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Pentagon leaders playing no role in US discussions with Russia on military build-up in Syria
Preliminary hearing this week to decide if Bergdahl faces court-martial.
Russia has positioned tanks at an airfield in Syria in what appears to be a continued show of support by the Kremlin for President Bashar Al-Assad, according to US officials.
The man suspected of shooting dead his partner and a university professor has shot himself dead, according to police.
A hate crime charge has been filed against a Chicago teenager accused of abusing and beating a Skih taxi driver whom he allegedly called “Bin Laden”.
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Did he or didn’t he? Hours after Sir Elton John thanked President Vladimir Putin for phoning him to discuss gay rights in Russia, a spokesman for the Russian leader denied the conversation took place.
Homeland security secretary: San Francisco sanctuary policy 'not acceptable'
Saudi Arabia said that strong winds and the failure to meet operating safety standards were behind a crane collapse that killed at least 107 people in the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca on Friday.
France’s move to prepare airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria reflects new intelligence reports warning that the group increasingly aims to use European recruits to carry out attacks back home, officials say.
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Egyptian authorities claim tourist convoy was in area 'illegally ... by Michael Safi and Damien Gayle
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has reported that some of the tourists in the group were Chilean. It has also cast doubt on whether the tourists and their guides were in a prohibited area, claiming they were only hundreds of ...
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How's "Gerharmony" doing? Last week it was a bad German version of "we are the world" I have been away for a week, can anyone get me up to speed? Reply | Pick. Report · Joseph Yechout ... I think if you did a little research and read current news you might be aware of civil unrest in Turkey between the Turks and the Kurds, the implications of which may very bring about the next flashpoint in this tragedy. Also the UN camps are full and only the overflow is going to ...
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Thousands of sea turtles come ashore to lay their eggs on the coast of Costa Rica. The incredible scenes were filmed by local wildlife experts in north-western Guanacaste. The turtles return to the beaches along the Pacific coast to nest and lay their eggs. Up to 5,000 turtles came ashore this year in the annual wildlife phenomenon called Arribada or arrival by sea. Tourists are advised to stay away and not interfere with the nesting
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German chancellor Angela Merkel calls for a special European Union summit next week to discuss the continent’s migration crisis. Speaking on Tuesday, Merkel says the idea is not to discuss so-far stalled plans for a redistribution of refugees around the EU, which is being handled by EU interior ministers. Instead, they will focus on how to speed up the construction of refugee camps known as ‘hot spots’ in Greece and Italy to register incoming refugees
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Hundreds of refugees protest at Serbia’s border with Hungary on Tuesday, after the border was closed in a crackdown by Hungarian authorities. Hungary’s border with Serbia has been the main land route for refugees to reach the European Union’s border-free Schengen zone. Hungary has erected a 3.5 metre fence, topped with razor-wire, as part of a package of tough measures to deal with the migration crisis. Hungary has also announced plans to seal its border with Romania
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Rocket Man singer said he was hopeful of a meeting with the Russian president - but Putin's spokesman denies conversation about gay rights ever took place
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The accident less than a week ago killed more than 100 people days before the sacred annual pilgrimage
Lisa Borch was 15 when she stabbed her mother 20 times after becoming radicalised by an Iraqi boyfriend she reportedly met at a refugee centre
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A 15-year-old boy was arrested last month in Philadelphia for allegedly planning an attack on a "high-profile target", which was reportedly Pope Francis
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Daniel Craig will resume sipping martinis in Spectre - to the delight of the vodka brand he is now drinking
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Elton John: Putin called after I asked to meet on gay rights
U.S. News & World Report Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, right, and Elton John shake hands during their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Mikhail Palinchak, Pool). Associated Press Sept. 15, 2015 | 9:53 a.m. EDT + More. LONDON (AP) ... Vladimir Putin, Elton John Will Meet To Discuss Gay Right sHeadlines & Global News Vladimir Putin reaches out to Elton John with phone callPanorama.am Elton John spoke to Putin about gay rights in Russia, says thank youRT The Independent all 49 news articles » |
Moscow Observers Ponder Russia's Actions in Syriaby webdesk@voanews.com (Victor Vasiliev)
As concerns build that an influx of Russian military aid to Syria could make the conflict there worse, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke Tuesday with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. The U.S. Defense Department expressed concern Monday about Russian moves in Syria, stating that Moscow appeared to be setting up an air base near the northwestern Syrian port of Latakia. Earlier, U.S. President Barack Obama warned that Russian military activity in the war-torn nation could...
