In an interview with Italian daily La Stampa, Sicily-based prosecutor Carmelo Zuccaro made his most specific claims yet over NGO activities off Libya, which the EU border agency Frontex recently described as tantamount to providing a “taxi” service to Europe. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) active in the rescue effort include long-established groups such as Doctors…
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Whaddayaknow: Saudi Arabia Just Got Elected to the UN Commission on….Women’s Rights
Saudi Arabia continues to have a male guardianship system that dominates all aspects of life for women and girls, they’re also banned from driving cars and do not share the same legal status as men. But yet, the Kingdom was elected to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. The commission, according to […]
85.43% Vote Total: Le Pen (22.20%) Macron (23.61%) … Through to Second Round …Referendum For or Against Globalization…
First projection based on actual votes: MACRON 24% LE PEN 22%…First official estimate after extraordinary campaign: Macron (23.7%) and Le Pen (21%) through to 2nd round of French presidential election — Sophie Pedder (@PedderSophie) April 23, 2017…
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Calexit Leader Moves to Russia Permanently — or Until California Secedes…
The leader of a California movement to secede from the United States of America, or “CalExit,” does not want to live under the American flag — and is now settling in Russia. In a statement issued this week, Louis Marinelli announced that he is moving to his wife’s native Russia permanently, or at least until […]
Mexico to U.S.: Deporting Illegal Immigrants Is a ‘Violation’ of Rules…
The Mexican government said Thursday the U.S. ignored its own immigration rules when it deported two illegal aliens back to Mexico. The Secretariat of Foreign Relations, known in Mexico as SRE or the Chancellery, called the deportations of a so-called “Dreamer” and a mother of four a “violation” of immigration policy because neither had a […]
Paris Shooter Update: Previously Convicted For Attempted Murder, Released On Probation…
His name is Karim Cheurfi and was born on Dec.31, 1977 in Livry-Gargan, France; Cheurfi, 39, a French national lived with his mother in the eastern Paris suburb of Chelles. A document found in attacker’s pocket after he was shot showed he supported Islamic State. Francois Molins says Cheurfi was known to police and judiciary […]
Kidnapped Qatari Hunting Party of 26 ‘Freed in Iraq’…
The Iraqi interior ministry said “all 26” were in Baghdad and would be handed over to a Qatari envoy. The hunters were abducted by gunmen in a desert area of Iraq near the Saudi border in December 2015. A large-scale search was launched but very little information was known about the group’s whereabouts or condition…
Venezuela on the Brink…Images and Video…
The media is downplaying, and in most cases ignoring, the extreme nature of the crisis currently going on in socialist Venezuela under the Maduro regime. Most of the cries for help are from people begging the international media to cover their plight. Some of the video and photography are stunning as millions of people take […]
Agricultural Mega-Merger Could Make China Leading GMO Producer…
A $43 billion takeover deal that would merge Chinese state-owned agriculture company ChemChina and Swiss-owned seed company Syngenta is expected to turn the world’s second largest economy into a biotech titan. In recent weeks, the deal has been approved by EU and US authorities. Once closed it will be China’s biggest overseas acquisition. It will […]
Israel Celebrates 50 Years as Occupier by Jonathan Cook…
Nazareth. Israel is to hold lavish celebrations over the coming weeks to mark the 50th anniversary of what it calls the “liberation of Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights” – or what the rest of us describe as the birth of the occupation. The centrepiece event will take place in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem. […]
So Where Are They? Mystery Over 730K Missing Elephants…
It means that a third of the elephants’ precious refuges have fewer than five per cent of the animals they should be protecting – with “pervasive poaching” to blame. Yet researchers who have produced the astonishing figures say they should not be treated as “doom and gloom” statistics and believe their findings can go on […]
Israel’s State Comptroller: Israel Is Holding Back Millions of Shekels Meant for Holocaust Survivors…
State Comptroller and retired judge Yosef Shapira called on the state authorities to act quickly: “Time is running out. The state should continue to make improvements and therefore the government should continue to strive to solve the existential distress of all needy elderly in the country, including Holocaust survivors. The survivors who experienced the events […]
Allied Forces Knew About Holocaust Two Years Before Discovery of Concentration Camps…
The Allied Powers were aware of the scale of the Jewish Holocaust two-and-a-half years earlier than is generally assumed, and had even prepared war crimes indictments against Adolf Hitler and his top Nazi commanders. Newly accessed material from the United Nations – not seen for around 70 years – shows that as early as December […]
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PM Theresa May Calls for UK General Elections in June…
In a surprise statement outside Downing Street on Tuesday morning, the prime minister claimed that opposition parties were jeopardising her government’s preparations for Brexit. “We need a general election and we need one now,” she said. “I have only recently and reluctantly come to this conclusion but now I have concluded it is the only […]
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UN Peacekeepers Gave Haitian Kids Snacks to be Part of Sex Ring…
More than 100 U.N. Peacekeepers stationed in Haiti have been implicated in a child sex ring where children as young as 12 years old were exploited, but have never been held accountable for their abuses, according to an investigation by the Associated Press. The investigation described in disturbing detail how from 2004 to 2007, at […]
After Mosul: The Coming Break-Up of Iraq and the Middle East…
The battle against IS is a war no one will win. Here’s the real battle we should be worrying about – and fighting. All eyes are on the battle for Mosul. Will the coalition defeat the Islamic State (IS) or not? In the end, it won’t matter. If we have learned anything from the last […]
Erdoğan’s Referendum Victory Spells the End of Turkey As We Know It…
With the result of Sunday’s referendum on its constitution, Turkey as we know it is over; it is history. The architecture of its governance designed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk – Turkey’s founder – has, after a wobbly series of experiments with the military and a secular elite in charge, been dismantled by the leader of […]
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Erdogan Wins Narrow Referendum Victory, Laying Bare Turkey’s Divisions…
Supporters of Tayyip Erdogan waved flags in the streets while opponents banged pots and pans in protest in their homes, after a narrow referendum victory gave the Turkish president sweeping powers and laid the nation’s divisions bare. The referendum will bring the biggest overhaul in Turkish politics since the founding of the modern republic, abolishing […]
Palestinian Political Prisoners Declare Open Hunger Strike Inside Israeli Jails…
Head of the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe has called on all Palestinian factions in Israeli prisons to join an upcoming mass hunger strike, which was originally called for by the Fatah movement. All Fatah-affiliated prisoners have committed to joining the strike, led by imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthii, scheduled to begin on […]
History Repeating: Ahead of the French Election Facebook Blocks 30k Accounts…
[…] In a blog post, Facebook said it was acting against 30,000 fake accounts in France. It said its priority was to remove suspect accounts with high volumes of posting activity and the biggest audiences…
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