[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top Afghan Military Commander in the West has said that the ongoing violence and war in Farah province is being administered by the regional intelligence circles.
The Commander of the 207th Zafar Corps of the Afghan Military in the West Gen. Noorullah Qaderi says some major Mafia groups also contribute to the ongoing conflict in this province.
Speaking during a gathering in Farah province, Gen. Qaderi said certain intelligence circles belonging to the neighbors are involved in the ongoing conflict in Farah.
He said the war is being administered by the intelligence circles in Pakistain and Iran.
This comes as the US officials had also said earlier that the role of Iran in the recent Taliban ...Arabic for students... attack on Farah cannot be ruled out.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the Iranian as well as Pak officials have repeatedly rejected the allegations regarding their involvement in the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan.
The Taliban group launched a large scale attack on Farah city nearly one and half month ago but the Afghan forces managed to suppress the attack.
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[SABANEWS.NET] The Ministry of Public Health and Population condemned the US-backed Saudi-led coalition airstrikes which targeted a school in Zabid district of Hodeidah province, killing three citizens and wounding four others, including a child, in a statement obtained by Saba News Agency on Monday.
The ministry said the silence of the international community on the crimes of aggression for about 39 months ago encourages the coalition to commit more crimes against the Yemeni people.
The statement reiterated calling on the United Nations and its affiliated bodies to shoulder their responsibilities towards the ugly crimes against the people of Yemen.
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[SABANEWS.NET] A Tribal mass rally in Sanaa province has announced a public mobilization to move for confronting Saudi-led coalition forces and their militiamen in the western coast.
The rally, held on Monday in Sanhan and Bani Bahlwel district, attended by Sanaa governor Hanin Qutinah.
Qutinah stressed on the importance to concert efforts for mobilization and reinforcing the Yemeni army confront the militiamen and invaders.
The participants praised the great triumphs made by the army against the militiamen and the new occupiers in the western coast and various battle filed.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] “When the Houthis turn half of a whole class of university students from a single department into mere pictures of dead people sitting in their graduation seats, then we are facing a real disaster and a serious terrorist project.”
This is what one Yemeni activist said about a picture of a graduation ceremony showing photos of would-be university graduates who were killed by Houthi militias.
The picture was taken at the graduation ceremony of the College of the Arts at the University of Dhamar. It showed almost half the seats of the graduating class were empty, with only pictures of the students who died at the hands of the Houthi militias who are known to force young men to join their ranks.
The number of those dead from this particular class were 55, written on each their pictures was the word ‘martyr’, followed by their names and the Houthi fronts where they were killed.
According to spectators, the atmosphere at the ceremony, which was meant to be full of joy, was similar to that of a funeral. The parents of the deceased were in attendance.
Houthi militias have been targeting high school and university students, and forcing them to join their ranks, taking advantage of their parents’ poor living conditions to manipulate them.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom reaffirms his country’s condemnation of "all forms of torture and supports the right to freedom of expression within the judicial framework".
He refuted a report published by The Guardian on the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... special rapporteur’s mission in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... at the invitation of Riyadh.
In a letter addressed to the newspaper, Ambassador Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud wrote that "no one is sentenced or imprisoned until proven guilty. The Public Prosecution checks all prisons and detention centres to certify that prisoners are being held in accordance with international law".
"We comply with the law of criminal procedure to ensure the physical and mental wellbeing of prisoners. All detainees are treated with dignity; they are informed of the reason for their detention and they have the right to notify family members. The Saudi Human Rights Commission is present at cop shoppes and prisons to monitor the treatment of prisoners and to record any complaints, and reports from their impromptu visits are submitted directly to the King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques , King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... bin Abdulaziz Al Saud," he added.
Saudi Arabia cooperated with UN mission and its rapporteur was given access to prisons and to the majority of prisoners that he requested to see "unless a timely official request was not received by the authorities, or the prisoners were not detained on terrorism charges ..., or they had already been released from prison," Al Saud’s letter read.
