Thirteen killed in Brotherhood clashes with police in Egypt
Thirteen people were shot dead as supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with police across Egypt on Friday, defying an ever-widening state crackdown on the movement that ruled the country until six months ago. Islamists opposed to the army’s overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi in July have been holding daily demonstrations, even since the army-backed government declared his Brotherhood a terrorist group last week, increasing the penalties for dissent. The government is using the new classification to detain hundreds of Brotherhood supporters. Thousands more, including top leaders of the group, have been in jail for…
Read More →Analysis: Anbar violence goes beyond sectarian conflict in Iraq
The attacks on the main police station in Fallujah on Wednesday, followed by the takeover of other police stations in Fallujah and Ramadi on the following day, are part of the escalation in the Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict that has long plagued I…
Read More →Violence in Central African Republic displaces nearly 1 million – U.N.
Reuters January 3, 2014 – 18:08 By Paul-Marin Ngoupana BANGUI (Reuters) – Violence in Central African Republic has uprooted nearly a million people, a fifth of the population, and is hampering aid efforts, particularly in the capital Bangui, the…
Read More →Two decades on, wave of Russian immigration to Israel is an outstanding success
Russian immigrant success stands in marked contrast to the ongoing challenges faced by Ethiopian immigrants, who arrived in Israel in large numbers at around the same time. Growing up in the Urals, Pavel Polev was a precocious ice skater and a member of the Soviet Union’s national youth figure-skating team. But in 1992, at age […]
Read More →Israel needs an indefinite security presence in the Jordan Valley
Without help in creating a solid security infrastructure, a future Palestinian state in the West Bank could become a giant terrorist hub for Hamas. By Gadi Shamni The Americans are currently in the process of presenting their impression of the security arrangement necessary for the reality of two states west of the Jordan River. In general, […]
Read More →Guantanamo and Force-Feeding: From Rape to Sodomy?
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In the early 1900’s, when it was clear that the British Parliament had no intentions of passing legislation protecting a woman’s right to vote, members of the WSPU started to engage in acts of civil d…
Read More →South Sudan ceasefire talks open as battles rage
ADDIS ABABA: South Sudan’s warring parties opened negotiations on Friday to end nearly three weeks of raging conflict in which thousands are feared dead and that has taken the world’s youngest nation to the brink of all-out civil war. Government a…
Read More →South Korea dismisses Pyongyang’s peace call
South Korea has dismissed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s calls for improved ties, urging his government to take nuclear disarmament steps first. Kim Eui-do, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman, told reporters on Friday that North Korea …
Read More →NSA eyes encryption-breaking ‘quantum’ machine
The US National Security Agency is making strid es toward building a “quantum computer” that could break nearly any kind of encryption, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The Post said leaked documents from fugitive ex-NSA contractor Edward Sn…
Read More →Schumacher: Ferrari Mark F1 Driver’s Birthday
Michael Schumacher’s family have thanked the public for their support as he remains in a coma following a skiing accident. The Formula One driver turns 45 today in his hospital bed in Grenoble after suffering critical head injuries in the French Alps on Sunday. The Ferrari team which he spent many years racing for announced it would hold a “silent…
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