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From Russia Today
Ukraine PM resigns 2 months after narrowly dodging no-confidence vote
Published time: 10 Apr, 2016 13:23
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk © Gleb Garanich / Reuters
After weeks of political crisis in Kiev, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk has announced his long-expected resignation.
Yatsenyuk made his decision public on Sunday in a televised address, saying he would formally submit his resignation to parliament on Tuesday.
As the crisis unfolded, the ruling coalition in the Ukrainian parliament collapsed. Under Ukrainian law, President Petro Poroshenko can call an early election if a new coalition isn’t formed, but opinion polls say his own party would lose seats in that case as well.
Poroshenko tried to resolve the debacle in the cabinet by calling on Yatsenyuk to resign, but he refused to do so. An attempt to fire him through a parliament vote failed in what was a major embarrassment for the president.
Yatsenyuk said the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine “was created artificially” and has become personal for politicians.
From PressTV
‘US plane drops arms for Daesh in Iraq’
Several Iraqi policemen claim to have seen US aircraft dropping weapons and munitions for Daesh terrorists in a region west of the Anbar province on Friday.
In a video posted on Iraq’s al-Maaloomah news website on Sunday, they are purportedly heard saying that the American plane had also jammed their communication devices in the Hadisah Island district.
“There is an American aircraft seen at four o’clock in the morning on Friday over the Hadisah Island district of the Anbar province, delivering weapons and munitions to Daesh criminals,” one of the policemen says.
“The plane proceeded to jam radar devices of the police regiment stationed in Hadisah Island to prevent contact between the affiliates and the headquarters of the regiment,” he added.
The man said they had seen a military vehicle of Daesh arriving in the region a few minutes later and transferring the weapons to the place the group controlled.
In the video, the man and his associates are heard appealing to Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi to follow up the issue.
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From PressTV
Syrian forces to launch operation to retake Aleppo: Premier
The Syrian prime minister says government forces are preparing an operation to retake control of the northwestern city of Aleppo.
“With our Russian partners we are preparing an operation to free Aleppo and block all illegal armed groups that have not joined or have broken the ceasefire deal,” Wael al-Halqi said on Sunday after a meeting with Russian lawmakers in the Syrian capital Damascus.
The premier noted that capturing Aleppo would allow the government forces to advance toward Deir Ezzor, which is held by Takfiri militants including Daesh.
Also on Sunday, army soldiers took control of Barneh and Zaytan villages, which lie south of Aleppo.
Reports said on Saturday that a leader of Takfiri Ahrar al-Sham group, Abdullah Mohamed al-Hassam, was killed in clashes with Syrian army soldiers in Aleppo.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Half of Israeli Jews would not live in apartment building with Arabs, survey finds
JERUSALEM (JTA) — While most Israelis oppose separation of Jews and Arabs in hospitals, nearly half of Israeli Jews would not live in the same apartment building as an Arab family, a survey found.
Some 49 percent of Israeli Jews told Israel’s Channel 2 that they would not live in the same building as Arab families, compared to 42 percent who said they would be willing. Nine percent said they were not sure.
The survey broadcast on Saturday comes after Jewish Home lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich said last week that Arab and Jewish mothers in Israel’s maternity wards should be placed in separate rooms. His statement followed an Israel Radio report that some Israeli hospitals acquiesce to requests to separate Arab and Jewish patients.
Eighty-two percent of Jewish-Israeli respondents said they would let an Arab doctor treat them, while 13 percent said they would not.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Bernie Sanders wins Wyoming, reiterates Israel’s ‘disproportionate’ response in Gaza war
Bernie Sanders speaking at the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Flint, Mich., March 6, 2016. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
(JTA) — The day after his victory in the Wyoming Democratic caucus, Bernie Sanders doubled down on his assertion that Israel’s response in the 2014 Gaza war was “disproportionate.”
“Was Israel’s response disproportionate? I think it was,” Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont, told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday on “State of the Union.”
The Democratic presidential candidate complained that public figures were focusing on his initial response in a New York Daily News interview that 10,000 “innocent people” were killed in the Gaza conflict, noting he said he did not know the exact number. He later accepted the total presented by a Daily News editor — that 2,104 Palestinians were killed, including 1,462 civilians. Israel has estimated a lower number of civilians were killed in the war.
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From PressTV
Syrian anti-Daesh journalist shot in Turkey
A Syrian anti-Daesh journalist has been shot and critically wounded in Turkey’s southeastern province of Gaziantep.
