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From Russia Today
Kiev trains ‘special unit’ to take back Crimea from Russia – Ukrainian Interior Minister
Published time: 27 Feb, 2016 04:56
Arsen Avakov. © МВС УКРАЇНИ / YouTube
Ukraine is training a special unit to help Kiev retake Crimea, the country’s Interior Minister said, as President Poroshenko mulls building up its military along the peninsula’s borders. In Crimea, officials warn the “unlawful” invasion would be repelled.
“We have nothing. We need a new army, a new National Guard, a new police force. This is what the government of Ukraine is working on right now. We must restore all of this, and then, with enough will, Crimea will be ours,” Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s Interior Minister, told the Ukrainian 1+1 TV Channel, asserting, “I have no doubt of that.”
In fact, the Ukrainian minister said that Kiev is presently training a special force, separate within the National Guard.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Trump hit on Israel ‘neutrality,’ Sanders opens up on Jewish pride
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a stinging debate exchange, Donald Trump’s professions of neutrality in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict became a front-and-center campaign issue.
All four of the real estate magnate’s rivals for the Republican presidential nod took him to task Thursday night on the debate stage in Houston for his position on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, which he says requires being an honest broker.
Separately, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., vying with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nod, in a Chicago town hall gave one of his most expansive answers so far during the presidential campaign on his Jewish identity.
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From Russia Today
Trouble in Valhalla? New ‘Soldiers of Allah’ set to counter ‘infidel’ ‘Soldiers of Odin’ in Norway
Published time: 26 Feb, 2016 18:50
© Norsk Telegrambyra AS / Reuters
Norwegian Islamists say they have created a vigilante group called “Soldiers of Allah” in answer to the anti-refugee “Soldiers of Odin” that started patrolling the streets of several Norwegian cities last year in response to a massive inflow of refugees.
“In response to the infidel group Soldiers of Odin patrols, we Muslims have chosen to create a group that will patrol the streets, first in Oslo, to prevent evil and encourage the good,” an Islamist-linked source told the Norwegian newspaper VG.
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From Russia Today
Bulldozers to demolish Calais ‘Jungle’ after all, French court rules
Published time: 26 Feb, 2016 13:00
A bulldozer builds a new road in the camp known as the “Jungle”, a squalid sprawling camp in Calais, northern France, February 25, 2016. © Pascal Rossignol / Reuters
The southern part of a refugee camp in Calais, France, known as ‘the Jungle’ is expected to be dismantled after a ruling from a court in Lille. Calais Mayor Natacha Bouchart said the evacuation of occupants will take three weeks.
The court demanded on Thursday that refugees resettle from the self-erected refugee camp. The eviction is “carefully arranged and meets a real need,” Judge Valerie Quemener was quoted by Monde as saying.
The dismantling will not affect the places of social life, such as mosque, schools, library and youth center, Quemener’s verdict read, not specifying deadlines for the evacuation.
Bouchart told BFM-TV that the process might take as long as three weeks.
Migrant associations and watchdogs reacted to the court’s decision in different ways. Some were pleased to know that places of social activities were spared, others disappointed that the Jungle wasn’t.
“We are devastated to announce that this afternoon the court ruled against us and have upheld the decision to demolish the Southern section of the ‘Jungle’,” Help Refugees website says. “We will be appealing this decision immediately.”
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From Russia Today
NATO can’t fight Russians in Europe, says leading US think tank
Published time: 26 Feb, 2016 12:46
Leopard 2 tanks are seen during a German army, the Bundeswehr, training and information day in Munster, Germany © Fabian Bimmer / Reuters
A report by influential US-based think tank the Atlantic Council says NATO’s European members can’t fight a war against Russia. Earlier, the commander of US European forces said Americans were ready to “fight and win” against Russia.
The report, due to be released Friday, was prepared by six senior defense experts, including former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, deputy supreme commander Sir Richard Shirreff and former Italian defense minister and NATO military committee chair Giampaolo di Paola. The Financial Times said it warns of a “lack of progress” in NATO’s build-up plans.
