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Mobs Burn Villages, Slaughter Uzbeks In Kyrgyzstan...75,000 Refugees Flee To Uzbekistan...Shoot-to-kill in Kyrgyz south amid deadly ethnic unrest...Kyrgyzstan Seeks Russian Help to Quell Unrest With the death toll rising in clashes in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, the provisional government asked neighboring Russia to send troops to help. ...26 Killed, 450 Hurt In New Wave Of Unrest In Kyrgyzstan Affluent Afghans make their homes in opulent 'poppy palaces' Karzai Is Said to Doubt West Can Prevail Against Taliban Afghan 'wedding blast' kills 39 An explosion in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan kills at least 39 people and injures more than 70, officials say. Matt Waldman on Taliban-ISI links Matt Waldman, a fellow at Harvard University, is the author of a new report accusing Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of funding and training the Afghan insurgency. Taliban seize border town as Afghan forces retreat Warlord Building Afghan Empire With U.S. Taxpayer Aid It is Matiullah Khan, the head of a private army that earns millions of dollars guarding NATO supply convoys and fights Taliban insurgents alongside American Special Forces. Afghan delegates back peace talks with Taliban DoD Investigating Nine Cases of "Terrorism-Related Acts" by US Military and Contractors? Taliban Step Up Assassinations in Afghan Region Taliban Slay Six Village Elders Over Aid Money Red Cross gives first aid lessons to Taliban Iraq Soldier in Iraq Loses Home Over $800 Debt U.S. leans toward selling Iraq F-16s Iranian Troops Inside Iraq A security official in Sulaymania [Iraqi Kurdistan] said that Iranian troops are three km [about two miles] inside Iraqi territory, and that skirmishes are taking place with separatists Kurds in the Qindill Mountain area on the border. Wars' cost passes $1 trillion mark Cost of Iraq, Afghan wars to surpass $1 trillion as US marks Memorial Day CIA considered making fake Saddam gay sex video Pakistan Pentagon Seeks Private Contractor to Move Weapons Through Pakistan/Afghanistan Four million living under Taliban rule in Pakistan Taliban Militants Are Leaving Pakistan’s Northern Waziristan For Afghanistan Under a deal with the Pakistani government, the Taliban militants are leaving the Pakistani tribal district of North Waziristan for Afghanistan and other regions, according to a Pashtu-language dail CIA Drone Operators Oppose Strikes as Helping al Qaeda Some CIA officers involved in the agency's drone strikes programme in Pakistan and elsewhere are privately expressing their opposition to the programme within the agency, because it is helping al Qaeda and its allies recruit, according to a retired military officer in contact with them. "Some of the CIA operators are concerned that, because of its blowback effect, it is doing more harm than good," said Jeffrey Addicott, former legal adviser to U.S. Special Forces and director of the Centre for Terrorism Law at St Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, in an interview with IPS. |
Middle East Iran Returning To Dollar The conservative Iranian daily Jam-e Jam reports that due to the fall of the Euro relative to the dollar, the Iranian government has decided to convert €45 billion in foreign exchange reserves to dollars. Mass Demonstrations Marking Anniversary Of Iran Election Protests Called Off Fearing bloodshed and calculating that it would gain them nothing, the movement's leaders called off a day of mass protests, reflecting their increasing powerlessness against the government's military muscle. Witnesses and the opposition reported a few isolated confrontations in the capital. Clashes erupt in Iran as night falls on election anniversary Amb. Crocker: Putting Iran in the ‘Axis of Evil’ Led Them to Release Brutal Insurgent Leader Flotilla raiders had ‘assassination list’ protesters rummaged through captured soldiers' belongings and claimed to unearth a document that they allege is a list of people Israel intended to assassinate. NATO CALLS FOR PROBE OF ISRAELI RAID Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about security As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of the Gaza Strip Wednesday, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory. Europe EU ends tuna fishing season early UK lawyer in emirate takeover plot Peter Cathcart works for ousted prince of Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates to co-ordinate a plot to return him to power Asia Report: Japan bribed countries ‘with cash, prostitutes’ to keep whaling Japan party quits government over US base Japan's Prime Minister RESIGNS Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Wednesday he was resigning over his broken campaign promise to move a U.S. Marine base off the southern island of Okinawa. Africa Think Gulf spill is bad? Look at Nigeria More oil spilled into Niger River Delta every year than has spilled into Gulf. 'At Least Under Apartheid': South Africa on the Eve of the World Cup In the hands of FIFA and the ruling African National Congress, the World Cup has been a neoliberal Trojan Horse, enacting a series of policies that the citizens of this proud nation would never have accepted if not wrapped in the honor of hosting the Cup. This includes $9.5 billion in state deficit spending The Americas Arrest order for Venezuela TV boss critical of Hugo Chavez. Indigenous group lynches four policemen in Bolivia Serb Mercenaries See Prospects in Latin America |
