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US Ambassador to South Korea to Leave Hospital Soonby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
A hospital official said March 9 that U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, who needed 80 stitches after his face was slashed during a forum last week, could leave hospital by March 10. The attack was carried out by 55-year-old Korean nationalist Kim Ki-jong, now under arrest, who said he was protesting against annual U.S.-South Korean military exercises that began this week. Lippert underwent surgery March 5 for an 11-cm (4 inches) gash on the right side of his face and a...
U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to sit down for talks with European Union President Donald Tusk in Washington on March 9.
Report: FBI Investigates Pro-IS hacks
Naharnet The FBI is investigating a string of hacks that defaced U.S. websites with imagery from the Islamic State jihadist group, NBC News reported on Monday. Websites including a racecar speedway in the state of Ohio, a Goodwill center in Missouri and a church in ... and more » |
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FBI investigates pro-IS hacks: report
Phys.Org The FBI is investigating a string of hacks that defaced US websites with imagery from the Islamic State jihadist group, NBC News reported on Monday. Websites including a racecar speedway in the state of Ohio, a Goodwill center in Missouri and a church in ... FBI investigates alleged ISIS hacksThe Leader Peggy Wallace: My Father Should Have Welcomed ProtestersNBCNews.com Eldora Speedway website hacked; message references ISISUSA TODAY Sputnik International -WCPO all 34 news articles » |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- In 2009 the stock market was filled with panic....
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Israelis Find Laughs in Election as Ads Use Humor to Lure Votes
Bloomberg Workers hang a giant campaign poster of Israeli Prime Minister and Likud party's candidate Benjamin Netanyahu on a building ahead of the elections in Tel Aviv. Recent polls show Netanyahu's Likud and Isaac Herzog's Zionist Union party running near-even ... Israel will not cede land to Palestinians: NetanyahuThe Hindu Netanyahu says Israel will not cede land to PalestiniansWashington Post all 536 news articles » |
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The U.S. Peace Corps has pulled all of its 37 volunteers from Jordan as terrorism and sectarian warfare continue to embroil the region.
“The Peace Corps today announced the temporary suspension of its program in Jordan due to the current regional environment,” said the organization on Saturday. “All Peace Corps volunteers have departed the country, but Peace Corps plans to maintain its office in Jordan.”
The organization promised to continue assessing the “broader regional climate” and hopes to have volunteers working in the Kingdom again in the near future.
Jordan has ratcheted up its role in the ongoing fight against ISIS in recent weeks, after forces loyal to the group burned Royal Jordanian Air Force fighter pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh alive earlier this year.
The murder, which was filmed and published online, spurred retaliatory attacks from Jordanian forces led personally by the country’s ruling monarch King Abdullah II.
For the past year, Ukraine has been plunged into chaos. Mass protests against pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych led to his ouster in February 2014. That sparked a spiraling crisis: a fledgling interim government in Kiev looked on as Russia first seized and then annexed the territory of Crimea, a strategic Black Sea peninsula. A pro-Russian separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, believed to have direct backing from Moscow, has led to the deaths of thousands since.Read full article >>
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court upheld the death sentence on Monday for the killer of the governor of Pakistan's largest province after he had called for reform of a law against blasphemy, media said.
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Justice Department's Ferguson report resonates across the US
New Pittsburgh Courier A car passes a memorial for Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson last summer, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, in Ferguson. A Justice Department investigation found sweeping patterns of racial bias within the ... Ferguson refuses to fire police chief after Justice Department report reveals...World Socialist Web Site Report sheds light on 'other Fergusons'Waterbury Republican American all 206 news articles » |
Jailed Activist Yunus Laments Separation In Letter To Husbandby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service)
Jailed Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus says she fears she will never be reunited with her husband and daughter.
South Korea’s president visited injured U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert on Monday, who hospital officials say is itching to get back to work after being knifed in the face.
