[MAGHAREBIA] Mali and its Sahel neighbours will receive assistance from La Belle France in their fight against terrorism.
"To ensure security on Malian territory and in the Sahel", the new military co-operation accord aims to improve "intelligence, training and information-sharing", French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Wednesday (July 16th) in Bamako after signing the treaty with new Malian Defence Minister Bah N'Daw.
Three days earlier, La Belle France formally ended its "Serval" operation in northern Mali, replacing it with a wider counter-terrorism initiative in Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , Niger and Chad.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisia tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! 63 suspected forces of Evil in El Kef, Sidi Bouzid and Kasserine provinces at the week-end, the interior ministry announced Saturday (July 19th).
"The security and military units were able during the campaign to capture the dangerous terrorist, Makram Mouelhi," the ministry said.
The operation followed the death of 15 soldiers last week in the Jebel Chaambi military zone along the Algerian border in an attack by 40 to 60 terrorists. In conjunction with the counter-terror sweep, Tunisian authorities launched a crackdown on all mosques outside state control. The mosques number around 40 and are run by radical imams.
In justifying the move to close radical mosques, the government said it was not an act against religious worship, noting the state sponsored religion and fostered freedom of belief. Authorities also said some of the shuttered mosques celebrated the deaths of the slain soldiers. It promised to re-open these places of worship as soon as they were neutralised and subject to the supervision of the state.
The government also closed two religious radio stations, Nour and al-Insen, for broadcasting speech calling for religious hatred and intolerance.
Tunisians welcomed the government's action.
"This is what we have been waiting for since the beginning of the terrorist attacks in our country about two years ago," commented Miriam Kaitouni. "A courageous decision was needed."
The security cell set up by the prime minister on July 17th aims at paralysing terrorists.
Not to be too bloodthirsty, but a bullet to the lower spine will paralyze a terrorist nicely...
It will monitor internal and external financing of associations for any links to terrorism.
Associations tied to terrorism will be suspended. In another move, the army will grow by some 3,250 troops, and the National Guard will add 500 members.
The series of actions against the terror threat came just days after citizens rallied in the capital to demand action. A vigil was held Thursday outside the municipal theatre in Tunis. The gathering to mourn the slain soldiers turned into a march condemning terrorism, with attendees accusing the previous government of failing to take tough measures against Islamic myrmidon groups, especially Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... Participants called on the government to speed up the issuance of the new law on terrorism, which is still under discussion in the Constituent Assembly.
Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou also called for the bill passage. He revealed that six terror plots targeting vital government installations, politicians, and security forces were foiled during the first 19 days of Ramadan.
"We will seek to bring about a national agency of information to track and block sites that incite and encourage terrorism and also to take back mosques, which are still under myrmidon groups. I call on the citizens to inform about all suspicious movements," Ben Jeddou said.
The interior minister also called for a social truce for three months so that security forces could be devoted to fighting terrorism instead of taking care of protests and sit-ins.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The Liberation War Affairs Ministry has cancelled fake freedom fighter certificates of 35 government officials and employees.
An order signed by Deputy Secretary Md Salimullah was published yesterday afternoon.
According to the report of the National Security Intelligence (NSI) and district administrations, 32 of the public servants could not provide any convincing evidence in participating in the 1971 Liberation War, two did not have the proper age to take part in the war while another certificate was cancelled as the person had received two certificates.
Since 2009, a total of 116 fake certificates of public servants have been cancelled, the report says. Investigation into over 500 other allegations is underway.
Of the 35, many have already lost their jobs while others will face departmental action.
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Although they are cooler than "Certificates of Participation."
[Dhaka Tribune] RAB is beyond reform and should therefore be disbanded, Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... has said in a letter to Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. The New York-based rights organization also recommended the withdrawal of all army officers from Rapid Action Battalion so it can be transformed into a civilian force before being disbanded.
In the letter, Brad Adams, executive director of HRW's Asia Division, yesterday wrote: "Although RAB is officially led by a police brass hat, in practice it is run by the military officers who act as his deputies."
Adams claimed coppers working in RAB "privately complain" of being treated as subservient to the military. He however did not give any instance.
The RAB structure allowed men from the army to participate in securing civilians "without proper training or civilian accountability and oversight," he said. The Ruling Awami League raised these points when it was in opposition, he claimed.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... snuffing out the allegations, RAB turned the table on HRW asking it to concentrate on Israel's offensive in Gazoo against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, bad boys, where until yesterday, at least 501 people had died.
"Hundreds of innocent people have been killed by Israel there. The Human Right Watch should concentrate on that issue. It is more urgent than talking about RAB, which is a country's internal issue," said Col Ziaul Ahsan, additional director general of the force.
Brad Adams said the elite police unit had been "allowed to operate with impunity by all successive governments" ever since its inception.
He, however, viewed BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... 's "endorsement of HRW's recommendation to disband RAB" as a major turning point as the elite force was established by her government.
