12 people killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan:
Militants
killed eight Afghan civilians employed at a NATO military center near
Kabul and four policemen in two incidents Thursday, authorities said.
Indian border guards kill 6 civilians in Kashmir:
At
least six civilians have been killed and several others wounded in a
raid carried out by Indian border guards against protesters in
Indian-administered Kashmir.
India: Five killed in Maoist attack in Bihar:
The
toll in the Maoist attack targeting security personnel guarding a
construction site in Aurangabad District has risen to six.
Al-Qaeda plans own state in northern Syria :
Sources
in the Free Syrian Army claim the terrorist group Al Qaeda plans to
take control over transit routes on the border with Turkey - ousting
other rebel troops from the area.
10 'militants' killed in North Sinai security crackdown:
The
Egyptian army has killed ten "Islamist militants" in North Sinai over
the last 48 hours, a security source told state news agency MENA on
Thursday.
Rights group says Egypt detainees beaten:
Amnesty International says detained supporters of deposed President Morsi have been beaten and denied access to lawyers.
Egypt's Brotherhood proposes first talks via EU envoy:
The
Muslim Brotherhood said on Thursday it had proposed through an EU
go-between a framework for talks to resolve Egypt's political crisis,
its first formal announcement of an offer for negotiations since
President Mohamed Mursi was toppled.
NEWSPEAK: U.S. suggests Egyptian military may have averted civil war:
Egypt
may have avoided a civil war this month, U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry said on Wednesday, saying this was one factor to weigh as
Washington decides whether to cut off most U.S. aid to the Arab nation.
Egyptian Coup Planned Months Ago:
Egyptian
military insiders say overthrow had been in the works for months, just
waiting for popular dissent to reach critical mass
General who toppled Morsi will hold three jobs in Egypt's new government:
The
Egyptian general who announced that President Mohammed Morsi had been
removed from office was named the country's first deputy prime minister
on Tuesday, a sign that the military, despite asserting it had no
interest in governing, intended to maintain its influence.
Egypt is still not a coup in Washington:
Washington's
hesitation to use the term has drawn accusations from the pro-Morsi
camp that the US was complicit in the coup. For the White House, it is
an on-going and agonising determination that has legal and possibly
even security implications.
The Egyptian coup is a warning to Turkey - but will Erdogan listen?: Op-Ed: :
Erdogan
strongly condemned the coup, calling it the "killer of democracy and
the future" and referring to Egypt's "so-called administration". Why
does the coup matter so much to Erdogan's AK party?
Erdogan refuses to speak to Egypt's ElBaradei:
Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to speak to Egypt's
new Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei, the latest broadside in a spat
that erupted after the military coup in the Arab world's most populous
country.
Bomb attack kills seven in Iraq tea house: police, medics:
A
bomb blast in a tea house in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed
at least seven people on Wednesday, police and medics said.
Three farmers among six killed in Iraq:
A
magnetic "sticky bomb" killed a man and his wife, both farmers, in the
Dujail area as they drove to work, while another farmer was shot dead
by gunmen near Balad, officials said.
Stray bullets from Syria kill two Turkish citizens:
One
man and a 15-year-old boy were killed when they were hit by stray
bullets from Syria in the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, Turkish
security sources and health officials said on Wednesday.
Syria: Clashes between Kurds and Islamists : Video -
Clashes
erupted between the Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG) and the
al-Qaeda-affiliated Jahbat al-Nusra, killing at least four Jabhat
al-Nusra
fighters in the city of Ras al-Ain
Jihadists expelled from flashpoint Kurdish Syrian town, NGO says:
Kurdish
fighters have expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier
town of Ras al-Ain near Turkey, a watchdog said Wednesday, adding that
only the border crossing remains under the extremists' control.
Syrian Kurds to declare autonomy from Damascus:
A
Kurdish militia in northern Syria plans to become autonomous from
Damascus in the coming days, after months of administering the border
territory without Assad forces, Turkish media reported on Wednesday.
Gen. Dempsey: US Considering Use of Force in Syria:
Army
Gen. Martin Dempsey says during congressional testimony Thursday that
he has provided President Barack Obama with options for the use of
force in Syria.
