Uyghur Militants are Fighting in Syria, China Claims
Clashes in recent months have killed at least 56 people in Xinjiang, a region that has long been home to a simmering rebellion against Chinese rule among parts of the Muslim Uyghur population. China’s state media claims some Uyghurs are being trained in Syria and blames the violence on “terrorism, extremism and separatism”. According to a report in Radio Free Asia, Chinese government decided to beef up security following a meeting of the ruling Chinese Communist Party chaired by President Xi Jinping, indicating concerns among the top leadership over the rising violence in Xinjiang ahead of the anniversary of riots…
Islamic Militants Set Children on Fire in Nigeria
Armed Islamic militants have killed 29 students and an English teacher in an attack on a boarding school before dawn Saturday, in the deadliest attack yet on schools in Nigeria’s embattled northeast. Militants doused a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. The attack thought to be conducted by members of the Boko Haram sect, whose name means “’Western education is sacrilege”. Boko Haram which controls an area 143 miles away in Maiduguri city, capital of neighboring Borno state, has been behind scores of attacks on schools in the past year. Survivors being treated for…
Bolivia May Close the US Embassy (Video)
On July 2nd, Bolivian Air Force One, with the country’s President Evo Morales in it, was forced to make a u-turn over Europe after it was apparently barred from flying through French, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish airspace following suspicions that US fugitive Edward Snowden was on board. President Evo Morales claims the US pressured European countries to deny the plane flyover permission, after the Bolivian president said casually in Moscow that if Snowden was to apply for asylum, his case would be considered. According to the BBC, Mr Morales said: ‘My hand would not shake to close the US embassy….
Egyptian Military’s Statement: Transcript Translated by Al Jazeera
The statement from Abdul Fatah Khalil al-Sisi, head of Egyptian Armed Forces, announcing the overthrow of President Morsi. The Egyptian Armed Forces first declared, is still declaring and will always declare that it stands distant from political forces. The Armed Forces, based on its insightfulness, has been called by the Egyptian people for help, not to hold the reins of power, yet to discharge its civil responsibility and answer demands of responsibility. This is the message received by the EAF and heard in all of the country. In turn this call was heeded by the EAF, and it has understood…
Syrian Rebels Behead Christians for Helping the Military
A priest and another Christian were beheaded before a cheering crowd by Syrian rebels for aiding the President Bashar Assad’s military, The Washington Times reports. Syrian Christians caught in the middle of a brutal struggle in Syria and face an existential threat. Also yesterday, Islamist rebels in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo issued an order banning women from dressing in what it considered provocative styles and wearing make up. As continuously reported by the Progressive Press, hard-line jihadist groups have increasingly taken the lead in the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule. Many units are linked to Al Qaeda have…
Did Snowden Apply for Asylum in Russia?
Russia Foreign Ministry consul Kim Shevchenko said US whistle-blower Edward Snowden has applied for political asylum at the consular office at Moscow’s Sheremtyevo airport at 10.30pm on Sunday. Shevchenko said “The UK citizen and Snowden’s representative Sarah Harrison passed on a request by Edward Snowden to be granted political asylum.” Meanwhile, the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) has refuted media reports of the application. Zalina Kornilova, head of FMS press service, told RT, information in the foreign media which states that Snowden asked for asylum “is not true.” The 30-year-old former CIA analyst, who is wanted by the US, is…
Muslim Brotherhood HQ Set on Fire
Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood said its Cairo headquarters came under attack and set on fire on Sunday from scores of anti-government protesters, firing shotguns and throwing molotov cocktails and rocks. Security sources said three other Muslim Brotherhood offices were set on fire by demonstrators in towns in the Nile Delta, in more than a week of sporadic violence in which hundreds have been hurt and several killed. Thousands continue to gather in streets to demand removal of country’s president, a year after he took office. The protestors are accusing Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood of hijacking the revolution and…
Pakistani Teen Accused of Blasphemy Escaped to Canada
A Pakistani teenager, who was “falsely accused” of blasphemy, has fled to Canada with her family, BBC reports. Peter Bhatti, who runs the International Christian Voice Canada, helped the teen and her family to escape from Pakistan. 14 year old Rimsha Masih was detained in a maximum security prison for several weeks in August 2012, after being accused of burning pages from the Quran. Although the charges were dropped later, she and her family were forced into hiding after receiving death threats. The family made the secret journey to Canada just weeks ago, arriving at an undisclosed location in Toronto….