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[LATIMES] French politicians across the political divide on Monday denounced pro-Palestinian rioters who attacked a synagogue and Jewish-owned shops in a Paris suburb.
Denouncing something is easy. Putting the weight of the state against what you denounce is a little more .. demonstrative...
Hours after the Sunday night clashes between riot police and demonstrators angered at Israel's invasion of Gaza, ministers and opposition members of the French Parliament united to castigate what Prime Minister Manuel Valls said were "intolerable" acts that were clearly anti-Semitic.
"To attack a synagogue and a kosher grocery store is quite simply anti-Semitism and racism," Valls said during an official visit to the southeast of France on Monday.
It's not just a few radical Muslims, old-fashioned commies and anarchists, with a handful of neo-Nazis for flavour. This is the zeitgeist. Were I a French Jew, I'd be taking the family on a long holiday to Israel, leaving the house key with instructions for the real estate agent under the doormat.
[IsraelTimes] The deadly Israeli operation in Gazoo has let loose an unprecedented wave of hate on media websites and social networks in La Belle France that moderators say they are struggling to contain.
"As soon as you talk about Israel, it crystallizes all passions, with up to 20,000 or 30,000 comments sometimes after an article, of which we will only let five to 10 percent through," said David Corchia, head of Concileo, a firm of moderators that counts the dailies Le Figaro and Liberation as clients.
Helped by software that automatically reports suspect keywords, online moderators can filter comments in accordance with special legal requirements in La Belle France as well as client requests. Those laws ban racist, anti-Semitic or discriminatory messages among others, as well calls for violence.
The moderators have little time to decide whether to let a remark through, and generally block 25% to 40% of comments.
But on the subject of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, the rejection rate can reach 95%.
"There are three times as many comments than normal, all linked to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict," said Jeremie Mani, head of Netino, which looks after the websites of the Le Monde daily, Europe 1 radio and major French television channels.
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Turkey has declared three-day mourning for Palestinian victims killed in Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip as the death toll jumped to more than 500 on Monday, Today's Zaman reported.
Mourn and be damned...
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç told a news briefing after a bi-weekly cabinet meeting on Monday that the mourning, which is aimed to support Gaza's resistance against Israel, will start from July 22.
Despite growing calls for a halt to two weeks of fighting, violence raged on. Israeli jets, tanks and artillery constantly pounded the densely-populated coastal strip, killing 28 members of a single family at the southern end on Monday. Hamas unleashed regular volleys of rockets at Israeli cities, many of them intercepted.
Arınç, who is also the government spokesman, said Ankara "curses the massacre" and ruthless mass punishment of Israel against the Palestinian people.
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[Pak Daily Times] A Directorate of Internal Security (DIS) under National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) is being established to strengthen security and improve law and order situation in the country.
The DIS would be represented by 33 (thirty three) civilian and military intelligence and operational agencies and would have clear articulation of command and control by integrating all grids of tactical, operational and strategic intelligence under one roof. According to Interior Division here on Sunday, the
Directorate would work on national narrative, rehabilitation, reconstruction, integration, mosques and madrassa mapping, legal reforms and policies related to internal security. The other objective is collection, analysis and dissemination through integrated qualitative intelligence gathering efforts having direct bearing on Internal Security to develop operational capability of conducting `Intelligence Based Operations' to contain pre-empt and eliminate terrorism and other threats to public safety.
With regard to other measures adopted to improve law and order situation in the country, the Ministry said Pakistain Automated Fingerprints Identification System (PAFIS) has collected more than 1.9 million fingerprints of suspects while 6.32 million un-verified SIMs have been blocked.
Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs) initiated Biometric Verification System according to agreed time lines. Ban has been imposed on issuance of arms licenses and more than 500 Million Fingerprints and 116.5 Million Facial Images have been collected by National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) and issuance of 95.2 million Computerized National Identity Cards (CNIC).
The NADRA is assisting in providing identification services in matters of Counter Terrorism and crime which is helpful for maintaining law and order in the country.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The head of Iraq's largest church said on Sunday that Islamic State Death Eaters who drove Christians out of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... were worse than Mongol leader Genghis Khan and his grandson Hulagu who ransacked medieval Baghdad.
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako led a wave of condemnation for the Sunni Islamists who demanded Christians either convert, submit to their radical rule and pay a religious levy or face death by the sword.
At the Vatican, Pope Francis decried what he said was the persecution of Christians in the birthplace of their faith, while UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said the Islamic State's actions could constitute a crime against humanity.
Hundreds of Christian families left Mosul ahead of Saturday's ultimatum, many of them stripped of their possessions as they fled for safety. They formed the remnants of a community which once numbered in the tens of thousands and traced its presence in Mosul to the earliest years of Christianity.
