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Report of third US citizen arrested, remains detained in N. Korea


RT
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 13:00 UTC
Security officials and ground staff check passengers at Pyongyang's airport
© Damir Sagolj / Reuters
A third US citizen has been arrested and remains in custody in North Korea, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.

A Korean-American professor in his 50s, identified by the surname Kim, was detained at Pyongyang International Airport just as he was leaving North Korea, the agency said, citing unidentified sources.

The academic, who used to work at the Yanbian University of Science and Technology, was working on aid and relief programs for the country and had spent a month in North Korea to discuss those plans in further detail.
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OSCE chairman reports monitor killed in eastern Ukraine after mission car hits mine


RT
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 12:53 UTC
Vehicles of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
© Sergey Averin / Sputnik
A car belonging to the OSCE's Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) exploded after driving over a mine in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic in the country's east. One of the monitors was killed, the organization's chairman has confirmed.

The OSCE's current chairman, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, tweeted his condolences after the incident.


Comment: Ukrainian FM Calls for Donbass OSCE SMM's Car Blast Investigation
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin called on Sunday for a thorough investigation into the explosion that hit the car of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine.

Earlier in the day, law enforcement officials of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), said an explosion of the observers' car occurred near Pryshyb settlement in the Luhansk region and as a result, one SMM member was killed. According to the OSCE, two other observers were injured.

"Thorough investigtn of @osce_smm auto tragedy in occupied territory of Donbas. Safety&freedom of movement must B ensured accord.2 mandate," Klimkin wrote on his Twitter page.
My condolences to the family of the victim, loved ones&whole @osce_smm team. We will provide all necessary medical assistance to wounded.
He also expressed his condolences to the family of the killed SMM member and promised that the injured persons would be provided with all necessary medical assistance.
Those Responsible for OSCE SMM's Car Blast Must Be Punished - Poroshenko
Those responsible for the explosion that hit the car of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine must be punished, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Sunday.

"This crime must be investigated and those responsible must be punished. I told the foreign minister to be in constant coordination with the OSCE. The Ukrainian side condemns all forms of permanent obstruction to the work of the OSCE SMM by militants. Its security and freedom of action must be guaranteed," Poroshenko wrote on his Facebook page.

He also expressed his condolences to the family of the killed SMM member and ordered to provide the injured people with necessary medical assistance.


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Trump will 'alienate Alt-Right forever' by going after Assange

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:56 UTC
TRUMP
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
The cool thing about having a predominantly lefty readership is that when I want to criticize the Democratic establishment or the liberal mass media, the people who read my stuff tend to understand the history and nuances behind what I'm talking about. I don't get a lot of right-wing idiots coming in calling Democrats "leftists" or saying Rachel Maddow looks like a dude hurr hurr hurr; I get mostly intelligent responses and understanding, along with some fair and informed criticism of my own progressivism.

The shitty thing about having a predominantly lefty readership is that when I try to talk about the anti-establishment left's counterparts on the political right, people have no idea what I'm talking about, because we've got our own echo chambers just like other groups have. When I say the alt-right is overwhelmingly opposed to military interventionism and regime change wars, or that it was understandable for them to hope that Trump was going to drain the swamp, bitch slap the globalists and stand up to the deep state, I get a lot of pushback from people who insist that they're nothing but a bunch of stupid racist warmongering fascists who value nothing but power and money. And when I say that they are mostly decent people with a solid moral code who will not hesitate to turn against Trump if he steps out of line, I'll likely get people arguing that the Trumpsters will stay loyal to their God Emperor no matter what. Those people will be wrong, and they should spend less time in the lefty echo chamber.
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Pentagon claims they killed Uzbek IS operative behind Istanbul nightclub attack


RFE/RL
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:56 UTC
Istanbul Attack
© Umit Bektas/Reuters At least 35 were killed, 40 injured when shooters dressed as Santas attacked a nightclub in Istanbul.
The United States said on April 21 that it killed an Islamic State operative who was a close associate of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and linked to an attack on a Turkish nightclub that left 39 people dead.

Abdurakhmon Uzbeki, who was believed to be from Uzbekistan, was killed during a secret ground operation near Mayadin, Syria, on April 6, said Colonel John Thomas, a spokesman for the U.S. military's Central Command.

Thomas said Uzbeki helped facilitate the attack on the exclusive Istanbul nightclub Reina on New Year's Eve. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for Turkey's military involvement in Syria.