Many of the key members of the alliance are dogged by “chronic underfunding” and “critical deficiencies” in their “hollowed out” militaries, the report says. For example, Germany has only 10 usable Tiger helicopters out of its fleet of 31, and just 280 of its 406 Marder armored infantry vehicles are in full working order.
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From Russia Today
130,000 refugees vanished after being registered in Germany – media report
Published time: 26 Feb, 2016 08:40
© Michaela Rehle / Reuters
Some 13 percent of all migrants who officially entered Germany in 2015 never turned up at the accommodation provided for them, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Thursday. The news comes as Berlin tightens laws on asylum seekers.
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From PressTV
Daesh attacks Sinjar with chemical arms: Kurdish authorities
The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has launched chemical attacks on Iraq’s Kurdish town of Sinjar, wounding dozens of people, authorities say.
According to a Friday statement released by the security council of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Daesh terrorists launched rockets equipped with chemical warheads on an area south of the town on Thursday, Arabic-language al-Sumeria news website reported.
The statement added that although no one were killed in the attacks, dozens of civilians and Peshmerga forces were admitted with symptoms including vomiting, dizziness and difficulty in breathing.
“If confirmed, this will be the eighth ISIL (Daesh) weaponized chemical attack against Peshmerga. ISIL tactics continue to become more sophisticated,” warned the council.
On February 18, Kurdish authorities reported a similar attack launched by Daesh on Sinjar, in which at least 30 Peshmerga forces sustained similar injuries.
According to local medical sources, the symptoms indicate the terrorists might have used chlorine, a choking agent banned under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
Back in August 2014, Daesh militants attacked and overran Sinjar, killing, raping, and enslaving large numbers of Izadi Kurds. Many were also forced to flee. The northern town, located in Nineveh province, was later recaptured on November 13, 2015, during an operation by Peshmerga forces and Izadi fighters.
Gruesome violence has plagued the northern and western parts of Iraq ever since Daesh terrorists launched an offensive in June 2014, and took control of portions of the Iraqi territory.
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From PressTV
Two-week ceasefire comes into effect in Syria
A landmark two-week ceasefire has come into effect in Syria, urging the “cessation of hostilities” by the warring sides of the conflict.
Minutes before the midnight on Friday local time, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution, drafted by Russia and the United States, to endorse the truce. The agreement demanded the “cessation of hostilities” to begin at midnight Damascus time (22:00 GMT Friday).
Under the “Terms for a Cessation of Hostilities in Syria,” the participants of the agreement are required to “cease attacks with any weapons, including rockets, mortars, and anti-tank guided missiles” and “refrain from acquiring or seeking to acquire territory from other parties to the ceasefire.” They must also permit “unhindered and sustained” access to humanitarian assistance missions and employ only “proportional force, if and when responding in self-defense” against those not party to the agreement.
The Syrian government has accepted the terms on the condition that military efforts against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front continue.
The Syrian ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja’afari also told the Security Council that his country is prepared to take part in any “sincere effort” at peace, adding that “the ball again is in the court of other parties which are yet to prove their good intentions” by acting without setting preconditions and without interfering in Syria’s affairs.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told the Security Council that the ceasefire agreement “can contribute to a turning point” in the five-year war, adding, “We now have a real chance to end violence and to step up our collective combat against terrorism.”
Earlier on Friday, the Saudi-backed Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) announced that it also would adhere to the truce. “The High Negotiations Committee (HNC) confirms the agreement of the Free Syrian Army factions and the armed opposition to a temporary truce…,” read a statement issued by the HNC.
Turkish government also expressed its respect for the truce, although it voiced Ankara’s “serious worries.”
“We support this ceasefire in principal… But the fact that Russian planes’ bombardments and [Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad’s forces’ attacks on the ground have been continuing… gives us serious concerns about the future of the ceasefire,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s aide and spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said at a press conference in Ankara on Friday.