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[Al Jazeera] Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he had spoken with President Donald Trump on the phone and offered to reduce US-bound migration in exchange for American assistance.
"I received a phone call from Donald Trump and we spoke for half an hour," the fiery leftist wrote on Twitter, in one of his first messages after winning a landslide victory Sunday.
"I proposed exploring a universal deal (involving) development projects that would create jobs in Mexico and, by doing so, reduce migration and improve security," he added.
"The tone was respectful and our teams will be holding talks."
Trump also mentioned the phone call in an Oval Office briefing.
"I just spoke with the president-elect of Mexico," he told reporters.
"I think the relationship is going to be a very good one. We had a great talk."
Trump's anti-trade and anti-immigration policies have infuriated Mexico, and Lopez Obrador would not seem the most obvious candidate to mend ties with his country's giant northern neighbor and key trading partner.
He had vowed during the campaign to "put (Trump) in his place."
But he was more conciliatory in his victory speech Sunday night, saying he wanted "friendship and cooperation" with the United States.
Trump said a change in Mexico's leadership might make a difference.
"I think he is going to try and help us with the border," he said.
Ironically, there are parallels between the two leaders. Both are free-trade skeptics with populist tendencies who fired up a disgruntled base with anti-establishment campaigns.
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"I proposed exploring a universal deal (involving) development projects that would create jobs in Mexico and, by doing so, reduce migration and improve security," he added.
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I have seen interesting conversations with this one, and felt them.
Maybe he is not a real nutter. He in no way speaks as one through here but his policy bs is a wreck. Maybe Trump can actually help him as this overture was far more gracious than I expected.
Let's give him a chance. You never know.
France stuck a noodle in it's cap and called it Macaron.
Shut it off, or it's an act of war. Nation states are responsible for force eminating from their territory, and foreign nationals who enter the U.S. from Mexico commit violent crimes every day.
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I read that Obama sent US help to Mexico’s southern border to control immigration. Was that fake news?
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"I proposed exploring a universal deal (involving) development projects that would create jobs in Mexico and, by doing so, reduce migration and improve security," he added.
Stoopid Gringo, give me money and I might get around to thinking about doing something mañana or sometime-maybe..."
[Free Beacon] Australia has ended its direct aid to the Palestinian Authority because of concerns that the PA could use the Australian funding to pay convicted terrorists.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Monday that Australia had cut funding to the World Bank's Multi-Donor Trust Fund for the Palestinian Recovery and Development Program, according to press reports. Bishop expressed concerns about the donations going to Palestinian criminals.
"I am confident that previous Australian funding to the PA through the World Bank has been used as intended," Bishop said in a statement. "However, I am concerned that in providing funds for this aspect of the PA's operations there is an opportunity for it to use its own budget to [fund] activities that Australia would never support."
"Any assistance provided by the Palestine Liberation Organization to those convicted of politically motivated violence is an affront to Australian values and undermines the prospect of meaningful peace between Israel and the Palestinians," she continued.
The Palestinian Authority paid terrorists and their families more than $347 million last year, and increased that figure by nearly $56 million this year, according to reports.
Australia’s AUD 10 million ($7.4 million) donation to the trust fund will now be rerouted to the United Nations’ Humanitarian Fund for the Palestinian Territories, which provides Palestinians with health care, food, water, improved sanitation and shelter.
Bishop said the UN body “helps 1.9 million people. Approximately 75 percent of its funding will be spent in Gaza where the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate.”
Australia allocated AUD $43 million for humanitarian assistance in the region for the current fiscal year, which began on July 1.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] More than 1,000 people have drowned in the Mediterranean this year sailing from Libya to Europe, with a rush in the past few days to beat an anticipated crackdown by the European Union, the International Organization for Migration said late on Sunday.
Around 204 people have died in the past few days after being packed into unsafe vessels by smugglers, with 103 lost in a shipwreck on Friday and more lost on Sunday when a rubber boat capsized east of Tripoli, with 41 survivors.
