ShareIntl. teams find 'no violations' by Russia along Ukrainian border 27 July 2014 Inspectors who came to check the state of Russian troops along the Ukrainian borders have found no violations, Russia's Ministry of Defense said. This came as a response to the US alleging 15,000 Russian troops have amassed in the area. "It has come to our attention that new allegations by top US officials as to the alleged amassing of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border have been voiced," the statement by the Defense Ministry read, following allegations by the US Permanent Representative to NATO, Douglas Lute, and State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf. "The last four months have witnessed 18 separate inspections along the Ukrainian border with the Russian Federation, all in line with the Vienna Open Skies Treaty and the Vienna agreement of 2011."
ShareHamas Didn't Kidnap and Kill the 3 Israeli Teens After All 25 July 2014 When the bodies of three Israeli teenagers, kidnapped in the West Bank, were found late last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not mince words. "Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay," he said, initiating a campaign that eventually escalated into the present conflict in the region. But now, officials admit the kidnappings were not Hamas's handiwork after all...Repeated inconsistencies in Israeli descriptions of the situation have sparked debate over whether Israel wanted to provoke Hamas into a confrontation.
SharePentagon looking at possible military options for Russia: US general 26 July 2014 Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey says the Pentagon is looking at possible military responses to Russia's [alleged] actions in Ukraine. He said his country is considering military options such as US military "basing, lines of communications, sea lanes" that "we haven't had to look at for 20 years." During his address at the Aspen Institute on Thursday night, he warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin "may actually light a fire" he cannot control.
ShareSecond American volunteer contracts Ebola in West Africa 27 July 2014 An American who was working in Liberia to combat a deadly Ebola outbreak has tested positive for the virus, officials with a Christian charity said Sunday. Nancy Writebol, a married mother of two, was the second American to contract the lethal virus in a week, according to Samaritan's Purse, a Christian crisis-relief group that has been working in the area since the outbreak started in March.
ShareEbola outbreak: Liberia closes most border crossings --Under new measures, public gatherings such as marches and demonstrations will also be restricted 27 July 2014 The Liberian government on Sunday closed most of the West African nation's border crossings and introduced stringent health measures to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola virus that has killed at least 660 people across the region. Speaking at a task force meeting, Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said the government is doing everything to fight the virus including inspecting and testing all outgoing and incoming passengers by Liberia's airport authority.
ShareCongress reaches tentative deal to help fix troubled Department of Veterans Affairs 27 July 2014 The leaders of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees reached a tentative deal Sunday to improve veterans' health care -- a potential solution to help fix such ongoing problems as delays for benefits and long waits for medical treatment concealed by secret lists. The tentative deal would also end speculation about whether Congress would indeed begin a five-week summer recess without a legislative solution amid widespread national outrage over problems within the Department of Veterans Affairs. The committee chairmen, Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., worked through the weekend and have scheduled a press conference for Monday to talk about the tentative deal.
ShareAmerican Doctor Infected With Deadly Ebola; Second US Citizen Also Has Virus 27 July 2014 An American doctor working with Ebola patients in Liberia has tested positive for the deadly virus. Kent Brantly, 33, recognised his own symptoms and confined himself to an isolation ward. Another US citizen has also been infected with the virus, according to the Samaritan's Purse aid organisation, for which Dr Brantly works. The second US citizen is not employed by Samaritan's Purse, its spokesman told Sky News, but was working with their staff in a Monrovia hospital.
ShareObama Calls for 'Immediate' Ceasefire in Gaza 27 July 2014 US President Barack Obama has called Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to urge an "immediate, unconditional" ceasefire in Gaza. Mr Obama "made clear the strategic imperative of instituting an immediate, unconditional humanitarian ceasefire that ends hostilities now and leads to a permanent cessation of hostilities based on the November 2012 ceasefire agreement," the White House said in a statement.
ShareLooking for Sunday's CLG Newsletter? NSAssociate Google Relegated 27 July 2014 CLG Newsletter to the Spam Bin Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 27 July 2014 CLG subscribers: If you use Gmail as your email provider, please go to your spam bin to retrieve Sunday's CLG Newsletter. Perhaps Google did not like the subject line: 'Israeli military resumes Gaza fighting, says Hamas ignored truce.'
ShareIsraeli military resumes Gaza fighting, says Hamas ignored truce 27 July 2014 The Israeli military started fighting again in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, saying Hamas militants had ignored a 24-hour, humanitarian ceasefire requested by the United Nations...Residents in Gaza reported hearing heavy shelling east of Gaza City shortly after the announcement was made.
ShareIsrael extends Gaza ceasefire for 24 hours, Hamas rejects terms 26 July 2014 Israel extended a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip for another 24 hours, but Hamas, which dominates the coastal enclave, said it would only accept the truce if Israeli troops left the territory. Israeli ministers had signaled that a comprehensive deal to end the 20-day conflict with Hamas and its allies, in which at least 1,050 Gazans - mostly civilians - have been killed, and 42 soldiers and three civilians in Israel have died, was remote. "At the request of the United Nations, the cabinet has approved a humanitarian hiatus until tomorrow at 2400 (midnight local time, 1700 EST Sunday)," the official, who was not named, said in a statement after the cabinet session held in Tel Aviv had ended. "The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) will act against any breach of the ceasefire."