President Park Geun-hye told the diplomat that while she had herself been victim of a similar attack in 2006 and undergone surgery at the same hospital, “it is even more heart-breaking thinking that an ambassador had to go through the same thing.”
Lippert — who received a large gash on his face and injury to his arm in the attack last week — could be released from the hospital as early as Tuesday, according to hospital officials…
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Police in India's farthest northeastern state of Nagaland have arrested 43 people in connection with the killing of a jail inmate accused of rape.
DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - A director of a mine in a rebel-held part of east Ukraine has been arrested over a blast that killed 34 miners last week, separatist press service DAN reported on Monday, quoting prosecutors.
Pakistan Successfully Tests Ballistic Missileby webdesk@voanews.com (Ayaz Gul)
Pakistan said it has successfully tested a ballistic missile with capability to carry both nuclear and conventional warheads to a range of 2,750 kilometers. Army officials said this the first time they have tested a missile with this range. In a statement, the military’s media wing said Monday’s test launch of "Shaheen-III" missile was meant to validate “various design and technical parameters of the weapon system at maximum range.” It added that senior officials from...
Iran's Next Step in Building a 'Halal' Internetby webdesk@voanews.com (Doug Bernard)
For years now, Iranian officials have talked about building a “Halal Internet” – essentially a giant Intranet for all of Iran that would seal off Iranian cyberspace from the rest of the world. Whether or not they are actually doing so, or even can, continues to be a matter of debate. That said, the government there recently unveiled its next step in their effort to continue where its citizens can go and what they can say online: an Iran-only search engine called “Yooz.” Meaning...
Saudi Arabia accused of blocking criticism of human rights record by Agence France-Presse in Cairo
Sweden’s foreign minister, Margot Wallström, has said the kingdom stopped her addressing an Arab League meeting
Sweden’s foreign minister has reportedly accused Saudi Arabia of blocking her speech at an Arab League meeting to stop her highlighting human rights cases such as the imprisonment of a blogger for insulting Islam.
Speaking in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Monday, Margot Wallström told the TT news agency: “The explanation we have been given is that Sweden has highlighted the situation for democracy and human rights and that is why they do not want me to speak.
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Former president tells the Guardian of his concern over Afghanistan’s tilt towards Pakistan and Ashraf Ghani’s gamble on brokering a peace deal with the Taliban
Afghanistan’s historic struggles against British imperialism and Soviet invasion will have been “in vain” if the country succumbs to pressure from neighbouring Pakistan, Hamid Karzai has warned in an interview with the Guardian.
The former president of Afghanistan made his remarks at a time when his successor, Ashraf Ghani, has overturned the country’s traditionally hostile relationship with Pakistan in the hope of enlisting its help in brokering a peace deal with the Taliban.
We should not send troops for training in any neighbouring country when they are sending us suicide bombers in return
The mafia types are very unhappy with the way things are going and are moving towards Karzai and others
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The German economy minister and vice chancellor on Monday said he had discussed human rights issues in Saudi Arabia and suggested a pardon for the Kingdom's imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he ordered officials to start work on taking control of Crimea weeks before a referendum which, the Kremlin has asserted until now, prompted the region's annexation from Ukraine.
The mother is repeatedly stabbed in the neck just minutes from her home as her husband listens to her screams.
A group of more than 40 Republican senators warned in an open letter to the leaders of Iran on Monday that United States law makes any nuclear deal between Iran and the U.S. tenuous.
The letter, organized by Oklahoma Sen. Tom Cotton, explains that any treaty requires congressional approval and that the fate of an executive agreement will be subject to the whims of the next president. It also notes that many in the Senate will remain in power when President Obama leaves the White House.
“We hope this letter enriches your knowledge of our constitutional system and promotes mutual understanding and clarity as nuclear negotiations progress,” says the letter, first reported byBloomberg.
The U.S. and other countries are currently in the midst of negotiations with Iran on an agreement on the country’s nuclear capability. Most Republicans in Congress have expressed strong opposition, in part due to Israel’s stance that it threatens its wellbeing.