Muhammed Zahir al-Sherkat was shot in the head on Sunday by a masked assailant in the province’s Değirmiçem region.
Police have opened an investigation into the incident, which was caught on the security camera of a nearby shop.
In the footage the gunman can be seen approaching Sherkat from behind and swiftly leaving the area after firing at the victim from close range.
The 36-year-old, who hails from Syria’s northwestern Aleppo province, was taken to hospital and is currently in a critical condition.
According to Turkey’s Dogan news agency, the reporter had previously received death threats from Daesh, which has claimed responsibility for the killings of several other journalists in Turkey.
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From Russia Today
Asylum seeker ‘repeatedly forced 13yo Austrian girl into having sex’
Published time: 9 Apr, 2016 06:59
© Lisi Niesner / Reuters
Police in the Austrian town of Korneuburg have detained an Afghan man in his 20s for allegedly intimidating a 13-year-old girl to engage in sexual relations – an ordeal that lasted three months for the teenager.
“The accused did not use any violence, but he did threaten her and scared her into doing what he wanted,” said a police spokesman, as cited by Austrian newspaper Kurier.
The man, who reportedly was still living in a refugee shelter at the time of the crime, encountered the girl online in early January. The ensuing pen-friendship took a serious turn and the two eventually met in person in a wooded area, where they reportedly had sex.
According to the police, the girl was too frightened to tell anybody about the events and stayed silent for three months, during which time the suspect repeatedly coerced her into having intercourse.
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From The Daily Mail
Asian child sex gang who included a bus driver who met victims as he took them home from school in Rochdale are jailed for total of 125 years
- Main victim in the shocking case was a white girl with learning difficulties
- She was repeatedly groomed for sex from the age of 14 by a group of men
- Judge paid tribute to her bravery today as he handed out long sentences
- Public gallery broke into applause as judge gave one man 25-year term
Ten men have been jailed for a total of more than 125 years for sexual offences against eight girls and women in Rochdale.
They included Afraz Ahmed, a former bus driver who picked up two of his young victims from school and offered them free tickets.
He was originally questioned in 2006 but a decision was made not to prosecute him after he claimed the girls’ complaints against him were racially motivated.
The public gallery broke into applause today when Ahmed was handed a 25-year sentence.
From The Daily Mail
US is facing economic disaster unless politicians quit ‘scapegoats’ and ‘ideological wars’ warns JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon
- He warned that increasingly divisive, ideological politics threaten the U.S.
- Promising he was ‘not partisan,’ he complained about a series of problems
- ‘Lost benefits, inter-generational warfare and scapegoating’ were some
- Instead, he said, ‘collaboration and compromising are necessary’
- He chose Detroit as an area poised to rebound thanks to cross-party work
The USA faces ‘economic tragedy’ in its near future unless changes are made in public policy, Jamie Dimon, CEO of multinational banking and finance company JP Morgan Chase & Co, has announced in his latest annual letter.
‘We have serious issues that we need to address,’ he wrote, ‘even the United States does not have a divine right to success.’
And those issues, the letter says, lie in the hands of ‘sanctimonious ideology’ and ‘scapegoating’ by policymakers – just two of a number of jabs seemingly directed at the current presidential candidates.
The final section of the 298-page document, titled ‘Good Public Policy is Critically Important,’ tackles the failures and successes of the US and other countries in what Dimon said is ‘not a partisan way.’
Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea all get a drubbing for taking ‘ineffective actions in the name of the people,’ but it’s Detroit that’s hit hardest.
The Motor City is described as having been a ‘train wreck in slow motion for 20 years’ with ‘unsustainable finances, corrupt government and a declining population that went from 2 million residents to just over 750,000.’
JP Morgan, he says, is investing in the city because its Democratic mayor and Republican governor are working together, promising strengthened police, improved schools and rehabilitating neighborhoods – ‘real things that actually matter and will help the people of Detroit.’
From Ynet News
Colonel who killed a boulder-thrower acquitted
After having a boulder thrown at his car, Col. Israel Shomer initiated standard rules of engagement and killed his Palestinian attacker. The IDF Prosecutor’s office determines Col. Shomer’s actions don’t merit legal action
The IDF prosecutor’s office decided on Sunday to close the investigation into the actions of the head of the Binyamin division, Colonel Israel Shomer, who shot and killed a Palestinian who threw a boulder at his car.
