Over 30
people killed, injured by car
bomb in Daraa S. Syria:
Around 32
people, including a child, and
10 rebels, were killed by a suicide car
attack in
Daraa in Southern Syria,
the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights (SOHR)
said
Syrian
army kills 24 rebels in
Homs:
As many as 24
rebels were killed
Friday during clashes with the Syrian
troops in the central
province of Homs,
the official SANA news agency reported,
APA reports quoting
Xinhua.
At
Least 18 Killed in Syria Car
Bomb near Jordan Border: -
A car bomb
killed at least 18 people
in a Southern town of Syria, the
UK-based and funded
'Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights' reported.
Saudi
Arabia to supply Syrian
rebels with anti-aircraft
missiles - report:
According to a
report by the Wall
Street Journal, Russian-made antitank
guided missiles and
Chinese man-portable
air-defense systems are up for grabs,
already waiting in
warehouses in
Jordan and Turkey.
Lavrov:
Imposing No-Fly Zone
over Syria Violates International Law:
Wall Street
Journal has mentioned that t
he US intends to arm the terrorist groups
in Syria
and to impose a no-fly zone via
Jordan, Al-Manar reported.
Syria
peace talks end in deadlock:
No date was set
for the the negotiations
to resume, and dispute overshadowed the
potential talks
as the two sides debated
the order in which the agenda's four
topics will be
discussed: combating
violence, transitional government,
national institutions
and national
reconciliation.
Obama
says considering new
pressure on Assad:
Obama did not
disclose what steps
he has under consideration, but Secretary
of State John
Kerry said earlier while
traveling in Asia that a set of new
options are under
discussion.
Report:
Syria Most Deadly For
Journalists, While Turkey No. 1 Jailer:
In its annual
"Attacks on the Press" report,
released on February 12, the press-freedom
advocacy group said 70 journalists were
killed and 211 imprisoned in
2013.
Turkey:
Court orders press ban
regarding probe into suspicious
trucks and buses:
A court ordered
a press ban on the
investigation into the trucks, which
were allegedly carrying
weapons and
ammunition -- a search of which
was prevented by the intervention of
high-level officials.
Iraq PM
tours battlefield city as
22 security personnel killed:
Iraqi Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki
paid a visit on Saturday to the battleground
city of
Ramadi, where security forces
and allied tribesmen have for weeks
fought to
retake militant-held areas.
18 Iraq
soldiers, police die in attacks
and clashes:
Militants
Saturday held part of the northern
town of Sulaiman Bek, after security forces
withdrew despite reportedly making gains
in a battle for control of the area the
day
before.
Blast
kills Bahrain policeman during
uprising protests:
A Bahraini
policeman has died of wounds he
sustained in a bomb blast during protests
marking the anniversary of a 2011 Arab
Spring-inspired uprising, the interior
ministry
said on Saturday.
Commander: Iran to
Raze Israeli Cities
if Attacked: -
Commander of
the Islamic Revolution
Guards Corps (IRGC) renewed the warnings
issued by the
Iranian Supreme Leader about
Tehran's crushing response to any possible
Israeli
attack, reiterating that Iran will destroy
Israel if it comes under the
Zionists' attack.
Norman
Finkelstein : West duplicitous
on N-activities:
So, five
countries have the right to protect
themselves, but what about the 180 other
countries?
West duplicitous on N-activities:
PA
tells Kerry no to framework deal in
current form:
Palestinians
informed US secretary central elements
of his proposal are unacceptable,
Ramallah officials say
Hamas:
Any international presence will be
considered 'occupation':
Spokesman calls
for end to Kerry-brokered
negotiations, says no Arab nation would accept
violation of its sovereignty.
Canada
granted Israeli Mossad agent new
identity, businessman claims:
Arian Azarbar
says Israeli spy was granted news
passport after participating in the 2010 plot
to kill
Hamas terrorist leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel.
When
reality becomes hate speech:
President of EU
Parliament visits Israel:
An absurd incident took place in the Knesset
Wednesday
when members of the Jewish
Home party walked out of the plenum during a
speech
by European Parliament President
Martin Schulz of Germany.
18
Taliban militants killed or injured
in Afghan operations:
The militants
were killed or injured during
military operations conducted by Afghan
national
police, Afghan national army and
Afghan intelligence - National Directorate
of
Security (NDS) in the past 24 hours.
Blast
Kills NATO Occupation Force
Soldier in Afghanistan:
An improvised
explosive device killed a
NATO service member in southern Afghanistan
on
Saturday, the U.S.-led international military
coalition said.
