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Sources: Obama Administration to Support Anti-Israel Resolution at UN Next Week
Post Date: 2010-06-11 12:28:55 by Badeye
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Sources: Obama Administration to Support Anti-Israel Resolution at UN Next Week BY William Kristol June 11, 2010 10:41 AM ShareThis THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that senior Obama administration officials have been telling foreign governments that the administration intends to support an effort next week at the United Nations to set up an independent commission, under UN auspices, to investigate Israel's behavior in the Gaza flotilla incident. The White House has apparently shrugged off concerns from elsewhere in the U.S. government that a) this is an extraordinary singling out of Israel, since all kinds of much worse incidents happen around the world without spurring UN ...
Afghan Taliban Hang 7-Year-Old Boy to Punish Family
Post Date: 2010-06-11 11:38:03 by Badeye
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Afghan Taliban Hang 7-Year-Old Boy to Punish Family Published June 11, 2010 | Times of London Print Email Share Comments (118) Text Size A 7-year-old boy was murdered by the Taliban in an apparent act of retribution this week. Afghan officials said that the child was accused of spying for U.S. and NATO forces and hanged from a tree in southern Afghanistan. Daoud Ahmadi, the spokesman for the provincial governor of Helmand, said that the killing happened days after the boy's grandfather, Abdul Woodod Alokozai, spoke out against militants in their home village. Ahmadi said: "His grandfather is a tribal elder in the village and the village is under the control of the Taliban. His ...
U.S. Sources: Turkey Vote Against Iran Sanctions - A Slap In The Face
Post Date: 2010-06-10 20:05:53 by Brian S
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Sources close to the American administration told Haaretz on Thursday that the U.S. viewed Turkey's vote against United Nations Iran sanctions as a slap in the face, in light of the efforts put forth by U.S. President Barack Obama's administration to enlist global support for the sanctions. Israel and the United States on Wednesday hailed a UN Security Council vote to impose a fourth round of sanctions on a defiant Iran, which immediately vowed to continue with its nuclear program. Turkey and Brazil were the only votes against the sanctions, while Lebanon abstained. The 15-nation council passed a resolution that was the product of five months of talks between the United States, ...
Russia Threatens Payback If Iran Sanctions Affect Its Interests
Post Date: 2010-06-10 17:10:27 by Brian S
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The Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Wednesday of retaliatory measures if new sanctions against Iran affected Russian companies or individuals. The United Nations Security Council approved on Wednesday a new package of economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. "We cannot possibly ignore signals reaching us about the intention of some of our partners...to start considering additional, tougher restrictive measures against Iran than those provided for under the UN Security Council resolution," the ministry said in a statement. The ministry said it was especially concerned by the prospect of "extraterritorial sanctions" - sanctions imposed on companies ...
16-Year-Old California Girl Sailing Solo Is Missing In Indian Ocean
Post Date: 2010-06-10 17:06:05 by Brian S
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Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A 16-year-old California girl who is attempting to sail solo around the world triggered a distress signal during rough seas in the Indian Ocean on Thursday, her family said. Abby Sunderland's family began scrambling to persuade any government with an aircraft in the area to help find the teenage sailor, family spokesman Christian Pinkston said. Sunderland's small sailboat was last located "in the middle of nowhere," about 2,000 miles east of Madagascar and 2,000 miles west of Australia, Pinkston said. The Australian coast guard and the Reunion Island government -- a French island that is the closest land to her last position -- are ...
Obama Less Successful Than ‘Unilateralist’ Bush Was in Pushing U.N. Security Council to Sanction Iran
Post Date: 2010-06-10 09:24:28 by Badeye
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Obama Less Successful Than ‘Unilateralist’ Bush Was in Pushing U.N. Security Council to Sanction Iran Thursday, June 10, 2010 By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration is playing down the absence of U.N. Security Council unanimity in adopting new sanctions against Iran on Wednesday, attributing three members’ refusal to back the resolution to differences over “timing and tactics.” Turkey and Brazil voted against resolution 1929, while Lebanon abstained. For all its supposed unilateralism and unpopularity at the U.N., the Bush administration was twice able to pull off what the current administration has not – ...
