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The 1968 invasion by Soviet troops of Czechoslovakia has had a revision on Russian TV claiming they were there to stop Nato overthrowing the government
Both Czech and Slovak government officials have registered their dismay at a new Russian documentary about the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 that was broadcast on Russia’s state-run Rossiya 1 TV channel on May 23.
A statement on the Slovak ministry of foreign affairs website said they had been “unpleasantly surprised” by the film, entitled Warsaw Pact – Pages Declassified, describing it as an attempt “to rewrite history and to falsify historical truths about such a dark chapter of our history”. Czech foreign ministry spokeswoman Michaela Lagronova called it “lies”, and said the issue had been raised with the Russian ambassador as the same time as a demand for an explanation over Russia’s travel ban on a string of prominent Europeans.
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Later this month, Hillary Clinton will host a fundraiser in Tobey Maguire’s house, the day after Barack Obama does the same at Tyler Perry’s LA gaff. When did the movies and politics start cohabiting?
The ad was called, simply, “Celeb.” Just 30 seconds long, it opened by placing in montage an image of Barack Obama, just weeks from accepting the Democratic nomination for president, alongside Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, before launching into a criticism of his tax and energy policies. In the early days of August 2008, when it looked as if nothing could stop Obama’s ascension to the presidency, the ad resonated deeply with voters. And when Obama suffered a subsequent dip in the polls, many pundits, including Obama’s mentor and campaign adviser Tom Daschle, attributed it to “Celeb”.
Why was this ad so successful? In essence, it identified a lingering fear among all but Obama’s most fervent supporters – that voters were a little too infatuated with his rhetoric and charisma, neither of which would necessarily translate to policy victories. Despite its initial success, the ad did nothing to knock the Obama train off the tracks (perhaps because John McCain undermined his asset the ad was meant to highlight – experience – by nominating a half-term governor as his running mate just days later), but there is still something about it that resonates.
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Iraqi forces need more support from the international community in fighting Islamic State, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said after a meeting of top diplomats in Paris.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (C) and members of the anti-Islamic State coalition meet on June 2, 2015 in Paris, to discuss strategy in fighting the jihadists who have made key battlefield advances in recent weeks in Iraq and Syria. AFP PHOTO / POOL / STEPHANE DE SAKUTINSTEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images
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As U.S., European and Middle Eastern officials gathered in Paris on Tuesday to discuss how to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), Iraq’s Prime Minister told reporters that hundreds of crack foreign fighters had flooded into Iraq in recent weeks to join ISIS.
“They have brought hundreds of new fighters, well trained, well armed, very good networking,” says Haidar al-Abadi before Tuesday’s talks began. “We are trying very hard on our part, but this is a transnational organization. It needs all the intelligence of the world, and we are not getting much.”
The sense of urgency among Western leaders has risen sharply since mid-May, when ISIS seized Iraq’s western town of Ramadi. The battle seemed one-sided, with a determined ISIS driving out ineffectual Iraqi troops. U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter blamed Iraqi soldiers for the defeat, saying they had “no will to fight” even though the U.S. has 2,200 military personnel supporting the Iraqi army and it has provided it with some $500 million in weapons and ammunition.
ISIS is now 70 miles outside Baghdad and international officials are scrambling to craft a strategy to reverse the group’s gains both in Iraq and Syria, where ISIS seized the city of Palmyra last month.
Abadi, a Shiite politician who replaced his unpopular predecessor, Nouri al-Maliki, last August, says the Iraqi military faced two huge challenges in Ramadi last month. First, he says, ISIS loaded huge armored trucks with explosives, parked them on the frontline, and then detonated them, “like a mini nuclear bomb,” killing frontline soldiers, and causing troops further back to flee. Second, he says, ISIS fighters infiltrated the Sunni-dominated city before seizing it, taking over the mosques and then blasting messages from the loudspeakers encouraging Iraqi soldiers to retreat, rather than fight.
Despite recent failures, Abadi said U.S. troops would not join the fight after pulling out of combat in December 2011. “No. We don’t want it because it is complicating. And in all honesty we will never get it, with public opinion in the West and in the U.S., ” he says.
Western officials fear that Sunni Iraqis do not want to fight ISIS, which some believe is a lesser evil than the Shiite militias fighting on the government side. ISIS also has hundreds of foreign fighters from Sunni states like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. ISIS in Iraq now comprises about 58% foreign fighters, compared with just 40% a few months ago. Many of the fighters come from the Persian Gulf, Turkey and Egypt, according to Abadi.
