17 people killed as car bombs hit Homs and Hama, fighting rages near Yabroud:,
Car
bombs in government-held districts of central Syria killed at least 17
people and wounded many others Thursday, state media and a government
official reported, as fierce fighting raged around the rebel stronghold
of Yabroud.
15 killed in Syria blast: Activists say:
"At
least 15 people were killed and 12 others injured in the Armenian
district, which is home to mostly Christians and Alawites," said Rami
Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Scores of Militants Killed in Daraa: Government source: -
Syrian
army units destroyed several cars with all the militants inside in the
village of al-Zabayer in al-Lajat area in Daraa province, a military
source said, adding that another unit destroyed a heavy machinegun,
killed dozens of militants and injured others in Ayd village.
Battle for Syrian rebel town erases border:
Sunnis
and Shiites from Lebanon are streaming into Syria to take up arms on
opposite sides of a fierce battle over a rebel stronghold - a fight
that has effectively erased the border between the two countries and
underlined how Lebanon is being sucked into the civil war next door.
Bleak future for Lebanon as Syria war enters fourth year:
The
future outlook for Lebanon is gloomy in terms of its stability, economy
and national unity as the war in Syria enters its fourth year next
week with no end in sight, political analysts said.
Sarin used in two Syria chemical attacks point to military stockpiles - UN:
"The
evidence available concerning the agents used on 21 August indicated
that the perpetrators likely had access to the chemical weapons
stockpile of the Syrian military, as well as the expertise and
equipment necessary to manipulate safely large amount of chemical
agents,"
US imposes restrictions on travel by Syrian ambassador to UN:
The
department says it's told the diplomat that he no longer can travel
within the United States outside of the five boroughs of New York City.
Bush- Blair Legacy Continues As -
Separate Bombings in Iraq Kill at Least 37:
A series
of bombings Thursday struck commercial areas in central Iraq, killing
at least 37 civilians, authorities said. Most of the blasts came from
explosives-rigged parked cars and one by a bomb that ripped through an
outdoor market, police said.
Qaeda in Yemen executes alleged US informer Body displayed at football stadium:
Al-Qaeda
militants in Yemen executed one of their own Thursday after accusing
him of spying for the United States, a security official said. The man
was executed by firing squad and his body was displayed at a football
stadium near Shehr in the southeastern Hadramawt province,
After Latest Incident, Israel's Future in FIFA Is Uncertain:
Jawhar
Nasser Jawhar, and Adam Abd al-Raouf Halabiya. They were once soccer
players in the West Bank. They are never going to play sports again.
Jawhar and Adam were on their way home from a training session in the
Faisal al-Husseini Stadium on January 31 when Israeli forces fired upon
them as they approached a checkpoint.
20 "insurgents" killed in Nigerian military raid:
Twenty suspected Boko Haram fighters were killed in a
military operation by troops in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno,
where the headquarters of the outlawed sect is located, local
authorities said in Abuja on Thursday.
'Cairo to strip thousands of Palestinians of citizenship':
Two
days after a Cairo court banned Hamas's activities in Egypt, the
country's security establishment intends to revoke the citizenship of
thousands of Palestinians obtained during the one-year term of deposed
Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi, an Egyptian daily reported
on Thursday.
Egypt bars Gaza-bound Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Maguire: -
Egypt
detained and deported Northern Irish Nobel Laureate and peace activist
Mairead Maguire on Wednesday and held up others who had been planning
to go to neighboring Gaza, the activists and officials said.
Egypt calls for setting up international fund to collect arms in Libya:
Egypt's
Foreign Minister called on Thursday for founding an international fund
to collect arms in Libya in coordination with both Libya and the United
Nations. Seven Coptic Egyptians were shot dead in Libya in February
near Benghazi, where assassinations and kidnaps are common.
Western countries alarmed as Libya slides towards chaos:
Western
countries voiced concern on Thursday that tensions in Libya could slip
out of control in the absence of a functioning political system, and
they urged the government and rival factions to start talking.
U.N. says west of Central African Republic 'cleansed' of Muslims:
Most
Muslims have been expelled from the west of conflict-ravaged Central
African Republic, where thousands of civilians are at risk of being
killed "right before our eyes," U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
Antonio Guterres said on Thursday.
