless country's
former justice minister,
killed at least nine people over
the weekend
Egypt:
Three Muslim Brotherhood militants
killed:
Egypt's media
reported that three militants linked
to the Muslim brotherhood were killed as
part of
the Egyptian army's raid on several villages in
northern Sinai. Ten more
activists were arrested
in the operation.
Egypt
Says Muslim Brotherhood Has
Formed Military Wing:
The Interior
Ministry's spokesman appeared
on television to announce that the military unit
had been discovered, and named 12 people who
he said were members. He said the
group had
shot dead five policemen last month in the
province of Beni
Suef.
Libya's
former prosecutor general shot dead:
Libya's former
prosecutor general has been
shot dead by unknown attackers in the eastern
city
of Derna, the justice minister said, the latest
in a series of assassinations
that have plagued the
country.
Eight
killed in attack on Pakistani pro-government
militia leaders:
A sleeping
family of eight were killed in an attack
on the home of two pro-government
militia leaders
in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan region on Sunday,
officials
said.
Roadside bomb
blast kills seven troops in
western Afghanistan:
The spokesman
for Afghanistan's Defense Ministry,
Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, said the soldiers
were killed when their vehicle struck the roadside
bomb in the Dilaram district
of Farah province on
Sunday.
Taliban
airs Kabul CIA office attack video:
The Taliban has
released a video, which appears to
show the planning and execution of an attack
on
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) compound
in Afghanistan last
June.
Ukraine
places anti-terrorist forces on alert: -
Ukraine's state
security service on Sunday placed
anti-terrorist units on alert in response to a
sharp
rise in unspecified threats against sensitive
installations including
atomic power stations,
airports and gas and oil pipelines.
I've
been bugged by the Russians: U.S.
Ambassador:
"There is no
doubt that I am a primary subject of
interest, and from time to time, they have
also
leaked conversations that I thought were private.
That's just the state of
working in Russia," he said.
Huge
crowds gather for 10th weekly anti-govt
rally in central Kiev:
Thousands of
people have gathered on central
Kiev's Independence Square for the 10th
consecutive
weekend, in an anti-government demonstration called
by the
opposition.
Sochi
Sour Grapes: Western MSM wins gold
medal for buzz killing : Video -
The Western
mainstream media have been trying to
ruin the excitement by picking apart every
tiny -
often made-up - flaw they could lay their hands on
EU to
Consider Intervention in Bosnia if Tension
Escalates:
"Austria will
increase its troops there, but if it comes
to escalation we would have to
consider the intervention
of EU forces. Currently, we do not have such
intention,"
Inzko said for the Austrian Kurier newspaper.
Switzerland votes
a narrow 'yes' to cap EU
immigration:
Switzerland has
voted 50.3 percent in favor of
limiting annual migration from the EU, thus
ending the policy of free movement within the
bloc that was established in
2002.
Snowden
Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A.:
Snowden
succeeded nearly three years after the
WikiLeaks disclosures, in which military
and
State Department files, of far less sensitivity,
were taken using similar
techniques.
Barclays blasted
over 'catastrophic' theft of
thousands of customer files:
Files
containing names, addresses, medical details
and NI numbers have allegedly been
sold for use by
scammers
Mexican
vigilantes drive out religious drug
cartel from gang-held
city:
Dozens of
vigilantes, who wear white T-shirts
for identification, work with government
forces
to clear out cartel gunmen
Tijuana
Prisoner: I Was Forced To Dig Drug
Tunnel To San Diego:
17 Mexican men
claim they were kidnapped and
forced to carry out the work for months before
Mexican authorities found them.
Met
Office: Evidence 'suggests climate
change link to storms':
Climate change
is likely to be a factor in the
extreme weather that has hit much of the UK
in
recent months, the Met Office's chief scientist
has said. - "There is no
evidence to counter the
basic premise that a warmer world will lead to
more
intense daily and hourly rain events."
Eric
Pickles apologises over floods and blames
Environment Agency advice:
Pickles
apologised on behalf of the government
while continuing to pin blame on the EA.
He said: "We made a mistake, there's no doubt a
bout that and we perhaps relied
too much on the
Environment Agency's advice."
Suspicious Death
of JPMorgan Vice President,
Gabriel Magee, Under Investigation in London:
London Police
have confirmed that an official
investigation is underway into the death of a
39-year old JPMorgan Vice President whose
body was found on the 9th floor
rooftop of a
JPMorgan building in Canary Wharf two weeks
ago
15
Photos From The Massive Progressive
Protest You Didn't Hear About This Weekend:
Somewhere
between 80 to 100,000 people from
32 states turned out to protest four years of
drastic
state Republican initiatives in Raleigh, North Carolina,
on
Saturday.
One
County Spent Over $5 Million Jailing
Homeless People Instead Of Giving Them
Homes:
Laws that make
it a crime to live as a homeless
person make little sense from a moral vantage
point. New data shows they make even less
sense from a fiscal
standpoint.
Hunger
Strike in Menard Prison:
The conditions
here are inhumane &
repressive. So much that we are forced
to make a stand
as men in righteous indignation.
hhttp://solitarywatch.com/2014/02/06/voices-solitary-hunger-strike-menard-prison/
Nevada
County Will Charge Inmates For
Their Meals And Medical Care:
Sheriff Jim
Pitts's plan will charge inmate
$6 for meals, $10 for visits to the doctor, and
$5 for getting booked.
Families
scrambling to feed themselves face
cuts to food stamps:
The new farm
bill President Obama signed into
law yesterday cuts $8.6 billion from food
stamps
during the next decade. This comes on top of $5
billion in cuts during
the last year.
8.7
million lbs of beef produced by 'diseased
and unsound animals' recalled by
California company:
Rancho Feeding
Corp of Petaluma, California, produced
the beef between January 1 and January 7
and shipped
the meat to distribution centers and stores in California,
Florida,
Illinois and Texas, the department's Food Safety
and Inspection Service said in
a statement.
Chemical used in
shoe rubber ditched by Subway
this week found in McDonald's, Burger King,
Wendy's:
Subway is not
the only company found to have products
containing a chemical used to make shoes
and yoga mats.
The
Natural Effect: Video -
"The False
Advertising Industry" reveals the shocking
truth about what is allowed in
"Natural" food.
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