Oct. 26, 2016- Putin reaffirms Israel-Russia ties
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Headline: Putin reaffirms Israel-Russia ties
Amid Russia’s stepped up military activity in Syria and increased tension between Moscow and Washington, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, while Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is expected to come for a visit on November 10. As has been the case in the past, the Kremlin issued a brief statement about the Netanyahu-Putin call, while the Prime Minister’s Office did not issue any kind of read-out. According to the Kremlin, Putin “cordially” congratulated Netanyahu on his birthday, and sent greetings on the occasion of Succot: “The two leaders exchanged greetings on the occasion of the 25th anniversary [October 18] of the restoration of diplomatic relations between Russia and Israel, and emphasized their interest in further developing multifaceted bilateral cooperation. They also discussed urgent international and regional issues.” This was the sixth phone call between the two leaders this year. They have also met four times in the past 16 months.
Oct. 23, 2016
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Putin-reaffirms-mutual-ties-470690
Headline: Bill would forbid Israelis from speaking at UN
Headline: NGOs want Russia out of UN rights council for Syria role
Coalition chairman MK David Bitan (Likud) is planning to promote a new bill that would forbid Israelis from appearing before international bodies with operational powers, such as the UN Security Council, Channel 2 News reported on Saturday. The proposal comes following the appearance by B’Tselem executive director Hagai El-Ad at a UN Security Council meeting on Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, in which he spoke against Israeli “occupation” in Judea and Samaria. On Friday, Bitan told Channel 2 that he was looking into the legal possibility of revoking El-ad’s citizenship due to his defaming of Israel before the UN Security Council. According to Saturday’s report, Bitan discovered that legally it would not be possible to revoke El-ad’s citizenship, and he therefore decided on a new course of action in the form of promoting legislation against anti-Israel speeches like the one given by El-ad.
***see also World on Syria below
Oct. 24, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/219274
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1001926/middle-east#
Headline: Palestinian Authority issues UNESCO ultimatum
Headline: Hamas: PA doesn’t represent the Palestinian people
Headline: Analysis: Israel likely to lose big in Wednesday’s UNESCO vote
The Palestinian Authority sent a letter Monday night to 21 member nations of the United Nation’s World Heritage Committee and who are set to vote Wednesday on another UNESCO decision regarding Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall. In their letter, the PA abstained from describing Israel as an “occupying power,” presumably to soften their anti-Israel stance. While the Palestinian Authority is not a voting member of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, Jordan has lent its backing to the PA. In the new resolution, the name “Western Wall” which was in quotes, is now written without quotes. However, the Temple Mount is still referred to as “Al-Aqsa Haram e-Sharif” and is still recognized as an exclusively Muslim site, with no mention of the Temple Mount or its significance for Jews anywhere in the document. However, after several countries announced they would not vote for the “Palestinian cause” this time, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan have begun to threaten the voting countries.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/219322
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/219312
Headline: First time in 1,000 years: Yom Kippur service on Temple Mount
Only once in the last thousand years (since the second Muslim conquest of the Holy Land – the first was in the 7th century after the rise of Islam) has a Yom Kippur service been carried out on the Temple Mount. Kept secret for nearly 50 years, the prayer leader at the time recently told the story to correspondent Haggai Huberman. The service was complete with prostrations as in Temple times, though without sacrificial and incense offerings. The main participant was none other than Rabbi Menachem HaCohen (the name Cohen means priest and almost always denotes someone descended from Moses’ brother Aaron, the first Priest), who served in the past as Labor Party Knesset Member, Rabbi of the national Histadrut Labor Organization, and top aide to IDF Chief Rabbi Maj.-Gen. Shlomo Goren. In the famous photo of Rabbi Goren blowing the shofar atop the Mount upon its 1967 liberation by Israeli forces, Rabbi HaCohen can be seen at his side. After the Six Day War, a sharp dispute arose between Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, who “returned the Temple Mount keys” to the Waqf, and Rabbi Goren, who felt that Jews must be allowed to pray at their most sacred site and wanted to build a synagogue there. After Rabbi Goren held a Tisha B’Av prayer service atop the Mount just six weeks after the Six Day War, Dayan forbade him by military order to pray there again.
