Friday June 26th, 2015 at 8:41 AM - NATO Commander Says Putin Not Done in Eastern Ukraine - WSJ
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The top military officer for NATO said he sees evidence that Russia is building an effective supply system to strengthen its ability to conduct military operations inside Ukraine, and is watching for further moves by Moscow.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei asserted himself ahead of the June 30 deadline in an apparent bid to extract more concessions from the Obama administration and its negotiating partners in talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
European Union leaders agreed to distribute 40,000 asylum seekers who landed in Greece and Italy across the rest of the bloc.
A chemical factory in southeastern France was targeted in a suspected terrorist attack, leaving at least one person dead, two police officers said.
Some European leaders have criticized a voluntary agreement by European Union members to relocate 40,000 asylum seekers across the bloc, unhappy that it falls short of a broader, binding deal advocated by some countries.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the explosion at the Imam Sadiq mosque.
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Russian 'troll factory' sued for underpayment and labour violations ... by Agence France-Presse in St Petersburg
The agency, located in the north of Russia's second-largest city, is blamed by observers for doing the Kremlin's dirty work on the internet, polluting news websites with inflammatory comments and manipulating social networks ...
The bodies of four women have been found in waterways around Chillicothe in the last year, while two others are still missing.
From the Charlie Hebdo massacre to opportunistic assaults on soldiers - a recent history of Islamist terror attacks in France.
While the attack would appear to be the work of Islamist militants, little is known about the motives of those responsible.
An attack has been reported on a tourist hotel in the Tunisian town of Sousse, which is popular with British holidaymakers.
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Residents flee Kobani after a new attack by Islamic State militants. Thursday's early morning siege was Isis's first advance on the Syrian border town since the Kurdish People's Protection Units militia and an alliance of rebels seized back control in January. Dozens of civilians have reportedly been killed in Thursday's attack Continue reading...
The all-powerful Calabrian crime syndicate 'Ndrangheta has forged a deadly network of drug trafficking routes through Brazil – 80% of all cocaine arriving in Europe comes through the country's Santos port. To mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, we hear from the anti-'Ndrangheta experts risking their lives to speak out against the syndicate, and take to the streets of Brazil's Crackolândia districts, where crack addiction is destroying lives Continue reading...
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French factory attack: suspect killed and arrests made – live updates
The Guardian French president François Hollande says Friday's attack on a gas factory near Lyon, in which a man was decapitated, is undoubtedly a terror attack. Speaking from Brussels, Hollande says the two men who targeted the Air Products company in ... France attack: 'Man beheaded' near LyonBBC News all 677 news articles » |
Saudi Arabia’s willingness to wield its oil money on the global diplomatic stage appears to have been laid bare, after the website WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of leaked cables from Riyadh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. VOA's Henry Ridgwell reports.
Originally published at - http://www.voanews.com/media/video/saudi-leaks-expose-checkbook-diplomacy-battle-iran/2837911.html
A U.S. bishop says homosexuals will be able to attend a global meeting of Catholic families in Philadelphia during a visit by Pope Francis. About 15,000 people are expected to attend lectures and take part in workshops during that five-day event in September, aimed at strengthening sacred family bonds. The pontiff will visit during the last two days of the meeting. Zlatica Hoke reports.
Originally published at - http://www.voanews.com/media/video/2837974.html
The U.S. government's 2014 report on human rights practices highlights terror groups, rising conflict, and corruption and poor governance as key problems around the world. But it also cites some progress. VOA's Mary Alice Salinas has more on the State Department's annual report released on Thursday.