Meanwhile, UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura announced that the planned three-week peace talks would resume on March 7 if the ceasefire “largely holds” and more humanitarian aid reaches civilians.
“Assuming that the cessation of hostilities largely holds — God willing — and the humanitarian access continues unabated, I intend to reconvene… the talks, the intra-Syrian talks on Monday, March 7,” De Mistura told the Security Council, adding the first day of the ceasefire would be “critical.”
Three rounds of UN-backed negotiations have been held in Vienna and New York on the situation in Syria since last October. The latest round of peace talks unraveled in Geneva on February 3 less than a week after they started as the HNC refused to attend a meeting with De Mistura.
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From PressTV
Army forces recapture six villages in western Syria
Syrian army soldiers backed by fighters from allied popular defense groups have managed to retake control of six villages in the country’s western province of Hama and the strategic northwestern province of Aleppo.
A military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Syrian forces liberated the villages of Mentar al-Hajaneh and Rasm al-Taineh, which lie in the eastern part of Hama Province, following heavy clashes with foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.
Also on Friday, Syrian government forces established security and stability in the villages of Ma’anaya, Shalala Sagheira and Telal al-Za’arour in the southeastern sector of Aleppo Province.
The achievements came only a day after Syrian troopers wrested control over Khanaser village in the same province, after purging the area of the last remaining pockets of Takfiris, who had infiltrated into the town two days earlier.
Syrian soldiers and pro-government forces stormed positions of militants in the Dara’a Al-Balad district of Dara’a, located about 90 kilometers (56 miles) south of the capital, Damascus.
The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which flared in March 2011, has claimed the lives of some 470,000 people and left 1.9 million injured, according to the Syrian Center for Policy Research.
Moreover, 6.36 million people have been displaced internally and more than four million others have fled the country since the beginning of the conflict. That accounts for 45 percent of the country’s population, which has shrunk by 21 percent.
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From PressTV
Yemeni forces shoot down Saudi helicopter
Yemen’s army and popular committees have downed a Saudi helicopter in the Yemeni province of Ta’izz as Riyadh’s aggression against its impoverished neighbor continues to claim civilian lives.
The helicopter was reportedly brought down in the district of Dhubab of Ta’izz on Friday.
The news comes as the Persian Gulf kingdom resumed its air raids on the Yemeni capital, Sana’a on Friday, leaving two people dead.
Meanwhile, Saudi fighter jets killed four people in Ta’izz and another in the capital on Thursday night with reports saying the kingdom’s drones were bombing residential areas.
Yemenis have been carrying out attacks on Saudi forces and equipment in retaliation for the Arab kingdom’s strikes, launched with the aim of undermining Houthi Ansarullah movement and bringing back to power the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
On Wednesday, Yemeni forces targeted a gathering of the Saudi military and armored vehicles with artillery shelling in the al-Waze’yah district of Ta’izz province and caused damage to the vehicles.
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From Ynet News
Rosanne Barr to attend anti-BDS conference in Jerusalem
The Jewish-American comedienne, known for her big mouth, is to arrive in Israel. Instead of jokes, she’ll be dealing with a much more serious issue: Barr is expected to join the Yedioth Ahronoth conference against BDS after a two-week-long tour around the country.
I am proud to stand with Israel during the week of Purim, Roseanne Barr said Thursday night, this is he holiday where Esther mobilized the Jewish community, and because of her strong and unifying stance, she succeeded in overturning the brutal decree to destroy us.
The Jewish-American actress is coming to Israel with her mother at the invitation of the pro-Israel advocacy organization StandWithUS, which is involved with PR efforts on college campuses across the United States and in the fight against the BDS movement.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Spanish civil servant skips work for 6 years to study Spinoza
(JTA) — A Spanish civil servant who collected a salary for at least six years without working used the time to become an expert on the writings of Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, Spanish media reported.