Oct. 23, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/219289
Lebanon
Headline: Door to Lebanese presidency ‘wide open’, will vote for Aoun: Hezbollah
Headline: With President Aoun, Iran replaces Syria in Lebanon
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said on Sunday the door to electing a president was “wide open” and his members of parliament would vote for ally Michel Aoun at a parliamentary session at the end of October. Lebanon has been without a president for more than two years, part of a political crisis that has resulted in a breakdown in many basic services and concerns about the country’s stability. Lebanon’s former prime minister Saad al-Hariri said on Thursday he would back Christian leader Aoun to be president. Hariri stressed that his endorsement was a “political settlement” for the benefit of the whole country. “The past few days saw an important development: a declaration by the Future Movement leader (Hariri) of his support for the nomination of General Michel Aoun for the presidency. The door is now realistically wide open for a successful presidential election,” Nasrallah said. Parliament will convene on Oct. 31 for a session to elect the president, the 46th such sitting since the term of the last president, Michel Suleiman, expired in 2014. Each of the previous sittings failed to gain the two-thirds quorum needed for a vote. The position of president must be filled by a Maronite Christian.
Oct. 25, 2016
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hezbollah-mps-vote-aoun-lebanon-president-nasrallah-150429972.html
Saudi Arabia
Headline: In apparent rift with Ramallah, Saudi Arabia halts PA funding
Without providing prior warning or an explanation to Ramallah, Saudi Arabia has been holding back financial aid earmarked for the Palestinian Authority for over six months, senior PA officials say. Saudi Arabia had been paying $20 million a month to the PA as aid to the cash-strapped Palestinian government in the West Bank when it suddenly shut the tap. While there has been no official announcement from either Riyadh or Ramallah, The Times of Israel has learned that the payments stopped over half a year ago with no clear reason given for the cessation. Palestinian sources said that several emissaries from the Palestinian Authority have attempted to find out the reasons for the funding freeze but were not given full answers by the Saudi government. The Palestinian Authority is working on the assumption that the freeze is due to an across-the-board cut in Saudi Arabia’s funding of foreign countries based on its own budgetary strains, but some sources assess that Riyadh may be unhappy with PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://www.timesofisrael.com/signaling-riyadh-ramallah-rift-saudi-arabia-cuts-pa-funding/
Egypt
Headline: Egypt’s security chief warns of scheme to incite chaos
Headline: Egypt rules out Assad visit to Cairo: report
Egypt’s interior minister warned in comments published on Monday that the country faced “unprecedented challenges” that required a “decisive” response by security forces, accusing the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood of scheming to incite chaos. The minister’s comments, which came in an interior ministry statement published in state-owned newspapers, was the latest sign of alarm by President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi’s government over possible unrest as result of worsening economic conditions. In Monday’s statement, Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar, who is in charge of the police, said the Brotherhood was seeking through “conspiratorial schemes to incite chaos and confusion with the aim of creating skepticism over the ability of the state and its institutions to satisfy popular expectations”. “The security forces will not, under any circumstances, tolerate any attempt to repeat the scenes of chaos and sabotage at a time when the country is moving forward with firm steps toward a promising future, God willing,” said the minister.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://jordantimes.com/news/region/egypt%E2%80%99s-security-chief-warns-scheme-incite-chaos
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567454-egypt-rules-out-assad-visit-to-cairo-report
Headline: NGOs want Russia out of UN rights council for Syria role
More than 80 human rights and aid organizations on Monday urged UN member states to drop Russia from the Human Rights Council over its military campaign in Syria. Human Rights Watch, CARE International and Refugees International were among the signatories of the appeal launched ahead of elections to fill 14 seats at the 47-nation council on Friday. Russia, Hungary and Croatia will be running for two seats representing the Eastern European group at the council, which is tasked with addressing rights violations worldwide. The organizations urged UN member states to “question seriously whether Russia’s role in Syria — which includes supporting and undertaking military actions which have routinely targeted civilians and civilian objects — renders it fit to serve on the UN’s premier inter-governmental human rights institution.”
