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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Democratic debate: Bernie Sanders calls for normalizing ties with Iran
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders, the Jewish senator vying for the Democratic presidential nod, called for normalizing relations with Iran.
“I think what we’ve got to do is move as aggressively as we can to normalize relations with Iran,” Sen. Sanders, I-Vt., said Sunday evening during a debate with his rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Martin O’Malley in South Carolina.
The NBC debate moderators launched the foreign policy section of the debate in its second hour with a request for responses to the formal implementation this weekend of the sanctions relief for nuclear restrictions deal reached last year between Iran and six major powers. On Saturday, U.N. inspectors certified Iran had rolled back its nuclear program and the United States and Europe lifted some sanctions.
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From PressTV
Syria troops seize key militant bastions in Latakia
The Syrian government troops, backed by volunteer forces, have managed to retake full control of several strategic areas from foreign-backed militants in the northwestern province of Latakia.
Syria’s official news agency SANA quoted a senior military source on Sunday as saying that the armed forces took full control of al-Kindeisiyeh and al-Sukkariyeh villages and the surrounding hills on the northern countryside of Lattakia.
The source added that the Syrian army and allies managed to take back the mountains of al-Khanadiq, al-Kindeisiyeh, Kazbar and al-Sindyan in the same volatile region.
Syrian government forces are now defusing the explosive devices and mines left behind by terrorist groups across the region, the source noted.
Several terrorists were reportedly killed during the massive military operation, while the rest fled away towards nearby woods adjacent to Rabiaa town near the Turkish border.
Takfiri terrorists in Latakia, including the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, are largely stationed in the northern and northeastern areas of Jabal Akrad and Jabal Turkman.
The Syrian army also carried out a series of assaults on several militant hideouts belonging to the so-called Jaish al-Fatah (the Army of Conquest) and al-Nusra Front in Kafr Sijneh village and al-Arbaeen Mountain in the southern countryside of northwestern province of Idlib over the past 24 hours.
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From Russia Today
Austria suspends Schengen agreement, steps up border control, tells EU to sort out migrant crisis
Published time: 17 Jan, 2016 05:29
Vienna is radically changing its policy towards migrants and refugees, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told local media. Faymann said that with the new measures introduced at Austria’s borders, the existence of “the whole EU is in question.”
“All refugees must be controlled, economic migrants must be sent to the countries of their origin,” Faymann said in an interview with Austria’s Oesterreich newspaper, to be published on Sunday.
The government is implementing a strict monitoring system for asylum seekers, the chancellor said, adding that, just like in neighboring Germany, its border controls are being tightened, and repatriations of refugees are carried out.
“Anyone who arrives at our border is subject to control,” Faymann said. A valid identity card will now have to be provided to authorities, and those who do not have a right to asylum or have been already rejected by Germany will be denied entry, as will those who don’t intend to apply for refugee status in Austria.
Consequently, the Schengen agreement on open borders is “temporarily cancelled” in Austria, the chancellor said.
“If the EU does not manage to secure the external borders, Schengen as a whole is put into question…Then each country must control its national borders,” Faymann told the newspaper, adding that if the bloc’s external borders are not secured in the near future, “the whole EU [will be] in question.”
“It’s big business and what hasn’t yet been ascertained is who is running this show. A lot of [fake documents] are quite well produced, which means certain groups are actually making a lot of money and causing a lot of problems,” Mallinson said, adding that “it’s very difficult to distinguish between genuine refugees and those – and there are many of them – who are jumping on the bandwagon and coming in [to Europe].”
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From Ynet News
US places sanctions over Iranian missile program
A day after the historic removal of sanctions on Iran, US places new sanctions on Iranian companies and individuals for supplying ballistic missile program.
President Barack Obama on Sunday heralded the implementation of a nuclear deal with Iran, but said he is still steadfast against Tehran’s threat to Israel and others in the region.
The United States on Sunday imposed sanctions on 11 companies and individuals for supplying Iran’s ballistic missile program, the US Treasury Department said, a day after world powers lifted the crippling sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program.
Fromthe Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Association of American Universities re-affirms opposition to Israel boycotts
(JTA) — Days after the American Historical Association decisively rejected a resolution denouncing Israel, the Washington D.C.-based Association of American Universities reaffirmed its opposition to boycotts against Israeli academic institutions.