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The Wire - This drug thing, this ain't police work. NYPD can keep surveillance docs on protesters secret: court A federal appeals court has dealt a blow to a civil-liberties lawsuit against the New York Police Department, saying the police force is within its rights to keep secret some 1,800 pages of documents about its surveillance of protesters ahead of the Republican National Convention in 2004. Big win for Big Oil from judges not judging The funny thing is that the companies won because appellate judges with conflicts of interest, presumably because of stock ownership, stepped off the case. Without a quorum the judges couldn't consider the case, so they dismissed it Court rules suspects must speak to remain silent Supreme Court is 'keeping politics safe for the rich' Racism still blights southern US juries, study shows
FBI: Mexicans Chased Away US Agents After Shooting U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe He said he also leaked three other items to Wikileaks: a separate video showing the notorious 2009 Garani air strike in Afghanistan that Wikileaks has previously acknowledged is in its possession; a classified Army document evaluating Wikileaks as a security threat, which the site posted in March; and a previously unreported breach consisting of 260,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables that Manning described as exposing “almost criminal political back dealings. “Hillary Clinton, and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning, and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available, in searchable format, to the public,” Manning wrote Petraeus secretly ordered covert ops in N. Africa, across Middle East US troops 'won’t be used to stop illegal immigration' Obama to send 1,200 troops to border....Democrats stop bid to send 6,000 troops to border Document says number of attempted attacks on U.S. is at all-time high Banks Paying Colleges For Students Who Rack Up Credit Card Debt Kids of lesbian parents well adjusted Children raised by same-sex, female couples grow up to be psychologically well adjusted, experience academic achievement and exhibit healthy social behaviors, according to recent study. US Government to Reconsider Ban on Gay Men's Blood Donation Five Indictments in Glover Case Three New Orleans police officers and two former officers were indicted today in the shooting death of Henry Glover, an African-American resident of New Orleans who bled to death while in police custody in the days after Hurricane Katrina struck. The Nation broke the story of his suspicious death last year. Arlington, Texas couple enslaved Nigerian woman 8 years Report: More than 113 Census workers threatened and attacked this month. Ex-CIA official guilty in drugs, guns and sex abuse case FBI Investigates Shooting, Dragging of Black Man Is this the James Byrd Jr. incident for the new millennium? Rabbi Who Recorded Helen Thomas' Israel Comments Parodied Mexicans In Video Beck Blames One Of Fox News’ Largest Shareholders, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, For 9/11 On his television program this afternoon, Glenn Beck declared that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the largest stockholder of Fox News outside of the Rupert Murdoch family, “flew … the plane into the trade centers.” Beck started his rant as a defense of Israel’s actions against the aid flotilla to Gaza, but eventually began hypothesizing about if a similar flotilla was sent to Manhattan by Saudi Arabia. Beck said this had already happened essentially, when Prince Alwaleed offered $10 million dollars to then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Fox News has also rejected television ads criticizing America’s dependence on Middle East oil, a source of wealth for the Prince Alwaleed family. O’Reilly tells African-American Columbia University professor that he looks like a ‘cocaine dealer.’ US 'desperately' hunting for Wikileaks founder: report Philip Shenon, a former New York Times reporter now writing for Tina Brown's The Daily Beast, alleged late Thursday that the Pentagon is "desperately" searching for the founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks, out of concern he is about to publish classified US State Department cables.