***see also Israel above
Oct. 25, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1001926/middle-east#
Headline: ISIS unleashes ‘heavy resistance’ outside Mosul, Pentagon reports
Headline: Turkey moves to join fight for Mosul, sparking threat of ‘regional war’ from Iraq
Headline: Battle for Mosul: ISIS mines bridges over Tigris
The United Nations said Friday it is “gravely worried” that ISIS has taken 550 families from villages around Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and is using them as “human shields” as Iraqi and Kurdish forces battle the terror group for control of the city. Two hundred families from Samalia village and 350 families from Najafia were forced out Monday and taken to Mosul in what appears to be “an apparent policy by ISIS to prevent civilians escaping,” Ravina Shamdasani, deputy spokeswoman for the UN Human Rights Office, told CNN. Meanwhile, ISIS militants attacked security buildings in Kirkuk, 175 kilometers (109 miles) southeast of Mosul. Iraqi security forces have defeated the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in the northern city of Kirkuk, ending a three-day assault and killing at least 74 jihadis, the provincial governor said Monday. “The attack is over and life has returned to normal,” Najm al-Din Karim, the governor of Kirkuk province, told AFP news agency. “The security forces have killed more than 74 Daesh terrorists and detained several others, including their leader,” he added, using the Arabic acronym for the group, as Iraqi and Kurdish forces continued their assault on ISIS forces with the aim of recapturing Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city. The attack in Kirkuk, an oil-rich city located 100 miles southeast of Mosul, was initiated Friday by sleeper cells who joined forces with infiltrating ISIS fighters.
Oct. 25, 2016
Headline: Fiercely resistant ISIS seizes two Iraqi cities
Headline: Ar-Rutbah cleared of ISIS despite almost capturing it
Official US optimism was absent from the latest Pentagon spokesman’s evaluation of the state of the offensive to wrest Mosul from ISIS as it entered its second week. Late Monday, Oct. 24, Capt. Jeff Davis said that, while Iraqi and Kurdish forces were making “solid progress,” they are now meeting “heavy resistance,” outside Mosul and predicted that “its going to get heavier” as allied forces push into the city. Capt. Davis also admitted that the 80 or so villages and small towns retaken by Kurdish and Iraqi forces in the first week of the campaign were largely uninhabited. US soldiers were Monday ordered to use gas masks after ISIS poured oil on a sulfur mine 70km south of Mosul that continues to burn near the US and Iraqi military center at Qayyarah. One obstacle after another – often unforeseen – is slowing the coalition’s advance on Mosul – as debkafile was the first publication to reveal last week. It is becoming obvious that ISIS is following a plan to circle around Mosul in a wide radius and pouncing on important spots for diversionary attacks: Last week, they overran Kirkuk; this week, Sinjar and Rutba. The capture of Sinjar in northern Iraq near the Syrian border was the Islamists’ second victory against the Kurdish Peshmerga. Its fall saved ISIS’ main supply route from Iraq to its Syrian stronghold in Raqqa from being cut off. For the Kurdish Peshmerga, it was disastrous.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://debka.com/article/25737/Fiercely-resistant-ISIS-seizes-two-Iraqi-cities
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/ar-rutbah-cleared-of-isis-despite-almost-capturing-it/
Headline: Syrian Kurds say Ankara attacking to prevent Raqqa recapture
Headline: Kurdish National Council condemns Turkey’s intervention in Syria
A Syrian Kurd leader in France on Tuesday accused Turkey of “massively attacking” Kurdish forces trying to recapture Raqqa, the ISIS stronghold in Syria. “With its artillery and aircraft, the Turkish army is taking advantage of the media and international community’s focus on Mosul to massively attack Syrian Kurds to stop them taking Raqqa,” Khalen Issa told a news conference in Paris. Iraq announced the launch of the operation to retake Mosul from ISIS on October 17, and has since been advancing towards the city from the south, east and north. Issa, the representative of Syrian Kurds in France, said that in their preparations to retake Raqqa, the US-backed Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) “have liberated several villages occupied by Daesh (an alternative name for ISIS) to the northeast of Aleppo.” “If Turkish artillery and aircraft are heavily bombing SDF positions in this zone and in the Afrine district it is partly to stop them (SDF) cutting Daesh supply lines to Raqqa and partly to allow Turkey to keep control of 70 kilometers (43 miles) of its border with Syria,” he said.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://aranews.net/2016/10/kurdish-national-council-condemns-turkish-bombardment-aleppo/
Turkey
Headline: Turkey threatens to launch ground operation if provoked
Headline: Explosion hits southern Turkey’s Antalya, injuries reported
The Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, stated on Tuesday afternoon that Ankara will launch a ground operation in Iraq if they perceive a threat to their national security. The Turkish Foreign Minister’s comments come on the 9th day of the Iraqi Army’s offensive to expel the Islamic State from Mosul; this assault does not include the Turkish Armed Forces. The governments in Ankara and Baghdad have been involved in a war of words these past few weeks as a result of the Turkish President’s refusal to remove his forces from northern Iraq.
