Obama says recent Islamic State losses show group will be defeated - Monday July 6th, 2015 at 4:48 PM
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday recent territory losses by Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria show the extremist group will be defeated.
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Israel Arrests 6 Bedouin for Supporting Islamic State Group
New York Times JERUSALEM — Israel's Shin Bet security agency says it has arrested six Bedouin for establishing a cell supportive of the Islamic State group. The agency said Monday that four of those arrested were teachers and tried to indoctrinate students at their ... Four teachers among six Israeli-Arabs charged for promoting Islamic StateTODAYonline all 35 news articles » |
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ECB haircut adjustment will not hit Greek banks' business - source
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After more than 18 months of talks, the U.S. and Iran are within striking distance of a nuclear deal. But diplomats familiar with the talks say the hardest issue negotiators have struggled with from the start remains unresolved: the nature and extent of international inspections to monitor the supposedly peaceful nuclear program Iran gets to keep under the agreement. Which means the final push for a deal is probably the most important.
The heart of the interim “political framework” that the U.S. and Iran agreed to on April 2 was a step-by-step-lifting of economic sanctions on Tehran in exchange for its commitment to allow international monitors to verify tough limits on its nuclear program. But the outline left unresolved just how much access the monitors would get and what would happen if there were a disagreement. “The interim deal was largely silent on verification conditions,” says David Albright, a former arms inspector and the president of Institute for Science and International Security.
What kind of access the IAEA gets makes all the difference in part because Iran has a history of cheating on nuclear deals. A signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it committed to monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). But twice in the past twenty years it secretly built nuclear facilities that were only uncovered by aggressive intelligence work by the U.S., France, the United Kingdom and Israel. And Iran has never explained the research into nuclear weapons that the international community uncovered over that time.
Since the April deal, Iran has sent mixed messages on how much access inspectors would get to suspected nuclear sites around the country. On May 20, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ruled out inspections of military facilities. But Iranian officials suggested to reporters last week in Vienna that the country would accept additional, intrusive inspections proposed by the IAEA. Getting those additional measures is key to U.S. and Western confidence in a deal. “The IAEA has to get better cooperation from Iran,” says Albright.
Even if Iran agrees on paper to the additional IAEA inspections, though, skeptics worry that in practice Tehran will block monitors. The U.S. negotiators have pushed for a system to resolve disputes quickly so that Iran couldn’t hide evidence at a suspect site before inspectors got there. How that system would work and whether Iran will agree to it are still unknown.
The final question is what happens if the IAEA and international powers actually catch Iran breaking the agreement. The U.S. has insisted that sanctions must be reimposed automatically if the IAEA finds violations Iran can’t or won’t explain them. While details are thin, sources familiar with the talks say both sides have made progress on that issue in recent days.
Ultimately a nuclear deal with Iran is only as strong as the inspections that verify its implementation. The question now is whether Iran will actually accept intrusive monitoring and if not, will U.S. negotiators have the fortitude to walk away after a year and a half of talks have brought them so close to a deal.
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The German chancellor must find a way to maintain European unity and the euro as a currency while also devising an acceptable resolution to Greece’s financial crisis.
Chicago police superintendent calls for more gun laws after deadly weekend by Amanda Holpuch in New York
Ten people were killed over holiday weekend despite increased police presence. Garry McCarthy says flow of guns into the city must be stopped
Ten people, including a seven-year-old boy, were killed in shootings in Chicago over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Police superintendent Garry McCarthy acknowledged that his department’s decision to increase the police presence in the city by 30% in anticipation of holiday violence had not prevented the killings – and called for more restrictive gun laws. Last year 14 people were killed in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend.
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Winning the vote decisively has refreshed the prime minister’s anti-austerity mandate, but rebuilding trust with eurozone members will not prove easy
Alexis Tsipras’s response to the Greek referendum was smart. A dumber politician might have been tempted to turn up the volume following the thumping victory for the no side in the referendum. But instead of striking macho poses, the Greek prime minister was emollient. He said Greece wanted to resume talks with its creditors, and backed up his words by getting rid of his finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, who relished being a figure of hate in Brussels.
Emollient and realistic, because, without question, Tsipras is in an uncomfortable position. The Greek economy is even closer to seizing up than it was before Sunday’s vote. The banks remain shut and it looks as if the cashpoints will run out of cash within the next 48 hours. Even if a deal is done in the next few days, Greece is in the early stages of another deep and painful recession.
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A four-year-old child saw the activity and both Jose Caballero, 40, and the woman involved, Elissa Alvarez, 21, must now register as sex offenders
A man convicted of having sex on a public beach in Florida in front of a child was sentenced on Monday to two and a half years in prison, a state prosecutor said.
Jose Caballero, 40, was arrested in Bradenton Beach in west-central Florida last July after other beachgoers complained that he was fondling and starting to have sexual intercourse with a woman on the beach in the middle of the afternoon.
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New York City to pay $333K to 6 Occupy Wall Street protesters who sued over cops' pepper spray
Boston Marathon bomber files motion for new trial for conviction and death sentence
Obama meeting with military leaders at the Pentagon on campaign against Islamic State
An Iraqi warplane has accidentally dropped a bomb on Baghdad, after a mechanical fault caused the weapon to fall from a plane over a residential area of the city.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Shin Bet undercover internal security agency and police said on Monday they had arrested and charged six Arab citizens, including four school teachers, with supporting and spreading the ideology of Islamic State.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A United Nations inquiry into a 1961 plane crash that killed then Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold found that new information pointing to an aerial attack or threat bringing down the aircraft warrants further investigation.
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Advanced countries need to do more to address breaches of integrity by public officials and help win back citizens' trust in national governments, a survey by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found.
О том, что привлекает молодежь по всему миру в одной из самых жестоких террористических гриппировках
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What Does Greece's 'No' Vote Mean for Russia?by By Anastasia Bazenkova and Delphine d'Amora
As EU leaders gather Tuesday to seek an answer to Greece's sweeping rejection of international bailout terms, Russia -the EU's third-largest trading partner - is quietly waiting to see where the chips fall.
The sentencing of an American teacher to 22 years in prison for having sex with teenaged students has sparked outrage among Russians adamant that the 30-year-old had "done nothing wrong" by pursuing the amorous affairs.
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Georgian Parliament Votes On Interior Ministry Reformby support@pangea-cms.com (Liz Fuller)
The Georgian Dream coalition pledged in the run-up to the 2012 elections to split up the country’s powerful Interior Ministry, abolishing some departments and separating the security and intelligence bodies.
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