Syria
barrel bomb raids on Aleppo
'kill 20': Activists Say:
The raids come
as government forces
press an advance into the east and north
of Aleppo city,
large swathes of which
fell to the opposition after a massive
rebel offensive in
July 2012.
Syria
Evacuates Civilians From
Besieged Homs Center:
Syria evacuated
83 civilians on Friday
who had lived under government siege
in the devastated
city of Homs for a
year and a half, the first concrete result
of talks launched
two weeks ago to try
to end the country's civil war.
Rebel
gunfire 'injures Homs aid
workers':
Four aid
workers have been wounded
by rebel gunfire as a UN aid convoy
entered the
besieged district of the
Syrian city of Homs, state media report.
'First
British suicide bomber in Syria'
believed to have struck Aleppo prison:
Mr Britani
would be the eighth Briton to die
fighting in the three-year-long civil war,
if
reports by are confirmed.
Syria
Now "a Matter of Homeland
Security," Homeland Security chief
Jeh Johnson said
Friday:
" Extremists
are actively trying to recruit
Westerners, indoctrinate them, and see
them
return to their home countries with
an extremist mission," said
Johnson.
Bush- Blair
Legacy Continues As -
12
Killed in Iraq Attacks:
At least 12
people, including nine gunmen,
were killed and 14 suffered injuries in
different
violent incidents across Iraq
Saturday, police said.
Bush- Blair
Legacy Continues As -
Iraqi
orders are to kill, not capture,
terrorists:
A controversy
is brewing over the actions
of Iraqi armed forces during "anti-terrorism"
operations, as senior army officers have
issued clear orders to kill rather than
arrest
those being pursued.
Bush- Blair
Legacy Continues As -
Suicide
bomber killed in Mosul:
Police forces
within Nineveh Operations
Command killed a suicide bomber while
he was
attempting to detonate his explosive
vest targeting a police patrol in Sinhareb
Bridge of the left side of Mosul city.
Yemeni
tribesmen attack oil pipeline
repair crew, 8 killed:
At least eight
people were killed when
armed tribesman launched an attack on
Friday to stop
maintenance crews repairing a
n oil pipeline blown up last month in southeast
Yemen, tribal sources said.
Khamenei: U.S.
would overthrow
Iranian government if it could - media:
"American
officials publicly say they do
not seek regime change in Iran. That's a lie.
They wouldn't hesitate a moment if they
could do it," he was quoted as saying by
the semi-official Fars news agency.
Top
Iranian official: Israel a 'cancer'
in the Middle East:
US delegation
walks out of Tunisia
constitution party in protest of remarks
made by Iran's
parliamentary speaker Ali
Larijani.
Kerry:
Netanyahu does not want NATO
in West Bank:
"Netanyahu has
made it clear he doesn't
want NATO," Kerry said, but noted that
the possibility
of a third-party force "is
something for the parties to work out."
70% of
Israelis don't trust US on security,
says poll:
Seventy percent
of Israeli Jews do not believe
the US can be relied upon to maintain key
Israeli
interests and security requirements in
the American- brokered agreement being
drafted with the Palestinians, a Geocartography
Institute poll taken this week
found.
Danish
parliament leader to visit occupied
West Bank, Gaza - but not Israel:
Danish
parliament speaker snubs Israel despite
plan to visit Palestinian
Authority.
Egypt
Army Kills 16 Suspected Militants
in Sinai:
Egypt's
military killed 16 suspected Islamic
militants in a series of airstrikes on
hideouts
in the northern Sinai Peninsula, a spokesman
said Saturday, alleging
that the fighters had
ties to the ousted president's Muslim Brotherhood
group.
Three
killed in clashes as president Morsi
loyalists keep protesting:
Three confirmed
dead in Fayoum, Ismailia
and Menya as Friday clashes continue
nationwide; at
least four security personnel
injured in early-morning Giza bomb
blast
Man
lynched in Central African Republic,
court plans investigation:
An angry crowd
killed and mutilated a
man who fell from a truck filled with
Muslims fleeing the
capital of Central
African Republic on Friday, witnesses
said, while an
international court said
it would investigate alleged crimes
committed
there.
Muslims
flee Central African Republic c
apital:
Christian
crowds jeer Muslims leaving
Bangui as International Criminal Court
says
situation "gone from bad to worse".
Afghanistan: 8
Year-Old Girl Killed,
8 Others Injured in Nangarhar Blast:
An
eight-year-old girl was killed and 8
other civilians were injured in a roadside
bomb blast in Jalalabad city, in eastern
Afghanistan, on Saturday afternoon,
local
officials said.
