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From The Independent
Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton ‘killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity’
Donald Trump has claimed in an interview on Fox News Sunday that Hillary Clinton “killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity” during her tenure as Secretary of State.
When asked to defend his accusation, Mr Trump said: “The Middle East is a total disaster under her… look at Iraq, total disaster. They didn’t get us in – but they got us out, badly…”
“Look at Libya, look at Benghazi. Our ambassador wired her five or six hundred times – but she’ll take her friend’s call every time.”
“Hillary Clinton does not have the judgement, the strength or the stamina to be President. She would be a terrible President.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
After talking Israel with Trump, Adelson calls GOP front-runner ‘charming’
(JTA) — The casino magnate and Republican Party donor Sheldon Adelson praised Donald Trump’s charm following a meeting, in which the two men discussed Israel, among other subjects.
Adelson met Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for the presidential elections, earlier this week in Las Vegas, Reuters reported Friday. Adelson spoke about the meeting in Macau, China, saying he had not decided which candidate to back in the presidential race.
“It was very nice,” Adelson, who is Jewish and an outspoken supporter of Israel, told Reuters when asked about the meeting. “He was very charming.” Adelson added that the pair had discussed Israel.
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From Russia Today
‘US not after regime change in Syria, but Assad must go’ – Kerry to Russian TV
Published time: 20 Dec, 2015 01:56
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry © Mandel Ngan / Reuters The US is not seeking regime change in Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian media on a Moscow trip. However, calling the Syrian president “a magnet for terrorists,” Kerry said Bashar Assad cannot stay in the country’s “long-term future.”
Kerry was interviewed by Rossiya 24 channel during his trip to the Russian capital on Saturday between meetings with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
“I am here to talk with President Putin about Syria and our need to join together to stabilize Syria; try to make peace in a way that keeps it as a whole country, and also – most importantly – also destroy Daesh (Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Daesh is a terrorist organization, a threat to all of us. We have a common interest and we need to work together,” he stressed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) welcomes U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia December 15, 2015 © Sergey Karpukhin / Reuters
According to the Secretary of State, it was very important for the Russian people to understand the American approach to the Syrian crisis.
“We are not trying to do a regime change. We are not engaged in a color revolution. We’re not engaged in trying to interfere in another country … We’re trying to make peace,” he explained.
However, Kerry reiterated Washington’s stance that Assad must leave his position for peace in Syria to be achieved.
“Russia can’t stop the war with Assad there because Assad attracts the foreign fighters. Assad is a magnet for terrorists, because they’re coming to fight Assad,” he said.
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From Russia Today
‘Like a warzone’: Truck drivers at Calais fear for their lives as angry refugees attack
Published time: 19 Dec, 2015 11:09
Frustrated with heightened security and finding it ever harder to cross into the UK, migrants in the French port of Calais have been attacking truck drivers. RT’s Polly Boiko joined one driver for a Calais-Dover trip to get the lowdown on the risks they face.
Veteran truck driver Tony Fox, who took an RT film crew for a drive to Calais, says he hasn’t felt such fear for his safety in his 40 years of experience.
“I’m a prime target, because I’m on English plates. So they know I’m English.”
There’s a high police presence around the migrant camp at the border. But the drivers still have to make it through a passage lined with migrants at the roadside, throwing large rocks.
© / RT
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From Russia Today
ISIS stole sarin gas from Libya stores & has already used it, Gaddafi’s cousin tells RT
Published time: 19 Dec, 2015 08:18
© Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters
Islamic State militants have managed to steal chemical weapons from underground storage facilities in Libya that were not properly guarded and the gas has already been used, a cousin of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told RT Arabic in an exclusive interview.
“ISIS has managed to find some of the secret underground storage facilities, still holding chemical weapons, hidden in the desert. Unfortunately, they weren’t properly guarded,” said Ahmed Gaddafi Al-Dam, a cousin of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader who was killed in 2011.
Al-Dam, the stolen gas was then trafficked to the northern part of the country and sold.
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From Ynet News
Obama signs budget with $3.1 bn aid package to Israel
Aid package includes money for Iron Dome for short-range missiles, David’s Sling for longer-range missiles and Arrow 2 and 3 anti-ballistic missiles.
Washington – US President Barack Obama on Friday signed a $1.8 trillion budget, including $3.1 billion in aid to Israel, to be in effect until October 2016.
The bill was signed after a compromise was reached between Congress Republicans and Democrats that prevented a government shutdown. The $3.1 billion in aid includes $487 million for protecting Israel’s skies with the Iron Dome system for short-range missiles, the David’s Sling system for longer-range missiles, and the Arrow 2 and 3 anti-ballistic missiles.
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From The Independent
Inequality: Richest one per cent ‘have as much wealth as the poorest 57 per cent combined’
George Osborne has stepped up his private meetings with representatives of the UK’s big banks since the general election — Getty Images
From PressTV
Turkey says miscommunication caused Iraq troop deployment
Turkish Foreign Ministry says “miscommunication” with Iraq caused its recent troops deployment in the northern Nineveh province.