“There is an alarming increase in deaths at sea off Libya’s coast,” IOM’s Libya Chief of Mission Othman Belbeisi said in a statement. “Smugglers are exploiting the desperation of migrants to leave before there are further crackdowns on Mediterranean crossings by Europe.”
The flow of migrants has abated since a peak in 2015, with the number attempting the dangerous sea crossing from North Africa falling to tens of thousands from hundreds of thousands. The other main route, from Turkey to Greece, used by more than a million people in 2015, was largely shut two years ago.
IOM spokesman Leonard Doyle said the surge in recent days may be due to factors including weather and the end of Ramadan. “But also there is a recognition I think worldwide that the European Union is starting to manage the process better so maybe they equally are trying to profit while they can. Smugglers will always put profit before safety.”
Despite the increase in deaths in recent days, the number lost at sea so far this year is less than half that recorded by this time last year. But the journey by land through the Sahara and then across the Mediterranean remains world’s deadliest migration route, and as polarizing as ever in European politics.
Polarization
Anti-immigrant rightwing parties took power in Italy last month, are now firmly entrenched in the ex-Communist states of central Europe and won seats in the German parliament for the first time since the 1940s last year.
On Sunday, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer offered to resign over immigration proposals brought back from Brussels by Chancellor Angela Merkel, casting doubt over whether her fragile government can survive.
The effort to reduce people-smuggling has hinged in part on developing a coast guard for Libya that returns migrants caught off shore. However there has been controversy over the conditions of their treatment in Libya.
Between Friday and Sunday, close to 1,000 migrants were returned to the Libyan shore by the Libyan Coast Guard. So far this year, the coast guard has returned about 10,000 to shore, where Libyan authorities transfer them to detention centers. “Migrants returned by the coast guard should not automatically be transferred to detention and we are deeply concerned that the detention centers will yet again be overcrowded and that living conditions will deteriorate with the recent influx of migrants,” Belbeisi said.
IOM chief William Lacy Swing said he would go to Tripoli this week to see the conditions firsthand.“IOM is determined to ensure that the human rights of all migrants are respected as together we all make efforts to stop the people smuggling trade, which is so exploitative of migrants,” the statement quoted Swing as saying.
Swing will be replaced later this year by former European Commissioner Antonio Vitorino, who won election to the job on Friday, beating U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to become only the second non-American leader of the body in its history.
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Blood on the people trafficking fake-charities hands.
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Stay home. Hire lawyers. Sue them for having an 'attractive nuisance'. Maybe time to reconsider the advantages of colonialism? Carry the 'white man's burden' over there rather than at home.
Oboy, another investment for the Chinese, who absolutely love to invest in Israeli companies!
[Al Jazeera] A number of Israeli firms are at risk of losing billions of dollars if the European Union decides to exclude Israel from its upcoming scientific research and development fund.
Some 154 organisations from 16 countries have urged EU legislators to exclude "Israeli military companies" from being included in an upcoming $117bn research and innovation programme, Israel Hayom daily reported on Sunday.
"The EU has been funding security-industrial research for many years," the letter, which called on the EU to immediately exclude all Israeli military and security companies from its framework programmes, read.
"European taxpayers' money is being channeled to military companies, among them many Israeli corporations, under the disguise of research and a promise that the technologies and techniques developed will be used solely for civilian purposes," the letter continued.
Israel is a part of the union's current research and development initiative, known as Horizon 2020.
The letter further noted that the EU's research money has in the past gone towards funding projects serving military interests, as opposed to funding projects with civilian applications as well.
It also said there were many indications that the EU's border control policies are built on "concepts and technologies" that violate human rights.
As such, signatories to the letter have also asked the EU to limit EU framework programs "strictly to civilian security and peace research", excluding research in border surveillance and dual-use technologies.
European countries have in other ways funded Israeli military activities inside the occupied Palestinian territories.
An investigation by the Danish media outlet Danwatch found that pension funds in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have billions of euros invested in 36 companies involved in illegal settlement building activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Is it true that Israeli Companies excel at research and development in any fields and their expertise is excellent ? Would it therefore follow that to harm Israeli companies who are competitors to the EU Companies would be to the EU's advantage?