Originally published at - http://www.voanews.com/media/video/2837976.html
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Bomb Strikes Shiite Mosque in Kuwait
New York Times KUWAIT CITY — A bomb has exploded in a Shiite mosque in the Kuwaiti capital. The bomb struck the Imam Sadiq Mosque in a busy area of Kuwait City's al-Sawabir district. Witness Abdullah al-Saffar was at the mosque at the time. He says the explosions ... Explosion hits mosque in Kuwait during Friday prayers: TV stationsReuters Explosion hits Shia mosque in KuwaitBBC News Suicide Bomber Blows Himself Up in Kuwait MosqueSputnik US International Business Times, India Edition all 6 news articles » |
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Consoler-in-Chief: Obama Again Comforts Nation After Shootings
NBCNews.com It has become a grim repeat performance. Tragedy strikes and a somber President Barack Obama seeks to give voice to a grieving nation and offer solace. The president will once again try to comfort a country in mourning as he delivers the eulogy for Rev. In wake of Charleston, Obama asked to launch attack on domestic extremistsSunHerald.com Clementa Pinckney eulogy caps a roller-coaster stretch for ObamaYahoo Politics First Draft | Today in Politics: Obama Prepares to Speak Again in Wake of ViolenceNew York Times Sacramento Bee all 8 news articles » |
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At least 19 killed in gun attack on Tunisian tourism hotel: official
Reuters TUNIS At least 19 people have been killed after at least one gunman attacked a Tunisian tourist hotel in the popular resort of Sousse, an interior ministry official said on Friday. Related Coverage. › Casualties in attack on Tunisian beach hotel, at least one ... State news: Terrorists attack a Tunisian hotel, casualties reportedCNN THE LATEST: Gunmen kill at least 7 in Tunisia beach attackWashington Post Reports: Gunmen in Tunisia attack popular coastal hotelUSA TODAY CBS News -Telegraph.co.uk -TIME all 88 news articles » |
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Palestinian Shot After Opening Fire at Israeli Army
New York Times JERUSALEM — The Israeli army says it has shot a Palestinian after he opened fire at Israeli soldiers at a military checkpoint in the West Bank. According to the army, a Palestinian car approached the checkpoint in the Jordan Valley and a gunman from inside ... Palestinian killed after opening fire on Israeli forces at West Bank checkpointHaaretz Palestinian critically injured after opening fire on IDF soldiers in West BankJerusalem Post Israel News Palestinian shot after opening fire on soldiersYnetnews i24news -The Times of Israel all 27 news articles » |
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China Slams US Human-Rights Record in Annual Report
NBCNews.com BEIJING — China accused the United States on Friday of being "haunted by spreading guns" and racial discrimination, in its annual tit-for-tat rebuttal to U.S. criticism of China's human rights record. In a lengthy report carried by the official Xinhua news agency, ... China rebukes US over human rights recordFinancial Times China Attacks US Human Rights Record in Annual ReportNDTV China Issues Report on 'Terrible' US Human Rights RecordWall Street Journal (blog) The Indian Express all 107 news articles » |
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Consoler-in-Chief: Obama Again Comforts Nation After Shootings
NBCNews.com It has become a grim repeat performance. Tragedy strikes and a somber President Barack Obama seeks to give voice to a grieving nation and offer solace. The president will once again try to comfort a country in mourning as he delivers the eulogy for Rev. The turbulent birth of the Emanuel AME Church and why it terrified white ...Washington Post Thousands expected for Obama's tribute to Charleston shooting victimsCTV News Once Again, Obama to Comfort a City Grieving Over ShootingABC News Sky News Australia -NPR -Economic Times all 2,334 news articles » |
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Palestinian Shot After Opening Fire on Israeli Forces in West Bank
New York Times RAMALLAH, West Bank — A Palestinian man was shot after he opened fire on Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank early Friday, the Israeli Army said. Continue reading the main story. Related Coverage. Palestinians mourned members of the Nigim family ... Gaza-bound flotilla sets sail from Crete, with MK Ghattas on boardYnetnews Israeli army shoots Palestinian after he opened fire at soldiers in West BankFox News The 'Marianne' sets sail for Gaza from Greece with MK Basel Ghattas on boardJerusalem Post Israel News Economic Times all 332 news articles » |
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Man decapitated in suspected 'Islamist attack' at French factory
USA TODAY At least one person has died and several people were hurt after an attack on a gas factory near Grenoble , central France, on Friday. French media reported that the person killed may have been decapitated and that the attacker was reportedly carrying an ... Terrorism Suspected in Reported Attack on French FactoryNew York Times Man beheaded in apparent terror attack at factory in France, local media sayFox News Explosion, decapitated body at French industrial siteReuters BBC News -TIME -NBCNews.com all 233 news articles » |
European Union member states will take in 40,000 migrants from the Middle East and Africa currently in Italy and Greece, according to a leaked plan that emerged Thursday.
According to a draft communiqué seen by Reuters, European leaders will enact a two-year plan for volunteer EU countries to temporarily spread a total of 40,000 migrants across multiple nations. The final statement will propose creating criteria to determine which countries will participate and how many refugees each will accept. The document stops short of creating national quotas for each country.
The agreement is intended to alleviate pressure on asylum infrastructures in Greece and Italy that are buckling under the record high volume of migration across the Mediterranean Sea. At least 153,000 people have sought refugee in Europe this year, and almost 2,000 have died making the dangerous trip.
Much is made of how skillful the Iranians are at negotiating—and they are. But the Americans aren’t bad either, at least by the evidence of the latest news from the nuclear talks: an open letter signed by 18 former U.S. officials and experts, including five former advisers to President Obama, warning the president against accepting a deal that fails to include certain vital elements, such as inspections of Iranian military bases and ensuring that relief from sanctions comes only after Iran complies with an agreement.
It’s not the kind of thing you see much in American foreign policy—a group advisory like this, setting out red lines and reminding the nation’s leader of his obligations. You do, however, see it all the time somewhere else—in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iran’s news media is lousy with these things: Sober, sage proclamations directed to the pinnacle of the political leadership. People talk about the opacity of Iran’s governing structure, and it’s true that between the Council of Guardians, the Assembly of Experts and the Expediency Council—just to name three of Iran’snon-elective bodies —there are more moving parts than a Rube Goldberg mousetrap. But that doesn’t mean things are opaque—just complicated. Ultimate power may rest with the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but his own political survival requires consultations with the groups and individuals who make up his own political base, and a sound reading of the larger Iranian society that ultimately will find a way to hold him accountable. So decisions by Iran’s leaders often take a long time to gestate, and sometimes even longer to emerge.