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Elton John Says Putin Called Him, Kremlin Denies The Claimby support@pangea-cms.com (Mike Eckel)
British superstar musician Elton John, who is openly gay and has criticized controversial Russian laws on homosexuality, says Vladimir Putin called him and proposed a face-to-face meeting -- a claim the Kremlin has denied.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Senior U.N. disarmament official Virginia Gamba of Argentina will lead an international investigation aimed at assigning blame for chemical weapon attacks in Syria, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
As the White House worries about Moscow's intentions, Russian planes and tanks keep pouring in
The Russian president said his support for Bashar al-Assad would help defeat the Islamic State.
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Russian Pleads Guilty In World's Biggest Computer Hacking Scheme by support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
A Russian man has pleaded guilty for his role in a massive computer hacking scheme of U.S. and European companies that U.S. authorities said resulted in the theft of millions of credit card numbers and hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
Bergdahl lawyer wants interrogation made public as part of effort against negative publicity
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US Secretary of State John Kerry calls his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov for a third time to clarify Moscow's military build-up in Syria.
Drinkman allegedly behind scheme to steal 160m card numbers
University instructor accused of killing his girlfriend and a colleague also called police before taking his own life
The German chancellor Angela Merkel has called on other EU states to show spirit and unity to resolve the migration crisis - as Germany continues to welcome migrants.
In an interview with CBS News, Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin says the White House now realizes it needs Assad to beat ISIS
Где, король, твоя одежда? by noreply@blogger.com (Mike Nova)
Страж Аквариума строг
Тайный мастер Осьминог
Маскировка его дар:
Белоснежный он кальмар
Или быстрый хитрый скат
Что песком бросаться рад...
Он лишь вся твоя надежда -
Где, король, твоя одежда?
Выживания искусство,
И интриг шестое чувство
Всё такой же маскарад.
Вовчик, ты же ведь не скат!
У морских зверей учись
Но быть их выше не боись
Лучше честность до предела
Всё хитрить и врать - не дело
О проблемах не тужи
И с Америкой дружи!
Это - самое главное, итогда всё будет в порядке.
А со всем остальным мы потом разберёмся.
P.S. - 8/6/2015
Вовчик дал мне свой ответ:
"Нет", сказал он, "нет и нет!"
Он сказал мне: "Ты не ссы,
Nash Ville, наш, и Tennessee!
На любой наш ах и ох
Будет вам ваш Anti-och."
"Ну что ж, подумал я, печальный,
Горюй, унынья берег дальний...
С таким безумным королём
Капец вам всем, пока он за рулём..."
"А впрочем, вот моя рука
Но что в ней, не скажу пока..."
M.N.
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Vovka The Cat on a hot tin Middle Eastern roofby Mike Nova (noreply@blogger.com)
- Вовка, а ты чо вообще туда залез?
- А так, хоцца. Друзей спасать... Ассада из осады...
- А тебе не горячо?
- Ниччо, я привычный... Для другов родных чего только и не сделаешь... Своя братва...
- Да какой он тебе родной? Ты о себе подумай лучше.
- Уже подумал. Нападение лучший способ защиты. Что, туркам можно, а мне нельзя? Вот как они курдов чешут, в пух и перья! Антитеррористициская операция!
- Турки турками, но ты же вроде бы Европеец.
- Да какой я Европеец! Татарин я. Поэтому все энти Америки - Европы меня так и не любят. Третируют, санкционируют, в приличное общество не пускают... А я им - накося, выкуси. И прямо в ООН с моей новой антитеррористициской программой: мир, равенство и братство. И никаких гвоздей! Крепка броня и танки наши быстры. А ракеты ещё быстрее! И про Крым и про Украину быстро забудут. Give them something to talk about. Вот я им и give... Да и денежки тоже нужны: Wall Street не схочет, нефть не вскочит! Пусть боятся, знают наших...
