Iranians hope to fill vacuum as US lowers its Mideast profile - Sunday August 30th, 2015 at 3:49 PM
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Iran’s agreement to curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief by world powers was welcomed at every level of society here, but nowhere more warmly than in the foreign policy community.
August 30, 2015, 9:37 AM (IDT)
Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney, former senior official at State in the Bush administration, devote a chapter in their book due shortly for publication to the nuclear accord signed last month with Iran. “Nearly everything the president has told us about his Iranian agreement is false,” they write in an almost unprecedented attack on Barack Obama. He claims that the accord will prevent Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon, but in fact, say the Cheneys,.“This agreement will actually facilitate and legitimize an Iranian nuclear arsenal” and almost definitely lead to the “first use of a nuclear weapon since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
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Those reaching Europe represent a small percentage of the 4 million Syrians who have fled into Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.
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SHIR HADASH OUTPOST, West Bank (AP) -- The Israeli government initiative has a soothing biblical name, the Hebrew Shepherd, and a serious aim: to keep ultranationalist Jewish settler youths from turning to violence and attacking Palestinians and their property....
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Pope Francis uses his Sunday address in St Peter’s Square to condemn the deaths of 71 migrants in Austria, found suffocated in the back of a lorry. Asking the gathered crowd to pray for migrants who have died trying to reach safety, the Pope appeals for effective cooperation to prevent further deaths, which ‘offend the entire human family’
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Russian President Vladimir Putin Pumps Iron, Grills in Newly Released Photos
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When he’s not horseback riding, hunting, fishing or generally being an action man, you can find Russian President Vladimir Putin down the gym.
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Hungarian troops were busily continuing with construction of a fence along the country’s 175km border with Serbia, aimed at keeping out migrants from strife-torn countries seeking to enter the European Union. It was announced on August 29 that a line of barbed wire along the border was now complete, but an official said it would take a number of weeks before the fence was ready. (RFE/RL)
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We face the risk that the Labour frontrunner’s policies really are electoral anathema or unworkable. Whatever, this moment can renew the centre-left
Before more absurd hyperbole took over – Tony Blair comparing Jeremy Corbyn this weekend to Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen – the prevailing rhetoric was that Labour was in danger of returning to its comfort zone. From the point of view of a loyalist on the soft left of the party, it hasn’t felt like that. I joined just after the Tony Benn/Denis Healey deputy leadership contest in 1981, and so have never had to confront the prospect of the party leadership moving seriously leftwards. Suddenly, completely unexpectedly, Corbyn’s rise made it feel like it was happening. I found that heady and inspiring, but not comfortable at all.
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It is too soon to be confident but this time the economic and political pressures may be mounting on Vladimir Putin to make agreements that will stick
The prospects are not good that the new international call for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine will be heeded any more rigorously than its predecessors were. Yet in the continuing 16-month war on Europe’s fringes, some of the dynamics may perhaps be shifting in some important ways. On Saturday the leaders of Germany, France and Russia held a three-way phone conversation in which they backed a joint announcement made by Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists last week, that a ceasefire would be reinstated on 1 September.
The weekend initiative is the latest attempt to put some life back into February’s Minsk agreement, which has all but fallen apart as the fighting has continued. The agreement remains a fragile plant; both sides came out on Saturday with separate statements with very different emphases. Vladimir Putin laid all the blame on the Ukrainian government, while Kiev has been warning that Russia is readying for new offensives. The Minsk agreement will also come under further international scrutiny as the end of the year nears. This marks the deadline for the internationally recognised border to come back under Ukrainian government control. At the moment, however, the Russians maintain an exclusive grip. So other European states will have to decide soon whether to prolong sanctions against Russia, which arms the rebels and continues to give them backing through covert paramilitary involvement.
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A quiet rumble of encouragement inside Democratic Party ranks for Joe Biden to get off the fence and declare himself a candidate for president is growing steadily louder amid mounting evidence that Hillary Clinton’s campaign may be in trouble.