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Economy The Rest Of The World Is Taking On Big Banks -- Why Not The U.S.? The investor who famously shorted the subprime mortgage industry sets his sights on a new target. Politics ‘Major US newspapers censor Obama’s support of Iran fuel swap,’ US media "The Huffington Post's article indicates that "An initial AP news agency story on the Washington Post's website last Monday said the agreement was "nearly identical" to the deal the US was pressing for, although by the end of the day the AP article on the Post's website had been revised to downgrade this comparison to ‘mirrors'." [The original AP story is still visible through a link in Naiman's article.] Intelligence nominee enriched contractors as 'spy for hire' The vice president of the firm boasted at the time to journalist Tim Shorrock, "It's like hiring Colonel Sanders if you're selling fried chicken." New spy chief who hyped Iraq WMD 'may invade Finland' President Obama's selection of retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. to serve as the Director of National Intelligence is already drawing fire from a variety of quarters. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was forced to defend Clapper on Sunday against charges that he has failed to keep Congress sufficiently informed on intelligence matters in his present position as Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. A more serious issue, however, may prove to be Clapper's support in 2003 for the idea that Iraqi WMD had been smuggled into Syria just before the US invasion as part of an attempt to destroy evidence. Did The Bush Administration Experiment On Detainees? Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) makes the case that since human subject research is defined as the "systematic collection of data and/or identifiable personal information for the purpose of drawing generalizable inferences," what the Bush administration was doing amounted to human experimentation: Most Guantánamo Detainees Were Not Involved In Plots Against U.S., Report Reveals Federal judge calls Guantanamo inmate's detention 'unlawful' Gitmo 'suicides' torture gone wrong? In an appearance Thursday on Fox News' Freedom Watch, Horton stated that the only real question in his mind is whether the men's deaths were deliberate murders or were "negligent homicides" resulting from "some sort of procedure that was performed on them." He suggested, for example, that they might have suffocated as a result of being gagged while undergoing torture.
FED CHIEF
WARNS CONGRESS: DON'T CUT SPENDING
Lead GOP Supporter Of Climate Change Bill Is Now Skeptical Of Climate Science Halliburton opens cash spigot Company giving money to lawmakers investigating Gulf oil spill. Panel commissioned by Barney Frank recommends nearly $1T in defense cuts A panel commissioned by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is recommending nearly $1 trillion in cuts to the Pentagon’s budget over the next 10 years Oversight panel: Feds jumped too soon to bail out AIG The federal government didn't exhaust all its options before it committed tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars to bail out the American International Group during the height of the 2008 financial collapse, according to a new report from a congressional watchdog panel. Banks Bilking Taxpayers By Refusing To Buy Back Toxic Loans They Sold To Fannie And Freddie Fed Sides With Megabanks, Argues That Credit Card Reforms Would HURT Main Street SC senator: We’ve ‘got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion.’ ...South Carolina State Senator Censured For ‘Raghead’ Comments, Says He ‘Could Care Less’ Palin tied to Nixon 'Jew purger' GOP rainmaker Malek led crusade for Nixon; Ally, defender of Palin. Thousands Of Illegal Immigrants Slated For Deportation Being Counted For Census Money
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Rell veto of Conn. energy bill riles critics
Supporters of the bill said it would reduce
the state’s electric rates by 15 percent,
but Rell said the bill was “eerily
reminiscent” of the claims made by
supporters of the law that deregulated the
electric generation business in the state in
1998. Supporters of that legislation, the
governor said, promised that it would reduce
the state’s energy rates, but they remain
the highest in the country. CT Drug War Teen charged for dealing drugs
Car w/ children inside hit in shooting
A woman was sitting her the back seat
of her car on Thursday evening with two
children when shots rang out; one of them
hitting the side of the car
Bad drug deal ends in fatal shooting 7 lbs of pot seized in traffic stop
Woman shot while driving in New Haven
New Haven police are investigating a
shooting that happened Saturday afternoon. A
26-year old woman was shot in face while
driving through the intersection of
Washington Avenue and Clover Street.
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Lobsterman reacts to proposed ban
Biologists are recommending a five-year ban
on lobster fishing in Southern New England.
While this would be a inconvenience to
lobster lovers, it would be devastating to
the Connecticut men and women who make their
living pulling them from the water.
