From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Donald Trump to get big financial boost from Sheldon Adelson, NY Times reports
Sheldon Adelson attending the fourth Annual Champions Of Jewish Values International Awards Gala at Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City, May 5, 2016. (Steve Mack/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sheldon Adelson plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to help elect Donald Trump president, The New York Times reported.
The Jewish casino billionaire, Republican mega-giver and pro-Israel philanthropist last week declared his support for Trump in a Washington post Op-Ed but did not say whether that would mean a cash infusion.
The Times on Friday quoted two Republicans as saying that Trump and Adelson met last week in New York when Adelson was in the city to attend an event of the World Values Network, a Jewish group he helps fund. Adelson said he was ready to spend more than he had in any prior bid to elect a president, even in excess of $100 million, according to the report.
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From PressTV
Turkey covering routine Daesh border crossings from Syria: MP
Leaked phone recordings allegedly show that the Turkish government has permitted over a thousand members of the Daesh terrorist group to cross its borders with Syria.
Turkish Opposition MP Erem Erdem who leaked 422 pages of transcriptions of the conversations to media outlets has accused Ankara of covering up the cross border activities.
The detailed phone conversations, mostly between a known Daesh member, Ilhami Bali, and his associates inside Turkish borders, were obtained from Turkish security forces, RT reported on Saturday.
Bali is a major suspect in a series of bombing attacks in Ankara and the southern Turkish town of Suruc, an ethnically Kurdish town located close to the border with Syria.
During the press conference where he presented the transcribed conversations, Erdem said that “these entries recorded comprehensive information such as which hotel the terrorists are going to stay in, where they will wait for their car, which gas station they will use … how many people and who exactly would be responsible for the preparation of a terrorist attack.”
“Despite the fact that all this information was in the hands of the authorities, the security forces had not carried out any operations to detain terrorists,” he added.
In one of the conversations, Bali asks one of his counterparts how many terrorists have crossed into Turkey, to which his associate replies”1,128.”
In another conversation, Bali vents his dissatisfaction with another Turkish associate.
“What? Are you the one who is responsible that they got arrested? Don’t lie to me! Don’t lie to me. Eighteen people crossed the border last night. Fifteen of them got arrested when you tried to help them,” he said.
On Friday, Syrian intelligence forces captured a haul of medical supplies near Aleppo, which came from Turkey and was destined for Daesh terrorists in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
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From Russia Today
Mass brawl at Moscow cemetery: Hundreds clash, 3 killed, National Guard deployed (VIDEO)
Published time: 14 May, 2016 11:39
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At least three people have been killed and nearly 30 hospitalized in a mass brawl at a Moscow cemetery. Around 200 people – most of them migrants – took part in the fight, reportedly a turf war at the cemetery.
Police and National Guard forces were deployed to deal with the fight at the Khovanskoye cemetery on the southwestern outskirts of Moscow on Saturday.
While many of those involved in the fight were reportedly armed with bats, sticks, and metal bars, gunfire was also heard at the scene, with eyewitnesses saying the shooting lasted at least 15 minutes.
Some of those involved in the fight were armed with Kalashnikov rifles, a source in law enforcement told TASS.
At least 29 people have been hospitalized, TASS reported citing Moscow’s Health Department. Four of them are in critical condition. Three bodies were discovered at the scene.
None of those who were involved in the armed conflict are official cemetery employees, RIA Novosti reported citing Moscow police. Most of them are foreign nationals, who are in Russia illegally, officials said.
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From Russia Today
Germany to spend €93.6bn on refugees until 2020 – report
Published time: 14 May, 2016 10:28
Migrants dance in front of the railway station during the “Rosenmontag” (Rose Monday) parade, the highlight of the annual carnival season in Cologne, Germany February 8, 2016. © Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
The German government will allocate nearly €94 billion for incoming refugees over the next five years. This includes housing, integration, German language courses and social welfare benefits, and dealing with the underlying causes of the refugee influx.
Germany’s Der Spiegel cites a Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) statement, which estimates that the number of asylum seekers entering the country will be around 600,000 in 2016, some 400,000 in 2017 and about 300,000 each consecutive year.
In 2016, the BMF plans to spend around €16.1 billion on migrants; by 2020 annual expenditure is expected to be somewhere in the region of €20.4 billion.
The €93.6-billion expenditure on refugees will come from the federal budget, which means the cost for federal regions could be comparatively high.
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From Russia Today
Austria passes law to shut off border if refugee influx is too great
Published time: 14 May, 2016 09:55
Migrants wait to cross the border from Slovenia into Spielfeld in Austria, February 16, 2016. © Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
A new law giving the Austrian government powers to turn away refugees from its borders has been passed by Austria’s federal chamber. The measure could be introduced if the number of migrants looking to enter Austria threatens national security.
The legislation was comfortably passed 37 votes to 20 by the Austrian federal chamber, after it was given the green light by the larger parliamentary chamber on April 27.
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From Russia Today
Turkish Army shells Kurdish-majority town at Syria border (VIDEO)
Published time: 14 May, 2016 15:11
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The Turkish border town of Nusaybin has been heavily shelled by Turkish government forces as clashes between Ankara and Kurdish separatists intensify in the predominantly Kurdish southeast.
