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'This is state terror': Foes & allies criticize Israel's heavy handed force in wake of embassy move


RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 18:03 UTC
Protest
© Reuters 28A pro-Palestinian protest in Istanbul on Monday.
Russia, France, and the UK have expressed consternation over the legality of the US Embassy moving to Jerusalem, and Israel's heavy-handed response to the clashes it has provoked, which have reportedly caused over 50 deaths.

"We have publicly criticized the move multiple times," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. "International resolutions declare that the status of Jerusalem - one of the most important issues of the entire peace process - must be resolved in direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine."

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian also said that Donald Trump's decision, made last December, "violated international law,"but expressed particular alarm at IDF tactics.

"France calls on all actors to show responsibility to prevent a new escalation," Le Drian said in a statement. "France again calls on the Israeli authorities to exercise discernment and restraint in the use of force that must be strictly proportionate."
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12 civilians killed, 25 injured in car bomb explosion in Idlib, Syria


Al Bawaba
Sun, 13 May 2018 20:24 UTC
Idlib bomb attack
At least 12 civilians were killed and another 25 injured in Syria's Idlib province from a bomb attack on Saturday, according to the White Helmets Civil Defense.

Mustafa Haj Youssef, director of the White Helmets in Idlib, said that a bomb-laden car exploded in front of a hospital in the city center.

The blast also damaged nearby houses and vehicles, Youssef added.
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Canadian government sued for subjecting indigenous children to years of medical experimentation

Ashifa Kassa
The Guardian
Fri, 11 May 2018 20:01 UTC
Class-action suit filed on behalf of thousands of people allegedly subjected to medical tests without consent in the mid-20th century

Canadian indigenous medical experiments
© Alberta Provincial ArchivesA teacher with students during the 1960s at the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton, Alta., one of 29 facilities named in a class-action lawsuit.
A class action lawsuit has been filed in a Canadian court on behalf of the thousands of indigenous people alleged to have been unwittingly subjected to medical experiments without their consent.

Filed this month in a courtroom in the province of Saskatchewan, the lawsuit holds the federal government responsible for experiments allegedly carried out on reserves and in residential schools between the 1930s and 1950s.

The suit also accuses the Canadian government of a long history of "discriminatory and inadequate medical care" at Indian hospitals and sanatoriums - key components of a segregated healthcare system that operated across the country from 1945 into the early 1980s.

"This strikes me as so atrocious that there ought to be punitive and exemplary damages awarded, in addition to compensation," said Tony Merchant, whose Merchant Law Group filed the class action.

Comment: The vast scale of experimentation on unwitting populations throughout the world is shocking:

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Bad Guys

Russian Deputy FM: More than 4,000 Russian citizens fighting on side of terrorists in Syria


TASS
Thu, 10 May 2018 19:22 UTC
Terrorists
© Valeriy Sharifulin/TASS

Bringing terrorists to justice is a top priority, a diplomat stresses

More than 4,000 Russian citizens are fighting on the side of the terrorists in Syria and will be criminally prosecuted upon return to Russia, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov in his speech at a counter-terrorism conference of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

"Russia's law enforcement authorities are currently monitoring more than 4,000 Russian citizens who left the country to participate in armed gangs [in Syria,]" he said.
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Pirates

Israeli snipers shot Palestinian woman after winning Eurovision award for women's rights song

Robert Inlakesh
Al Masdar News
Sun, 13 May 2018 18:49 UTC
Palestinian demonstrators
A Palestinian woman has died in hospital after being shot by an Israeli Sniper near the Gaza border. The woman murdered today is the 53rd peaceful demonstrator to have been killed by Israeli forces since the 30th of March.

Alaa Asad Al Swafari, a 26 year old peaceful demonstrator, was shot by an Israeli Sniper in the East of Gaza today. Alaa was reportedly being treated in a Gaza hospitals intensive care unit before she was later declared dead by the Palestinian Health Ministry.