Court: Conn. state police brass can't form union Connecticut’s highest court on Tuesday threw out a lower court’s ruling that would have let State Police lieutenants and captains form a union and negotiate their first labor contract. DeLauro's husband no longer has contract with BP Former WWE CEO, Connecticut Senate Candidate Claims Steroid Risks Remain Unknown Conn. probing GOP US Senate candidate's petitions Connecticut elections officials are investigating whether a Republican U.S. Senate candidate violated state laws by using out-of-state workers to collect signatures to try and petition his way onto the primary ballot Clam Boat Pulls Up Canisters off NY, Crew Sickened Blumenthal probes whether Google illegally gathered data Rell signs landmark education-reform bill Assistant AG: Blumenthal lied about Vietnam $10 mil grant for stem cell research |
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Old Mine Gas Ignites W.Va. (Gas) Well Blast, 7 Hurt
Education 100,000 teachers nationwide face layoffs Arizona Cracking Down On Teacher Accents When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident We blame girls—but it's the boys who are sabotaging attempts at safer sex, studies suggest. Security Issues Facebook warned it's not in compliance Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner warned that Facebook is not complying with federal privacy laws despite major fixes unveiled Wednesday that give users more control Pirates Robbing Boats At Gunpoint On US-Mexico Border U.S. 'secret war' expands globally as Special Operations forces take larger role Feds: Brooklyn Man Gave $45K to Al Qaeda Two New Jersey Men Arrested At JFK Airport On Terrorism Charges 'Apple's worst security breach' Rahm Emanuel among 114,000 whose iPad data was compromised. Courts 'McCarthyite' provision in defense bill targets ACLU lawyers The defense appropriations bill currently moving through the House of Representatives includes a measure which directs the Defense Department's inspector general to investigate attorneys who may have "interfered with operations of the Department of Defense" while representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay and report back to Congress. ACLU Advocates For Abolition Of Mandatory Minimums Before U.S. Sentencing Commission The American Civil Liberties Union testified today before the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) that mandatory minimums should be abolished or reformed because they generate unnecessarily harsh sentences, tie judges’ hands in considering individual circumstances, create racial disparities in sentencing and empower prosecutors to force defendants to bargain away their constitutional rights. Tyson Workers Finally Get $500,000 In Overtime Wages Owed (to 3,000 workers) Court allows firefighter lawsuit Supreme Court says African Americans can sue Chicago over a hiring test they challenged. Bank of America will pay 108 million in Countrywide Case. Environment EPA Says Texas Is Violating The Clean Air Act; Perry Calls It A Power Grab Oil drilling in Arctic called off Pa.: Natural Gas Spewing From Out-Of-Control Well Maryland, 12 other states form offshore wind partnership Chevron pipeline leaks at least 21,000 gallons; Salt Lake parks closed.Drug War Seized weed legalization petitions missing The campaign director for Washington state's marijuana legalization effort is unable to account for eight petitions allegedly seized from a medical marijuana dispensary by a drug task force during a raid two weeks ago. Push to legalize pot in Detroit clears hurdle (It goes on the ballot.) Greed Accused adviser to wealthy hid from U.S. an investment adviser towealthy New Yorkers, was coaxed from a darkened suit closet by U.S. agents at his apartment on Thursday to face charges of running a fraud of at least $30 million Man Accused in 6-Continent, $70M Internet Ponzi Scheme The U.S. government has accused a former Canadian resident possibly living in the Philippines of bilking some 40,000 investors spanning six continents of $70 million in an Internet-based Ponzi scheme. |
Media White House reporter Helen Thomas retires 'immediately' Washington Post kept actual video of US killing civilians secret AT&T Kills Unlimited Data Plan For iPhones, iPads O'Reilly Compares Gays to Al-Qaeda Google phasing out use of Windows over security concerns Iraqi Columnist in Arab Liberal Online Daily Elaph: The Hostile and Provocative Name Chosen for the Planned Ground Zero Cordoba Mosque Symbolizes Dreams of Expansion and Invasion of the Territory of the Other In these days, the issue of the Muslim decision to build a mosque near the place where the crime of the cowardly September 11 terrorist attacks took place has come up. We must note that a hostile and provocative name [Cordoba] has been chosen for this mosque. It is well known that the first Cordoba Mosque was built by Muslims in a city in Spain, after they occupied this Christian country, killing its men and capturing its women to bring them to Arab countries as slaves and servants to serve their sexual pleasure. The Arabs and Muslims have never ceased to take pride and bask in the glory of this imperialist history, which they consider to be a symbol of their strength and power, and they are unashamed of the fact that the annals [of their history] are full of shameful crimes. ABC's Stephanopoulos Reports Erroneously on Rightwing Criminal O'Keefe's Latest Video Scam Fox, media falsely tar Kagan for Vatican immunity