FBI: Mexican soldiers used rifles to chase off U.S. Border Patrol
Post Date: 2010-06-09 20:31:29 by WhiteSands
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Pointing their rifles, Mexican security forces chased away U.S. authorities investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande, the FBI and witnesses told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The killing of the Mexican by U.S. authorities — the second in less than two weeks — has exposed the distrust between the two countries that lies just below the surface, and has enraged Mexicans who see the death of the boy on Mexican soil as an act of murder. Shortly after the boy was shot, Mexican soldiers arrived at the scene and pointed their guns at the Border Patrol agents across the ...
Spectacular Moon Photo Caught Over Chile
Post Date: 2010-06-09 19:54:34 by A K A Stone
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The huge full moon setting in the high Chilean desert dominates a spectacular new photo caught in Chile just as astronomers closed up their observatory after a long, busy night.
The photo, released Monday, shows a dazzling full moon as it sets behind the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile's Atacama Desert while dawn approaches, coloring the sky with deep hues of blue and purple. The moon was last full on May 27 and appears larger than normal in the photograph, but it is actually an optical illusion.
"Contrary to what one may think, this picture is no montage," wrote officials with the European Southern Observatory (ESO), which ...
China Sends Beidou Navigation Satellite to Orbit
Post Date: 2010-06-09 19:49:22 by A K A Stone
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China launched another satellite Wednesday toward an orbit more than 22,000 miles above Earth, marking another step in building the country's own space navigation system. The Beidou satellite launched at 1553 GMT (11:53 a.m. EDT) on a Long March 3C rocket from the Xichang space center in Sichuan province in southwestern China, where it was just before midnight. Powered by three stages and two strap-on boosters, the 180-foot-tall rocket turned east from Xichang and deployed the Beidou navigation satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. Engines on the satellite will further raise its altitude in the next few weeks, ...
Short people more prone to heart disease: study
Post Date: 2010-06-09 19:45:37 by A K A Stone
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PARIS — Short people are 50 percent likelier than tall people to die prematurely of heart disease, researchers reported Wednesday in a major review of three million people. The study showed that women under 1.53 metres (5 feet) and men under 1.65m (5 ft 5 in) are significantly more prone to cardiovascular or coronary heart problems than women and men taller than 1.66 (5 ft 6 in) and 1.73 metres (5 ft 8 in), respectively. The findings, published in the European Heart Journal, suggest that short stature should be added to the list of known heart disease risk factors alongside obesity, advanced age and high cholesterol levels, the researchers said. The link between height and heart ...
Saudi Clerics Advocate Adult Breast-Feeding
Post Date: 2010-06-09 19:41:38 by A K A Stone
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(June 5) -- Women in Saudi Arabia should give their breast milk to male colleagues and acquaintances in order to avoid breaking strict Islamic law forbidding mixing between the sexes, two powerful Saudi clerics have said. They are at odds, however, over precisely how the milk should be conveyed. A fatwa issued recently about adult breast-feeding to establish "maternal relations" and preclude the possibility of sexual contact has resulted in a week's worth of newspaper headlines in Saudi Arabia. Some have found the debate so bizarre that they're calling for stricter regulations about how and when fatwas should be issued. Sheikh Al Obeikan, an adviser to the royal court ...
BP Stands For Bankruptcy Protection?
Post Date: 2010-06-09 15:47:23 by Badeye
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BP Stands For Bankruptcy Protection? By Ed Carson Wed., June 09, 2010 3:25 PM ET Tags: BP - Oil Spill - Markets - Stocks - Bankruptcy BP (BP), the one-time British Petroleum that tried to rebrand itself as “Beyond Petroleum,” is crashing today on talk that energy giant may have to seek bankruptcy protection. BP has plunged 15% — more than 50% below pre-spill levels. In an article today, Fortune quoted Matt Simmons, oil and gas industry insider: They have about a month before they declare Chapter 11. They’re going to run out of cash from lawsuits, cleanup and other expenses. One really smart thing that Obama did was about three weeks ago he forced BP CEO Tony Hayward to ...