Boris Nemtsov was allegedly targeted over his support for Charlie Hebdo, which published images of the Prophet Mohammed.
One of the men detained on suspicion of killing Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov served in a police unit in the Russian region of Chechnya, Russian news agencies quoted a law enforcement official as saying.
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New disclosures about the crime also indicated that one of the men already detained had served as a police officer in the fight against Islamic insurgents.
Moscow Peoples Republic Announced in Russian Capitalby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, March 8 – Yury Batishchev, who styles himself as the leader of the Moscow liberation movement, Rusinsky kray, has announced the formation on the territory of Moscow and Moscow oblast of what he calls the Moscow Peoples Republic, an online declaration that represents another way the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine are having a spillover effect in Russia.
And while such a declaration, made only online and picked up by another blogger whose words have been reported by only a few sites, may not be important in and of itself, it is an indication of the way in which such copycat political actions may create problems for the Russian authorities.
Some in the Russian security services may hope to use such declarations to channel opposition feelings or even to identify and then decapitate opposition groups, but as the situation in the Donbas shows, even those institutions the Kremlin sets up – and the Moscow Peoples Republic likely isn’t one of those – are ones that it may lose control over.
That is all the more so in this case because of the nature of the declaration that the new group has made. As reported by Infokava.com, on Friday, “the council of the Rusinsky kray liberation movement” held a congress in Moscow, decided to organize a Moscow Peoples Republic and issued the following declaration (infokava.com/20050-v-moskve-poyavitsya-moskovskaya-narodnaya-respublika.html):
“We the representatives of the city of Moscow and the plenipotentiaries of the Rusinsky kray liberation movement declare: Beginning March 6, we are taking upon ourselves responsibility for defending the civil rights and freedoms of Muscovites which have been violated in the most cavalier fashion by the current authorities.
“We are compelled to organize civil protest actions on March 10 and April 14 in Moscow and its environs. We have taken part in the formation of the first independent civic corps for the military defense of Moscow.
“In our country, given the inaction of the president of the Russian Federation, have been violated without punishment the constitutional rights of citizens, have been violated the democratic principles of the freedom of the mass media, and have been cruelly limited the free access of citizens of the country to honest and objective information about the situation in the country and about the economic crisis in Russia.
“We ask all honest citizens of Moscow and its environs and also all social organizations to support our declaration and join in the formation of the MNR – the Moscow Peoples Republic.”
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The European Union needs its own army to face up to Russia and other threats as well as restore the bloc's foreign policy standing around the world, Jean-Claude Juncker says.
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Россия сохранила второе место в мире по экспорту оружия
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Russia's anti-US sentiment now is even worse than it was in Soviet Union
Washington Post MOSCOW — Thought the Soviet Union was anti-American? Try today's Russia. After a year in which furious rhetoric has been pumped across Russian airwaves, anger toward the United States is at its worst since opinion polls began tracking it. From ... |
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Documentary shows Russian president discussing how he decided to rescue fleeing Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych
President Vladimir Putin has revealed the moment he says he gave the secret order for Russia’s annexation of Crimea and described how Russian troops were ready to fight to rescue Ukraine’s deposed, pro-Moscow president.
In a trailer shown Sunday for an upcoming documentary on state-run Rossiya-1 television called “Homeward bound”, Putin openly discusses Moscow’s controversial grabbing of Crimea a year ago.
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Vladimir Putin describes secret meeting when Russia decided to seize Crimea
The Guardian In the trailer for the documentary, Putin also claims that Russia's military was ready to fight its way into the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk to get Yanukovych, a heavily corrupted but loyal figure who favoured keeping Ukraine in Russia's sphere ... Russia's anti-American fever goes beyond the Soviet era'sWashington Post Reports: Suspect in Russian assassination dies in blastUSA TODAY Five Are Detained in Slaying of Putin CriticWall Street Journal BBC News -Reuters all 2,073 news articles » |
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Суд США приговорил россиянина к трем годам тюрьмы за отмывание денег
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Ukraine Says Rebels Violating Cease-Fireby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
The Ukrainian military has said that Russian-backed separatists violated a cease-fire several times overnight.