Daniel Ellsberg
fears a hit on
Wikileaks'
Assange
Police/Prison Terrorism Against Florida Islamic Community Goes Under-Reported Woman caught having sex in park, charged with adultery - in New York Arizona immigration law will boost crime in U.S. cities, police chiefs say Watch: LAPD caught kicking cyclist at anti-BP protes Ground Zero Crowd Menaces African Men Egyptian Christians are mistaken for Muslims by protesters against a proposed Islamic center. Police charged in Katrina shooting One officer charged with murder, 4 others in burning body, making false reports. US jail population declines for first time Accused of War Crimes; Living With Perks Defendants before the International Criminal Court are confined in what is mocked as the Hague Hilton, with private cells, above, with a gym, a trainer, a spiritual room and a common kitchen. Lawyer: As many as 20 women claim sex assault at KBR Cop Accused Of DUI In Fatal Crash WALKS Five New Orleans Police Officers Indicted In Post-Katrina Shooting, Burning Death Civil Rights Wale—Rhymes With Gay Is hip-hop finally being held accountable for its homophobia? Black Town In White County Ignored After Tornadoes Hit Report: Hispanics abandon Arizona Anecdotal evidence shows mass flight weeks before controversial law enacted. 48 States Say Funeral Protests Should NOT Be Covered By Free Speech American Apparel Only Wants Black Employees With 'Nice' Hair? Company memos outline hiring do's and don'ts based on race, weight, hairstyles, clothing and more.
Gay
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benefits US 'sorry' after man beaten to death in Border Patrol custody Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Fight Encounters Heavy Military Resistance Arizona police officer challenges migrant law Anglican Communion cuts US Episcopalians from ecumenical bodies for electing lesbian bishop |
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First human 'infected with computer virus' Retina Created from Human Embryonic Stem Cells Physicists solve mystery of missing neutrinosSleek competitor: UNH engineering students build 500mpg vehicle for contest Nasa scientists discover evidence 'that alien life exists on Saturn's moon' |
FBI records indicate N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms was a 'contact' Newly released FBI files say North
Carolina's former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms was a "contact" for the
FBI, willing to offer to the law enforcement agency the facilities
of TV station WRAL, where he was a broadcast executive until the
early 1970s. Helms, a five-term U.S. senator and one of the iconic
figures of American conservatism, died on July 4, 2008.
» read more Kissinger Blocked Demarche on International Assassinations to Condor States Rescinded Orders to Warn Military Regimes Days before Letelier Bombing in Washington, D.C. |
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Nevada Senate Candidate Accused Of Violating Campaign Finance Laws James O'Keefe On Landrieu Office Break-In: 'I'd Do It Again' No to NWO Video of anti-Bilderberg protests in Spain as group set to meet Treasury/Federal
Reserve/Bailouts/SEC/IRS
Moody's Calls B.S. On Obama, Dems' Claims: 'Too Big To Fail' Lives
On
Goldman
Sachs subpoenaed for failing to cooperate with probe Fed Chief Supports Restricting Banks' Derivatives Bets, Goes FURTHER Than Obama |
GOP Senate Candidate Campaigned On Active Military Duty, Punishable
By Jail And Discharge Defense Spending Republican On Obama Deficit Commission Calls For Pentagon Audit Senate backs $60b more for war, aid -- for just four months Stimulus Stimulus-Critic Rick Perry Only Able To Balance His State’s Budget Because Of Stimulus |
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Senate Feingold amendment requesting a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan voted down 18-80. Senate weakens bid to tax Wall Street like rest of us Sanders calls for repeal of tax breaks for oil, gas industry |
House Dems attack Net Neutrality 74 Democrats signed a joint letter to the FCC supporting internet throttling by Verizon, ATT and Comcast. Throttling lets carriers slow or block internet traffic. This is a clear attack on net neutrality. |
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Obama White House: No 'improper conduct' on Sestak Former President Bill Clinton was enlisted by the White House to speak with a Pennsylvania lawmaker about dropping his primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter in exchange for a job, NBC News reported Friday. National soda tax, regulation not part of Obama obesity planOBAMA BACKS VATICAN IMMUNITY Neocons still influential under Obama: stud Obama's hard line against leaks Obama administration even harsher on leakers than its predecessors: NY Times. DOJ Justice Department Investigating Apple's Online Music Tactics Republicans Push Again For DOJ Investigation Of White House Deals |
GITMO/Bahgram/CIA-Blacksites Is The Army Forcing Out a Gitmo Whistleblower?
Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld exposed the injustices of the military
commissions at Guantanamo. Now his career is on the line.
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The Next Big Short: For-Profit Colleges No 'free' market access: India to US Hedge Fund Sues Goldman Sachs For More Than $1 BILLION Over 'Sh--ty Deal' US recovery in slow lane; trade gap widens, jobless claims uAs growth in U.S. slows, Wal-Mart puts more emphasis on foreign stores
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US added 55k new jobs in
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FDIC closes 3 banks tonight - so far. Geithner Says China Yuan Policy Is `Impediment' to Global Economic Growth Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said China’s exchange-rate policy prevents a balanced global recovery and urged a stronger yuan to help contain inflation in the world’s third-largest economy. Don't Buy in Bulk! Busting Down the Myths of Bargain Shopping and Coupon Clipping |
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US withdrawal from Iraq 'on track' 50,000 US troops will remain after August 31 deadline, command claims. US gives up millions in Iraq Planned withdrawl leads to 'fire sale' at former US bases |
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Secret U.S. Overture to Iran in 1999 Broke Down Over Terrorism
Allegations Tensions in Iran regime Guardian Films: Former elite officers in Revolutionary Guard reveal increasing tensions in Iran regime UN slaps fourth set of sanctions on Iran Iran Red Crescent to send two aid ships to Gaza Russia, Turkey and Iran Meet, Posing Test for U.S. Diplomacy
U.S. Tracks Iranian Shipper The U.S. and its allies are closely tracking Iran's largest
shipping company in an effort to cut into Iran's ability to
procure and transport illicit goods.
Contraband trade in Iran worth $19 billion: report Former Iranian Official Fears His Fate In Iran, Moves To U.S Hossein Mousavian, a member of Iran's nuclear negotiating team during the administration of president Khatami, has decided to move to the U.S., where he has been living for the past few months. IsraelObama pledges $400 mln to Gaza Says situation in Gaza in 'unsustainable,' pushes for peace talks. Saudis clear Israel to bomb Iran Saudi Arabia: We will NOT give Israel air corridor for Iran strike Poland arrests alleged Mossad agent Polish authorities have arrested an alleged Mossad spy from Israel wanted in connection with the slaying of a Hamas agent in Dubai,
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Poverty 'widespread' in E Jerusalem rights group says most Palestinian children in east of city living in poverty. Israeli settler 'kills Palestinian' Israeli nuclear subs 'to set sail for Iran' Israel Rejects NPT Resolution Israel says NPT resolution is "deeply flawed", top Israeli scientist says Israel should give up its nuclear ambiguity policy. NPT Signatories Call on Israel to Open Nuclear Sites The Israeli attack came two days after signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty approved a resolution backing a nuclear-free Middle East and calling on Israel to open its nuclear sites to international inspection. The measure was approved by consensus by all 189 NPT signatories, including the United States. Egypt’s ambassador to the UN, Maged Abdelaziz, hailed it as a major step forward. Syria Land Rights of Kurdish peasants removed in Syria Other Female Al-Jazeera Presenters Quit Over 'Modesty' Dress Comments 15 wounded in attack in Turkey A roadside bomb attack on a police vehicle in Istanbul lightly wounded 15 people on Tuesday, Turkish police and news reports said. The bomb went off in the Kucukcekmece district
Turkey’s Terrorist Bias. Part 1 (The State)
The Turkish state and media have different, conflicting, attitudes
towards the Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) and the Palestinian
Hamas.