ShareF16 fighters scrambled after 'bomb threat' to Sunwing flight from Toronto 26 July 2014 Two US F16 fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Panama City-bound flight from Canada back to Toronto on Friday after a man on the plane apparently threatened to blow up the aircraft, authorities said. Major Julie Roberge of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said the jets flew up to join Sunwing Airlines flight 772 as a "precaution" less than an hour after it took off from Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Video shot by a passenger showed armed Canadian law enforcement officers shouting "heads down, hands up" as they stormed aboard the aircraft in helmets and tactical gear after it was escorted back to Toronto.
ShareMore Bad Luck for Depressed Polar Bear 23 July 2014 As if Arturo's loveless life couldn't get any more sad, Argentina is now refusing to let the bear spend his remaining days in a plush wildlife refuge in Canada. A severely depressed polar bear in Argentina seems destined to stay that way after Argentinian authorities rejected the global petition to relocate him to a better environment in Canada. Addressed to Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the president of Argentina, it had received well over 619,000 signatures. [If the sociopaths won't free Arturo, it's time -- long past time -- for insurgents to free the bear.]
ShareU.S. pulls embassy staff from Libya after militia clashes in Tripoli 26 July 2014 The United States evacuated its embassy in Libya on Saturday, driving its staff under heavy military guard across the border to Tunisia because of escalating clashes between rival militias in Tripoli, the U.S. State Department said. Security in the Libyan capital has deteriorated following two weeks of fighting between brigades of former rebel fighters who have exchanged rocket, cannon and artillery fire in southern Tripoli near the embassy compound.
Share15,000 Russian Troops Reportedly Reach Ukrainian Border 25 July 2014 Reuters has reported that Russia has now amassed 15,000 troops along the Ukrainian border, according to information supplied by a U.S. ambassador to NATO. EuroMaidan offered this photograph from the scene...
ShareGaza death toll soars above 1,000 as ceasefire reveals horrors 26 July 2014 The people of Nazaz street in Gaza City returned home during the 12 hour ceasefire in hostilities not to resume their lives but to bury their dead and pick over the remains of their possessions. The homes that once lined this street in the eastern suburb of Shejaiya have been pulverised beyond recognition. Where once there were crowded apartment blocks, three or four storeys high, now there are fetid heaps of rubble...The Gaza health ministry said that over 100 corpses had been recovered in this period, bringing the total Palestinian death toll since the onset of Israel’s offensive to more than 1,000.
ShareIsrael, Gaza militants agree to a 12-hour truce 26 July 2014 A 12-hour humanitarian truce went into effect on Saturday after Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip agreed to a U.N. request for a pause in fighting, and efforts to secure a long-term ceasefire moved ahead. Israel's military said it would hold fire starting at 8 a.m. (1 a.m. EDT) but would pursue its search for tunnels used by militants. A spokesman for the militant group Hamas, which is dominant in the Gaza Strip, said all Palestinian factions would abide by the brief truce. Fighting had continued overnight as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on a visit to the region, spearheaded international efforts to end 19 days of conflict in which 883 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed.
ShareFukushima monkeys' blood shows signs of radiation exposure 25 July 2014 Wild monkeys living in forests of Fukushima the Japanese city that was the site of a nuclear power plant meltdown in 2011 have lower blood cell counts than monkeys from northern Japan, and carry detectable levels of cesium in their bodies, researchers have found. The researchers studied blood changes and signs of radiation exposure in 61 monkeys living 43 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, about one year after [March 2011]. The results showed Fukushima monkeys had lower counts of red and white blood cells, and other blood parts compared with 31 monkeys from Shimokita Penisula in northern Japan.
Share1.1 trillion becquerels of radioactivity leaked during Fukushima cleanup 24 July 2014 More than 1 trillion becquerels of radioactive substances were released into the environment during debris-clearing work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant last year, according to estimates by Tokyo Electric Power Co. Although TEPCO's stricken facility is estimated to currently emit about 10 million becquerels per hour, the utility said that cleanup efforts at the plant's No. 3 reactor on Aug. 19, 2013, resulted in the release of a maximum 1.1 trillion becquerels of radioactive materials over a period of four hours. The figure was presented at a meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority on July 23.
Share'He had a gun to my head': Released RT stringer Graham Phillips tells of 3-day Ukraine captivity 25 Jul 2014 RT has managed to re-establish contact with Graham Phillips, a news contributor who was captured at Donetsk airport on Tuesday night while covering the Ukrainian conflict. Philips shared firsthand details of his three days in captivity with RT. Phillips said he was deported from Ukraine and banned for three years on the grounds that he works for RT.