Ramzan A. Kadyrov suggested that the Kremlin critic may have been killed for defending cartoons that mocked the Prophet Muhammad.
What were the statements made by Boris Nemtsov on Charlie Hebdo that supposedly led to his death?
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Морские испытания второго «Мистраля» пройдут без российских моряков
РБК Испытания в открытом море второго вертолетоносца типа «Мистраль», построенного по заказу России, пройдут в отсутствие представителей российской стороны. Первые ходовые испытания корабля запланированы на 16-20 марта. Фото: AFP. В этом сюжете. Меркель похвалила ... Испытания второго Mistral пройдут без участия российских моряковNEWSru.com Вертолетоносец "Мистраль" совершит первый выход в открытое море без российских военныхРадиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ Источник: Второй «Мистраль» проведет ходовые испытания без российских военныхВзгляд Газета.Ru -Комсомольская Правда в Украине Все похожие статьи: 27 » |
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Russia blames Sweden for Ukraine crisis
The Local.se In its response, the Russian embassy suggested Sweden and others had provoked Russia into seizing part of its neighbour's territory by offering Ukraine a pathway to membership of the European Union. “The main tool turned out to be a state coup, a ... |
A colleague of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition figure shot dead near Moscow's Red Square, said suggestions he was killed by Islamists deflected accusations Kremlin officials were involved.
Friends of murdered Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov have said suggestions that anger over his support for Charlie Hebdo may have led Islamists to kill him are “nonsensical”.
Profiles of the five men being held on suspicion of involvement with the murder last month of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition leader
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Boris Nemtsov ally: Islamist speculation over murder ‘useful for Kremlin’ by Shaun Walker and Reuters in Moscow
Ilya Yashin, co-leader of Nemtsov’s opposition party, says investigation of Islamist motives is nonsensical and ‘takes Vladimir Putin out of firing line’
A colleague of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition figure shot dead near the Kremlin in Moscow, has said suggestions he was killed by Islamists were nonsensical but useful for the Kremlin because they deflected accusations that officials were involved.
Speculation about an Islamist link grew after investigators charged Zaur Dadayev, a Chechen, over the killing. Dadayev is an associate of Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who said on Sunday the murder may have been in response to anger over Nemtsov’s support for the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
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In a trailer shown Sunday for an upcoming documentary on state-run Rossiya-1 television called "Homeward bound", Mr Putin openly discusses Moscow's controversial grabbing of Crimea a year ago
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Putin’s Admission on Crimea Gives West ‘Unique’ Chance to Force Change, Rabinovich Saysby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, March 9 – Vladimir Putin’s acknowledgement that he personally decided upon and conducted a special operation to seize Crimea “opens a unique and limited-time window of opportunities” for the West to bring real pressure on him, divide his regime and force Moscow to change course, according to Slava Rabinovich.
The Russian economist and blogger says that Putin’s admission of responsibility along with his efforts to hide the role of his regime in the murder of Boris Nemtsov should lead the West to recognize and declare that Putin is “an international criinal and political terrorist” (nv.ua/opinion/rabinovich/kogda-putina-obyavyat-prestupnikom-i-politicheskim-terroristom-38085.html).
If Western governments did so, Rabinovich argues, then Putin would be find himself on the list of those subject to arrest and dispatch to the international court, something that would not only limit his travel options but would also have a serious impact on the political pyramid in Moscow.
As the commentator says, this step would lead to “a legally and politically interesting collision” given that it is far from clear to anyone how anyone should act in a situation “where one is talking about a dictator who has established his unconstitutional dictatorship over one eighth of the earth’s surface and has in his possession nuclear arms.”