Prosecution objects to the president’s amnesty The prosecution in Sana’a has objected to the president’s amnesty on four Yemeni citizens accused of supporting the Houthis and spying for Ira Lebanon Hezbollah Comes To The Defense Of Helen Thomas Egypt
Egypt Islamists
Slam
‘Irregularities’
Ahead of Vote
Egypt to strip men married to Israelis of citizenship
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TOP DEMOCRAT: 'STRANGLE' GAZA, 'THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN THE TORAH'...Schumer Says It ‘Makes Sense’ To ‘Strangle [Gaza] Economically’ Until It Votes The Way Israel Wants Gaza Blockade: When The Shoe Was On The Other Foot Thousands Register for Iranian Aid Flotilla Nearly 6,000 volunteers have already registered to take part in an Iranian aid flotilla to Gaza. Volunteers register by leaving their personal details and contact information on the website of the Society for the Defense of the Palestinian Nation (www.pngo.ir). Israel Navy reserves officers: Allow external Gaza flotilla probe Gaza Convoy Tapes Edited, Israel Acknowledges Israel's resistance to an independent, international investigation into its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship is "another proof of their guilt," Turkey's foreign minister said Sunday. Speaking on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu compared last week's the storming of the aid ship Mavi Marmara to pirate raids off Somali Turkey says Israel can't 'face the facts' on Gaza raid
Dem lawmaker: Prosecute US members of flotilla In a conference call organized by The Israel Project, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) told reporters that activists participating in the flotilla were aiding Hamas and therefore breaking US law.
Obama:
Israeli boat
raid 'tragic' 9 Men Shot A Total Of 30 Times.. Interview: Turkish Aid Group Had Terror Ties.. IDF admits doctoring audio of flotilla raid Israel Seizes Aid Ship Trying To Break Gaza Blockade U.S. Citizen Was Among the Dead on the Gaza Flotilla The development added a new diplomatic complexity as Israel struggled to defuse rising international anger over its raid. Flotilla detainees 'assaulted in custody' Israel using 'pirated' footage to defend raid: media body U.S. Blocks Resolution Condemning Deadly Israeli Raid IDF footage of Humanitarian Aid being unloaded and moved to Gaza Strip Fmr. U.S. Ambassador Edward Peck Describes Gaza Ordeal Source: Hillary asking foreign leaders to `dial down' criticism of Israel US funds apartheid roads on West Bank IDF to intercept Gaza-headed flotilla Navy commandos will board the nine international aid ships sailing toward Gaza City if they don’t turn back, and the commandos will be armed in case terrorists are hiding aboard Israeli commando who shot six passengers in aid convoy in line for medal
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10 NATO Soldiers Die in Afghanistan Nato helicopter shot down in Helmand in Afghanistan Four killed in blasts in Afghanistan Afghanistan Now America's Longest War Ever Canada's Afghan commander removed, misconduct alleged U.S. Soldier Charged With Murder In Three Afghan Civilian Deaths Afghan Guards Suspected of Colluding With Insurgents Investigators suspect that private Afghan security firms are using U.S. funds to bribe the Taliban and fake attacks to make their services more sought after. Afghan Leader Forces Out Top 2 Security Officials President Hamid Karzai forced two of his three top security officials to resign over their failure to prevent attacks on a peace council, officials said. Gas attack sickens Afghan schoolgirls 45 sent to hospital; part of pattern of attacks against girls attending schools. |
U.S. drone crew blamed for Afghan civilian deaths Gates: public support for Afghan war is limited Taliban Reportedly Executes 7-Year-Old Afghan 'Spy' General McChrystal says Afghan insurgents trained in Iran Afghan president Karzai to open assembly on peace Thousands of police have fanned out across Kabul as the Afghanistan capital prepares for Wednesday's opening of a national assembly that President Hamid Karzai hopes will give him a mandate to pursue talks with the Taliban. He's hoping the gathering, known as a jirga, provides a psychological boost. Veil Of Secrecy Shrouding Killed CIA Officer Is Lifted Afghan president Karzai ousts 2 top pro-Western ministers Afghanistan's top intelligence chief and interior minister abruptly resigned on Sunday after President Hamid Karzai criticized the pair for failing to stop last week's attack on a nationwide peace conference as the president was addressing the gathering. » read more |
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U.N. Official Set to Ask