Footage taken from the Syrian city of Qamishli just across the border showed tanks, which are believed to be from the Turkish military, firing rounds as they moved into position.
Footage taken from the Syrian city of Qamishli just across the border showed tanks, which are believed to be from the Turkish military, firing rounds as they moved into position.
Bulldozers were also visible as they demolished buildings in the urban settlement, while there are large plumes of thick black smoke rising into the air. The constant sound of shelling can also be heard.
Violent clashes between the Turkish armed forces and Kurdish separatists have led to numerous deaths on both sides over the last few days. On Friday, Turkish Kurdish fighters reportedly blew up an armored vehicle and damaged a tank, while a day earlier Turkish artillery hit a neighborhood in Nusaybin.
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From Russia Today
Erdogan: West more concerned about ‘animal & gay rights than plight of 23mn Syrians’
Published time: 14 May, 2016 13:12
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan © Murad Sezer / Reuters
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Western countries of being deaf to the plight of millions of people in war-torn Syria. He said they’re more worried about “so-called freedoms, rights, and gay marriage.â€
“Shame on those who deny the sensitivity they show to the whales, seals and turtles in the sea to the right to life of 23 million Syrians,” Anadolu Agency quoted Erdogan as saying.
“Shame on those who put their security, welfare and comforts ahead of other people’s survival,” the Turkish president said, addressing the crowd in the northwestern province of Kocaeli. He added that the West possessed a “mentality to shame, a remnant of slavery and colonialism.”
“Shame on those who in the West divert their sensitivity to the so-called freedoms, rights, and law shown in the debate over gay marriage away from Syrian women, children, and innocents in need of aid,” Erdogan said.
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From PressTV
Syria forces take back hospital from Daesh in Dayr al-Zawr
Syrian government forces have managed to take back a hospital in the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr from the Daesh Takfiri terrorists after thwarting the group’s major offensive on the city.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said on Saturday that the government troops wrested control over the Assad Hospital after several hours of fierce fighting with the Daesh militants.
Russia’s RIA state news agency also quoted a source in the Dayr al-Zawr airport as saying that the Daesh raid on the hospital had been repelled.
Meanwhile, a military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told China’s Xinhua news agency that the Syrian army freed all doctors and nurses taken hostage by the terrorists inside the health care institution.
The recapture came on the same day that Daesh carried out a “major offensive” on the southwestern edge of Dayr al-Zawr, stormed the Assad Hospital and cut the supply route between a Syrian army base and the city’s airport.
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From PressTV
UN must pressure Israel on Palestinians right to return: PLO
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has called on the UN to implement a resolution adopted in 1948 giving Palestinian refugees the right to return to the occupied territories as they are gearing up to commemorate the 68th anniversary of Nakba Day (the Day of Catastrophe).
PLO’s legislative body, the Palestinian National Council (PNC), said in a statement released on Saturday that all refugees must be entitled to the right to come back to their homes as stipulated in the General Assembly Resolution 194, emphasizing that the right is non-negotiable and can never be compromised.
It also censured the crimes and atrocities perpetrated by the Tel Aviv regime against Palestinians, making reference to the extra-judicial killings and torture of Palestinian prisoners as Israel’s consistent hegemonic policy.
Every year on May 15, Palestinians all over the world hold demonstrations to commemorate Nakba Day, which marks the anniversary of the forcible eviction of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland by Israelis in 1948.
More than 760,000 Palestinians – now estimated to number nearly five million with their descendants – were driven out of their homes on May 14, 1948.
On Saturday, hundreds of Palestinians staged a “March of Return” in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa to the site of a Palestinian village, which Israeli military forces razed in 1948.
Arab members of the Israeli Knesset (parliament), activists and local Palestinians made their way to the village of al-Tira, where dozens of Palestinians were slaughtered by Israeli troopers and a large number of houses completely destroyed. Only a few buildings remain in the area, which are either vacant or occupied by illegal Israeli settlers.
Since 1948, the Israeli regime has denied Palestinian refugees the right to return, despite United Nations resolutions and international law that uphold people’s right to return to their homelands.
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From Russia Today
Up in smoke: 45 arson attacks carried out on refugee centers in Germany in 2016
Published time: 14 May, 2016 14:30
Migrants make their way to buses to travel to a different shelter, from a temporary registration centre in the village of Schwarzenborn, northeast of Frankfurt, Germany © Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
German police have recorded 45 cases of arson at refugee centers across the country since the start of 2016. The majority of attacks were carried out by locals living near the centers.
Holger Munch, president of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), revealed the alarming statistics.
“This year there have already been 45 arson cases at refugee centers,” Munch said in an interview with the Funke media group.
Police found that people living near the refugee camps carried out 80 percent of the attacks. However, in April, a Syrian refugee admitted to setting fire to a German shelter where he was staying. He also spray-painted swastikas on the walls to make it look like a political crime.
The asylum seeker said the arson attack in the town of Bingen was in response to poor conditions at the shelter. He wanted to make it look like it had been started by far-right protesters.
“During police questioning, the man admitted that he had set [a] fire in the cellar of the multi-use building,” police spokesman Achim Hansen told NBC News, adding that the refugee had also said he “had a lack of hope for the future.”
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