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From Russia Today
Turkey skeptical about US proposal to close border ‘under ISIS control’
Published time: 4 Dec, 2015 13:02
© Osman Orsal / Reuters
Amid Washington’s mounting pressure on Ankara to seal its frontiers with Syria, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu stated that closing the country’s border with Syria is extremely difficult, despite the fact that most of it is “under Islamic State control.”
“There is nothing more difficult than protecting a border on the other side of which there is no political authority. There is no functioning state system or counterpart administration on the other side,”Davutoglu told a press conference Thursday. “At the moment, around 98 kilometers of our border appear to be under Daesh [an Arabic term for Islamic State] control,”he added.
Davutoglu said the border cannot be closed given his country’s “moral responsibility”to take refugees and also that there is “no one on the other side”to project it either.
“Keeping the entire border with Syria [closed] may come on the agenda as a project, but then what will you do about transiting refugees? We have a moral responsibility along this 911 kilometers-long border and it is accepting refugees,”he said.
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From The Daily Mail
Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s mobile phones are seized and examined by judges probing £35m cocaine smuggling ring
- Judge has ordered two of Nicolas Sarkoz’s mobile phones be examined
- Name appears in court papers about £35million drug smuggling attempt
- Data did not establish any link between Mr Sarkozy and drugs smuggling
- Two pilots involved in the case escaped Dominican Republic last week
A judge ordered two mobile phones belonging to Nicolas Sarkozy to be examined in relation to a £35million cocaine smuggling scandal, it has been revealed today.
The former French president’s name appears in court papers about an attempt to fly 680kg of the drug out of the Dominican Republic.
Two French pilots involved in the case dubbed ‘Air Cocaine’ made a ‘James Bond-style’ escape from the country last week, leading to accusations that politicians in their own country were involved in setting them free.
A judge ordered two mobile phones belonging to Nicolas Sarkozy be examined in relation to a £35million cocaine smuggling scandal. Mr Sarkozy is pictured with his third wife – former supermodel Carla Bruni
Now Instructing Judge Christine Saunier-Ruellan, who is based in Marseille, has confirmed she called for technical data about 60-year-old Mr Sarkozy’s phones to be investigated.
It included ‘details of telephone lines used by Nicolas Sarkozy and his entourage in the period March 2013 and March 2014′.
From The Independent
Watching lots of TV ‘makes you stupid’, say researchers Universities of California and San Francisco
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish activist Lori Berenson returning to US after 20-year ordeal in Peru
(JTA) — Lori Berenson, the Jewish New Yorker whose imprisonment in Peru for aiding leftist rebels became a cause celebre, is returning to the United States after 20 years.
Police escorted Berenson, 46, through the Lima airport on her way back to the U.S. on Wednesday night. She was carrying her 6-year-old son, Salvador, from her marriage to her attorney, Anibal Apari. The couple has divorced.
In 1995, Berenson was convicted of treason by a panel of military judges for aiding leftist rebels in a plot to overthrow the Peruvian Congress. She spent 15 years in prison and the rest of her 20-year term on parole in Lima, the capital city.
Berenson has denied belonging to the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement or engaging in violent acts. In 2010, she apologized to Peruvians in a letter for any hurt she may have caused as a condition of her parole.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israel reportedly strikes near Damascus
(JTA) — Israeli jets reportedly struck a Syrian army convoy north of Damascus.
The raid, reported by Israel’s Channel 2 citing Arab media sources, reportedly targeted a convoy loaded with missiles after it had left an army base.
Israel has been reported to have struck occasionally in Syria in the course of that country’s years-long civil war. Earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that the Israel Defense Forces are active in Syria “from time to time,” specifically to prevent the transfer of weapons to Lebanon.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jews ‘WAY better negotiators’ than Trump, and 5 other hilarious RJC tweets
Most of the speeches skewed serious – the shooting in California the previous day loomed large, Israel’s security was paramount and a fervent desire to beat Hillary Clinton (not just the Democrats) dominated the day.
But there were moments of levity, or at least dark humor, many captured in tweets. Here’s a sampling.
1. Donald Trump’s use of language that veered too close to anti-Semitic for some tastes, prompted this outburst from Hannukah Solo.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Messianic Jew among the dead in San Bernardino shooting
Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, was a “devout believer” and Messianic Jew, his wife Jennifer told the Los Angeles Times. Messianic Jews are Christians who believe Jesus was the Messiah, yet incorporate some components of Judaism. No major denomination of Judaism accepts this sect as Jewish.
“He became born again a couple of years ago, and because of that I had a very strong faith,” Jennifer Thalasinos said, “so I know that he’s in a much better place.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
5 takeaways from the Republican Jewish Coalition’s presidential forum
I was unable to attend the Republican Jewish Coalition’s forum for 14 (all 14!) candidates for the GOP nod, and so I missed my shout-out from Jim Gilmore, the former governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia — i.e., my former governor. (Yes, I proudly claim him, even dead last in the polls, and he claims me too. More below.)
Our reporter Sarah Wildman stepped in, and will have a comprehensive story later on Friday, but here I am on a train to Washington, obsessively picking through C-Span clips of the event.
Five takeaways:
1. Ben Carson read a book, and it was the wrong one
From Russia Today
Fugitive of Paris attacks recruited men at Budapest train station amid refugee crisis
Published time: 4 Dec, 2015 15:17
Hungarian police officers guard refugees at a makeshift camp in an underground station near the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary © Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
One of the alleged organizers of the November Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, went to one of Budapest’s main train stations in mid-September and left with two men who had just arrived with a wave of refugees, Hungarian officials have said.
Abdeslam travelled through the Hungarian capital’s Keleti train station, Janos Lazar, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, said on Thursday at a press-conference, without naming the alleged terrorist or exact date of his visit to Budapest.
“I can confirm that … based on current information of the Hungarian secret services, one of the chief organizers of the Paris attack … had been in Budapest,” Lazar said, as quoted by Reuters.
He also said that Hungarian secret services had confirmed information about Abdeslam visiting Budapest, which was previously obtained from an unnamed foreign agency, stressing that the agency did not have this information at the time of the Paris attacks.
Although Lazar did not mention Abdeslam by name, another Hungarian government official confirmed his identity to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
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