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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
White House: Netanyahu, not Obama, responsible for nixed meeting
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House rejected reports saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to meet with President Barack Obama later this month and canceled a planned visit to Washington, D.C., because the president would not accommodate his schedule.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee had invited Netanyahu to address its annual conference March 20-22 in Washington, but he apparently turned down the invitation.
Anonymously sourced Israeli media reports in recent days said Netanyahu had canceled his planned trip because the White House was unwilling to work with his schedule.
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From The Independent
Asylum seeker applications in Europe double to record 1.2 million
From Russia Today
Pentagon mulls more permanent troops in Europe – report
Published time: 7 Mar, 2016 14:15
© Stoyan Nenov / Reuters
The US military is reportedly considering plans for permanent deployment of “one or more” US Army brigade combat teams (BCT) to Europe, as the West continues to ramp up rhetoric over alleged Russian aggression.
The head of the US military’s European Command (EUCOM) and NATO’s supreme commander, Air Force General Philip Breedlove, was said to have discussed his proposals with senior Pentagon officials in Washington last week, according to a defense official familiar with the plans, the Military Times reported on Sunday.
From Russia Today
Angry Calais residents protest in Paris over migrant crisis (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
Published time: 7 Mar, 2016 07:54
@NastiaChurkina / Twitter
Hundreds of Calais residents have arrived in Paris to protest against the deteriorating economic situation in their region, which they say has been caused by the migrant crisis. RT is accompanying the protesters.
“There were many tourists, not only English, but also Belgians. They no longer come. Tourism agencies do not encourage them to go to Calais. It’s sad,” one of the protesters told RT France.
“We’re not racists. We understand they come from poor countries,” another resident added.
There is currently “war” in the city was another opinion. “The situation is dangerous for the whole world,” the resident said.
READ MORE: ‘They won’t disappear’: Refugees flee to safer parts of Calais ‘Jungle’ amid demolition
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From The Independent
The West’s desire to ‘liberate’ the Middle East remains as flawed as ever
- ‘Charles de Gaulle, Chief of the French Free Forces, inspects the French colonial troops during during his visit of a military base in Great Britain, 1941’
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
White House: Netanyahu, not Obama, responsible for nixed meeting
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House rejected reports saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to meet with President Barack Obama later this month and canceled a planned visit to Washington, D.C., because the president would not accommodate his schedule.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee had invited Netanyahu to address its annual conference March 20-22 in Washington, but he apparently turned down the invitation.
Anonymously sourced Israeli media reports in recent days said Netanyahu had canceled his planned trip because the White House was unwilling to work with his schedule.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Uber driver who shouted anti-Semitic epithets in London gets suspended prison sentence
(JTA) — An Uber driver who shouted anti-Semitic epithets at a bus driver in a haredi Orthodox neighborhood of London received a suspended prison sentence.
Rashal Miah, 36, shouted that he would “kill all the Jews “after getting stuck in traffic in Stamford Hill, a haredi Orthodox neighborhood of London, in September, 2014. He also called the driver a “yehudi” and asked him, “What right do you have to tell me what to do in this country?â€
On Sunday, Miah was given a suspended sentence of 26 weeks for the incident and another two weeks for arriving late to court, according to the Jewish News website. He was also required to attend an anger management course and perform 100 hours of volunteer service.
Uber told the London-based Jewish Chronicle that the company had banned Miah. The company said in a statement: “Uber does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind and we were appalled to hear about this incident. Following our own investigations and today’s conviction, we have taken the decision to stop this licensed private hire driver from using the Uber app.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
NRA praises Bernie Sanders for his defense of gun manufacturers
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The National Rifle Association praised presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for saying a law he supported kept lawsuits from driving gun manufacturers out of the United States.
“Sen. Sanders was spot-on in his comments about gun manufacturer liability,” the gun lobby said Monday in a tweet about the Democratic debate the previous evening between Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont, and Hillary Clinton, his rival to be the party’s nominee.
Clinton, who hews to Sanders’ right on most issues, including health care, foreign policy and dealing with Wall Street, has hammered him throughout the campaign on gun control, the one major issue where she stands to his left.
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From Russia Today
Russia condemns ‘unprecedented’ US-South Korea war-games for pressuring Pyongyang
Published time: 7 Mar, 2016 20:15
File photo: U.S. and South Korean marines participate in a U.S.-South Korea joint landing operation drill in Pohang, South Korea © Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters
Large-scale defense drills being conducted by the US and South Korea are an alarming attempt to put military and political pressure on North Korea, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said, while also criticizing Pyongyang’s reaction to the exercise.
“The development of the situation on the Korean peninsula and around it is causing growing concern,” the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Despite being pre-planned, the US-South Korean exercise is “unprecedented in its scale, and the number and types of weaponry being employed,” it stressed.
On Monday, some 15,000 American troops and 300,000 South Korean servicemen commenced the annual drill, which is aimed at testing the militaries’ readiness to counter a North Korean threat.
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From Russia Today
Schengen shell game? EU leaders laud ‘breakthrough’ Turkey refugee deal, Ankara pushes for accession
Published time: 7 Mar, 2016 18:49
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (C) poses with European Union leaders © Yves Herman / Reuters
Turkey and the EU have agreed in principle on an Ankara-proposed plan to deport migrants from Greece to Turkey while resettling the same number of Syrian refugees in the EU. In return, the EU has promised Ankara more funding, but not expedited membership.
The term “potential breakthrough” was common to many of the statements voiced by EU heads of state German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, and European Council President Donald Tusk, after the extended emergency EU meeting over the refugee crisis finally ended early on Tuesday.
Tusk hailed the results of the summit, predicting that the “days of irregular migration to Europe are over.”
“Turkish PM confirmed Turkey takes back irregular migrants apprehended on Turkish waters,” he wrote on Twitter.
“I think we do have the basis for a breakthrough,” Cameron was quoted as saying by Reuters after the EU-Turkey summit in Brussels.
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From Russia Today
Anti-immigrant AfD comes in third in German local elections, mainstream parties ‘terrified’
Published time: 7 Mar, 2016 18:45
An election poster of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party for the upcoming Rhineland-Palatinate federal state elections is pictured in Neuwied near Koblenz, Germany. © Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
The anti-immigrant right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) scored huge gains in local elections in the German central state of Hessen over the weekend, becoming the third strongest political force in the region amid the ongoing refugee crisis.
The anti-immigrant party garnered on average of 13.2 percent of vote throughout the region, coming in behind only Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), which received 28.2 percent, and the Social Democrats (SPD) with 28 percent, according to preliminary election results, as reported by the German media.
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From Russia Today
With truce holding in Syria, Russian military offer assistance in aid deliveries
Published time: 7 Mar, 2016 10:35
© Rodi Said / Reuters
Russian military facilities are offering assistance to humanitarian organizations offering aid to people in Syria, saying their facilities and logistics specialists may be able to resolve the problems they face.
The offer was made on Monday when the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the internationally sponsored truce between rebel groups and the Syrian government in Syria is mostly holding.
“In the current conditions the issues of safe return of civilians to their homes and delivery of humanitarian aid take a higher priority,” the ministry said in a statement. “It’s known that international organizations face difficulties when organizing humanitarian deliveries to Syria, primarily in logistics: storage, packaging, delivery and local distribution.”
Russia has two major sites in Syria, a military base in the port city of Tartus and an airfield south of Latakia. The naval site could be used to store and distribute aid delivered via sea, while the Khmeimim airbase can accommodate transport planes and be used to airdrop shipments to their destinations, the military said.