Studebaker competing against a cheaper version of a Ferrari. Not the best metaphor but then, you catch my drift.
[FoxNews] The Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians, including family members of government officials, while negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, a senior cleric and member of parliament has claimed.
Hojjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zolnour, who is chairman of Iran’s parliamentary nuclear committee and a member of its national security and foreign affairs committee, made the allegations during an interview with the country’s Etemad newspaper, cited by the country’s Fars News agency.
He claimed it was done as a favor to senior Iranian officials linked to President Hassan Rouhani, and he alleged the move sparked a competition among Iranian officials over whose children would benefit from the scheme.
He claimed that the deal was made during negotiations for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was reached in July 2015. President Trump announced in May that the U.S. would withdraw from the agreement.
“When Obama, during the negotiations about the JCPOA, decided to do a favor to these men, he granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians and some officials started a competition over whose children could be part of these 2,500 Iranians,” he claimed.
“If today these Iranians get deported from America, it will become clear who is complicit and sells the national interest like he is selling candies to America.”
The conservative Zolnour, who is in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s inner circle, added: “It should be stated exactly which children of which authorities live in the United States and have received citizenship or residency.”
He estimated that between 30 and 60 were studying in the U.S. while the rest of them were working in the country “against our national interests.”
Though Zolnour did not mention anyone by name during the interview, several children of current and former Iranian officials live in the United States, including Ali Fereydoun, whose father Hossein Fereydoun is the brother of and special aide to Rouhani; and Fatemeh Ardeshir Larijani, whose father Ali Larijani is speaker of parliament.
There is no suggestion either of these people received citizenship in the wake of the Iranian nuclear deal. It’s also unclear if Zolnour meant citizenship or a green card.
In 2015, 13,114 people born in Iran were issued green cards, while 13,298 were issued one in 2016, according to figures from the Department for Homeland Security. In 2015, 10,344 Iranians became naturalized, with a further 9,507 in 2016.
Asked about the cleric's claim, a State Department spokesperson said: “We’re not going to comment on every statement by an Iranian official.”
Fox News analyst and former Obama State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf was dubious of the Iranian official’s allegation. “This sounds like totally made up BS,” she said.
The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment. A representative for Obama Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson also could not be reached for comment.
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So Obama denies it and the State Department ( under Hillary and Kerry ) dodges it?
And it supports the infighting in Iran between the major Clerics of MMallah.
Who to believe. And Kerry and Obama are both honest men. And the Mullahs are all men of God. And Hillary...well..Hillary is Unique.
But one thing is sure, the character of all concerned is well known...for Veracity and adherence to Truth with Integrity for all.
Bada-BING.
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Was this legal? What do the Hawaiian judges have to say?
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Round them and put them in a refugee camp. When the pallets of cash are returned to the USA they can be flown back to Iran. The warranty period has expired on these folks.
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In 2015, 13,114 people born in Iran were issued green cards, while 13,298 were issued one in 2016, according to figures from the Department for Homeland Security. In 2015, 10,344 Iranians became naturalized, with a further 9,507 in 2016.
Boggles the mind.
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[DAWN] A bigwig of the US State Department, Ambassador Alice Wells, reached Islamabad from Kabul on Monday to again ask Pak authorities for pressurising the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... to join the grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan.
Ambassador Wells, deputy assistant secretary of state at the State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, opened her trip with a meeting with Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua at the Foreign Office. She is expected to meet other civil and military officials on Tuesday.
During her stay in Kabul, she had said that the Taliban’s refusal to join the political process was "unacceptable". She also accused the "Taliban ....who are not residing in Afghanistan" of being obstacle to the peace talks. She was apparently referring to Pakistain-based Taliban against whom the US has long asked for action.
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Ambassador Wells, deputy assistant secretary of state at the State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs,
Maybe Besoeker can weigh in here, but that title doesn't sound like a 'senior US official' to me.