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Israel provides air cover for Al Qaeda (again) - Drones launch airstrikes on Syrian soldiers fighting terrorists

Sophie Mangal
Sott.net
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 09:50 UTC
israel airstrike syria
The details of an Israeli Air Force attack on the position of the Syrian Arab army (SAA) in the in Quneitra Governorate have been disclosed.

It turns out that Israeli aviation attacked the Syrian government troops with unmanned aerial vehicles. The soldiers of SAA's 90th Infantry Brigade were under fire.

The Israeli Air Force planes launched a missile attack at the positions of the Syrian army in the Khan Arnabeh district of Quneitra Governorate. It was reported earlier that the blow was carried out to the east of the village of Ein Ayshaa.

Two missiles were fired at 6:45 pm while government forces were repulsing Al-Qaeda attacks in the vicinity of the city of Quneitra.
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SOTT Focus: BBC shows its faith in al-Qaeda after terror attack kills 126 in Aleppo

Paul Mansfield
Sott.net
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:00 UTC
Syria bus attack
The BBC truly outdid itself with a vile piece of fake journalism on the occasion of the recent horrific deaths of 126 people, including 68 children, on buses taking people out of the US-backed jihadi-besieged towns of Foua and Kefraya in Syria.

The very first thing to be said is that the BBC in the above-linked article makes absolutely no reference to terrorism. It doesn't use the words 'terrorists' or 'terrorism' even once. The only thing we get is "bomb attack", "attack" or "bus attack". We should all justifiably be outraged that the innocent civilians of this heinous act aren't even afforded the dignity of being named victims of terrorism.

The article makes no comments on the horror of children's suffering who made up over 50% of the deaths. Apart from the description of 68 killed, the only reference to this attack being unconscionable is a quote from Pope Francis, saying it was a "vile attack on fleeing refugees".
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WikiLeaks witch hunt: German chancellery reportedly under investigation for whistleblowers


RT
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:50 UTC
top secret breifcase
© ferrantraite / Getty Images
Prosecutors are set to scrutinize the staff of the German chancellery in an attempt uncover insiders who may have leaked thousands of secret files to WikiLeaks that exposed spying cooperation between the NSA and BND, local media reported.

Berlin's prosecutor general office has extended an ongoing investigation into how gigabytes of secret documents ended up with WikiLeaks, German media reported. According to reports in some German media, the investigation will now scrutinize employees of Angela Merkel's chancellery, as well as the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament.

Government sources told Reuters that the chancellery had agreed to allow the investigation into "unknown persons," but added there are no firm suspicions about specific officials.
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Der Spiegel reports German foreign intelligence spied on Interpol for more than a decade


RT
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:43 UTC
Computer screen
© Silas Stein / Global Look Press
The German Foreign Intelligence Service (BND) has been snooping on the offices of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) all over the world for many years, Germany's Der Spiegel reports, citing a confidential report.

The BND spied not only on Interpol headquarters in the French city of Lyon, but also on a number of the organization's liaison offices located in Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy and the US, the German magazine reports, citing the report it had seen, adding that the agency carried out its surveillance activities on Interpol since at least 2000.

In total, more than a dozen Interpol offices located in various regions of the world, ranging from Russia to Latin America, were under BND surveillance. The agency included the email addresses, phone and fax numbers of Interpol officers working in these offices on its surveillance list, helping its agents find data related to the activities of Interpol investigators on the internet.
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Serbia warns of new Balkan war if Albania unites with Kosovo over EU membership


RT
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:37 UTC
Balkan flags
A senior Serbian government official warned that another war may break out in the Balkans if Albania tries to establish a union with the breakaway region of Kosovo, urging the West to denounce the plan.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said that the mooted unification between Albania and Kosovo "will remain only wishful thinking," and called on the EU to react. "If I said that all Serbs should live in one state, I would be hanged from a flagpole in Brussels," Vucic added.
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N. Korea accuses Australia of 'blindly toeing US line,' threatens nuclear strike


RT
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:32 UTC
N. korea missile system
© Damir Sagolj / Reuters
North Korea has warned Australia of a possible nuclear strike if it continues to "blindly and zealously toe the US line." It comes after Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Pyongyang poses a "serious threat" to peace and stability in the region.

"If Australia persists in following the US moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and remains a shock brigade of the US master, this will be a suicidal act of coming within the range of the nuclear strike of the strategic force of the DPRK," a spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry said, as quoted by the official KCNA news agency.

The threat comes after Bishop said earlier this week that North Korea is on a "path to achieving nuclear weapons capability," posing an "unacceptable" risk to the region. She added that its efforts must be stopped by the international community.
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