The announcement was made via a statement released on Saturday, which added that Ankara will continue to recall some of the troops from the Bashiqa military base.
Tensions have been running high between Baghdad and Ankara particularly since December 4, when Turkey deployed 150 heavily armed soldiers backed by 20 to 25 tanks to the base where it claims it is training Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters battling the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
“Turkey … acknowledges the miscommunication with the government of Iraq over the deployments of Turkish protection forces …,” read the statement.
On Friday, US President Barack Obama called on his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to withdraw his country’s troops out of Iraq and respect its integrity.
Baghdad also called on UN Security Council to adopt a resolution, urging Turkey to end its “illegal incursion” and immediately withdraw all of its troops from the Iraqi soil.
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From PressTV
Iraq opens probe into deadly US airstrike
Baghdad says it has opened an investigating into a recent airstrike carried out by the United States in Anbar Province, which claimed the lives of at least 10 Iraqi soldiers.
Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi made the announcement on Saturday, a day after the airstrike hit the Iraqi army’s 3rd Division 55th Brigade, located near the city of Fallujah in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad.
“We lost 10 of our soldiers,” Obeidi said, adding “an investigation into the incident was opened.”
According to the statement by the Joint Operations Command, the strike came as Iraqi forces were engaged in close combat with terrorist positions in Anbar Province.
Following the airstrike, Hakim al-Zamili, the head of Iraqi parliament’s Security and Defense Committee, accused Washington of deliberately hindering Baghdad’s military advances in its fight against Daesh militants in Anbar Province’s cities of Ramadi and Fallujah.
He also accused the US of launching airstrikes or dropping aerial packages and providing Daesh terrorists with weapons, saying the “crime” would be taken to court.
Meanwhile, the US military said that it would launch its own investigation into what it called the first “friendly fire incident” since Washington and its allies launched their airstrike campaign in June 2014 against alleged Daesh positions in the country’s north and west.
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From Russia Today
‘We easily work with Assad, US & others as we don’t change our position’ – Putin in new documentary
Published time: 19 Dec, 2015 17:38
© Alexandr Kryazhev / Sputnik
Russia easily works both with Syrian government and the US as well as with Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries because it does not change its stance, President Vladimir Putin said in a forthcoming documentary about the emerging world order.
The upcoming documentary is to focus on “the new world order, where the world is heading, what awaits us all and in what future our children will find themselves in,” Vladimir Soloviev, Russian journalist, TV presenter and the author of the film told Rossiya 1 TV channel.
The crew was filming the documentary for several months, visiting many countries for dozens of interviews. Serbian film director Emir Kusturica, former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are all to appear on the screen. But, according to Soloviev, it is the interviews with Putin that are “a crucially important” part of the documentary.
“The interests of the European countries lie in joining their efforts both in economy, in politics and in fight against terrorism. [They lie] in joining the efforts with Russia,” Putin said in one such interview. Rossiya 24 TV channel showed a preview on Saturday.
“We are not going to stick out our bottom lip over the sanctions. We are waiting. Waiting for everyone,” Russian president added.
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From Russia Today
EU to prolong anti-Russian sanctions for 6 more months
Published time: 19 Dec, 2015 05:21
© Ralph Orlowski / Reuters
The European Union has prolonged its sanctions against Russia for another six months with no changes to the list. Russia’s economic minister said they would not affect the country’s economy.
The extension of anti-Russian sanctions until June 31, 2016 was agreed upon by the envoys of the EU member-states in Brussels on Friday. Formally, the decision becomes final at noon (11am GMT) on December 21, unless any of the member states raises objection.
EU President Donald Tusk said earlier that he expected the sanctions to be prolonged.
“This will be the direct consequence of the March European Council conclusion, according to which the duration of the restrictive measures against the Russian Federation should be clearly linked to the complete implementation of the Minsk agreements,” he wrote in a letter addressing the leaders of the EU countries, as quoted by Reuters.
Meanwhile, more and more European politicians have become increasingly skeptical about the sanctions, pointing out that they have proven to be politically ineffective and economically harmful for both Russia and European countries.
“We realize that all these sanctions are harmful to both Italy and Europe. They are disaster and total madness. We want to eliminate them as much as Russia does because it is stupid to go back to the Cold War in 2015,” Matteo Salvini, a member of the European Parliament from the Italian Northern League (Lega Nord) party, told RT.
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From Russia Today
NATO agrees to boost Turkey’s air defense weeks after downing of Russian jet
Published time: 19 Dec, 2015 04:12
A NATO AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control Systems) aircraft © Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
The council of the NATO military alliance has approved a package of additional planes, ships, and surveillance equipment for Turkey, in what diplomats hinted was a move to rein in Ankara, which shot down a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian border in November.