UN chief calls for more troops in CAR:
Ban Ki-moon asks UN Security Council for 10,000 reinforcements as violence between Christians and Muslims continues.
Nigeria shuts schools to stem Islamist attacks:
Nigeria
has shut five government colleges in the country's restive northeast in
the wake of a deadly series of attacks targeting schools.
Barbaric:
Nigeria court orders men whipped for gay sex:
Four
young men were convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment
in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, a human rights activist said.
NATO airstrike kills 5 Afghan soldiers:
The
troops were killed at an outpost in volatile Logar province, about 50
miles outside Kabul, according to both U.S. and Afghan officials.
Report finds opium production trebled in a decade:
Overall opium production in Afghanistan has trebled in the last decade to over 500,000 acres.
Afghan president's brother withdraws from election race:
Qayoum Karzai ends campaign and throws political weight behind candidate believed to be current president's favourite
Pakistan reopens Afghan supply line for NATO:
Trucks are travelling once again through Pakistan to bring supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan
Pakistan's madrassas reined in by government:
Religious schools to be brought under national framework within a year in policy aimed at combating extremism.
Two dead in Venezuela opposition protest: official: -
A
Venezuelan soldier and a motor cyclist were killed in a standoff with
opposition demonstrators who had set up a barricade along an avenue of
Caracas, the vice president of the ruling Socialist Party said on
Thursday.
Crimean parliament votes to join Russia:
Obama says Crimea referendum would 'violate international law:
Masked Men in Crimea Not Russian Military, Russian Officials Tell Pentagon:
The
masked men in military uniform spotted all over Ukraine's Crimean
peninsula are not Russian military forces but "well-trained militia
forces," Russian officials have claimed to America's top military
officer.
'We Don't Want War Here': Pro-Russia Militias Patrol Crimea:
Pro-Russia
militias have taken root on the streets of Crimea's capital city of
Simferopol since the dramatic events in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital,
nearly two weeks ago.
Obama orders sanctions over Russian move in Ukraine:
President
Barack Obama Thursday ordered sanctions on people (allegedly)
responsible for Russia's "military intervention" in Ukraine, including
travel bans and freezing of their U.S. assets, and said that a
referendum by the Crimea region to join Russia would violate
international law.
US sends six fighters for NATO Baltics patrols: Lithuania:
The
United States on Thursday sent six additional F-15 fighter jets to step
up NATO's air patrols over the Baltic states, mission host Lithuania
said as West-Russia tensions simmered over Ukraine.
US in tenuous sabre rattling over Ukraine:
The US Defense Department has announced plans to add several fighter jets to US aircraft squadrons based near Russian borders
The clash in Crimea is the fruit of western expansion:
The external struggle to dominate Ukraine has put fascists in power and brought the country to the brink of conflict
Russia moves to cement renewed global role:
For
Washington, the response to "Russian resistance" in Syria should take
place in one of Moscow's vulnerable spots, hence the U.S. intelligence
intervention in Ukraine's crisis and American attempts to push the
international community to take a stance against Russia under the
pretext that it is planning to invade a neighboring country.
Ukraine issues arrest warrants for Crimea's PM, parliament speaker: -
A
court in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev has issued arrest warrants for
the prime minister and parliament speaker of the country's autonomous
republic of Crimea, the Prosecutor General's office said Wednesday.
Russia to make citizenship easier for native Russian speakers: -
Russia
is making it easier for native Russian speakers who have lived in
Russia or the former Soviet Union to get citizenship, Prime Minister
Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday, a signal to the West that Moscow is
not backing down over Ukraine.
Ukraine: EU freezes assets of Yanukovych's former hierarchy:
The
28-nation bloc early on Thursday revealed the names of those targeted
by its sanctions. The list appears to include Yanukovych's closest
aides, including a former interior minister, justice minister, the
prosecutor general, the head of the security services and Yanukovych's
son.