US Congressmen Introduce Bill to Stop Arming Syrian Opposition
According to a report on Anadolu Agency, today, a group of bipartisan US congressmen introduced a bill to prevent US President Obama from arming Syrian opposition. The bill was introduced by Republicans Chris Gibson and Michelle Bachmann and Democrats Peter Welch and Rick Nolan from the U.S. House of Representatives, and Democrats Tom Udall and Chris Murphy and Republicans Rand Paul and Mike Lee from the Senate. Democrat Welch said it was vitally important that they recognized the lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan. Welch added: “Syria is in a brutal and tragic civil war the roots of which go…
FEMEN Activists Freed from Tunisian Jail
Three feminists with the radical protest group FEMEN were freed from a Tunisian jail Wednesday, after receiving suspended sentences from an appeal court for baring their breasts in public. One of their lawyers Bahri Souhaib said, their sentences had been suspended, and that they would leave Tunisia as soon as possible. They were sentenced to four months and one day in prison for offending public morals and threatening public order. The three were arrested outside the main courthouse in Tunis on May 29 during their topless protest against a planned gathering of radical Salafists, and in support of Amina Sboui,…
Berlusconi Sentenced to 7 Years for Paying a Minor for Sex
After 50 hearings spread over two years, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was found guilty on Monday for paying a minor for sex and abuse of power in office. The Italian media mogul and three-time prime minster was sentenced to seven years in jail and banned from public office for life. A panel of three female judges sentenced the 76-year-old billionaire, playboy politician, to jail for compensating Karima el Mahroug, a Moroccan-born dancer, for sex at his mansion outside Milan in 2010 when she was 17. According to Italian constitution, paying a minor for sex in Italy is illegal….
Brazil President Pledges Reforms and Dialogue after Massive Protests (Video)
Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff pledged to introduce reforms in a televised address after hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets this week. Rousseff also added that she would meet with protest leaders to listen their demands. Rousseff’s pre-recorded speech was broadcasted at 9pm local time on Friday where she said she had an obligation to listen to the voices on the streets and her government would create a national plan for public transportation in cities – a hike in bus and subway fares in many cities was the original complaint of the protests. She also mentioned new reforms…
CIA has been Training the Syrian Rebels, Report Claims
Los Angeles Times reports that CIA operatives and U.S. special operations troops have been secretly training Syrian rebels with anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons in Turkey and Jordan since late last year. White House officials refused to comment on the report, saying only that the U.S. had increased its assistance to the rebellion. According to the report, the covert U.S. training at bases in Jordan and Turkey began months before President Obama approved plans to begin directly arming the opposition to Syrian President Bashar Assad. Progressive Press has revealed this information in May, after the local newspapers in Turkey claimed the…
Google has been Threatened with Criminal Proceedings by UK Privacy Watchdog
The war between privacy and technology continues with new challenges each day. Apparently, UK Government does not like to be exposed, although they were not hesitant to spy on visiting foreign dignitaries’ virtually all digital communications at a few G8 Summits. When UK information commissioner’s office (ICO) realized that Google Street View cars were collecting data on them, mainly images, the organization threatened Google with criminal proceedings if they don’t delete the collected data. ICO is a non-departmental public body which reports directly to Parliament and is sponsored by the Ministry of Justice. Its primary function is in the fields…
Environmental Crisis in Singapore
Singapore is experiencing its worst environmental crisis after the unprecedented levels of air pollution forced the country into a halt on Wednesday. Singapore Government is urging people to remain indoors amid air pollution surging to an all-time high yesterday afternoon and breached a “hazardous” classification that can aggravate respiratory ailments. A smoky haze brought by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia worsened dramatically, causing summer schools to be closed, public transportation to be stopped, even the food-deliveries are hindered. Air traffic controllers at Changi airport were told to take precautions because of lower visibility, and McDonald’s said it had suspended its…
Spain’s “Stolen Babies” Case Hearings Begin (Video)
On June 18, formal hearings started in the Spain’s “stolen babies” case with the testimony from a former hospital manager who gave evidence in scandal surrounding 300,000 stolen newborn babies sold over 40-year period. Most of the mothers were told their babies had been stillborn and few single mothers were coerced into leaving their babies in the hospital with threats of police action. The mothers, often young and unmarried, were told they could not see the body of the infant or attend their burial. In reality, the babies were sold to childless couples whose devout Catholic beliefs and financial security…
Brazilian Protests Largest in 20 Years (Video)
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil’s biggest cities on Monday over widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption. The rallies brought together a wide coalition of people upset about the escalating costs and persistently poor quality of public services, lavish investment on international sporting events, low standards of healthcare, low wages and wider unease about inequality and corruption. The protests are in their early stages, and it’s not clear what the government reaction will be, but the President Dilma Rousseff said that her government was listening to those protesting the high…
Erdogan Met Top CIA Chiefs and Bush before Becoming PM
116 Days in Twilight Translated transcript of the video: On December 12, 1997, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while he was still the mayor of Istanbul, was arrested for citing a poem in Siirt (city), and sent to prison for 10 months. He was charged according to –then- Turkish criminal law, article 312, to incite hate, religious and ethnic division within public. The Supreme Court approved the charges. The decision of the Supreme Court, which was reached with majority of the votes, ended Erdogan’s political life. On November 1998, the State Council, decided to remove Erdogan from his post as the mayor…
BREAKING! UK Government Spied On Allies At TWO G20 Summits (Video)
Bombshell report on the Guardian today claims that the British government spied on politicians and officials who participated in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009, according to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and seen by the Guardian. The report alleges that the UK intelligence agencies monitored foreign politicians and officials through their computers and their phone calls. All correspondence was intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts. Some delegates were tricked into using internet cafes which had been set up by British intelligence agencies to read their email traffic. More from the Guardian: The…
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