But that process is more public than you’d think for an official theocracy. Iran has a lot of newspapers, several TV stations and its share of news sites. Most may be linked to the state, but they fairly throb—or pulse, at least—with the words of a governing structure talking to itself. Most of the chatter is in Persian, of course, but it’s all public. That means it has to be read, and the State Department has people just across the Persian Gulf, in Dubai, to follow a lot of it. State quietly pays people in Iran to translate even more, so that folks back in Foggy Bottom can read it too. (“Intelligence” is a sexy word, but the CIA itself says that up to 95 percent of what it knows it finds out by reading the papers—known in the spy game as “OSINT,” for Open Source Intelligence.)
The point, though, is not what American officials read, but what Iranian officials read: “The Public Statement on U.S. Policy Toward the Iran Nuclear Negotiations Endorsed by a Bipartisan Group of American Diplomats, Legislators and Experts,” the heading of the open letter compiled by the impressive, and impressively bi-partisan group assembled by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank. It’s the kind of discourse that speaks to Iranians, relatable and familiar. Which is fortunate, because while its authors addressed it to President Obama, the real audience was Khamenei and the rest of the government of Iran.
The June 30 deadline for a final nuclear pact is just days away, and Khamenei on June 23 delivered a speech that cast the entire enterprise into doubt—reinforced the next day with a helpful chart listing “Major Red Lines in Nuclear Negotiations,” posted on Twitter with the words “Red Lines” in red type. His timing was impeccable. The Leader pounced six days after Secretary of State John Kerry showed a bit of weakness, suggesting publicly that in a final deal Iran might not have to account for past research on a nuclear weapon.
Knowing when to exploit an opening is, of course, one mark of a formidable negotiator. But another is speaking to the other side in a language it understands—which is exactly what the U.S. side is doing with its own Open Letter.
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In chaotic scenes over the past week, hundreds of migrants in the northern French port of Calais have been trying to jump onto trucks bound for the U.K.
The migrants, most of whom had fled war, persecution and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, took advantage of a strike by French MyFerryLink workers on Tuesday. The striking workers forced the port and the Channel Tunnel, which links France to the U.K., to close, causing long tailbacks of trucks on highways around Calais.
Footage shows migrants desperately trying to board the vehicles, sometimes jumping onto moving trucks, breaking locks or attempting to hold onto the underside of the carriages.
“Drivers were unable to open their windows or leave their vehicles for fear of either being threatened or would-be stowaways getting on board,” Don Armour, the Freight Transport Association’s international manager, told the Guardian.
There are believed to be about 3,000 migrants living in a squalid makeshift camp near Calais. They are determined to reach the U.K., where they say they’ll have the chance of a better life.
On Wednesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron called the scenes in Calais “totally unacceptable” and vowed to work more closely with French authorities. U.K. ministers are considering sending extra border-control officials, sniffer-dog teams and equipment to strengthen fences around the port and rail crossings.
But several of the city’s politicians have accused the British government of not doing enough to calm the situation. Philippe Mignonet, the deputy mayor of Calais, said the city had been “sacrificed” by the British and Europe, reports the Guardian.
The chaos in Calais comes as European Union leaders struggle to decide what to do with huge waves of migrants entering Europe via risky sea journeys across the Mediterranean.
At heated talks in Brussels on Thursday night, E.U. leaders agreed to relocate 40,000 migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece, plus a further 20,000 currently in camps outside the E.U., to member states over the next two years, reports the BBC.
But there would not be mandatory quotas for taking in refugees, the leaders said.
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A body of a decapitated man was found close to the entrance to Air Products and his head was was found nearby. A flag of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) has also been found. One man has been arrested.
The company produces gas and chemical products.
The arrested man is said to be in his thirties and well known to the French internal security service. Bernard Cazeneuve, the Minister for the Interior has arrived at the scene of the explosion.
A French security official told the Associated Press that two attackers arrived in a car, bearing banners written in Arabic, and set off an explosion.
The French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has ordered that security should be increased in the Rhône-Alpes region where the incident happened.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - An attack by Islamic State fighters on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village has so far killed at least 146 civilians, the second-biggest massacre by the hardline group in the country, a conflict monitor said on Friday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military has launched a three-year project to try to work out who owns the land it uses after finding that a quarter of it lacked ownership documents, which has led to disputes with civilians, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.
KIEV (Reuters) - The West should not drop its guard over Ukraine, the country's defense minister said on Friday, saying a build-up of Russian forces in support of separatists showed President Vladimir Putin was bent on seizing control of the country.
Mixed Feelings In Macedonia As A Russian Orthodox Church Rises by noreply@rferl.org (Elisabeth Braw)
A Russian Orthodox church under construction in Macedonia is one of several that have been built or planned in Europe in recent years. Beneath talk of spiritual ties, there is concern that Moscow could use such churches to advance its temporal interests.
U.S. Rights Report Slams IS Militants, Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Among Others by noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
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