On July 3, 2015 a Palestinian from Qalandia threw a boulder at the Colonel’s windshield. It went through the windshield and entered the car. In response, Colonel Shomer got out of his car and initiated the proper use of rules of engagement.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Labour Muslim lawmaker in Britain suspended for praising Hitler, other anti-Semitic tweets
(JTA) — Britain’s Labour Party has suspended a municipal lawmaker over anti-Semitic tweets written before she was elected, including one praising Adolf Hitler as the “greatest man in history.”
Aysegul Gurbuz, 20, a councillor in Luton, located about 30 miles northwest of London, denied that she had written the tweets, saying her sister had posted them on their joint Twitter account, the Daily Mail reported.
The Labour Party said Gurbuz, who is Muslim, would be suspended pending an investigation. She was elected in May, becoming the youngest lawmaker in her district’s history.
Along with the lauding of Hitler, other tweets posted between 2011 and 2014 said Gurbuz hoped Israel would be wiped out by an Iranian nuclear bomb and “The Jews are so powerful in the US it’s disgusting.” Another read: “Ed Miliband is Jewish. He will never become prime minister of Britain.” Miliband is a former foreign minister of Britain.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Heckling, booing at Boston-area meeting on anti-Semitism and racism
(JTA) — A meeting called by the mayor of a Boston suburb to discuss prejudice, including anti-Semitism and racism, degenerated into name calling and accusations.
Newton Mayor Setti Warren said he called the April 7 meeting in the wake of several anti-Semitic and racist incidents in the community, especially in the local schools.
Many who attended the forum wanted to keep the focus directed on anti-Semitism, including a woman who held a sign reading “It’s not prejudice, it’s anti-Semitism,” the Boston Globe reported.
Three incidents of anti-Semitic graffiti were reported at predominantly Jewish Newton North High in the days after fans of an opposing Catholic school basketball team shouted anti-Semitic chants during a championship game. And a Newton middle school was the target of at least three incidents of anti-Semitic graffiti since October, including one in March.
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From Russia Today
If Putin’s not in it, he’s behind it: Western media’s new spin on Panama Papers
Published time: 10 Apr, 2016 20:43
Russian President Vladimir Putin © Sergey Guneev / Sputnik
The story of the leaked Panama Papers and President Vladimir Putin has taken a new twist. The Western media is now suggesting that Putin has orchestrated it all… exactly because his alleged involvement in offshore schemes is not mentioned in the docs.
“Given Russia’s vaunted hacking capabilities, a special cyber unit in the Kremlin may have been able to obtain the documents,” Clifford Gaddy, who works with the Brookings Institution, a private US nonprofit organization, wrote on its website, suggesting that “Putin’s personal financial intelligence unit” had been involved before part of the stolen data was submitted to the German newspaper.
The other part may be being withheld for “blackmailing the real targets in the United States and elsewhere,” according to Gaddy.
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From Russia Today
Solar power 24/7 (at least if it rains) in breakthrough tech concept
Published time: 10 Apr, 2016 15:38
© Fabian Andres Cambero / Reuters
Super-thin graphene and solar panels are both great ideas, but combining them produces near-magical results. A group of researchers from the Ocean University of China in Qingdao has discovered what the wonder material can do for clean energy when introduced to water.
For so long the world’s scientists were stumped as to how to extract the maximum potential from solar energy, which for obvious reasons is not available 24/7. The answer was found in the properties inherent in graphene, something scientists are still continuing to explore.
The researchers posited that the world can easily extract energy using solar panels even when it’s raining, or during night time. This capability is achieved via a chemical reaction that happens when water drops are introduced to graphene.
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From Russia Today
Shift to multipolar world: Lavrov says Russia working to adjust foreign policy to new reality
Published time: 10 Apr, 2016 04:05
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov © Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
Moscow is working out a new concept for Russian foreign policy that will reflect the current transition to a multipolar world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that this global trend presents new challenges for all global powers.
“The international situation remains mosaic and controversial. Along with this, a common tendency could be observed,” Lavrov said during a meeting of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policies on Saturday.
According to the minister, we are moving from a world with a single center of power to one having a “polycentric international architecture.”
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From Russia Today
Russians continue to clear ISIS mines in Palmyra, as locals return (PHOTOS)
Published time: 10 Apr, 2016 00:29
© Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
As Russian sappers continue to de-mine the historic city of Palmyra, hundreds have returned to the modern city nearby, with the government organizing buses for thousands more.
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