A court on Cadiz in southern Spain last month ordered Joaquin Garcia, 69, to pay approximately $30,000 in fines for failing to show up for work at the water board, Agua de Cadiz, where Garcia was employed as an engineer since 1996, the news site euronews.com reported last week.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pro-Israel BBC presenter molested 72 victims, report says
(JTA) — An internal inquiry at the British Broadcasting Company found the BBC partially responsible for the sexual abuse of children by its former star Jimmy Savile, who was a staunch supporter of Israel and British Jews.
Savile, who died in 2011, sexually abused 72 victims, including children, during his 43 years of employment at the BBC, the internal inquiry said in its report, which it published Thursday after a three-year investigation.
Of those, Savile raped eight people, including an 8-year-old boy, the report also alleged. The author of the report, a retired judge, cited “an atmosphere of fear” that he said prevented people who knew about Savile’s crimes, and a permissive attitude toward talents.
In 2015, Surrey Police stated that Savile, who was never convicted of sex crimes, had sexually assaulted 22 students and a visitor at a girls school in the 1970s. The first police probe into his actions was opened after his death, in 2012.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
In rare rebuke, Netanyahu schools Cameron on eastern Jerusalem
(JTA) – In an unusual rebuke, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his British counterpart forgot basic facts when he criticized Israel’s construction in eastern Jerusalem.
“My friend David Cameron, who is without a doubt a friend of Israel, apparently forgot a few basic facts about Jerusalem,” Netanyahu said in a speech in Ofakim on Thursday, following statements by Cameron the previous day, in which he condemned Israeli construction in the eastern part of Israel’s capital city.
“Only Israeli sovereignty,” Netanyahu said, prevents the Islamic State terrorist group and Hamas “from burning the holy sites.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Oberlin prez ‘respects’ free speech of faculty member behind anti-Semitic Facebook post
(JTA) — In response to an article revealing that an Oberlin College professor made numerous postings about Jews and Israel to Facebook, the liberal arts college’s president said the college “respects the right of its faculty, students, staff and alumni to express their personal views.”
Marvin Krislov’s statement came after The Tower on Thursday published an article about Joy Karega, an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the elite Ohio institution.
Karega, who took down her Facebook posts and Twitter account after the article’s publication, had made comments accusing Israel and “Rothschild-led bankers” of responsibility for downing a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014. She also posted a graphic of Jacob Rothschild, a member of the prominent Jewish banking family, with a caption reading: “We own your news. The media. Your oil. And your government.”
Screenshots of many of her posts were published originally on The Tower.
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From Russia Today
‘Love wins’? Italy’s LGBT allies demand more as ‘historic’ same-sex civil unions passed
Published time: 26 Feb, 2016 19:43
© Chris Tilley / Reuters
Italy’s senate has passed a bill that finally recognizes same-sex couples after a long battle to join Western Europe’s path to marriage equality.
However, the “watered-down” bill has been condemned by LGBT groups after major changes to the draft meant children could not be adopted by their parent’s same-sex partner.
Translation: Italy finally becomes a more just Country. Now adoptions reform and step child adoption #unionicivili #ddlcirinnà
The same-sex civil unions bill was approved by a vote of 173-71, which means same-sex couples in Italy can enjoy the same tax breaks, medical decision-making rights and pension entitlements afforded to married couples.
The initial bill allowed gay people to adopt their partner’s biological child, but in order to secure the bill’s passage, the so-called “step-child adoption” clause was changed.
Translation: Before seeing the Rainbow there are still many clouds to overcome. We don’t quit and we stick together #unionicivili
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From Russia Today
Putin tells FSB to strengthen controls over refugees heading to Russia and Europe
Published time: 26 Feb, 2016 16:41
Russian President Vladimir Putin at meeting of the Federal Security Service board. © Michael Klimentyev / Sputnik
President Vladimir Putin has called on Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) to closely monitor people arriving in the country as refugees and also traveling onward into Europe, while stressing that the EU refugee crisis has nothing to do with Russia’s actions in Syria.
“Control over the flows of refugees heading both to Russia and also on transit to European countries should be strengthened,” Putin said at a meeting with the FSB collegium on Friday, where objectives for the state security service for the near future have been defined.
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