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Court rules to arrest three Turkish soldiers for beating Syrian refugees


Sputnik
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:54 UTC
Turkish soldiers
© AFP 2017/ BULENT KILIC
A Turkish court decided to arrest three Turkish soldiers who assaulted, both physically and verbally, four Syrian refugees attempting to cross the border illegally, local media reported on Tuesday.

According to the Hurriyet Daily News outlet, one more soldier was released following the investigation carried out by the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of the district of Altınozu in the Hatay Province, where the incident occurred.
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Macron and Libya: The Rothschild connection

Manlio Dinucci
Voltaire Network
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:44 UTC
Macron with Libyan leaders
"What is happening today in Libya is the nub of a destabilization program holding a myriad of complexities". So declared President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee, as he concluded an agreement that "paves the way for peace and national reconciliation".

Macron's message is that terrorist movements are the single cause for the chaos in which Libya now finds itself; terrorist movements that "exploit the political instability and the economic and financial resources that may exist in Libya to allow it to flourish". This is why - he concludes - France will give Libya a helping hand to block the terrorists. [Mauvaise foi!] This statement by Macron is actually turning the situation on its head. France was in fact a manipulator in destabilizing Libya. And did she act alone? Hell no! Her accomplices were the United States, NATO and the Gulf Monarchies. The proof?
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Donald Trump Jr. sought advice from his dad after Russian lawyer meeting

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:36 UTC
Trump Trump Jr
According to The Washington Post, US President Donald Trump advised his son with a statement which claimed Trump Jr. had met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya to discuss adoption during his flight home, after attending the G20 summit in Germany.

US media is reporting that the statement prepared by father and son was "misleading", as emails later released by Trump Jr., himself prove that Trump Jr., took the meeting after being suckered into it via an email from British pop music promoter Rob Goldstone, and being promised that the Russian lawyer has some information on Hillary Clinton.

The CIA, Jeff Bezos funded Washington Post reports...
Over the next three days, multiple accounts of the meeting were provided to the news media as public pressure mounted, with Trump Jr. ultimately acknowledging that he had accepted the meeting after receiving an email promising damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to help his father's campaign.

The extent of the president's personal intervention in his son's response, the details of which have not previously been reported, adds to a series of actions that Trump has taken that some advisers fear could place him and some members of his inner circle in legal jeopardy.
The meeting lasted 20 minutes, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was indeed interested in talking about adoption laws as related to the Magnitsky Act sanctions, but it appears baited Trump Jr., with Hillary intel in order to secure the meeting.

Comment: See also: The White House offered this in response:
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump only "weighed in, offered suggestions, like any father would do."

She said Trump Jr.'s statement to the press when the meeting was first disclosed last month was true and there was "no inaccuracy" in it.


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We stole it fair and square! Israel rules out handing over Golan Heights to Syria


Sputnik
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:40 UTC
Golan Heights
© REUTERS/ Alaa Al-Faqir
Israeli Ambassador to Russia Gary Koren said in an interview with Sputnik on Tuesday that Israel is not going to negotiate on the issue of the Golan Heights that were seized by Israelis from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.

Israel does not plan on returning the country's northern Golan Heights region to Syria, Koren told Sputnik, commenting on the central roadblock in long-standing conflict between Israel and Syria.

"According to our legislation, the Golan Heights are an independent part within Israel. If anyone keeps thinking that this question has yet to be discussed, it is naive of them. In the past, during the tenure of [former Israeli Prime Minister] Ehud Barak's government, we tried to hold talks, explore the opportunity of talks with [former Syrian president] Hafez Assad, but it did not take us anywhere. Well, thank God it failed. If we had returned the Golan Heights, we would now have Hezbollah and Iranian soldiers over the the Kinneret lake," Koren said.
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New Trump Chief of Staff reportedly reaches out to top Dems to try and save White House agenda

Lachlan Markay, Asawin Suebsaeng, Andrew Desiderio and Sam Stein
The Daily Beast
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:35 UTC
john kelly
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Fresh off a stinging health-care defeat and with internal chaos embroiling the Trump administration, White House aides are signaling newfound openness to working with congressional Democrats-or, at least, to alleviating some of the toxic partisan differences that have marked their tenure.

Sources in the administration say an outreach campaign by newly minted chief of staff John Kelly is in the works to rebuild some bridges and, potentially, chip away at the unified Democratic opposition to President Donald Trump's agenda. Even before he formally started the job, Kelly was reaching out to top Capitol Hill Democrats in hopes of regaining political capital ahead of what is expected to be a bruising fight over tax reform and other administration priorities.

