Western Officials Inaugurate Missile Defense System in Romania Thursday May 12th, 2016 at 10:54 AM
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The U.S. officially activated a new advanced radar in Romania, a milestone in making a European missile-defense system operational that was immediately denounced by Moscow.
The French parliament is to vote on a no-confidence motion to try to block controversial labour reforms, as protesters take to the streets.
The representative of the main Syrian opposition, Riyad Hijab, asked for "actions, not just words" from supporters of the rebel forces, calling the joint US-Russia statement vowing to redouble efforts to end the war insufficient and akin to a "green light" for the regime "to continue the violence".
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IS Imposing New Dress Codes on Womenby webdesk@voanews.com (Sirwan Kajjo)
Islamic State has imposed new dress codes in areas it controls in Syria, forcing women to wear only black clothes and punishing those who don't obey, according to residents and activist groups. For IS, any women's clothing that is not black is considered seductive. "They [IS] arrested me because my wife and mother had colorful clothes on," Abu Hassan, a resident from the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, told a Syrian opposition website, All4Syria. He disguised his...
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South Korean prosecutors have filed charges against four executives involved in the development and sale of a humidifier disinfectant solution that proved to be toxic, the Korea Herald reported on Wednesday.
Dozens of people have died since 2011 after coming into contact with the solution manufactured by Oxy, the South Korean division of the British conglomerate Reckitt Benckiser, whose portfolio of consumer goods includes French’s Mustard and Lysol. Prosecutors accuse Oxy of evading the necessary toxicity tests before introducing the product to the South Korean market in 2001, and say that it was falsely marketed as being safe for children.
Charges were filed against the CEO of the South Korean operation, Shin Hyun-woo, two members of the product’s research team, and a businessman who sold a different disinfectant product containing the same lethal compound.
The South Korean government says that of 221 individuals suffering from lung damage, 177 had been in contact with the product, called Oxy Ssak Ssak. The government has also linked at least 70 deaths to the product, though the Herald places that figure at 140.
Family members of victims have called for a South Korean boycott of products manufactured by Reckitt Benckiser.
US, NATO Activate Missile Defense Site in Romaniaby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The U.S. has switched on an $800 million (700 million euro) missile defense site in southern Romania Thursday, a move that has infuriated Moscow. "Both the U.S. and NATO have made it clear the system is not designed for or capable of undermining Russia's strategic deterrence capability," U.S. assistant secretary of state Frank Rose told a news conference in Bucharest Wednesday. "Russia has repeatedly raised concerns that the U.S. and NATO defense are directed against...
The European Union has decided with immediate effect to allow Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway to keep border controls in place for up to six months to deal with the migrant influx.
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Russia-Backed Authorities Block Access To RFE/RL's Crimea Website by support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
Pro-Russian authorities in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula have blocked access to RFE/RL's Crimea news website, Krym.Realii.
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This is a moment of high anxiety in Saudi Arabia. Oil prices are half the level the Saudi government needs in order to balance its books, and it is burning through cash reserves. Global oversupply ensures no rebound for the foreseeable future. Rival Iran is on the rise. Traditional Saudi allies, including the U.S., are keeping their distance. Finally, the kingdom stands on the verge of a generational change in leadership, and there’s a risk of a succession fight when King Salman dies. There is nothing the Saudis need more than comprehensive economic reform. The kingdom must end its deep dependence on oil revenue and build a dynamic 21st century economy. The current path can’t be sustained much longer.
That’s why the kingdom has launched Vision 2030. Led by the king’s 31-year-old son Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the project aims to lower the unemployment rate, bring more women into the workforce and more than triple the share of nonoil exports. This is the plan the Saudis need, acknowledging the kingdom’s true weaknesses and challenges ahead. It deserves the support of Saudis and outsiders alike. But it probably won’t work.
Marginal spending cuts and adjustments might be achievable, but the Saudi bureaucracy has never before accepted such a comprehensive reform plan. More important, the Saudi system is built on an understanding that government provides for citizens in exchange for political obedience. Serious reform would require citizens to work harder and receive less financial support from the government. Fundamental changes in education are also required if young Saudis are to compete for 21st century jobs.
Further, Mohammed bin Salman will face serious pushback from the powerful conservatives who provide the royal family its religious legitimacy and who suspect this project is designed mainly to boost the prince’s chances of succeeding his father. They’re probably right, and Mohammed’s commitment to the plan will be an open question in the face of resistance. He’s far from a lock to take the throne, with many older relatives still in the picture, and the cultural changes required to make this plan work are probably beyond him even if he does.