Ukraine crisis: bugged call reveals "theory"
Estonian
foreign minister Urmas Paet tells EU's Cathy Ashton about claim that
provocateurs were behind Maidan killings about Kiev snipers:
Ukraine crisis: CIA, not Pentagon, forecast Russian move - sources:
Two
national security sources said the CIA had specifically warned
policymakers, shortly before the Russian military moved into the
Crimean peninsula, that such a move could be imminent.
War criminal:
Hillary Clinton likens Russia, Putin in Ukraine to Hitler, Germany in 1930s:
The ex-US
Secretary of State says that 'claims by [Russian President Vladimir]
Putin that they had to go into Crimea, because they had to protect
Russian minorities, is reminiscent of claims that were made back in the
1930's ... Germany, under the Nazis claimed they had to protect German
minorities in Czechoslovakia
Ron Paul: US has no right to lecture on Ukraine : Video:
Ron
Paul thinks the US is hypocritical for lecturing Russia for a
violation of sovereignty. Take a listen to what else the
libertarian-leaning politician has to say about US involvement in
Ukraine.
Pensions in Ukraine to be halved - sequestration draft:
The
self-proclaimed government in Kiev is reportedly planning to cut
pensions by 50 percent as part of unprecedented austerity measures to
save Ukraine from default. With an "empty treasury", reduction of
payments might take place in March.
CIA Accused Of Spying On Senate Intelligence Committee Staffers:
In many
ways, the idea that the CIA is directly spying on the Senate Committee
charged with its own oversight is a bigger potential scandal than many
of the Snowden NSA revelations so far.
A New Turn in the Story on CIA Monitoring of Senate Intelligence Committee Computers:
The
CIA may have been monitoring the unauthorized retrieval of information
from their own computers! That said, we do not know when exactly the
monitoring began, its scope or purpose.
Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, senator claims:
White
House declines to comment after Mark Udall says agency spied on
staffers preparing scathing report into CIA torture after 9/11
It's WWIII between CIA and Senate:
Senators
on Wednesday expressed alarm at explosive allegations that the CIA
might have spied on their computers to keep tabs on their controversial
review of Bush-era "enhanced interrogation" techniques.
Government moves to drop troubling charges facing Barrett Brown :
The
government moved to dismiss 11 of the 17 charges facing Brown - the
Texas-based onetime self-appointed Anonymous spokesman - significantly
reducing a potential 105-year-sentence.
Our Rights Shouldn't Come with an Expiration Date:
The
proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger is all about the future of
the Internet. The stakes are high, especially in light of the court
decision that struck down the Federal Communications Commission's Net
Neutrality rules.
Private license plate scanners amassing vast databases open to highest bidders:
Automated
license plate readers used by car repo companies, for example, collect
billions of personal records per year, which contribute to vast
databases that can be used by law enforcement, insurance companies,
banks, and the like, with few limits.
Apple sent billions offshore to avoid Australia tax: Report:
Apple
shifted billions in untaxed profits from its Australian operations to
Ireland over the past decade, a report said Thursday, as the government
vowed to stop global companies from dodging their fair share of tax.
Obama administration told to stop expanding "corporate rights" in trade agreements:
It's
a pretty outrageous assault on democratic structures. In fact, when I
tell people new to the trade debate about it, at first they often don't
believe me.
US judge rejects $9bn ruling against Chevron:
A
US judge has upheld oil company Chevron's allegations that an
Ecuadorian court decision ordering it to pay $9.5bn for oil pollution
in the Amazon jungle was fraudulently obtained.
Carlyle Co-founders Private Jets:
Amendments to The Carlyle Group's 2013 10-k reveal three leases for private planes, one for each Carlyle co-founder.
Number of US long-term jobless who lost benefits hits 2 million:
Some
1.3 million people lost their unemployment benefits on December 28,
and the ranks of those affected by the cutoff have been growing by
73,000 every week.
Would my blood test still cost $1,132 if the US had a public health option?:
Democrats should admit Obamacare's failures and campaign instead for a public option. It's the only way to bring costs down
Pentagon Calls Climate Change Impacts "Threat Multipliers," Could Enable Terrorism:
The U.S. Department of Defense released the 2014 version of its Quadrennial Defense Review
(QDR) yesterday, declaring the threat of climate change impacts a very
serious national security vulnerability that, among other things,
could enable further terrorist activity.
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