Oct. 25, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkey-threatens-launch-ground-operation-provoked/
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4869840,00.html
Iran
Headline: U.S. says troubled by reports of another U.S. citizen jailed by Iran
The United States is troubled by reports that an Iranian-American man may have been sentenced by Iran to 18 years in prison, a State Department spokesman said on Tuesday, a week after an Iranian-American businessman and his father were also jailed by an Iranian court. “We are troubled by reports that Robin Reza Shahini, a person reported to be a U.S. citizen, may have been convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison,” spokesman John Kirby told a daily briefing. He called on Tehran to halt “arbitrary and politically motivated detentions.” California-based Shahini was detained while visiting his mother in Gorgan in July, according to Shahini’s friends. Last week, businessman Siamak Namazi and his 80-year-old father Baquer Namazi, a former Iranian provincial governor and former UNICEF official, were sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of cooperating with the United States. Iran does not recognize dual nationality, which prevents Western embassies from visiting such detainees. Washington secured the release of five U.S. citizens from Iran in January in a prisoner exchange and has said it raises the detention of other Americans held by Tehran during meetings with Iranian officials.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-prisoner-idUSKCN12P2UK
Ethiopia
Headline: Ethiopian unrest triggers collapse in tourism
A wave of anti-government protests and the imposition of a state of emergency has triggered a collapse in tourism bookings in Ethiopia, underlining the effect the unrest is having on one of Africa’s best-performing economies. As the demonstrations spread across the country, governments, including the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Ireland, have advised their citizens against all non-essential travel to the country or Amhara and Oromia regions at the centre of the instability. Hailemariam Desalegn, Ethiopia’s prime minister, has said the death toll from the demonstrations, which began last November and have been exacerbated by the authoritarian regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters, could be as high as 500. Thousands of people have been arrested and the government imposed a state of emergency as it grapples with the biggest threat to the Horn of Africa nation’s stability in years. The protests originally began over land disputes, but the state’s harsh response caused them to spiral into broader protests against the government.