This murder comes a day after Israel claimed victory in a Eurovision competition, for a song that claimed to advocate for "women's rights".

Comment: See also: Propaganda: Israeli winner adds political jab to Eurovision Song Contest

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Chess

Do as we say, not as we do: Brexit Britain to encourage wannabe EU countries to join the bloc


RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 11:19 UTC
UK Flag
© Alberto Pezzali/ Global Look Press
The UK is planning to host a meeting where it will brag about EU perks to encourage six countries to join it, despite the fact Prime Minister Theresa May is officially signing off on her country's withdrawal from the bloc.

In July, the government plans to host candidate governments from the Western Balkans, including Serbia and Albania, to discuss how the bloc is essential to their flourishing.

A spokesperson for Brexiteer Boris Johnson's Foreign Office told the Independent that: "We remain of the view that the EU accession process is important to delivering security, stability and prosperity in the Western Balkans."
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Flashlight

Missing 411? Search operations ongoing for Nimitz sailor missing in Washington state national forest since May 4

Geoff Ziezulewic
Navy Times
Sat, 12 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Jerehmiah Adams, missing411
© NavyElectrician's Mate, Nuclear Power 2nd Class Jeremiah Adams of the aircraft carrier Nimitz went missing on May 4, when he went hiking alone in the Olympic National Forest.
Officials continued to search Friday for an aircraft carrier Nimitz sailor who has been missing since May 4, when he went hiking in a Washington state national forest and never returned.

Electrician's Mate Nuclear Power 2nd Class Jeremiah Adams went out alone for a day hike in the Olympic National Forest, according to police.

His friends got worried when he didn't show up for a hike last Saturday, and they called the sheriff's office on Monday when he didn't show up for work, according to Clallam County Sheriff's Deputy Brian King.

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Ex-UNHRC official says US is 'totally unconcerned about loss of Palestinian lives'


RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 16:18 UTC
march of return protest gaza
© Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / ReutersPalestinian demonstrators take cover from Israeli fire and tear gas.
The Trump administration knew that protests against the relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem were likely to occur, but is unconcerned about the loss of Palestinian lives, international law professor Dr. John Dugard told RT.

Israeli forces killed dozens of Palestinian protesters on Monday, but the White House is "totally unconcerned about the loss of life on the part of Palestinians," said Dugard, a former special rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council concerning Palestinian affairs. He added that the US knew such protests against the embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would likely occur, and that the US "must accept prime responsibility for what is happening in Gaza."

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Stock Up

Thundering into action: China's petro-yuan takes off as Iran ditches US dollar for yuan in oil trade


RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 11:14 UTC
China Dragon
© Jason Lee / Reuters
Washington's renewed sanctions on Tehran supports China's newly established oil futures, analysts say. The sanctions can make the yuan a more preferable currency than the dollar on the oil market.

Since their launch in May, the interest in the renminbi-backed oil contracts has steadily surged. Traded daily volumes hit a record 250,000 lots last Wednesday, and the share of yuan contracts in global trading jumped to 12 percent compared to eight percent in March.

"The contract is thundering into action," said Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia/Pacific at futures brokerage OANDA in Singapore, as quoted by Reuters. "It makes sense for Iran to begin selling oil under contracts denominated in yuan rather than dollars.

Comment: The petro-yuan and gold: Dollar's 70-Year dominance dying slow death

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Israeli fighter jet hits Hamas targets in Gaza amid ongoing protests


Sputnik
Mon, 14 May 2018 15:27 UTC
Israeli F-16 fighter jet
© Amir Cohen / Reuters


The situation along the Israel-Gaza border is agitated by the ongoing mass protests of about 15,000 Palestinians against the US Embassy's relocation to Jerusalem.

"A fighter jet struck five terrorist targets in a military training facility belonging to the Hamas terror organization in the northern Gaza Strip," a military statement said. "The strike was conducted in response to the violent acts of the last few hours being carried out by Hamas along the security fence."

Comment: It has been a sad day for Palestine:

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