Reuters Admits Cropping Photos of Ship Clash, Denies Political Motive
Post Date: 2010-06-09 09:56:24 by Badeye
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Reuters Admits Cropping Photos of Ship Clash, Denies Political Motive By Ed Barnes Published June 08, 2010 | FOXNews.com On the left, the uncropped photo. On the right, Reuters' released photo. (Reuters) The British-based Reuters news agency has been stung for the second time by charges that it edited politically sensitive photos in a way that casts Israel in a bad light. But this time Reuters claims it wasn’t at fault. The news agency reacted to questions raised by an American blogger who showed that Reuters' photo service edited out knives and blood traces from pictures taken aboard the activist ship Mavi Marmara during a clash with Israeli commandos last week. Nine ...
Iraqi Spokesman Hails Developing Trend of Bilateral Ties with Iran
Post Date: 2010-06-08 19:27:00 by Brian S
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran and Baghdad enjoy good bilateral relations and they are resolved to expand their relations, Iraqi Government Spokesman Ali al-Dabbaq reiterated on Tuesday. "Iraq and Iran enjoy abundant commonalities and interests and this has caused officials of the two countries to take continued steps towards consolidation of bilateral relations," Dabbaq told FNA. Noting that Tehran and Baghdad have a plenty of grounds for mutual cooperation, he said the two countries' ambassadors bear a heavy responsibility in activating the potential cooperation grounds. Dabbaq underlined that the two countries also have many intact areas for boosting their mutual trade ...
U.S. Leans Toward Selling Iraq F-16s
Post Date: 2010-06-08 19:26:24 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD, June 8 (UPI) -- As the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq moves toward its final phase and Iran remains defiant over its nuclear program, U.S. officials say the Pentagon, after many months of hesitation, is expected to sell Baghdad late-model F-16 strike aircraft. Such firepower would transform postwar Iraq's emerging armed forces, which are having to take over responsibility for security in violence-battered Iraq as the Americans pull out. It would also cause some concern in Iraq's neighbors, particularly Kuwait and Saudi Arabia whose memories of the 1990-91 Persian Gulf conflict are still bitterly sharp, and in Iran, which seeks to dominate its former enemy. U. S. Army ...
June 8, 1967: Israel Attacks USS Liberty
Post Date: 2010-06-08 17:09:11 by Brian S
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Forty-three years ago today, a U.S. Navy ship was patrolling international waters just north of the Sinai Peninsula. Tensions in the region had been brewing for decades over border conflicts; just days earlier Israel had launched a preemptive strike on Egypt, which they believed was teaming up with Syria and Jordan to plan an attack of its own. The USS Liberty was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Caught in the midst of the conflict—dubbed the Six Day War—the technical research ship was just miles away from Egypt's Gaza Strip when it was bombed with rockets and napalm from Israeli aircraft. Ensuing attempts to radio for assistance were intercepted by the Israelis; yet ...
13 NATO Troops Killed in Afghanistan Over Past 24 Hours
Post Date: 2010-06-08 15:53:31 by WhiteSands
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NATO says three more soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, just one day after 10 service members died in a string of attacks across the country. The alliance says a bomb killed two of its soldiers Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, but gave no other details. Elsewhere in the region, the British defense ministry said a British soldier was killed in a gunbattle with insurgents in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province. In Monday's violence, seven Americans, one French and two Australian soldiers were killed in separate attacks in the south and east of the country. It was the deadliest day so far this year for international forces in Afghanistan. Taliban militants have increased ...
US Backs International Role In Flotilla Probe
Post Date: 2010-06-08 14:54:09 by Brian S
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(AFP) – 15 minutes ago WASHINGTON — The United States Tuesday backed calls for an international participation in Israel's probe into its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla saying it was "essential" to ensure credibility. "We understand that the international participation in investigating these matters will be important to the credibility everybody wants to see," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said. "We recognize that international participation... would be an essential element to putting this tragedy behind us and then hopefully creating some additional trust."
Poster Comment:Likud-ican heads will explode over this one, ...
Chris Brown denied entry to Britain for tour
Post Date: 2010-06-08 14:22:52 by Biff Tannen
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LONDON (Reuters) - R&B singer Chris Brown has postponed his tour to Britain after being denied a visa to enter the country in a decision linked to his sentence for assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna 16 months ago. ADVERTISEMENT The 21-year-old, whose hits include "Run It!" and "Kiss Kiss," was sentenced in August 2009 to five years probation, ordered to perform 180 days of community service and attend domestic abuse counseling. The tour was due to have started in Glasgow, Scotland, on Wednesday, followed by gigs in Birmingham, Manchester and London on Thursday, Friday and Sunday respectively. It was postponed "due to unforeseen circumstances," according ...