Oct. 25, 2016
https://www.ft.com/content/f051ae48-9a9e-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae
Sudan
Headline: Japan to deploy new batch of SDF in South Sudan after adoption of controversial security laws
The Japanese government said Tuesday that it will send a new batch of Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to South Sudan in late November after extending the SDF participation in a UN peacekeeping mission by five months through March. The government said that it will decide before the troop’s departure whether to assign additional duties to them in accordance with the controversial new security laws that came into effect in March and allowed SDF personnel with more flexible use of weapons. The new tasks will probably include aiding UN personnel and others under attack by armed groups and jointly defending UN peacekeepers’ camps with troops from other nations, said local media. The security laws, steamrolled through the parliament by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition, expanded the role of the SDF overseas despite their inherent contradictions to Japan’s own pacifist Constitution. Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said that the decision will be made after “comprehensively” assessing the training results of the SDF personnel and the security situation in South Sudan.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1013582.shtml
Morocco
Headline: Morocco seeks to rejoin the African Union
King Mohammed VI of Morocco is currently touring East Africa. Officially he is looking to improve relations with the region but he has another goal: Find support for Morocco joining the African Union. With a military parade, traditional dancers and a private tour through the Ngorongoro National Park, it is clear that the Tanzanian government wanted to make Moroccan King Mohammed VI feel welcome. The king is on a three-day visit having just arrived from Rwanda. The official reason for the visit is to build political and economic relations between Morocco and East Africa. In Rwanda, the king and President Paul Kagame signed 19 bilateral agreements. Morocco has traditionally not been a very close partner to the region. But the king also has a second important item on his agenda: After more than 30 years, the country wants to rejoin the African Union (AU). This goal was revealed in a letter to the AU during the organization’s summit in July and the king has been pushing for the move ever since. But Morocco rejoining the AU is a politically sensitive issue. Mohammed’s father, Hassan II, pulled the country out of the then-called Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1984 by because of the acceptance of Western Sahara into the organization. Morocco still considers Western Sahara as it southern province.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://www.dw.com/en/morocco-seeks-to-rejoin-the-african-union/a-36151366
Armenia
Headline: Armenia calls for implementation of mega projects with Iran
Minister of Finance of Armenia Vardan Aramyan in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Yerevan called for the implementation of mega projects and boosting of trade turnover with Iran. The meeting took place on Monday in Yerevan, where the two sides highlighted the need for more economic cooperation.“Iranian investments in Armenia amount to $3 million, while Armenian investments in Iran amount to $250,000. This means that we have much to do here and drastically increase the figures considering the centuries-old trade potentials between the two countries”, the Armenpress quoted Vardan Aramyan as saying.The Armenian minister noted that trade turnover can be increased by the implementation of mega projects, which was impossible in the past due to the economic sanctions against Iran.“The economic sanctions on our neighbor impact us as well and we have always raised alarm over this to our European partners,” he said, while expressing satisfaction with the expansion of Iran’s economic relations with other countries following the nuclear deal and the removal of sanctions.
Oct. 25, 2016
Headline: Thousands of Muslims protest on ancient streets of Rome as Italy SHUTS DOWN mosques
Authorities in Rome recently closed down five makeshift mosques in the city in what Muslims see as a crackdown on their religion. Thousands attended Friday prayers this week outside the iconic Colosseum in Rome to demonstrate against the closures. The small mosques had been shut down by the authorities on fears that youngsters were becoming radicalized. During the protest prayer, worshippers knelt on mats metres away from the ancient amphitheatre. An imam led the group in chants of “Allah Akbar” while they kneeled to the ground facing the Colosseum. Many Muslims in the country believe local authorities are reacting to fear caused by recent terror attacks in Europe. Italy does not recognise Islam as an official religion. On top of this, many Muslims from North Africa and South Asia feel discriminated against on the grounds of both race and religion.
Oct. 24, 2016
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/724246/Muslims-Rome-s-Colosseum-protest-closure-Italy-mosques
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Headline: Students protest as Venezuela’s political standoff worsens
Headline: Venezuela opposition demands Vatican-led talks with Maduro be public