Ireland agrees to send peacekeepers to Golan: -
Ireland
is to send 114 peacekeepers to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to
help monitor a decades-old truce between Israel and Syria that has been
shaken by a spillover of violence from Syria's civil war.
Netanyahu denies agreeing to peace talks based on '67 lines:
Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu denied on Tuesday an official's remarks
that Israel had agreed to resume peace talks based on the borders of a
Palestinian state being drawn along lines from before a 1967 Middle
East war, and agreed land swaps.
Abbas to brief PLO on Kerry peace talks push:
Israel's
civil defense minister, Gilad Erdan, said a settlement freeze, which
Netanyahu partially imposed in 2009 for 10 months, was a non-starter.
US officials say there are no new plans for talks:
U.S.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said there were no plans at the
moment for an announcement on resuming peace talks between Israel and
the Palestinians.
UK: Lib Dems withdraw party whip from MP David Ward over Israel comments:
Clegg acts after Bradford East MP tweeted that Zionists were 'losing the battle' and questioned future of 'apartheid state'
China sends troops to Africa:
Three-hundred
ninety-five peacekeepers from the People's Liberation Army just
arrived in the Saharan nation of Mali as part of the UN mission to help
restore order there. Specifically, Beijing has sent engineering,
medical and "guard" teams to the Malian capital of Bamako, according to
the Chinese defense ministry.
Judge refuses to dismiss aiding the enemy charge against Bradley Manning:
"He
was knowingly providing intelligence to the enemy," said judge Colonel
Denise Lind in rejecting Manning's lawyer's motion to dismiss that
charge.
Bradley Manning: US 'aiding the enemy' charge a travesty of justice: Amnesty:
"The
charge of 'aiding the enemy' is ludicrous. What's surprising is that
the prosecutors in this case, who have a duty to act in the interest of
justice, have pushed a theory that making information available on the
internet - whether through Wikileaks, in a personal blog posting, or
on the website of The New York Times - can amount to 'aiding the
enemy',"
'Snowden won't disclose more docs, I have thousands' - Greenwald:
Edward
Snowden is unlikely to make new revelations since "he doesn't want to
end up in a cage like Bradley Manning", said The Guardian journalist
Glenn Greenwald, adding that he himself decides what to publish from
the thousands of leaked documents.
The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed:
For
a sense of scale, researchers at the University of Milan found in 2011
that everyone on the Internet was, on average, 4.74 steps away from
anyone else. The NSA explores relationships up to three of those steps.
Bush-Cheney began illegal NSA spying before 9/11, says telcom CEO:
Contradicting
a statement by ex-vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday that
warrantless domestic surveillance might have prevented 9/11, 2007 court
records indicate that the Bush-Cheney administration began such
surveillance at least 7 months prior to 9/11.
US to resume Guantanamo genital searches:
The
ruling on Wednesday granted a temporary delay in enforcing a court
order that banned the practice of full body inspections and gave the
Obama administration time to mount a full appeal.
Federal Judge Parades Her Ignorance, Approves Torture of Guantanamo Prisoners:
A U.S. District Judge not only doesn't know what torture is, she doesn't know her own history.
UK police accused of supplying target information for military 'kill list':
British
police have been accused of illegally supplying information on
potential targets for a highly controversial military "kill list" in a
legal challenge being launched at the high court on Wednesday.
Blood money: UK's £12.3bn arms sales to repressive states:
Government approves thousands of deals with states it condemns for human rights abuses
US Military Intervene over Facebook Event:
As
a joke, a German man recently invited some friends for a walk around a
top secret NSA facility. But the Facebook invitation soon had German
federal police knocking at his door. They had been alerted by the
American authorities.
Millions of US license plates tracked and stored, new ACLU report finds:
Millions
of Americans are having their movements tracked through automated
scanning of their car license plates, with the records held often
indefinitely in vast government and private databases.
Americans Finally Have Access to American Propaganda:
A law went into effect this month that ends the ban on U.S. government-made propaganda from being broadcast to Americans.