Putin Backs U.N. Probe of Flotilla Raid Calling The Israeli Action "A Crude Violation Of International Law"
Post Date: 2010-06-08 13:10:59 by Brian S
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ISTANBUL—Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday his country would raise the issue of an investigation into the Israeli boarding of an aid ship off Gaza at the United Nations, calling the Israeli action "a crude violation of international law." Speaking at security summit of Eurasian leaders in Istanbul, Mr. Putin also said that U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran over its nuclear-fuel program were "practically agreed upon." Turkey was seeking to have leaders at the summit condemn Israel over the raid in a joint statement Tuesday, but with Israel attending in the form of its ambassador to Ankara and wielding a veto, that appeared unlikely. ...
Russia, Turkey and Iran Meet, Posing Test for U.S. Diplomacy
Post Date: 2010-06-08 12:19:07 by Brian S
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ISTANBUL — Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran convened at a security summit meeting in Istanbul on Tuesday in a display of regional power that appeared to be calculated to test the United States just days before a scheduled American-backed debate in the United Nations Security Council on imposing tighter sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program. In remarks at the gathering of regional leaders, the third of its kind dedicated to increasing cooperation and security in Asia, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said a nuclear agreement brokered by Turkey and Brazil last month was a one-time opportunity and other countries had called to express their support for it. “We’ve ...
Brussels, Civilized E.U. Capital, Rattled by Crime Wave
Post Date: 2010-06-08 09:51:02 by 3-Dee
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On a crisp, sunny morning last week, a man strolled into a Brussels courtroom, pulled out a gun, and shot both the judge and a court clerk in the head with a 7.65 mm pistol before fleeing. The double killing stunned the country, which prides itself on its cozy, tranquil way of life. Bewildered judges and lawyers described the incident as "disgusting", "unacceptable" and "an assassination of justice itself." Government ministers pledged to step up security around the law courts, while the Belgian media echoed the outrage. "An attack on a judge is an attack on all of us," said the daily newspaper, De Morgan. The local Brussels police arrested the ...
"Cops and Narcos" Playground Games for Mexico Kids
Post Date: 2010-06-08 09:29:08 by 3-Dee
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Children as young as 8 in poor Mexican border cities yearn to grow up to be drug lords and hitmen as the adrenalin and wealth linked to the trafficking world seeps deep into their lives. Parents in the violent cities of Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana on the U.S. border say primary school kids are captivated by the drug gangs they see on the street and TV news brandishing guns, driving flashy black SUVs and outsmarting soldiers. Rather than playing cops and robbers and admiring firemen or train drivers, children are inventing kidnapping games and forming playground gangs named after brutal drug cartels as they idolize the power of kingpins whose turf wars have killed some 23,000 people since ...
55 Bodies Found In Mexican Mine Ventilation Shaft
Post Date: 2010-06-08 09:18:25 by Murron
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55 Bodies Found In Mexican Mine Ventilation Shaft Ayinde O. Chase - AHN News Editor T axco, Mexico (AHN) - Mexican authorities found 55 bodies in a mine ventilation shaft. The mass grave was uncovered in the city of Taxco. Last week some of the first bodies in the La Concha silver mine shaft were discovered. However, yesterday's announcement of the number of bodies concluded a week of body recoveries. The bodies were all in different states of decay. The Guerrero state attorney's office has revealed that two of the remains were skeletal and only four bodies have been identified thus far. One of the identities that authorities have ascertained is that of David Bravo Mota, an ...
Deadliest NATO day in Afghanistan this year Seven Americans among 10 soldiers killed; civilian contractor also dies
Post Date: 2010-06-07 20:09:30 by WhiteSands
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Ten NATO soldiers, including seven Americans, were killed in a wave of violence in Afghanistan on Monday — the deadliest day this year for the international forces. The bloodshed came as Taliban insurgents ramp up bombings and attacks on NATO forces ahead of a major operation in the southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar that Washington hopes will turn the tide of the war. In the worst single incident Monday, five American service members were killed in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. command said. Two more U.S. soldiers were killed in separate attacks Monday — one a bombing in the south and the other by small arms fire in the south. ...
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