Vision 2030 isn’t designed to restore the economic and cultural dynamism the kingdom has lost. It’s a plan to create it from scratch, which is why it’s likely too little too late.
This appears in the May 23, 2016 issue of TIME.
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Ties won't be hurt by the incident, Global Times newspaper argues, but British media need to learn some manners.
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Judge Rules Planned Parenthood Shooter Incompetent for Trialby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
A judge in the western U.S. state of Colorado has ruled a man charged with killing three people and wounding nine others in a shooting spree at a Planned Parenthood clinic last year is mentally incompetent to stand trial. Robert Lewis Dear has admitted guilt in the shootings, referring to himself in court as a "warrior for babies." Judge Gilbert Martinez said Wednesday that Dear will be sent to a mental health facility with his trial put on hold until he is able to understand the proceedings and contribute to his defense. The ruling followed evaluations by two psychologists who said Dear is delusional and has issues with trusting people. Dear has accused his lawyers of drugging him and pursuing a mental health defense that would diminish his anti-abortion message.
Former Senator: Americans 'Fully Capable' of Evaluating Secret 9/11 Documents by webdesk@voanews.com (Chris Hannas)
Former U.S. Senator Bob Graham says Americans are "fully capable" of making up their own minds about 28 classified pages that discuss possible foreign support for those who carried out the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. The pages are from a joint congressional committee report that came out 14 years ago, but then-President George W. Bush ordered that chapter not be included in the public release of 800 other pages. Some officials with access to the chapter have made comments alluding to Saudi Arabia, but without being able to offer details the exact connections suggested remain a mystery to most of the country. "My oath of confidentiality forbids me from discussing the specifics of that material. But while I cannot reveal those details, I strongly believe the American people deserve to know why this issue is so important," Graham wrote in an op-ed published late Wednesday by the Washington Post. He has been a strong advocate in the push to have the pages released to the public. He said a White House official told him President Barack Obama would make a decision by June and that he viewed that as a "step in the right direction." Graham wrote that his optimism from that conversation faded after seeing an interview CIA Director John Brennan gave on NBC's Meet The Press on May 1. Brennan said the information in the 28 pages "was not corroborated, not vetted and not deemed to be accurate." He said the work of the congressional committee was only a first step, with its leads followed up by the later, more extensive 9/11 Commission Report that determined there was no evidence indicating links between the Saudi government or Saudi individuals and al-Qaida. "I think some people may seize upon that uncorroborated, unvetted information that was in there, that was basically just a collation of this information that came out of FBI files, and to point to Saudi involvement, which I think would be very inaccurate," Brennan said. Graham called that comment an affront to the American people and those whose family members and friends were killed in the attacks in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The 9/11 Commission Report, released in July 2004, said there was no evidence of any official foreign funding for the terror group. It did not, however, rule out "the likelihood that charities with significant Saudi government sponsorship diverted funds to al-Qaida." Graham wrote that releasing the classified pages would allow Americans to evaluate whether the hijackers of four passenger planes who killed nearly 3,000 people had help, and if so, from whom. He said they would also be able to weigh whether the delay in the release had any effect on national security, delayed justice for the families of the victims or undermined people's confidence in the government. White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said last month he expects Obama will order "some degree of classification that provides more information," but that the 9/11 Commission and the congressional committee have definitively determined Saudi Arabia had no intent to support al-Qaida.
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A chocolate bar named ‘Little Obama’ is the latest in a string of offensive images triggered by political tensions
At the Slavitsa ice cream factory in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan a decision has been made to discontinue one of its chocolate brands.
This ordinarily wouldn’t be news, except that these ice cream bars were named after Barack Obamaand their launch elicited allegations of racism and anti-Americanism from the international community.
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The FBI Is Keeping 80000 Secret Files on the Saudis and 9/11
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First serious public split revealed among commissioners over the release of the secret ‘28 pages’ that detail Saudi ties to 2001 terrorist attacks
A former Republican member of the 9/11 commission, breaking dramatically with the commission’s leaders, said Wednesday he believes there was clear evidence that Saudi government employees were part of a support network for the 9/11 hijackers and that the Obama administration should move quickly to declassify a long-secret congressional report on Saudi ties to the 2001 terrorist attack.
