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Speaking to the Associated Press in Damascus, the Syrian leader denied that the airstrikes carried out by the US near Deir ez-Zor on September 17 were an accident. Sixty-two Syrian soldiers were killed and over 100 were injured, according to the Syrian military. Assad said they were "intentionally" targeted.
"It was not an accident by one airplane; it was four airplanes which kept attacking the position of the Syrian troops for nearly one hour or maybe a little bit more than one hour," Assad told AP, adding they were attacking a large area that "constituted of many hills" adjacent to where the Syrian troops were stationed.
Assad also questioned how IS was able to launch an attack so quickly after the airstrike.
© Sergey Karpukhin People walk past French luxury goods maker Hermes shop window in Russia's landmark GUM shopping centre on the Red Square in Moscow.
The chamber says in the first three months of this year France invested twice as much as Germany, and even the economic sanctions haven't scared off French companies.
"In the first quarter of this year France invested $797 million in the Russian economy while Germany $350 million, and the US $130 million," Shinsky said at the International Business Summit in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod.
© Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters People gather at the site of a Saudi-led air strike in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen September 21, 2016.
The strikes hit the Suq al-Hunod district of the port city, the official in the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi told AFP. The presidential palace was also hit.
Children were among the fatalities photographed at a city mortuary.
Photos from the neighborhood showed residents searching through piles of rubble in search for survivors.
Comment: Britain is also sending Saudi Arabia more weapons while also sending Yemen aid: Fueling murder: Britain to send £100mn in aid to war-torn Yemen while also selling £3bn in arms to Saudis
© Khaled Abdullah / ReutersWorkers and journalists inspect damage at the Alsonidar Group's water pumps and pipes factory one day after it was hit for the second time by Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen September 22, 2016.
International Development Secretary Priti Patel announced Britain will send an additional £37 million (US$48 million) in aid to Yemen this year, bringing the total package to £100 million.
It comes as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson faces calls from two senior MPs to support an independent investigation into whether war crimes have been committed in the Yemen conflict.
Comment: The US is also helping the Saudis: Human rights be damned: US Senate green lights $1.15 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia
© Charles Platiau / ReutersWhere money goes to be relax from all those pesky laws and regulations.
The files - received by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) - contains the names of politicians and other individuals linked to more than 175,000 Bahamian companies, trusts, and foundations registered in the Bahamas between 1990 and 2016.
Among the individual names in the publicly searchable database are politicians, entrepreneurs, financiers and fraudsters, all of whom have taken advantage of the Bahamas' unique positioning as a global tax haven.
Comment: New island, same agenda? See:
- The Panama deception: America is the biggest tax haven in the world
- Journalist asserts Panama Papers are an inside job to eliminate tax haven competitors to the U.S.
- Panama Papers: U.S. intel op to solidify western elite's global domination?
- The "Panama Papers" as multi-tool
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The annual report, presented Wednesday by Iris Gleicke, German federal government's commissioner for eastern German affairs, argues that "xenophobia, right-wing extremism and intolerance pose a very serious threat to the to the social, but also economic development of the 'new' states." It cites a devastating increase in attacks on refugees, saying that they could scare off potential economic immigration.
Compared to the western German states, where an average of 10.5 attacks inspired by right-wing sentiments were committed per 1 million citizens, the numbers are some five times higher in the east.
Comment: Meanwhile even the PEGIDA leader is feeling the heat: Ironic: Anti-refugee PEGIDA leader flees Germany due to 'persecution,' seeks shelter in Tenerife, Spain
© Ina Fassbender / Reuters Supporters of the anti-Islam movement "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West" (PEGIDA).
Lutz Bachmann, founder of the anti-immigrant PEGIDA movement, now claims something in common with the refugees he has been campaigning against, many of whom have gone through leaving their home countries as they can no longer live there.
Bachmann, who in May was found guilty by a German court of spreading hatred toward refugees in a number of Facebook posts, has been living on sunny Tenerife for almost five months, Sachsische Zeitung reported.
Bachmann claims that in Germany his family, including his wife, Vicky Bachmann, is being "persecuted" and there were several attempts to break into their house. He also says their car's engine was tampered with and almost burned out while they were on the road.
Comment: For more on PEGIDA: Modern day Hitler-wannabe launches hate-group Pegida as new political party
Clinton made the comment, suggesting she will not be releasing any further medical information this presidential campaign, in an interview Wednesday with Florida's WFTS ABC Action News.
"Some doctors have said, because of your age, as well as your opponent's age, that you could be at higher risk for dementia or even Alzheimer's and have suggested that you take some neurocognitive test," ABC affiliate reporter Sarina Fazina said to Clinton. "Would you be willing to do that?"
"I'm very sorry I got pneumonia," Clinton replied, letting out a hearty laugh. "I'm very glad that antibiotics took care of it. And that's behind us now. I've met the standard that everybody running for president has met in terms of releasing information about my health."
Comment: Translation: "I'm sick as hell, but I really get a kick out of lying to you and the whole world."
Comment: One of Russia's most respected doctors, Gennady Onishchenko, begs to differ:
Killary cancelled an opportunity to make another $100,000 (i.e., a fundraiser) on Tuesday - our anonymous sources tell us she spent the day losing motor function and getting diagnosed with a bit of that 24-hour pneumonia. This just a day after her brain function short-circuited during a Philadelphia speech, causing her eyes to go all wonky (warning, small children may find the following video frightening):
© Lean Daval Jr / Reuters Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
"I am inviting the United Nations' Ban Ki ... what's the name of that devil? ... Ban Ki-moon," Duterte said, as cited by Reuters.
"I am inviting the EU, send the best lawyers of your own, also the rapporteurs, to come to the Philippines. I will write them a letter to invite them for an investigation."
Since taking office 11 weeks ago, around 3,000 people have been killed during Duterte's crackdown on drug users and suppliers. He called for the UN and EU to "investigate" him, before adding that he would like to pose them questions of his own.
Comment: Further reading:
- SOTT News Snapshot: U.S. 'rebels' defect to ISIS, Russia calls for aid convoy investigation
- SOTT News Snapshot: Did U.S. attack Syrian aid convoy just to blame Putin and Assad?
- SOTT News Snapshot: First Syrians, now Afghans - Americans bomb Afghan police
- SOTT News Snapshot: U.S. provides Daesh air cover, massacres Syrian troops
Full transcript of the interview is available here.