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Strikes Pakistan: 7 Arrested Over Links to Sect Attackers Seven men have been arrested over alleged links to the militants who attacked a minority sect in eastern Pakistan, killing 93 people, police said Sunday. Caught in the crossfire in Pakistan Years of fighting have created "human rights-free zone" in northwest, Amnesty says. Pakistan's spy agency 'working with Taliban' extremist crackdown likely in Pakistan's Punjab province Pakistan's heartland Punjab province is unlikely to undertake a sweeping operation against extremist groups, despite horrific attacks that many have blamed on the "Punjabi Taliban," analysts and officials said. Some analysts say the Punjabi groups pose the real existentialist threat to Pakistan. » read more Times Square Bombing Seen as 'CIA-Mossad' Plot to Invade Pakistan |
Pakistani Parliament Adopts Resolution Condemning Israel Over Attack
On Gaza Flotilla Pakistani Daily Rejects Pakistani Army’s Claim Of ‘‘Successful Operation’’ Against Taliban In Orakzai Agency A report in a leading Pakistani newspaper has rejected the Pakistani Army’s claim of having completed a ‘‘successful operation’’ against the Taliban in the tribal district of Orakzai Agency, saying that the militants still control more than half of the district. Spawling Karachi becomes an Islamic extremist melting pot The jihadist recruiter, seated in an office attached to a lavish mosque in an affluent residential area of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, said volunteers who came to join the fight in Afghanistan these days were modern, educated Pakistanis. » read more British man killed in mosque attack Muhammad Ashraf Bilal was among at least 90 who died in dual bomb attacks in Lahore on Friday |
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U.S. Intel Official: North Korea Is Bluffing Despite all the recent huffing and puffing from Pyongyang, U.S. officials say they’ve seen little physical evidence that North Korea might actually be preparing to go to war.
Succession May Be Behind N. Korea’s New Belligerence Experts on North Korea say that its latest act of belligerence — the sinking of a South Korean ship in March, one of the worst military provocations since the end of the Korean War in 1953 — reflects a new force at play: the efforts of the North’s leader, Kim Jong-il, to establish his 27-year-old son as a legitimate heir to carry on the family dynasty. |
Cheated on seeds and denied justice, a
Chinese farmer takes his own life Outsiders are
sometimes baffled by the emphasis Chinese
leaders put on order and harmony, and their
crushing response to any signs of unrest.
From the turmoil in a village such as Deng
Zhuang, though, it's clear that the nation
sits uneasily on deep social fault lines.
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Blast causes India train collision More than a dozen feared dead after blast hits rail line in known Maoist stronghold. Malawi Gay Couple Pardoned, Released From Jail S. Korean army general arrested for leaking secrets to DPRK: media |
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| Pope refused to defrock priest As a cardinal, future Pope Benedict XVI refused to oust convicted sex abuser. |
6 workers contaminated by French radioactive
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JP Morgan handed record UK fine UK financial services watchdog penalises firm $49m for mishandling clients' funds. |
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Liberian President’s Son Helps in NY Drug
Probe Authorities in New York say the son of Liberia’s president worked undercover with U.S. drug agents investigating a conspiracy to distribute more than $100 million in South American cocaine in Europe and Africa. Nigeria's ignored catastrophe dwarfs US oil spill 'Hundreds' killed in Darfur in May Rwanda genocide mastermind arrested in Norway In the Shadow of the Serengeti In order to make room for its thriving ecotourism industry, Tanzania is violently forcing villagers off their land. |
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Ex-defence chief
wins Colombia
vote
Uribe's anointed
successor wins
first round of
presidential
polls but fails
to avoid
run-off.
Mexican marijuana smugglers turn to ultralight aircraft
US Tip Leads Mexican
Navy to Explosives
in Capital
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Armed Mexican Pirates Terrorize Texas Lake UN publishes report on Colombia military killings
More Than 20 Bodies Found in Mexican Silver Mine Suspected drug gangs dismember Mexico prison warden Gory Mexican Drug War Tabloid 'Flying Off Newsstands' Since 1963, Alarma! has specialized in publishing graphic photos of Mexico’s dead, and, now, the drug cartels have handed the paper an unending stream of bodies |