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U.S. Foreign Service Officer (FSO) Wells was AMBO to Jordon during the Obama years. Previous to that assignment, she had been an Executive Assistance to Secretary of State Clinton. King Abdullah II disliked Wells and had quietly asked that she be replaced. Pres. Obama insisted she stay on. When Pres. Trump took office, she was one of the first to go.
It should be noted that like most of us, 'King Ab' had absolutely no use for Obama, his policies or people.
[DAWN] Pakistain Peoples Party-Parliamentarian (PPP-P) information secretary Maula Bux Chandio has questioned inadequate security arrangements for the party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari during his visit to Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... which is a sensitive area and said it indicates ineptness on the part of caretaker government.
He called upon state institutions to take notice of laxity in security and address the issue because the party leadership faced security threats and its chairman was neither an ordinary citizen nor an ordinary leader.
He was speaking at a presser here on Sunday along with Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair, president of Jamaat Ulema-e-Pakistain-Noorani, where the party leaders announced seat adjustment between PPP and JUP-Noorani on NA-227, PS-66 and PS-67.
Mr Chandio said that anti-PPP and anti-democracy forces were active in the area where a mob pelted convoy of PPP chairman with stones. If the situation persisted it would be disastrous for Pakistain as well as for electoral process, he said.
He said the caretaker government was being brought under pressure with the result that inadequate security arrangements were made for the party chairman’s visit.
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[DAWN] Police have registered a terrorism case against over 400 angry protesters, who allegedly attacked Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s motorcade in Lyari on Sunday evening, officials said on Monday.
A group of protesters pelted Mr Bhutto-Zardari’s motorcade with stones in Lyari. They chanted anti-PPP slogans and the atmosphere got charged and could have exacerbated further had the PPP chairman not asked his supporters to refrain from a brawl and change the route.
There were also people who were protesting against water shortage in their area. Some women, while chanting slogans in favour of the PPP, showed containers as a symbol to highlight their demand for the supply of potable water.
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[Al Jazeera] A few yards away from Srinagar city's famous clock tower in India-administered Kashmire are the ruins of Palladium, once a famous film theatre.
All that remains of what used to be a thriving hangout in the strife-torn city are its faded yellow walls. That desolate look is the tale of Kashmire's film theatres, which closed down after an armed rebellion against India's rule in the region began in the late 1980s.
As protests demanding "azaadi" (freedom) on the streets of Kashmire grew in 1989, screening of movies became a major casualty. Soon, the arrival of Indian army in the valley saw some theatres turn into military garrisons. Others have turned into hotels, hospitals, shopping complexes, or remain abandoned.
Worse, the Kashmiri rebel fighters declared screening of films in "movie halls" or "talkies", as they are commonly called in India, as un-Islamic.
Today, the deserted theatres only evoke nostalgia, especially among the older Kashmiris.
Arif Shafi's family owned Naaz cinema, located in Srinagar's famous Lal Chowk. He was 12 when the theatre closed.
"I used to spend time with my father at Naaz. I remember a huge rush when a major film was screened. Four to five shows happened in a day. There used to be separate cabins for families," says Shafi.
Shafi has little hope of a revival of Kashmire's cinema culture. "The political situation of Kashmire doesn't allow the re-opening of cinema halls."
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s supreme leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... has returned back to Iraq, an informed security source said adding that he is likely to be in the western desert.
Speaking to the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, the source said "Baghdadi moved to Syria before end of the liberation battles in Nineveh. He settled to Raqqa in Syria, before moving to Qaim in Iraq."
The Iraqi intelligence, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, "receives information about places to which Baghdadi heads. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... his exact location is not identified."
Baghdadi "moved to Syria once again before liberating Qaim then returned back to western Iraq in the wake of heated battles in Syria and losing most of the cities that the group was controling."
The source also added that "Baghdadi cannot move freely between the two countries like he used to."
Both Iraqi and U.S.-led Coalition jets "tried to target him more than once, without locating his place well," the source said. "The Iraqi intelligence located the house, where Baghdadi supposedly existed in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , and carried out an Arclight airstrike but it was revealed later that the house was for camouflage."