USAID
cancels contract for good news
from Afghanistan:
The federal
agency charged with spending
more than $1 billion in aid projects for
Afghanistan
abruptly canceled a contract proposal Thursday
that would have paid
photographers for
"positive images" of its work there to counteract
what it
terms negative coverage by news organizations
Good
news over: USAID cancels 'glossy
propaganda' plans for Afghanistan aid projects:
The US Agency
for International Development
(USAID), which sought to pay photographers
for
"positive images" of its work in Afghanistan,
has cancelled the program. The
project, created
to combat negative news coverage, collapsed
amid charges that
the effort amounted to propaganda.
China
says 11 killed in new Xinjiang unrest:
Eleven
"terrorists" were killed during an attack
in China's far western region of
Xinjiang on
Friday, state news agency Xinhua said, in the
latest violence to hit
a part of the country with
a large Muslim population.
DRC:
452 people killed: -
Twenty-two
Congolese soldiers and 230
Ugandan rebels have been killed in a nearly
month-long offensive in restive eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo, the
government said Friday.
2
killed during pro-Morsi marches
across Egypt:
At least two
people were killed on
Friday during clashes between
supporters of ousted
Islamist President
Mohamed Morsi and security forces
along with some residents,
official
MENA news agency reported.
France
sends new troops as CAR
strife deepens:
Paris to send
400 more soldiers to the
Central African Republic as concern
grows over the
country's increasing violence
Libyan
general declares a coup,
but no one listens:
A former chief
of Libya's army
called for the country's parliament
and government to be
suspended
in an unusual video message Friday
that many derided as a futile
attempt
to declare a coup, reflecting the
chaos in the North African
nation.
Libyan
former military chief
arrested after 'calling for coup':
Protests have
taken place in Tripoli's
Martyrs Square, with demonstrators
angry at the
decision by Libya's interim
parliament to extend the country's
post-revolutionary transition period.
Scores
of prisoners escape in Libya
jailbreak:
Town council
spokesman says 92 inmates
fled after attacking guard who opened
for them to see
a doctor in town of Zliten..
Uganda
to authorise life sentence
for homosexuals:
Ugandan
President Yoweri Museveni
is set to sign a bill into law which
prescribes life
imprisonment for some
homosexual acts.
Bodies
Found in Spain's North
Africa Waters Likely Brings Migrant
Drownings to 14:
Spain's Civil
Guard said on Saturday it
had found the bodies of two African
migrants in the
sea off the country's
Ceuta enclave, likely raising to 14 the
number of people
who drowned trying to
swim to the territory from neighboring
Morocco last
week.
Demand
Clemency for Edward
Snowden:
Join Ron Paul
in demanding that
Edward Snowden IS granted
clemency. Sign the Petition.
Let's
bring Edward home before
his amnesty in Russia expires on
July 31,
2014.
Spy
Agencies Provide Faulty
Contractor Data, GAO Says:
Civilian U.S.
intelligence agencies
have provided unreliable and incomplete
reports to
Congress since 2011 on the
use of private contractors who perform
core
functions, according to a new
congressional audit.
Obama
DOJ's New Abuse of
State-Secrets Privilege Revealed:
The bogus
national security claims
invoked were even more outrageous
because they were
used to continue the
persecution of someone the government
knew to be
innocent.
Private
Prison Firm To Pay Idaho
$1 Million For False Records That
Left Key Security
Posts Vacant:
One of the
world's largest private prison
firms agreed to pay Idaho $1 million on
Tuesday
to compensate the state corrections
department for thousands of hours in
falsified staffing records while key security
positions were left
vacant.
Venezuela braces
for more violence -
but it could work in Maduro's favour:
Violent
protests could make Chavistas
rally round president after growing
discontent
about country's economic woes
Chinese
bank bad debts hit crisis level
high:
The volume of
non-performing loans in
the Chinese banking system highest
since financial
crisis
Merkel,
Hollande to discuss European
communication network avoiding U.S.:
German
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on
Saturday she would talk to French President
Francois Hollande about building up a European
communication network to avoid
emails and other
data passing through the United States.
Merging
Cable Giants Is 'an Affront to
the Public Interest':
The idea of
merging Comcast and Time Warner
poses a threat that ought to be met with
official
scrutiny and grassroots opposition.
US
banks free to accept legal marijuana
money:
Government
guidance intended to increase
availability of banking services, such as
savings
accounts, to marijuana shops.
10
Reasons To Call For More Than
$10.10 as a Minimum Wage:
Here are ten
reasons why "$10.10" should
be a floor, not a ceiling, in discussions of
the
minimum wage.
Survey:
Americans struggle with science;
respect scientists:
For example,
only 74 percent of those queried
knew that the Earth revolved around the sun,
while fewer than half (48 percent) knew that
human beings developed from earlier
species of
animals.
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