Masked youths burned rubbish and set up roadblocks in a volatile Venezuelan border city on Monday, witnesses said, in the latest protest over the suspension of a referendum drive to remove socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Several hundred students held demonstrations in San Cristobal, near Colombia. The city, a hotbed of anti-Maduro sentiment, was the site of the worst violence during protests two years ago that led to 43 deaths around the nation. “We want freedom!” chanted the protesters, who closed several roads under the watch of police and troops. Students held scattered protests in other places around Venezuela, including the capital Caracas, but mainstream opposition leaders were holding fire for nationwide rallies planned for Wednesday.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4869625,00.html
Headline: Attackers kill 12 in Kenyan guesthouse blast near Somali border
Attackers blew up part of a hotel in northeastern Kenya, killing at least 12 people on Tuesday, in a raid claimed by al Shabaab militants from neighbouring Somalia. The group said it had set out to kill non-Muslims in Kenya’s Mandera area – the scene of numerous assaults by the fighters seeking to overthrow Somalia’s Western-backed government and punish Kenya for sending in soldiers to oppose it. Rescuers pulled at least six survivors from the rubble and were searching for more, North Eastern Regional Commissioner Mohamoud Saleh said in a statement that did not name the attackers. Twelve people died in the attack, he said. “The Government of Kenya condemns this act of terror and condoles with families and friends of the bereaved,” he added.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4869870,00.html
Headline: UN peacekeepers kill 3 protesters in Central African Republic
Three people were killed and six wounded in Central African Republic’s capital Bangui on Monday when UN peacekeepers exchanged fire during a protest against the UN mission, the local Red Cross said. The dead and wounded were among hundreds of protesters gathered to call for the UN troops to leave the country, Antoine Mbao-Bogo, president of the CAR Red Cross, said. A Reuters witness saw protesters, carrying anti-UN posters, throwing stones and shouting at the troops who responded with warning shots. There was then an exchange of gunfire between the troops and men who were allegedly armed near the crowd.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4869626,00.html
Headline: Gunmen storm police training center in southwestern Pakistan, at least 11 wounded
Headline: Islamic State, Pakistani Taliban claim suicide assault in Quetta
Pakistani troops were conducting an anti-terror operation after gunmen stormed a police training center in the tumultuous southwestern province of Baluchistan Monday, leaving at least 11 people wounded. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Baluchistan is the scene of on an ongoing low-intensity insurgency by Baloch separatist groups, who have claimed hit-and-run attacks on security forces and government officials in the recent past. Islamic militants also have presence in the province bordering Afghanistan. In Monday night’s attack, between four and six gunmen tried to enter the hostel of a police training center in a suburban area of the provincial capital Quetta. Authorities said six trainees were wounded by gunshot and another five were injured when jumping off a roof and climbing a wall. Baluchistan police chief Ahsan Mahboob told reporters that four gunmen attacked the training center, attempting to enter a hostel housing the trainees. A gun battle erupted when the hostel guards resisted, he said, leaving six trainees wounded by gunfire. Mahboob said police and paramilitary forces surrounded the venue. A military statement put the number of attackers at up to six, and said Army and Frontier Corps troops were conducting a counter-terrorism operation at the site. The attack came hours after gunmen shot and killed two customs officers and wounded a third near the town of Surab, about 90 miles south of Quetta. No groups claimed responsibility for that attack either.
Oct. 24, 2016
Headline: ISIS terror kills 59 in Pakistan
Headline: Quetta attack survivor: ‘We were sleeping when terrorists attacked’
An ISIS terror attack on a police training college in southwestern Pakistan on Monday killed 59 people and wounded over 120 others. The attack was carried out by three ISIS terrorists. The terrorists shot students who were at the Balochistan college, and shortly afterwards two of the terrorists detonated explosive belts. The third terrorist was shot. ISIS news network Amak reported the terror attack as being ISIS handiwork. Most of those killed were trainees at the college, and others were soldiers working for the border police. Last August, ISIS attacked a hospital in the area, killing 70 people.
Oct. 25, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/219325
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/24/world/pakistan-police-academy-attack/
Headline: Russia reveals chilling first images of super-nuke ‘Satan 2’ which has ‘power to devastate area size of Texas’
Russia has revealed its biggest ever nuclear missile which is powerful enough to destroy a country as big as France with a single strike. Vladimir Putin is seeking to replace his arsenal of SS-18 Satan weapons with the new RS-28 Sarmat super-nukes. They are packed with up to 16 nuclear warheads according to pictures revealed online from the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau. The weapons – which will be ready for launch in 2018 – will make the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like “popguns”, experts have said. A message posted alongside the picture said: “In accordance with the Decree of the Russian Government ‘On the State Defense Order for 2010 and the planning period 2012-2013’, the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau was instructed to start design and development work on the Sarmat.