Abadi said his government was determined to place more Iraqi Sunnis in command positions. “We learned a lot from Ramadi. We have learned how to fight Daesh,” he says, using the Arabic term for ISIS. He said the Iraqi army had begun recruiting Sunni commanders and that his government was in close contact with exiled Sunni leaders in Jordan. He said he had also moved brigades to the northern city of Mosul, which ISIS seized last June, in readiness for a major assault.
On the ground, however, there are reports that Iraqi soldiers are severely overstretched. One U.S. Special Forces officer told Politico last weekend that ISIS “are just better fighters. They have fire discipline. They cover each other’s advances. They keep moving. The Iraqis do none of these things.”
The new Iraqi army will not be enough on its own to defeat ISIS in Iraq. Abadi said his most important need was an increase in aerial surveillance from U.S. planes, to spot ISIS on the move. “Surveillance is very small,” he said. “Daesh is mobile, they move in very small groups. They can gather somewhere else, and attack,” he said. “They are not seen by coalition partners.”
As the U.S.-led coalition plows more money into bolstering Iraq’s military, Abadi knows that his pleas for more arms and ammunition will be met with close scrutiny as Western officials weigh how to best battle to beat ISIS. But the Iraqi Prime Minister argues that the West cannot afford to ignore his calls for more help despite the problems his government has in managing its military. “The danger…is huge,” he says. ISIS “is creating a new generation of fighters, ,” he said. “They prepared to die, but they want to win.”
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian company that makes the BUK air defense system that was used to shoot down a Malaysian airliner in east Ukraine said on Tuesday the plane was hit by a missile deployed by Ukraine and not widely used by Russia's military.
US senators call for mandatory reporting of police killingsby Jon Swaine and Oliver Laughland New York
Plan, announced one day after Guardian investigation, would force all US law enforcement agencies to report officer-involved killings to Department of Justice
A plan to force all American law enforcement agencies to report killings by their officers was unveiled by US senators on Tuesday, a day after the Guardian published an investigation into the fatal use of force by police.
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Syria: Isis advance on Aleppo aided by Assad regime air strikes, US says by Martin Chulov and Julian Borger
Opposition fighters make same claims as Isis advances towards Azaz, 20 miles north-west of Aleppo, which would imperil their supply line into Syria’s biggest city
The US has accused the Syrian government of providing air support to an advance by Islamic State militants against opposition groups north of Aleppo.
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'Shot from behind': man's death reveals hidden horror of Latino police killings by Oliver Laughland in San Francisco
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Sepp Blatter to Resign as FIFA President
New York Times Sepp Blatter, who led world soccer's governing body for 17 years and had just won re-election for a fifth four-year term, resigned his position at a hastily called news conference in Zurich on Tuesday evening in the wake of an international corruption inquiry. Blatter quits as FIFA chief after corruption scandalReuters Sepp Blatter announces he will step down as FIFA presidentUSA TODAY Sepp Blatter stepping down, says FIFA needs 'profound overhaul'CNN Los Angeles Times-Washington Post (blog)-Bloomberg all 1,219 news articles » |
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Continue reading...Blatter Resigns as FIFA Chiefby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday, four days after being re-elected to a fifth term. Blatter, 79, announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several FIFA officials.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter is to quit amid a corruption scandal engulfing the footballing body.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter Resigns by mallorybusch
(ZURICH)—FIFA President Sepp Blatter says he will resign from soccer’s governing body amid a widening corruption scandal and has promised to call for fresh elections to choose a successor.
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FIFA President Sepp Blatter said he will step down as the head of the global governing body of soccer, in the wake of the disclosure last week of more than a dozen U.S. indictments against current and former FIFA officials.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter will step down as head of world soccer's governing body but only after the organization's executive committee organizes a fresh vote "for the election of my successor," he said Tuesday.
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Re-elected FIFA President Sepp Blatter gestures during news conference after an extraordinary Executive Committee meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, May 30, 2015.
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FIFA President Sepp Blatter addresses a news conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, June 2, 2015.
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FIFA President Sepp Blatter FIFA arrives for a news conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, June 2, 2015.
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Re-elected FIFA President Sepp Blatter gestures during news conference after an extraordinary Executive Committee meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, May 30, 2015.
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FIFA President Sepp Blatter addresses a news conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, June 2, 2015.
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ZURICH Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday, four days after being re-elected to a fifth term.
Blatter, 79, announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several FIFA officials.
He was re-elected after his only rival, Jordan's Prince Ali bin Al Hussein withdrew after losing heavily in the first round of voting.
"FIFA has been my life...what counts most for me is FIFA and football around the world," Blatter said.
"An extraordinary congress is to be called to elect my successor as soon as possible."
(Reporting by Brian Homewood, editing by Mitch Phillips:)
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