In a statement issued Thursday, the AAU said it was re-issuing its executive committee’s 2013 statement on boycotts because the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association recently approved a resolution in support of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
The anthropologists’ group’s full membership — more than 10,000 scholars — is to vote on the resolution later this year. The American Studies Association and Asian-American Studies Association have passed similar resolutions.
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From PressTV
25 killed in Gaza Strip by Israeli forces since October 1: Health ministry
From Russia Today
ISIS massacres 280 civilians for ‘cooperation with the Syrian army’ – reports
Published time: 17 Jan, 2016 05:17
Islamic State jihadists have reportedly slaughtered up to 280 people in the Deir ez-Zor province, killing “whole families” for alleged cooperation with the Syrian troops. The killings are said to have taken place a day after Russian humanitarian aid was airdropped in the region.
Local residents told Sputnik news agency the massacre happened in al-Bagilya settlement, an area which received Russian airlifted aid earlier.
“The horrific massacre carried out today by ISIL militants in al-Bagilya in Deir ez-Zor. 280 victims, including women, children and old people. Reason – cooperation with the Syrian army,” a Sputnik source said.
Previously, reports indicated that IS fighters were moving their way up to the northern part of the Deir ez-Zor province.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pope Francis, in visit to Rome synagogue, calls for end to religious violence
(JTA) — Making the third visit ever by a pope to Rome’s Great Synagogue, Pope Francis and Jewish leaders condemned violence in the name of religion and said the extraordinary rapprochement between Jews and Catholics over the past 50 years should serve as a model for other faiths.
“Conflicts, wars, violence and injustices open deep wounds in humanity and call on us to reinforce the commitment to peace and justice,” Francis said Sunday.
“The violence of man against man is in contradiction with any religion worthy of the name, and in particular with the three great monotheistic religions,” he said. “Every human being, as a creature of God, is our brother regardless of his origins or religious belief.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Argentine president receives Nisman daughters on anniversary of his death
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Argentinian President Mauricio Macri received the daughters of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a year after he was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head.
Nisman’s daughters, Iara and Kala, met with Macri on Sunday at his personal weekend house, called Los Abrojos.
Sunday’s meeting with Macri is in contrast with former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who never received Nisman’s relatives and never expressed condolences to the Nisman family. The meeting was announced on Twitter and in the presidential public schedule.
The 20-minute meeting, during which Argentine Masorti Rabbi Marcelo Polakoff prayed in Nisman’s memory, was held without reporters present.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
‘SNL’ mocks Cruz’s ‘NY values’ as anti-Semitic, anti-‘Seinfeld’
After the latest Republican presidential debate, there was speculation in media that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s jibes about “New York values” had sinister undertones.
Cruz’s broadside against the city may have been aimed at his rival and New York City native Donald Trump, but his invocation of values that “are socially liberal, pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage and focus on money and the media” led more than one commentator to wonder whether he was really talking about a certain ethnic group.
On this week’s Saturday Night Live cold open, Taran Killam, playing Cruz at the debate, goes there.
“Instead of celebrating Christmas, New Yorkers celebrate a pagan holiday called Festivus” Killam says. “In New York, people don’t say hi to their neighbors, they say, ‘Hello Newman.’”
Kyle Mooney, playing Fox Business Channel debate moderator Neil Cavuto catches on, identifying tropes originating 20 years ago on “Seinfeld.”
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From Russia Today
Dutch men put on mini-skirts to support victims of sex attacks (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Published time: 17 Jan, 2016 09:01
Hundreds of men have taken to the streets of Amsterdam to express their solidarity with the victims of sex attacks that hit the German city of Cologne and other places in Europe on New Year’s Eve.
The demonstrators braved the January cold in the Dutch capital, marching in mini-skirts, accompanied by female protesters, too.
One of the demonstrators held a banner that read: “Sexual abuse is not a women’s problem.”
“Therefore we are reversing the [roles] and we celebrate the skirt and the freedom that goes with it. We deploy our hairy knees for a free society in which women can walk the streets undisturbed, day and night, on short-skirt day or in the middle of the winter.”
The event’s FB page says 399 people registered to take part in the protest.
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