ShareUS-backed Nazis, terrorists, and thugs in Ukraine's illegitimate regime: Ukraine's Far-Right Leader Yarosh Wanted by Interpol 25 July 2014 Interpol has put the leader of Ukraine's ultranationalist group Right Sector, Dmytro Yarosh, on an international wanted list at Russia's request. Yarosh is wanted for inciting terrorism and extremism through mass media, according to Interpol's website. Right Sector is widely seen as having been instrumental in the deposition of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February. This did not, however, translate into mainstream popularity for Yarosh, who scored a mere 0.7 percent at the presidential polls in May.
ShareUkrainian Air Defense Exercises Might be Behind Malaysian Aircraft Crash - Source 25 Jul 2014 A system mix up during a Ukrainian air defense units’ rocket launch exercise could be the cause of the Malaysia Airlines crash in southeast Ukraine, a source from one of the Ukrainian defense departments told RIA Novosti. "On July 17 the commanding officer of 156th Anti-Aircraft Regiment was instructed to conduct a training exercise of ground troops stationed near Donetsk, which involved deploying the troops, and carrying out a routine tracking and destroying of targets with the Buk-M1 missile," the source said. The source added that the actual launch of the rockets was not intended.
ShareGaza Officials Accuse Israel of War Crimes at ICC --Officials accuse Israel of "crime of apartheid," "attacks against civilians," "excessive loss of human life" and "crime of colonization" 25 July 2014 Top Palestinian officials have accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza, filing a complaint Friday to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Palestinian Justice Minister Saleem Al-Saqqa and Ismail Jabr, the Gaza court public prosecutor, started legal proceedings via a Paris-based lawyer over the 18 days of fighting between Hamas fighters and Israeli ground forces that's left 800 Palestinians dead -- including hundreds of civilians. Thirty seven Israelis have been killed, 35 of them soldiers.
ShareFrench lawyer sues Israel at ICC over alleged war crimes in Gaza 25 July 2014 A prominent French lawyer says he has filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on behalf of the Palestinian government against the Israeli army. Gilles Devers said that the complaint covers war crimes committed by the Israeli army in June and July 2014 in Palestine...The challenge against the Israeli army at The Hague comes two days after the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution calling for an independent probe into Israel's war crimes in Gaza.
ShareIsrael rejects Kerry Gaza ceasefire proposal: Israeli TV 25 July 2014 Israel on Friday rejected a Gaza ceasefire proposal presented by US Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli public television reported. "The security cabinet has unanimously rejected the ceasefire proposal of Kerry, as it stands," Channel 1 said, adding that ministers would continue discussing it.
ShareFive Palestinians Killed Amid Prayer Lockdown --Israelis are blamed for the deaths on a "day of rage" in the West Bank, as only men over 50 are allowed into a Jerusalem mosque. 25 July 2014 Five Palestinians have reportedly been killed in the West Bank - four shot by Israeli troops and the other by a female settler. Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians in the village of Beit Ummar, near Hebron, medics said. In a separate shooting, Israeli settlers fired on a group of Palestinians near the northern city of Nablus, killing 18-year-old Khaled Oudeh and wounding four others after they threw stones at their car, security officials said.
ShareIDF determines Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul, previously considered missing, is dead 25 Jul 2014 The IDF determined on Friday that Givati Brigade soldier Staff Sergeant Oron Shaul died in battle, and defined him as "a soldier killed in action whose burial site is unknown." In the case of Staff Sergeant Oron Shaul, the evidence was collected from the APC that was attacked last Sunday.
ShareIsrael bans radio ad listing dead children's names 25 July 2014 It is the radio advertisement Israeli authorities do not want their citizens to hear. In a quiet voice, a woman speaking in Hebrew reads the names and ages of just a few of the more than 190 Palestinian children killed in Gaza in the last two weeks of intensive Israeli air strikes. Describing the ad's content as "politically controversial", the Israeli Broadcasting Authority banned the 1 minute, 25-second spot produced by local human rights group B'Tselem.
ShareAustralian soldiers to back up police in securing Ukrainian site of MH17 crash --As well as backing up police, ADF personnel will help liaise with military elements from partner countries 25 July 2014 A small number of Australian soldiers will be deployed to back up police charged with 'securing' the crash site of MH-17 in Ukraine. Prime Minister Tony Abbott is expected to make the announcement at a press conference on Friday afternoon, Fairfax Media has learnt. The announcement follows the revelation on Thursday afternoon that 50 Australian Federal Police officers have flown to London awaiting deployment to Ukraine as part of an international force to secure the site...The number of Australian Defence Force soldiers is expected to be fewer than the number of police because of the sensitivity of placing military personnel so close to the border with Russia.
ShareAustralian deployment to Ukraine imminent --190 Australian troops on standby for deployment in Eastern Ukraine 25 July 2014 The federal government is close to finalising an agreement with the Ukrainian government, to deploy federal police officers to the MH17 crash site. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the deployment would include Australian Defence Force personnel alongside AFP officers. Some of the police officers may be armed and a further 100 are set to travel to Europe to join 90 who have already arrived in Europe.
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