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Vladimir Putin's workout montage - video by Guardian Staff
The Kremlin has released footage of Russian president, Vladimir Putin, working out alongside the country’s prime minister Dmitry Medvedev. Wearing a white t-shirt and tracksuit trousers, Putin is shown lifting weights in the footage, apparently intended to highlight his healthy lifestyle to the Russian population. The two are also filmed grilling steaks and having tea
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Watch as the Russian president and prime minister do a morning workout at a government building in Sochi
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Treasure contained in a long-lost Nazi ghost train could be claimed by Russia.
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Iran sentences 2 people to jail for 10 years for allegedly spying for US, Israel
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US National Security Adviser, Pakistan PM Meetby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice met in Islamabad with Pakistan's prime minister and other top officials to discuss terrorism and other issues. Ahead of the talks, U.S. State Department officials said the meetings would include discussions on "terrorist and militant attacks emanating from Pakistani soil." After Rice met with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Sunday in Islamabad, the Pakistani leader's office said little about the content of the talks, noting that...
After struggling to keep up with Putin in the gym, Medvedev and the Russian President enjoyed a relaxing cup of tea at their residence in Bocharov Ruchei.
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In a photo op with his second in command, the Russian President works out in his gym before having steak for breakfast.
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — A large fire broke out Sunday in the basement of a sprawling residential complex in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich east, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 200, officials in the kingdom said.
The blaze began early in the morning in a multistory residential compound known as Radium in the eastern city of Khobar. The complex houses workers for state oil giant Saudi Aramco, which oversees petroleum production in the OPEC powerhouse.
The company said an investigation has begun into the cause of the fire, which sent thick black smoke billowing from the pink-and-tan colored building.
The Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Civil Defense said victims were of various nationalities, without elaborating. Like many companies in the Gulf, Aramco relies heavily on foreign professionals and other migrant workers.
Some of the 219 people reported injured were in critical condition, the directorate said.
Mohammed Siddique, an engineer who lives nearby, told The Associated Press he first saw smoke coming from the complex at around 6 a.m. Emergency crews struggled for hours to contain the blaze, which authorities said was under control by mid-afternoon.
“The smoke was very heavy,” Siddique said. He counted at least 30 ambulances and three helicopters responding to the fire soon after it began.
Aramco said some of those hurt were treated at the scene, where an emergency command center was set up, while others were taken to company medical facilities and local hospitals.
The Radium complex is a gated community of eight six-story buildings with a total of 486 residential units as well as swimming pools and other leisure facilities, according to Aramco’s website.
Siddique described the complex as relatively new and “nicely built,” with a mix of Western, Asian and Saudi residents. It is rented by Aramco and is guarded by security teams affiliated with the company, he said.
Residents affected by the blaze were being moved to alternate accommodation. Aramco promised to use “all means and available resources” to help those affected.
Khobar was the site of a 1996 truck bombing at a dormitory for U.S. Air Force personnel that killed 19 Americans and wounded 372. The man described as the mastermind of the attack, Ahmed al-Mughassil, was arrested after a nearly two-decade manhunt, American and Saudi officials said last week. The FBI has described him as the head of the armed wing of the Saudi Hezbollah group.
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Associated Press writers Maamoun Youssef in Cairo and Abdullah al-Shihri in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, contributed to this report.
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Panel: Defeat Al-Shabab With Correct Interpretation of Islamby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The dissemination of the correct interpretation of Islam is one way Islamic scholars could help defeat al-Shabab, according to a VOA panel discussion held Saturday in Nairobi. Panel members agreed an ideological war, combined with military power, must be waged in the fight against the militant group. Some panel members voiced concern that the way Kenyan security forces treat some communities is resulting in young people turning to al-Shabab. One panel member spoke about...
Photos show Putin working out, grilling with Dmitry Medvedev.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev are pictured working out and sharing breakfast at Mr Putin's summer residence.
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish government has called on Sinn Fein to help ensure the Irish Republican Army is put "firmly out of business" after police in Northern Ireland said the party's former military wing might have been involved in a recent murder.
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Afghan Refugees Again On The Run -- This Time From Pakistanby support@pangea-cms.com (Frud Bezhan)
Afghan refugees are on the run from the safe haven they sought in Pakistan. Tens of thousands have returned in recent months, amid claims of intimidation, extortion, and arbitrary detentions.
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