- А ты лапы себе не обожжёшь?
- Не обожжу, не ссы, профессор; мне не привыкать. А ещё лучше: ссы! Мисси, ссы и пи! Мяу! Мяу! Вот такой вот я! Единственный и неповторимый. Enjoy me while you can!
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Louis Armstrong - Tin Roof Blues
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Today's Headlines by noreply@blogger.com (Mike Nova)
Headlines: Countering Russia's Expansionism
9.15.15 Tu
- News Roundup and Notes: September 15, 2015 | Just Security
- Countering Russia's Expansionism
- Syria: Suicide Attacks by Islamic State Target Cadets and a Militia in the North - The New York Times
- Suicide Attack in Northeastern Syrian City Kills 7 - ABC News
- Russian Moves in Syria Widen Role in Mideast - The New York Times
- Russia 'plans forward air operating base' in Syria - US - BBC News
- Cyberthreat Posed by China and Iran Confounds White House - The New York Times
- General: 'We Don’t Truly Understand' Russia's Plans in Syria | The Weekly Standard
- Disconcerting U.S. Cyber Deterrence Troubles Continue - Lawfare
- Russia says it wants Putin-Obama talks on Syria | Reuters
- Putin Defends Russian Military Aid to Syria
- Putin Defends Russian Actions In Syria
- Russia Blames US, Allies For Not Coordinating Anti-ISIS Operations: Russian Officer
- 'Alarming' Russian Arms Buildup Said To Have Closed Gap With U.S.
- General Sees U.S. Air Force's Advantage over Russia Shrinking | News | The Moscow Times
- Refugee Crisis Engulfs Europe - In Homeland Security
- Islamic State jihadis 'may be posing as Syrian refugees' - Telegraph
- Border controls in Europe tighten to stem migrant flow - The Boston Globe
- Migrants Trapped in Serbia as Hungary Launches Border Crackdown - NBC News
- Orbán’s police state – POLITICO
- Turkey deploying more soldiers, police, prosecutors to break Kurdish foes - Middle East - Stripes
- US to begin training Ukraine’s active-duty military - Europe - Stripes
- No End in Sight for Syria War
- Why Russian Propaganda Links Chechen Militants, IS, And Assad's Coastal Stronghold
- Kremlin Website Hit By 'Powerful' Hack During Elections
- U.S.-Russia troubles over Syria; prison break, Afghan-style; elusive military equality of the sexes; and problems with China - The Washington Post
- Trump: US ‘a dumping ground for the rest of the world’ - The Washington Post
- Suspect in 2 Mississippi Killings Dies of Apparent Suicide - ABC News
9.14.15 Mo
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MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday strongly defended Moscow's military assistance to the Syrian government, saying it's impossible to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) without cooperating with Damascus.
Putin's statement comes amid the signs of an ongoing Russian military buildup in Syria, which the U.S. says signals Moscow's intention to set up an air base there.
Speaking at a meeting of heads of states at a Moscow-dominated security alliance of ex-Soviet nations in Tajikistan, Putin urged other nations to follow Russia's example and offer military support to Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.
"We are supporting the government of Syria in the fight against a terrorist aggression, are offering and will continue to offer it necessary military-technical assistance," Putin said in televised remarks. "Without an active participation of the Syrian authorities and the military, it would be impossible to expel the terrorists from that country and the region as a whole, and to protect the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional Syrian people from destruction."
He said that Assad was ready to conduct political transformations and engage a "healthy part of the opposition," but added that "pooling forces in the fight against terror takes the priority now."
Russia has staunchly backed up Assad throughout Syria's devastating civil war that has killed about 250,000 people and turned millions into refugees, shielding him from United Nations sanctions and continuing to provide him with weapons despite Western criticism.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told CBS News' Pam Falk that "everybody's responsible" for the situation in Syria.
"It is easy for me to point the finger but I think simply the situation was misjudged from the outset and then it was allowed to degenerate and how far it will go, I don't know," Churkin said.