“We have agreed on a package of assurance measures for Turkey in view of the volatile situation in the region,” NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg told Reuters. “This will give us a better situational awareness – more transparency, more predictability and that will contribute to stabilizing the situation in the region and also calm tensions.”
Although its contents have not been finalized, the booster is expected to include interceptor aircraft and Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) radar planes, which have a radius of over 400 kilometers. Additionally, Germany and Denmark will supply ships, which are already deployed in the Mediterranean.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. © Eric Vidal / Reuters
The package, which was signed off on without discussion, has been mooted for 10 months, but became a pressing concern after Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24, which it claimed had violated its border.
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FromPressTV
Syria’s Assad visits Christian church before Xmas
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has made a visit to a Christian church in an eastern suburb of the capital Damascus as Christmas is approaching.
Assad made the surprise visit to the Lady of Damascus Catholic Church with his wife Asma on Friday evening where they watched a choir rehearse and took pictures with members of the congregation.
The eastern suburb of Damascus where the church is situated has been a target of foreign-backed militants fighting against the government.
From Russia Today
320 foreign spies and agents exposed in Russia in 2015 – Putin
Published time: 20 Dec, 2015 01:06
Russian President Vladimir Putin © Alexey Nikolsky / Reuters Foreign intelligence services are increasing their activity in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said stressing that the country is ready to provide an adequate response to the challenge.
Russian counterespionage services have “exposed 320 personnel and agents of secret services of foreign states as well as their accomplices,” the Russian President said as he spoke to the Russian secret and security services on their professional holiday.
“We see that intelligence services of some countries are intensifying their efforts… focused on Russia,” Putin said expressing confidence that Russian security services “are ready to provide an adequate response to this challenge.”
The president stressed that he expects that Russia’s security services will also efficiently fight corruption and economic crime within as well as protecting the country’s borders. He emphasized that state security services should coordinate their work with the military “to boost the capabilities of our [Russian] armed forces.”
“We see how efficiently our pilots and intelligence specialists are working [in Syria], how well they coordinate their actions… The [Russian] army, fleet and aviation are using the most advanced weapons [there],” he said stressing that it “is hardly all of our [Russia’s] capabilities.”
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From Russia Today
Calais: Hundreds of migrants attempt to storm Channel Tunnel (VIDEO)
Published time: 18 Dec, 2015 16:10
© Regis Duvignau / Reuters
Up to 1,000 asylum seekers have attempted to storm the Channel Tunnel to get to the UK from Calais, officials said, adding that this move prompted various clashes between migrants and police officers.
“We noted the presence of 800-1,000 migrants … near the Channel Tunnel,” a police source told AFP on Thursday. “As they approached the tunnel, several migrants tried hard to slow down the flow of traffic so they could climb into the trucks”.
The number of asylum seekers during the daytime was “unprecedented,” the source added, as migrants usually try to cross the Channel Tunnel at night.
An AFP journalist also reported several young men climbed on top of trucks heading towards Britain.
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From Ynet News
Islamic State declares war against Saudi Arabia (Yeah, right!)
After formation of 34-state coalition against ISIS led by Saudi, the terror organization releases video purporting to show execution of ‘Saudi collaborator,’ warning the kingdom of cooperating with the ‘Crusaders.’
The Islamic State officially declared war on Saudi Arabia on Thursday after the kingdom formed a 34-state coalition to fight against the terror organization.
In a new video released by ISIS, which purports to show another cruel execution, the jihadists warn Saudi from cooperating with the coalition of “Crusaders.”
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From The Times of Israel
Chanukah’s role in Israel’s politics
By celebrating Chanukah, we recall the deeds of the ancient Syrian Greeks who defiled the Holy Temple and its pure olive oil which was used in lighting the two Temple menorahs. After the Hasmonean fighters drove the Greeks out, they came into the Temple and searched for pure oil with the seal of the High Priest; and all they found was one small jug among the many defiled ones. This single jug of oil burnt in the two menorahs and illuminated the sanctuary for eight days!
So was the long lasting oil the miracle of Chanukah? Not really. The true miracle was that they lit the lights of the menorah in the first place. Everyone ‘knew’ that the small amount of oil would never be able to last for at least a week, until new oil could be refined and purified.
The smart thing was to wait a week, and then start the eight day rededication celebration; copying the way Solomon had dedicated the first Temple. The Second Book of Maccabees relates: “We are also told how the wise King Solomon offered a sacrifice of dedication at the completion of the Temple” (2 Mac 2:9) and “Solomon celebrated the festival for eight days.” (2 Mac 2:12).
To kindle the menorah right away would be to expose oneself to disappointment, disparagement and recriminations, if the flames died out before the new purified oil arrived. To kindle the menorah right away would be stake your reputation, and place your faith, on an optimistic outcome.
All human beings face similar challenges in their own lives. We know that frequently faith, hope and trust can result in failures that lead to despair and cynicism. We also know that faith, hope and trust can lead to wonder-full experiences of love, courage and accomplishment.
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