Oct. 24, 2016
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-reveals-chilling-first-images-9118075
Headline: Hundreds protest against UN envoy in Yemen capital
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Yemen’s rebel-held capital on Tuesday against what they described as the United Nations’ “complicity” in the country’s deadly 19-month-old war, witnesses said. The protesters gathered outside a Sanaa hotel where UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed was staying as he tried to convince the warring parties to accept a ceasefire and resume peace talks. “Leave, leave Yemen,” the demonstrators chanted, addressing the UN envoy whom they accused of “sympathising with Al-Saud”, the Saudi ruling family. Riyadh is leading a military coalition that has been battling the pro-Iran Houthi rebels since March 2015 in support of Yemen’s internationally recognised government. “The UN and the Security Council are complicit in the killing of Yemenis,” read one of the banners at the Sanaa demonstration. Some of the protesters wore shirts showing pictures of the victims of an October 8 coalition air raid on a funeral ceremony in Sanaa that killed 140 people and wounded 525. The strike prompted severe criticism of the coalition, which has logistical support from the United States.
Oct. 25, 2016
Headline: We’re building the Ark of the Covenant as a computer- VIDEO
Last month we announced our plan to resurrect the Large Pixel Collider, PC Gamer’s ludicrous computer. And a couple weeks ago we picked the parts, loading the LPC with more than 128GB RAM, 42TB of storage, world-class cooling and a pair of the fastest GPUs ever created. But the LPC needs to be more than a collection of the best gaming hardware in the world. This year we’re going all-out on making the LPC a powerful, over-the-top expression of what PC gaming can be. After considering dozens of different concepts for the LPC, we fell in love with the idea of reproducing this holy box of power. Raiders describes the Ark as “a radio for talking to god,” among other things. We’ve teamed up with two veteran case modders Lee Harrington and Ron Christianson to help us realize this possibly blasphemous vision for a computer. The features (holy smokes, how are we going to do this?)
Gilded case
If we’re doing the Ark, it goes without saying that we’ve got to paint it gold.
Angels
Almost every rendition of the Ark has two angels mirrored atop it. Ron has a plan for crafting this highly distinctive detail from scratch.
Reinforced carrying bars
The Ark was built to be carried. We want our LPC to be similarly portable.
Redundant key power-on switch
Not just anyone should be able to turn on our holy rig. We’ve asked Lee and Ron to create a two-key activation switch for powering on the LPC. Only those entrusted with these divine keys will be able to play on the LPC.
Divine RGB lighting
The interior case lighting has to express the righteous power of our supercomputer.
Oct. 19, 2016
Headline: AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal
On Nov. 11, 2013, Victorville, California, sheriff’s deputies and a coroner responded to a motorcyclist’s report of human remains outside of town. They identified the partially bleached skull of a child, and later discovered the remains of the McStay family who had been missing for the past three years. Joseph, 40, his wife Summer, 43, Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3, had been bludgeoned to death and buried in shallow graves in the desert. Investigators long suspected Charles Merritt in the family’s disappearance, interviewing him days after they went missing. Merritt was McStay’s business partner and the last person known to see him alive. Merritt had also borrowed $30,000 from McStay to cover a gambling debt, a mutual business partner told police. None of it was enough to make an arrest. Even after the gravesite was discovered and McStay’s DNA was found inside Merritt’s vehicle, police were far from pinning the quadruple homicide on him. Until they turned to Project Hemisphere.
Hemisphere is a secretive program run by AT&T that searches trillions of call records and analyzes cellular data to determine where a target is located, with whom he speaks, and potentially why. “Merritt was in a position to access the cellular telephone tower northeast of the McStay family gravesite on February 6th, 2010, two days after the family disappeared,” an affidavit for his girlfriend’s call records reports Hemisphere finding (PDF). Merritt was arrested almost a year to the date after the McStay family’s remains were discovered, and is awaiting trial for the murders.