Meanwhile, Putin shrugged off allegations that Moscow's support for Assad has sparked a flow of refugees, saying that without Russia's support for Assad's regime the number of Syrian refugees heading to Europe would have been even bigger.
"People are fleeing Syria primarily to escape fighting that has been fueled from the outside with supplies of weapons and hardware, they are fleeing to escape terrorist atrocities," he said. "Without Russia's support for Syria, the situation in the country would have been worse than in Libya, and the flow of refugees would have been even bigger."
The Pentagon says that Russia is in the midst of a steady military buildup at an airport in Syria's coastal province of Latakia, indicating Moscow intends to create a forward air operations base there, although no fighter jets or helicopters have arrived yet.
CBS News correspondent David Martin reported that Moscow is believed to have already positioned a half-dozen T-90 tanks, three dozen armored personnel carriers, and 15 artillery pieces at their growing military base near the city of Latakia.
President Barack Obama cast the buildup as an effort to prop up the embattled leader, warning Moscow against doubling down on Assad.
Asked earlier this month if Russian troops could join the fight against ISIS, Putin seemed to keep the door open for that, saying that "we are looking at various options."
The Russian leader is set to address the Syrian crisis when he speaks to the U.N. General Assembly later this month, and observers in Moscow believe he wants a Russian military force on the ground to be ready by that time.
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The former chief of the Russian Railways company has asked the reelected governor of Kaliningrad not to appoint him the region's representative in the upper chamber of parliament, the Federation Council.
Thousands of refugees were turned away by police as Hungary closed the border with Serbia. (RFE/RL Balkan Service)
The Kremlin tried to give a soft retirement to Vladimir Yakunin, the former head of Russian Railways. But something seems to have gone very wrong.
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U.S. Envoy Tells Russia's Neighbors: Having Putin As Your Only Friend Not A Good Ideaby support@pangea-cms.com (Pete Baumgartner)
U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Daniel Baer says former Soviet republics should enhance their relations with the European Union and the United States and avoid dependence on Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the fight against the Islamic State group should be the global community’s top priority in Syria, rather than changing the regime of Bashar al-Assad. (RFE/RL Tajik Service)
The Kremlin is said to have reached out to the pop star after Sir Elton told the BBC he would love to speak with the Russian leader.
Mr. Turnbull, the new prime minister, will have to lead not only the lawmakers in his own party, but also a country where policy in recent years often seems to have been made on the run.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has suspended the Binladen group, one of the biggest construction companies in the kingdom, from new contracts following the Mecca crane crash that killed 107 people and ordered the Finance Ministry to review its existing projects, Saudi-owned media said on Tuesday.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Eight Mexicans were killed in an apparently mistaken aerial bombing of a tourist convoy by Egypt's army on Sunday, a Mexican official said, matching the fatality estimates given by security sources in Egypt and a relative of two of the victims.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Vietnam agreed with Japan on Tuesday to step up security cooperation, becoming the latest Southeast Asian country to seek closer ties with Tokyo as China maintains an assertive posture in disputed waters in the South China Sea.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States does not plan to impose sanctions on Chinese entities for economic cyber attacks ahead of next week's U.S. visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ukraine will renew its calls for lethal defensive weaponry from its Western allies if the Minsk peace deal fails, the country's top official to NATO said on Tuesday, urging help to reestablish control over its eastern border with Russia.
HOUSTON (AP) -- A school bus has rolled off a freeway overpass in Houston, killing two students and seriously injuring two others and the driver....
Increasing numbers of privacy-conscious Europeans are seeing the Internet as a threat to freedom and democracy.
A woman displayed the French word for "freedom" at a protest in Berlin after two deadly attacks in Paris — one at Charlie Hebdo newsroom and another at a kosher market.
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New satellite photographs show construction underway in contested waters, giving Beijing another military outpost in the South China Sea.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, left, with his defense minister, Sergei K. Shoigu, at a regional security conference in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Tuesday.
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Russia says it wants Putin-Obama talks on Syria
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Man suspected of killing domestic partner, campus co-worker dies in apparent suicide
One in 50 Syrian refugees entering Europe could be member of Isis, a Lebanese government minister has claimed.
Putin says Russia providing military assistance to Syrian regime and will continue to do so
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