"Tax reform is gonna be a heavy lift," a senior White House official told The Daily Beast. "No reason to write off/alienate [Democrats] any more than we already have."
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Moscow denies banning US diplomatic staff from their compound ahead of deadline


RT
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:24 UTC
russia usa
Russia has not barred US diplomatic staff from retrieving their belongings from the suburban residence at Serebryany Bor on the outskirts of Moscow, a foreign ministry source said, refuting claims that access to the recreational compound had been denied ahead of the deadline to vacate the premises.

On Monday, American embassy spokeswoman Maria Olson told RIA and Reuters that US diplomatic staff had been blocked from entering the Serebryany Bor recreational compound for two days, despite being allowed to use the so-called Dacha until noon Tuesday.

The accusations by the US diplomatic staff is a "deliberate provocation," a source from the Russian foreign ministry told RIA after the news agency reached out for an official comment.
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Facts, fiction and weapons: Iran's real role in the Yemen conflict


Sputnik
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:26 UTC
Yemen soldier
© REUTERS/ Abduljabbar Zeyad/File PhotoA soldier walks at Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen May 10, 2017
Despite the constant stream of rumors about Iran allegedly supplying weapons to conflict-ridden Arab states and meddling in the affairs of its neighbors, it appears that Tehran plays a different role in Middle Eastern affairs.

Tehran is frequently accused by certain parties of meddling in the affairs of its neighbors, supporting terrorist groups in the Middle East and, last but not least, of secretly supplying weapons to the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

However, it seems that these stories about Iranian vessels allegedly ferrying deadly cargo across the Gulf of Oman to the Houthi forces in Yemen may be just that - unfounded stories disseminated by Iran's rivals.
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Senior House Republican calls on Mueller to resign as special counsel over friendship with Comey


Fox News
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:26 UTC
Rep. Trent Franks
Rep. Trent Franks
A senior Arizona congressman is calling on Robert Mueller, special counsel for the Justice Department's investigation into Russia's election meddling, to resign.

Rep. Trent Franks, a Republican who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement Tuesday that Mueller is in violation of the law that prohibits Mueller from serving as a special counsel if he has a conflict of interest.

Mueller and former FBI Director James Comey have been longtime allies dating back to 2003 when the men both worked in Washington, Mueller as the FBI Director and Comey as Deputy Attorney General. Franks cited the pair's relationship as a reason for Mueller to be disqualified from the probe.
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Wasserman Schultz's 'IT expert' Awan had access to email of every member of Congress - may have sold secrets to foreign agents

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:16 UTC
Imran Awan Debbie Wasserman Shultz
Imran Awan worked for Debbie Wasserman Schultz for thirteen years since she came into office in 2004 as a Florida representative. She only fired him this past week and would have kept paying her "IT expert" even when he was living in Pakistan.

Three Pakistani brothers who managed the IT affairs for several Democratic government officials were relieved of their duties in February on suspicion that they accessed specific computer networks without permission, also known as hacking.

Imran Awan, who started working for Wasserman Schultz in 2005, received $164,600 in 2016, with close to $20,000 of that coming from Wasserman Schultz.

His brother Jamal, who started working as a staffer in 2014, was paid $157,350.12 in 2016. Abid, who started working in 2005, was paid $160,943 in 2016.

Imran's wife, Hina Alvi, who was employed as a staffer since February 2007, was paid 168,300 in 2016. Rao Abbas was paid $85,049 in 2016.

Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives in February.
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Deep state: Macron told before becoming president to forget about EU Army and remember Anglo alliance


RT
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:13 UTC
Emmanuel Macron
© Charly Triballeau / Reuters
Emmanuel Macron was warned a month before he announced his bid for the French presidency that maintaining military ties with Britain is far more important than the planned EU-wide defense pact, according to emails published by WikiLeaks.

In the emails, a senior adviser warns Macron that France will be caught between the urge to maintain defense ties with the UK and pressure to fully enact the EU integrated defense plans known as the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP).

In one message sent in October by Macron's industrial adviser, Hervé Grandjean, to his chief speechwriter, Quentin Lafay, Grandjean warns: "Brexit will necessarily have potentially contradictory effects on bilateral cooperation.

Comment: See also: WikiLeaks releases over 21,000 'verified' Macron campaign emails

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