The comments by John F Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, signal the first serious public split among the 10 commissioners since they issued a 2004 final report that was largely read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia, which was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.
They may not have been indicted, but they were certainly implicated. There was an awful lot of circumstantial evidence
I think we were tough on the Saudis, but obviously not tough enough
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A senior Republican filed legislation on Wednesday seeking to rein in the White House’s National Security Council, saying it has grown too large and seeks to play too big a role in foreign policy.
Representative Mac Thornberry said his measure would increase oversight of the NSC, capping it at 400 people or allowing it to be larger but subjecting the National Security adviser to confirmation by the Senate.
Thornberry estimated the NSC currently has 400 staff.
“All of President (Barack) Obama’s former Defense Secretaries have complained about micromanagement by the NSC,” Thornberry, chairman of the powerful House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, said in a statement. “I have personally heard from troops on the frontlines who have received intimidating calls from junior White House staffers.
“Now we hear reports of NSC staffers running misinformation campaigns targeted at Congress and the press,” Thornberry said. He was referring to a recent New York Times profile in which a deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, discussed ways the administration had communicated about last year’s Iran nuclear deal to the Washington press corps.
Administration officials have dismissed proposals like Thornberry’s as political ploys.
Ned Price, a spokesman for the NSC, commented that the White House has already taken steps to trim staff and streamline procedures.
Thornberry introduced his legislation as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a must-pass annual defense bill.
To become law, a version of the NDAA including Thornberry’s amendment would have to pass both the House and Senate and be signed into law by Obama.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Leslie Adler)
The post Republicans Want to Slash Obama’s Security Council appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
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Malaysia's government says two more pieces of debris, discovered in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off Mauritius, are "almost certainly" from Flight 370.
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M.N.: I believe that probably no one was more devastated by this tragedy than Hillary Clinton... | U.S. will not seek death penalty for accused ringleader in Benghazi attacks – The Washington Post | Obama still faces tough questions on Benghazi attack after debate | US news | The Guardianby Mike Nova (noreply@blogger.com)
U.S. will not seek death penalty for accused ringleader in Benghazi attacks – The Washington Post
The decision clears the way for a terrorism trial in the nation’s capital.
Defense attorney Jeffrey D. Robinson added, “Mr. Abu Khattala agrees it was a tragic loss but disagrees he is the person responsible for it.”
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M.N.: I believe that probably no one was more devastated by this tragedy than Hillary Clinton (and the families of victims). Most likely, this attack was planned well in advance, meticulously (“professionally”) arranged and executed. Even the known, publicized unclassified descriptions of facts point, hypothetically, in the direction of ultimate responsible party. It was a tragic security and intelligence lapse, the act of war. Just like so many similar incidents before it. And just like them, it was a very hard lesson to learn.
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"The president may have sidestepped Mitt Romney, but he still hasn’t addressed key issues about security in the Middle East
Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, said the buck stops with her but said the actual decision lay with security officials. Obama responded to a Republican call to “man up” and accept responsibility by accepting responsibility at the debate. But he did not address how it was that Stevens was left so vulnerable to an attack.The answer appears to lie in a mix of poor intelligence after a series of earlier relatively minor attacks, financial pressures caused by Republican cuts to the state department security budget and the reality that it’s almost impossible to be prepared everywhere. Look at the 1983 US marine barracks bombing in Beirut which killed 241 Americans or the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Kenya that left 223 dead…While administration officials said the attack was spontaneous, Republicans argued that it was a planned al-Qaida plot. State department officials conceded that it was clear the assault was planned. But probably in hours to take advantage of a volatile situation in the region over the video, not over days and weeks. And, they noted, not all armed Islamists are al-Qaida. In fact, there is only tangental evidence of an al-Qaida connection.Clinton has said the initial statements were the result of poor intelligence over what happened in a bloody and confusing night of fighting."
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The French government is facing a vote of no confidence in parliament after it forced through a controversial bill designed to reform Labour laws.
James Comey said he believed that “lots and lots of officers” were not engaging in confrontations with suspects out of fear of being videotaped.
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Ukraine says it has recovered 17 paintings - including works by Tintoretto and Rubens - stolen from an Italian museum and worth more than €16m (£13m; $18m).
Iraq said it has retaken around two-thirds of the territory seized by the Islamic State in the militant group's lightning-fast sweep across the country's north and west in 2014.
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