But Putin has opened the way for just such charges by his admission that the Anschluss of Crimea was a special operation he ordered rather than a free expression of the will of the residents of that Ukrainian peninsula as he and his minions have insisted on a regular basis over the last year. Indeed, he has “called down fire on himself” by his latest statement.
Were Western governments to take this step, Rabinovich continues, the upper reaches of the Putin regime would divide ever more clearly “into two camps: those who cannot avoid responsibility” for what Putin ordered “under any circumstances and those who have a chance to deny their involvement” up to and including by organizing “a palace coup.”
These two groups, he suggests, could be called “the twin towers of the Kremlin,” and they would seem to be completely unequal in strength. Putin might appear to have the military in his corner, but it is a principle of international law that “military personnel are not required to obey the criminal orders of their commanders.”
Consequently, were Putin charged with war crimes, Rabinovich continues, “the two towers of the Kremlin” would come into serious conflict because both would be interested “in the literal sense of the word” in protecting their own skins. And in conclusions he adds the following observation:
This could have in the near term but perhaps not long a positive set of consequences because “one of the towers knows better than the other that politically and economically precisely now there is a window of opportunities” that may soon close if Putin moves Russia in the direction of “complete geopolitical and domestic economic chaos.”
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Ilya Yashin, co-leader of Boris Nemtsov's small liberal Russian opposition party, says suggestions he was killed by Islamists were useful for the Kremlin because they 'take Putin out of the firing line'
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Putin’s Regional Amalgamation Plan Faces Court Challengeby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, March 9 – Vladimir Putin’s plans to amalgamate smaller non-Russian federal subjects with larger and predominantly ethnic Russian regions, plans that have been on hold since 2008, is being challenged by a Perm activist who wants the Russian Supreme Court to overturn the inclusion of Komi-Permyak Autonomous Oblast into the new Perm kray.
The suit, which Aleksandr Chetin, the head of that kray’s Union of Patriotic Forces of Parm, names Putin as respondent and is unlikely to have any legal consequences: the court likely will not even agree to hear it. But it reflects the continuing anger of many in Russia’s regions about Moscow’s lies and top-down style of rule (59.ru/text/newsline/899182.html?full=3).
In court papers, Chetin says that “not one of the points of the agreement which the governor of Perm oblast … and the head of the Komi-Permyak autonomous oblast … signed before the referendum was fulfilled” and thus the referendum itself and the federal law adopted about it are null and void.
According to the Perm activist, “as a result of the unification in fact took place a change in the constitutional and legal status of the Komi-Permyak autonomous district” and consequently, a new statue should have been adopted at a joint session of the parliaments of both regions. But that did not happen.
As a result, he argues, “at the present time, legally, Perm kray does not exist.”
Perm kray was created on December 1, 2005, as a result of the unification of Perm oblast and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous District. That followed a December 2003 referendum and the adoption of a law by the Duma and Federation Council on its formation, rather than by the two federal subject legislatures as Russian constitutional law requires.
This is not the first time he has brought suit on this issue, but his legal argument now is more narrowly drawn. Earlier, the courts rejected his position and his appeals to Putin and Dmitry Medvedev have “remained without an answer,” the Perm kray news service reports. It is unclear if anything has changed, but this suit is attracting more attention in Moscow
In a comment on Moscow’s Polit.ru yesterday, Mariya Blokhina points out that between 2003 and 2008 Putin succeeded in pushing through regional amalgamation plans involving primarily the so-called “matryoshka” regions (those which existed within other federal subjects), eliminating six of 10 of them, and reducing the number of federal subjects from89 to 83 (polit.ru/article/2015/03/08/top9/).
But as she points out, “by 2008, this process was stopped;” and now, as Chetin’s suit shows, there are some who want not only to block it from being renewed but also to reverse what was one of Putin’s signature efforts during his first two terms.
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Putin Awards Kadyrov With 'The Order Of Honor'by noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov a state award.
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