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UN experts slam Israel's treatment of human rights defenders in occupied Palestine

RT
Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:46 UTC

United Nations experts have called for an end to the harassment of human right defenders in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, calling the attacks which include physical violence and death threats "unacceptable".

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says human rights defenders in the region are being subjected to abuse, arrest, detention and harassment by the Israeli authorities and settler elements, in what is thought to be a bid to stop their work.

"Amidst a charged and violent atmosphere over past months in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Palestinian and international defenders are providing a 'protective presence' for Palestinians at risk of violence, and documenting human rights violations," said the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst.

Earlier this month UN human rights experts urged the Israeli government to allow for a protective space for human rights defenders to work without restriction and fear.

Israeli authorities had carried out raids on the Youth Against Settlement organisation in Hebron and settlers called for its closure.

"The Center has now effectively been shut down as a result of the Israeli military declaring the surrounding area a military zone," UN Special Rapporteur Makarim Wibisono said.

Wibisono, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, urged the Israeli authorities to lift the military order.

His statement that has been endorsed by the special rapporteur on torture and degrading treatment and the special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly.

Comment: The UN 'slamming' Israel and appealing to those psychopathic bottom dwellers to have some humanity has not been very effective over the years. Israel is guilty of the most heinous war crimes and has violated international law over and over without consequence. Maybe it will take a space rock slamming into the UN building or slamming smack dab on their heads?

Bitter rivals: Pakistani Taliban reject allegiance to Daesh

Sputnik
Sun, 20 Dec 2015 16:02 UTC

The main purpose of the Pakistani Taliban is to overthrow the leadership of the country and establish a Sharia state. However, as reported by the media, the rebels are not going to take the oath of allegiance to Daesh.

Pakistani Taliban, just like Afghanistan's Taliban, have refused to pledge allegiance to the terrorists of Daesh (Islamic State) and their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, newspaper Dawn reported.

No ceasefire yet: 180 Saudi-led troops killed in Yemen's army fires

Southfront.org
Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC

The Arabic-language al-Masirah news website reported that the army, backed by Houthi fighters, launched a Tochka ballistic missile at the military camp in the west-central province of Ma'rib, Yemen on Friday afternoon.

The casualties include the killings of a number of Saudi officers and military personnel. The website had earlier put the toll at 120.

According to a Yemeni source the forces had also fired two Qaher 1 ballistic missiles at the Narjan region in southwestern Saudi Arabia. The source adds that the counterattacks came after Saudi Arabia's violation of the ceasefire.

Following the truce on Tuesday, the kingdom has escalated its heavy bombing of Yemen and forces loyal to pro-Saudi Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi have overrun two towns.

A Yemeni army spokesman announced that Saudi warplanes have conducted more than 300 airstrikes against Yemen since the beginning of the ceasefire.

Germany's Merkel defends Nord Stream-2 pipeline

RT
Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended the planned Nord Stream-2 pipeline that would deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea. The deal is being criticized by Eastern European countries, left out of the project.

"I made clear, along with others, that this is a commercial project; there are private investors," Merkel said Friday.

Russia's Gazprom holds a 50 percent stake in the project. The other 50 percent is divided equally between Royal Dutch Shell, Germany's E.ON and BASF, Austria's OMV and France's Engie.

In September, Gazprom signed a deal to begin construction of Nord Stream-2. It will include two new pipelines that will deliver an additional 55 billion cubic meters to the existing Nord Stream pipeline which bypasses Ukraine.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said the project would cost his country $2 billion annually in transit fees.

320 foreign spies and agents exposed in Russia in 2015 - Vladimir Putin

RT
Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:04 UTC

Foreign intelligence services are increasing their activity in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said stressing that the country is ready to provide an adequate response to the challenge.

Russian counterespionage services have "exposed 320 personnel and agents of secret services of foreign states as well as their accomplices," the Russian President said as he spoke to the Russian secret and security services on their professional holiday.

"We see that intelligence services of some countries are intensifying their efforts... focused on Russia," Putin said expressing confidence that Russian security services "are ready to provide an adequate response to this challenge."

Tony Blair's Faith Foundation reports 65,000 jihadists in Syria ready to replace IS and Assad must stay

RT
Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:56 UTC

The West is making a strategic mistake by focusing its anti-terrorist effort on Islamic State (IS. previously ISIS/ISIL) and overlooking other groups, an upcoming report claims. Sixty percent of fighters in the country can be classified as Islamists and have goals similar to IS.