The Russian agency Sputnik quoted, in January, several experts in Islamist groups affairs as saying that Baghdadi is likely to be in Africa, being the safest place at the meantime for the bully boy group.
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They found Saddam easier than this shithead. Who is protecting him?
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A total of 76 people were killed and 129 others were maimed due to acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflicts during the month of June, casualty figures recorded by the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
"The figures include ordinary citizens and others considered civilian at the time of death or injury, such as police in non-combat functions, civil defence, personal security teams, facilities protection police and fire department personnel," the report said.
"Of the overall figures recorded by UNAMI for the month of June, the number of civilians killed (not including police) was 68, while the number of injured (not including police) was 118," the report read.
Diyala was the worst affected Governorate, according to the report, with 52 civilian casualties (16 killed, 36 injured), then came Kirkuk (10 killed, 36 injured) then Baghdad (19 killed and 18 injured). Anbar suffered a total of 7 civilian casualties (none killed, 7 injured).
"Figures are updated until 30 June 2018, inclusive," the report concluded.
94 Iraqis were killed, while 163 others were maimed due to Violence and armed conflicts during the month of May.
[Al Jazeera] Israel's parliament has passed a law that withholds hundreds of millions of dollars in funds from the Palestinians over welfare payments given to prisoners and their families.
The Knesset, Israel's parliament, approved on Monday the law with 87 of the 120 lawmakers voting in favour and 15 opposing.
The new legislation will deduct the money that the Palestinians allocate to prisoners and others killed by Israeli forces from taxes collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
Lawmaker Avi Dichter, a co-sponsor of the law, said the families of Palestinian prisoners had easy access to these funds.
Arab lawmakers railed against the bill ahead of the vote.
Jamal Zahalka, of the Joint List of Arab parties, said the bill was "despicable".
"You are stealing from the Palestinian people," Zahalka shouted.
The Israeli move deepened a budget crunch already hit hard by US cuts in aid.
Israel has long pushed for the Palestinians to halt the stipends - which benefit roughly 35-thousand families of Palestinians killed and wounded in the conflict with Israel - saying the practice encourages violence.
Among the beneficiaries are families of Palestinian prisoners and others who were killed by Israeli forces.
The stipends total approximately 330 million US dollars, roughly seven per cent of the Palestinian Authority's five billion US dollar budget in 2018.
Palestinians say the tax revenues, collected by Israel for them under past peace agreements, are their money, and that the Palestinian Authority has a responsibility to all of its citizens like any other government.
For Palestinians, the families are widely seen as victims of a half-century Israeli occupation.
Senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi, accused Israel of theft and piracy.
"This is nothing short of highway robbery, this is real piracy, they are stealing Palestinian funds, it's not theirs to decide what to do with it, if we were free we wouldn't need Israel to collect customs." she said.
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[Bloomberg] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani goes to Switzerland and Austria this week with the landmark nuclear accord negotiated in the two Alpine countries hanging in the balance.
The state visits to Bern on Tuesday and Vienna on Wednesday are likely to be Rouhani’s last before President Donald Trump begins reimposing sanctions on the Islamic Republic Aug. 6. Iran has pledged to resume its nuclear activities, and follow the U.S. out of the deal, unless France, Germany and the U.K. come up with guarantees to ensure investment and trade continue. Austria has just assumed the rotating European Union presidency.
"There’s a great deal at stake -- trade wars, reputation and European security," said Paul Ingram, executive director of the British American Security Information Council, which promotes global nuclear disarmament. "Rouhani will need to press the Europeans for particular commitments beyond the warm words, and communicate his own limited domestic ability to stick with the JCPOA should the Europeans cave under U.S. pressure."
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the July 2015 accord that capped Iran’s most sensitive nuclear work in return for the lifting of many sanctions, was plunged into crisis by Trump’s May 8 decision to exit even as international inspectors continued to verify Rouhani’s government was living up to its side of the bargain. The U.S. accuses Iran of violating the accord’s spirit through destabilizing activities the Middle East.