Oct. 24, 2016
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/25/at-t-is-spying-on-americans-for-profit.html
Headline: Baby Jesus statue’s head returned after orange replacement becomes viral joke
The missing white stone head of baby Jesus has been returned to a Canadian church after its bright orange replacement was widely mocked. On Friday, an anonymous woman returned the original head to Sainte Anne des Pins Catholic church in downtown Sudbury, according to the CBC. The head had been taken off the white stone statue of Mary holding the baby Jesus several times before, and left on the ground by vandals. The head was once again removed from the statue outside the church about a year ago, but this time was nowhere to be found. While the church’s priest, Gérard Lajeunesse, had asked local businesses about crafting a new head after several months, a local artist, Heather Wise, had offered to help craft a new one. She created a head of terracotta as a temporary replacement until she could sculpt a permanent head of stone, she told Sudbury.com. The temporary head quickly became a joke on social media, where it was compared to the spiky-haired cartoon character Maggie Simpson and the alien ET. The incident was even likened to the now infamous attempt by a Spanish woman to restore a crumbling fresco of Jesus. An Instagram account called “temporaryjesushead” was created to lampoon the sculpture, photoshopping the head on to images of ET, from the 1982 film; Donald Trump; Hillary Clinton; Darth Maul from Star Wars and others. Oct. 25, 2016
Headline: Shrine to Jesus in Israel ‘robbed and vandalised’
A church in Israel built where Christians believe the transfiguration of Jesus took place has been vandalized, with chalices stolen, icons damaged and a donation box robbed, an official said Tuesday. Church officials believe the motive for Monday’s incident was robbery and not Jewish extremism, which has been blamed for previous vandalism at Christian sites in Israel, said Wadie Abunassar, a spokesman for bishops in the Holy Land. Abunassar could not say how many chalices were stolen from the Basilica of the Transfiguration or how much money from the donation box had been taken. Communion bread had also been thrown on the ground. No graffiti was painted on the church as usually occurs with vandalism by extremists, Abunassar said. A report has been made with police. The church is located on Mount Tabor in the Galilee region of northern Israel, where Christians believe Jesus became radiant and spoke with Moses and Elijah.
Oct. 25, 2016
https://www.yahoo.com/news/shrine-jesus-israel-robbed-vandalised-085518099.html
Headline: Australian MP highlights the case of Asia Bibi and plight of Pakistani Christians
Australian MP Andrew Hastie speaks up for the marooned Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi and the plight of persecuted Pakistani Christians. During his address, he highlighted the case of blasphemy accused Asia Bibi calling for an apt action regarding her case. During his address he said: “I rise today to highlight the case of Asia Bibi and the plight of persecuted Christian minorities in Pakistan. Mrs. Bibi, a Christian in the Punjab province of Pakistan has been detained on death row for last six years, often in solitary confinement because of the ongoing threats to her physical safety in prison.” “He apparent crime, she drank from the cup that was intended for Muslim recipients. Last week I was honored to meet Mr. Wilson Chaudhry- Chairman of the British Pakistani Christians Association. The Association seeks to promote religious freedom in Pakistan and advocate for those like Mrs. Bibi whose human rights have been denied because of religious faiths.”
Oct. 25, 2016
Headline: UN: Opium production skyrockets in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has seen a dramatic surge in the production of opium this year, according to a new United Nations report. Poor security conditions have led to a 43% rise in production of the illicit crop from 2015, with 4,800 metric tons produced this year, according to the Afghanistan Opium Survey 2016 compiled by the UN. Yury Fedotov, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said the new report shows a worrying reversal in efforts to combat the persistent problem of illicit drugs and their impact on development. The main reason for the increase, according to Mohammad Hanif Danishyar, spokesman for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Counter-Narcotics, was the deteriorating security situation in parts of the country, which meant that eradication plans could not be implemented, Eradication teams in Afghanistan who monitor and destroy the growth of poppy have come under direct attack from farmers and insurgents, who want to protect what to them is a lucrative cash crop. Authorities have only been able to destroy 355 hectares of opium poppies this year compared to 3,760 hectares in 2015, a 91% decrease.
Oct. 24, 2016
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/24/asia/afghanistan-opium-production/index.html
Headline: Hurricane Seymour strengthens to Category 3 in Pacific
Hurricane Seymour grew into a Category 3 hurricane on Tuesday and the National Hurricane Center expects it will continue to strengthen in the Pacific Ocean. Seymour is about 565 miles south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. The storm system is moving west at a speed of 15 mph with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. The National Hurricane Center said Seymour should begin weakening on Wednesday. The storm is considered a small tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds extending up to 10 miles from its center and tropical storm-force winds extending up to 70 miles.
Oct. 25, 2016
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