Those fighters belong to at least 15 other militant groups, which are mostly being ignored by the West, British media cited the Centre on Religion & Geopolitics, a think-tank run by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, as saying.

Fewer than one quarter of the groups surveyed by the center had no ideological agenda, but many of them were willing to fight alongside the Islamists and accept their leadership in a post-war Syria.

"The West risks making a strategic failure by focusing only on IS. Defeating it militarily will not end global jihadism. We cannot bomb an ideology, but our war is ideological," said the report, due to be published Monday, as cited by the Guardian.

Kerry to Russian TV: 'US not after regime change in Syria, but Assad must go'

RT
Sun, 20 Dec 2015 13:45 UTC

The US is not seeking regime change in Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian media on a Moscow trip. However, calling the Syrian president "a magnet for terrorists," Kerry said Bashar Assad cannot stay in the country's "long-term future."

Kerry was interviewed by Rossiya 24 channel during his trip to the Russian capital on Saturday between meetings with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Russian President, Vladimir Putin.

"I am here to talk with President Putin about Syria and our need to join together to stabilize Syria; try to make peace in a way that keeps it as a whole country, and also - most importantly - also destroy Daesh (Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Daesh is a terrorist organization, a threat to all of us. We have a common interest and we need to work together," he stressed.

Comment: Does the US want to see a stronger Russia in order to ramp up the anti-Russia rhetoric that they want to 'rule the world'?

Russia is improving its nuclear arsenal to deter NATO's nuclear insanity

Sputnik
Sun, 20 Dec 2015 13:20 UTC

Russia considers the improvement of its nuclear weapons as a deterrence and security factor, President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary aired Sunday.

The US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe pose a greater threat to Russia than Russia's do to the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary aired on Rossiya-1 television channel.

"The United States has stationed its nuclear weapons in Europe ever since the end of WWII, after it had become a nuclear power. Right now the Americans are simply updating their nukes there."

Comment: Also see: Eighty years ago Edgar Cayce predicted Putin's role in stopping WW3

Hezbollah military commander assassinated in Damascus - Israeli airstrike suspected

RT
Sun, 20 Dec 2015 13:24 UTC

Hezbollah leader Samir Kuntar, of the Palestine Liberation Front, has reportedly been killed in a "terror attack" in Damascus, Syrian state TV said, citing official sources. Hezbollah earlier backed reports that he had been killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike.

Kuntar was reportedly killed in the district of Jermana in the Syrian capital, Syrian TV added.

Damascus radio station Sham FM has reported that Kuntar's body was recovered from under the wreckage of the building.

'I was already packing' - Assad thanks the West for 'allowing' him to stay in power

Sputnik
Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:28 UTC

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad replied in jest to the recent statements of some Western leaders that he was allowed to stay in power in Syria, thanking them for the opportunity to lead his own country of which he's been a legitimate leader ever since the Syrian conflict began in 2011.

In particular, al-Assad laughed at the words of US Secretary of State John Kerry, who gave him "permission" for now to be the Syrian president.

"I'd like to thank them, because I was already packing my suitcases. I was supposed to leave, but now I can stay," al-Assad sarcastically told the Dutch television channel NOS in an interview.

Comment: There Assad goes, proving yet again that he's a man of and for the people. Also see:

Syria's civil war and the uprising against Assad was engineered in Washington

French Republican MP interview with RT: 'It's either Assad or chaos (ISIS)'

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Puppet Masters

UN experts slam Israel's treatment of human rights defenders in occupied Palestine

Bitter rivals: Pakistani Taliban reject allegiance to Daesh

No ceasefire yet: 180 Saudi-led troops killed in Yemen's army fires

Germany's Merkel defends Nord Stream-2 pipeline

320 foreign spies and agents exposed in Russia in 2015 - Vladimir Putin

Tony Blair's Faith Foundation reports 65,000 jihadists in Syria ready to replace IS and Assad must stay

Kerry to Russian TV: 'US not after regime change in Syria, but Assad must go'

Russia is improving its nuclear arsenal to deter NATO's nuclear insanity

Hezbollah military commander assassinated in Damascus - Israeli airstrike suspected

'I was already packing' - Assad thanks the West for 'allowing' him to stay in power

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