In a
reversal, Afghan civilian deaths
rise in 2013:
The total of
2,959 deaths recorded by the
U.N. in 2013 was a 7% rise from 2012
Civilian drone
deaths triple in Afghanistan,
UN agency finds:
The report, by
the United Nations Assistance
Mission in Afghanistan (Unama), found that
drone
strikes accounted for at least a third of
all civilian deaths in air strikes
last year.
US
apologises on leaked Ukraine EU
remarks:
Nuland goes on
to say that she did not
believe opposition leader Vladimir
Klitschko should
become a member of
the government: "So I don't think Klitsch
should go into the
government. ... I don't
think it's a good idea."
US
Accuses Russia of Leaking Diplomat
Conversation on Ukraine:
Washington has
accused Russia of being
behind the leak of an intercepted telephone
call between
top US diplomats discussing
the unfolding political crisis in Ukraine and
using
foul language to disparage the EU.
Russia
official denies role in Nuland
leak:
Russian
official Dmitry Loskutov has
denied he or the government played a
role in
leaking the recording of a call
involving US diplomat Victoria
Nuland.
Merkel
condemns U.S. diplomats'
comments on Ukraine - aide:
In a leaked
conversation posted on
Youtube, State Department official
Victoria Nuland tells
the U.S. ambassador
to Ukraine in a discussion about the
strategy for political
transition
"fuck the EU". She has apologised to
EU officials.
Russia
presses Ukraine on debt
amid protests:
Russian finance
minister pledges to
give second tranche of $15bn bailout
package, but wants gas
debt paid first.
Bosnia
protests: 150 injured as
demonstrators set fire to presidential
palace:
More than 150
people were wounded in
Bosnia on Friday in the worst civil unrest
in the country
since the 1992-95 war as
anger over the dire state of the economy
and political
inertia boiled over.
NSA
bulk collection ensnares under
30 percent of phone records daily - report:
The NSA has
spent years collecting metadata
- which includes the numbers dialed, number
of
calls received, time of call, duration of the
call, and other information - from
landline
phones. Yet the agency has struggled to
maintain pace with the
explosion in cell
phone usage, officials said.
UK:
Police will have 'backdoor' access
to health records despite opt-out, says MP:
The database
that will store all of England's
health records has a series of "backdoors"
that
will allow police and government
bodies to access people's medical
data.
UK:
Immigration minister resigns
for employing illegal immigrant:
Prime minister
accepts resignation of Mark
Harper, who launched government's 'go home'
campaign
last year
Life in
The National Security State:
The news that
Sister Megan Rice, an
84-year old nun and two army veterans,
Michael Walli, 65,
and Greg Boertje-Obed,
58, are about to receive prison sentences for
challenging, no, for daring to protest America's
long love affair with nuclear
weapons has
drawn little or no media interest.
'NATO
3' found not guilty of terrorism
charges:
The three young
men, accused by the state of
Illinois of plotting violent acts at the 2012
NATO
summit in Chicago, were found guilty
on two counts of mob action.
Fukushima
radiation levels underestimated
by five times - :
TEPCO has
revised the readings on the r
adioactivity levels at the Fukushima No. 1
nuclear
plant well to 5 million becquerels of
strontium per liter - both a record, and
nearly
five times higher than the original reading of
900,000 becquerels per
liter.
Amid
Epic Drought, South America's
Largest City Is Running Out Of Water:
Sao Paulo is
South America's largest city,
and is currently experiencing its worst drought
in
50 years.
US
Treasury introduces 'extraordinary
measures' as Feb. 27 debt deadline looms:
The US Treasury
on Friday was forced to enact
'emergency measures' after spending its borrowed
time and money. By month's end, Uncle Sam's
piggy bank will be down to just $50
billion, US
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned Congress.
Exclusive:
Pentagon to boost missile
defense spending by over $4 billion: sources:
Nearly $1
billion of that sum will pay for a new
homeland defense radar to be placed in
Alaska,
with an additional $560 million to fund work on
a new interceptor after
several failed flight tests
Obama's
deputy drug czar admits marijuana
is less dangerous than alcohol:
"When we look
at deaths and illnesses, alcohol,
other hard drugs are certainly - even
prescription
drugs - are a threat to public health in a way that
just isolated
marijuana is not. Isn't that a scientific
fact? Or do you dispute that
fact?"
Cops
sexually assault mother, break 10-year-old
son's leg, claims lawsuit:
Cops break a
10-year-old boy's leg with a kick then
sexually assault mother by flicking
pierced nipple,
a shocking new lawsuit claims.
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