Suicide bomber kills nine policemen in north Iraq:
A
suicide bomber killed nine Kurdish policemen in northern Iraq on
Sunday, a district official and a doctor said. The bomber detonated an
explosives-rigged vehicle near a police convoy in the town of Tuz
Khurmatu in Salaheddin province
10 killed in Iraq attacks:
At least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded in separate bombing and shooting incidents in Iraq Saturday, the police said.
'U.S. kills six people in Yemen:
"A
night drone strike targeted two cars of "al-Qaeda militants" in Wadi
Dhiqa in Mahfad, killing the six people inside them," the official
said.
Syria says rebels killed 123 people in north, majority civilians:
Syrian
state media accused insurgents on Saturday of killing 123 people, the
majority of them civilians, during a rebel offensive this week to take
the northern town of Khan al-Assad.
Syrian forces make gains in assault on rebel Homs, NGO says:
"Loyalist
forces backed by fighters from Hezbollah have advanced over the last
24 hours and now control 50 percent of Khaldiyeh," the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said.
Thousands of Syrian police who joined the rebels are on U.S. payroll: Report:
Officials
said the administration of President Barack Obama has approved tens of
millions of dollars to pay the salaries of police officers who joined
the rebels. They said the officers were working to maintain order in
rebel-controlled territory, mostly in northern Syria.
Lindsey Graham Wants War with Iran at the End of the Summer:
Sen.
Lindsey Graham told a "cheering" audience Tuesday that if the
relationship between the U.S. and Iran doesn't improve by the end of
summer, he will ask Congress to authorize going to war.
Israeli cabinet backs release of Palestinian prisoners:
The
cabinet also backed a bill requiring any peace deal with the
Palestinians to be put to a referendum. Jerusalem it would be put to a
popular vote.
Israeli ambassador calls Al-Sisi a "national hero for all Jews":
The
Israeli ambassador in Cairo has told a minister in the interim
government that the people of Israel look upon General Abdul-Fattah
Al-Sisi as a "national hero". According to Israel Radio, the ambassador
said, "Al-Sisi is not a national hero for Egypt, but for all Jews in
Israel and around the globe."
Egyptian security forces kill 10 gunmen in Sinai:
Egyptian
security forces killed 10 militants and captured 20 others in an
operation in the Sinai Peninsula over the past 48 hours, state news
agency MENA reported on Sunday.
Violent clashes in east Cairo leave dozens of Morsi supporters dead:
Muslim
Brotherhood claims 200 killed in overnight violence with police near
Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque; Ministry of Health says only 65 dead arrived
at hospitals so far
Egypt: 'The injuries were very precise ... the snipers were shooting to kill':
The crush of dead and injured in the field hospitals was so intense that exhausted doctors struggled to cope
Two killed in Egypt clashes overnight: security source:
The
deaths came in two separate incidents, one in the Suez Canal city of
Port Said, and the other in the town of Kafr el-Zayat in northern
Egypt.
Libya closes Egypt border for security reasons:
The
decision came following the assassination of well-known politician
Abdelsalam al-Mosmary as well as three others in Benghazi to prevent
the perpetrators from fleeing through the borders.
Thirty-one boat migrants drown off Libya: -
Thirty-one
migrants, including nine women, drowned off the coast of Libya during
an attempted crossing to Italy according to survivors who managed to
complete the journey, Italian media reported Sunday.
Raped, plundered, ignored: central Africa state where only killers thrive:
The
Central African Republic is all but lawless, with just 200 police to
guard 4.6m people from rebel gangs who attack women, kill men and
recruit children at will.
Shias lose over half of seats in Kuwait polls:
Kuwait's
Shia minority has lost more than half of their seats while the
country's liberals and Islamists improved their previous score in the
country's parliamentary polls.
Fox News Anchor Dumbfounded That A Scholar, Who Is Muslim, Had The Audacity To Write A Book About Jesus: Video -
Host
Lauren Green launched into an Islamophobic attack on Aslan's
credentials and expressed incredulity that he, a self-professed Muslim,
would be able to write about Christianity in a fair and honest way.
45 Taliban killed in Afghanistan:
As many as 45 Taliban militants were killed in an air-strike in Afghanistan's Helmand province, authorities said Saturday.
Peru protesters clash with police:
Clashes
broke out on Saturday when thousands of people tried to march towards
the Congress building. They were met by about 500 riot police and
hundreds of plainclothes officers who blocked their way. Riot police
fired tear gas and water cannon to drive back demonstrators.
Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have 'Powerful and Invasive' Search Tool:
"The
NSA has trillions of telephone calls and emails in their databases
that they've collected over the last several years," Greenwald told ABC
News' George Stephanopoulos.
US spy agencies eavesdrop on Kiwi:
The
New Zealand military received help from US spy agencies to monitor the
phone calls of Kiwi journalist Jon Stephenson and his associates while
he was in Afghanistan reporting on the war.
"There
is more support for the government's data-collection program among
Democrats (57% approve) than among Republicans (44%)":
50%
approve of the government's collection of telephone and internet data
as part of anti-terrorism efforts, while 44% disapprove. These views
are little changed from a month ago, when 48% approved and 47%
disapproved.
Protesters in 40 cities take part in Bradley Manning 'International Day of Action':
As
a US military judge decides the fate of former army intelligence
analyst Bradley Manning, activists in dozens of cities across the world
are calling for the Convening Authority on the case to free the
whistleblower.
California prisons, hunger-strike backers clash over inmate death:
Supporters
of California prison inmates staging a prolonged hunger strike said on
Saturday that one of the prisoners who had been refusing meals has
died, but state corrections officials said the death was under
investigation as a suicide.
North Carolina Eugenics: Sterilization Program Victims Offered Funds:
The
barbaric neutering sounds like something from a dystopian fiction. But
it is very much a reality, a shameful era in American history that
finally ended less than 40 years ago.
The Chilling Effects of License-Plate Location Tracking:
This
type of widespread tracking endangers our rights of protest and
association and has the potential to reach deep into our lives and
alter our daily decision making.
FBI admits to flying drones over US without warrants:
The
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has used drones for
domestic surveillance purposes in the United States at least ten times
without obtaining warrants.
US approves drones for civilian use:
The
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued certificates for two
types of unmanned aircraft for civilian use. The move is expected to
lead to the first approved commercial drone operation later this
summer.
Halliburton to plead guilty to destroying Gulf evidence:
"A
Halliburton subsidiary has agreed to plead guilty to one misdemeanour
violation associated with the deletion of records created after the
Macondo well incident, to pay the statutory maximum fine of $200,000
and to accept a term of three years probation," the company said in a
statement