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The 3,127th and 4,590th holiest places in Islam
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Ha. Big laughs.
Kerry
Some lobster will lift up his palps
And his eyes on their stalks to the Alps
As he's stunned a la Suisse
In the interest of Peace
To be gone in a couple of gulps.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Ridha Jalali has accused Israel and another country he didn’t name of stealing the clouds of Iran which lead to climate change and drought in the country.
On Monday, Iranian news agency ISNA reported Jalali, a military commander in the Revolutionary Guards as saying that: "Iran's climate changes are unnatural and result from foreign interference, through their research; Iranian scientific centers have reached this conclusion."
Jalali added: "Both Israel and another country are working into making Iranian clouds not rainy. In addition to this, they are stealing rain and snow too."
He continued saying: "According to the studies that included Afghanistan's highlands to the Mediterranean Sea, we see that all the highlands that are over 2,200 meters are covered in snow but our highlands are dry."
The statement comes after protests have went kaboom! in southwestern Iran, specifically in the cities of Muhammarah and Abadan, because of the pollution and lack of water, where protesters have accused the authorities of mismanagement and transferring there water to other areas.
The protests witnessed violent activities as security forces suppressed protesters and gunfire was heard, resulting in injuries and arrests of dozens of activists. While some reports in social media sites reported the death of a number of protesters. Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli denied this news, stressing that no one was killed during the protests.
It is not the first time this year that Iran has been witnessing protests over lack of water. Several months ago, farmers in Isfahan came out protesting the water shortage in their province.
Iran’s own meteorological service strikes a skeptical note, however.
General Jalali "probably has documents of which I am not aware, but on the basis of meteorological knowledge, it is not possible for a country to steal snow or clouds," said the head of Iran’s meteorological service Ahad Vazife, quoted by ISNA.
"Iran has suffered a prolonged drought, and this is a global trend that does not apply only to Iran," Vazife says.
No drought in Cincinnati, actually. We haven’t yet had to turn in the sprinklers. Normally they are in regular use from the third week in April —perhaps Allah likes us better.
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"Both Israel and another country are working into making Iranian clouds not rainy."
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Wow, #3 that was retro. I'd bet you nowadays you couldn't find a suit and tie or dresses in a similar number of young people. The end days of civility.
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Also, no democrat party leaders are invited in this conversation at all after 2009. EVER.
You are the most useless political party in all of history aside from the cannibals.
All of you suck and are illiterate and spew so much bullshit at me on a daily basis, I actually want to take up my Staff.
I hate the democrat party and their liberal idiots more than anything on this earth right now. They should change that by growing up and acting like they can read a balance sheet.
[Al Jazeera] The US State Department has spelled out a campaign of "maximum economic and diplomatic pressure" to drive Iran towards negotiating a "better" deal to replace the Iran nuclear deal.
State Department Director of Policy Planning Brian Hook told news hounds on Monday that Iran is not a "normal" country and must meet 12 demands in order to be relieved of US sanctions.
"Normal countries don't terrorize other nations, proliferate missiles and impoverish their own people," Hook said.
"This new strategy is not about changing the regime, it is about changing the behaviour of the leadership in Iran to comport with what the Iranian people really want them to do," he said.
The State Department said new sanctions, which it described as "snap back" sanctions, will begin on August 4, targeting Iran's automotive sector and its trade in gold and other key metals.
A second set of sanctions will snap back on November 6. This set will target Iran's energy sector, focusing on petroleum-related transactions, plus transactions with the central bank of Iran.
The move comes two months after US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... announced US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
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Hit Iran in the wallet= Sanctions.
Invading Khuzestan= Hitting Iran in the head and taking their wallet.
Which is cheaper? Let's try the first one for now. Plus the Saudis can provide "incentives".
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Ridha Jalali has accused Israel and another country he didn’t name of stealing the clouds of Iran which lead to climate change and drought in the country.