People of other faiths in the once diverse city, including Shi'ites, Yazidis and Shabaks, have also fled from the ultra-conservative turbans, who have blown up mosques and shrines and seized property of fleeing minorities.
"The heinous crime of the Islamic State was carried out not just against Christians, but against humanity," Sako told a special church service in east Baghdad where around 200 Moslems joined Christians in solidarity.
"How in the 21st century could people be forced from their houses just because they are Christian, or Shi'ite or Sunni or Yazidi?" he asked. "Christian families have been expelled from their houses and their valuables were stolen and ...their houses and property expropriated in the name of the Islamic State."
"This has never happened in Christian or Islamic history. Even Genghis Khan or Hulagu didn't do this," he said. Hulagu Khan led a Mongol army which sacked Baghdad in 1258, killing tens of thousand of people, destroying a caliphate which lasted nearly 600 years and leaving the city in ruins for centuries.
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Hulagu Khan led a Mongol army which sacked Baghdad in 1258, killing tens of thousand of people, destroying a caliphate which lasted nearly 600 years and leaving the city in ruins for centuries.
An 18-year-old Australian man was behind a deadly suicide bomb attack in Iraq last week, authorities said Monday, with Attorney-General George Brandis calling it a "disturbing development".
The blast last Thursday near a mosque in Baghdad left several dead, including the teenager, who left Melbourne for the region last year. Reports said the Islamic State militant group named him as
George? Ian? Bruce?
Abu Bakr al Australi on an affiliated Twitter feed, with Brandis' office confirming he was Australian.
"This is a disturbing development and is a further example of the dangerous and volatile situation in Iraq at present," Brandis said in a statement. "The government deplores the violent actions being undertaken by ISIL and other extremist groups in Iraq and Syria, and is deeply concerned about the involvement of Australians in these activities.
"As I have said many times, it is illegal for Australians to engage in the conflicts in Iraq and Syria and the government urges Australians not to travel to the region."
The statement said he was the second Australian suicide bomber in the Iraq and Syria conflicts, without providing further details.
Last month Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she was deeply concerned that about 150 Australians, some dual citizens, were learning the "terrorist trade" fighting alongside militants in Iraq and Syria.
If they're going to the Middle East to be splodydopes then they're not "dual citizens". They're making their citizenship quite clear...
If they're going to be splodydopes, they won't be much of anything else in the near future. Citizens of Hell, perhaps, which overrides all previous allegiances.
"The participation by Australians in the conflict in Iraq and Syria poses a significant domestic security threat to Australia when those involved return home and seek to pursue violence here," said Brandis. "The government will continue to take all necessary measures to keep Australia and Australian interests safe."
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Makes me ashamed of australia
This is a failure of multiculturalism right here
Australian govt response is to introduce terrible legislation that would make it legal for the spy agencies to break the law
And then keep it secret, which means they will be compketely unaccountable
Leaving the system totally open to abuse. We have had royal commissions into our police forces here for corruption. Imagine what they will do with legal immunity and complete secrecy.
All because we haven't got the guts to draw a line under multiculturalism and give it some boundaries
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If its multiculturalism, then its not Australian. Illogical to have a nationalist tag to a non-nation which you become when you give up your national identity. Americans are experiencing that was they* have surrendered our southern national border.
* the transnational progressives (ie socialists) in charge.
UN Secretary-General Ban- Ki moon is to arrive in Israel on Tuesday, and US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cairo on Monday night amid a sudden spurt of intensive efforts to broker a Gaza cease-fire. Because terrorists can't be allowed to lose.
Kerry plans to stay in Cairo until Wednesday morning and has no currently scheduled end to his trip, which may entail talks with officials from Qatar. The Gulf state has relatively close ties to Hamas and hosts its leader, Khaled Meshaal. "Our goal is to achieve a cessation of hostilities as soon as possible," one senior State Department official told reporters as Kerry flew to Egypt. "We don't expect it will be easy, though. This is a very complicated dynamic.""
A number of people, including Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., have noted the honourable Secretary of State's utter incompetence at achieving diplomatic solutions in the Middle East, so this may prove amusing.
Kerry is just the latest Secretary of State to think that he could make his legacy by achieving peace in the Middle East. He, like all the others, think that the solution is to get both sides to 'talk' and to get the Juice to give enough to make 'peace' happen. We all know better -- there is no peace because at least one side doesn't want one. But try telling the smartest people in the room that...
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Kerry should quit bothering the Israelis. They are busy doing G_D's work. I don't know why we always feel like we can fix everything in the M.E. Some things are best just left alone.
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Kerry - don't forget "Sweets were handed out to jubilant masses in Gaza after 911". Never forget it Kerry, even though you are not a patriot but are a metrosexual.
[Iran Press TV] Top Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leader in GazooIsmail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... says the besieged Gazoo Strip will become "a graveyard for Israeli soldiers" who are committing crimes against the Paleostinians in the blockade enclave for more than two weeks.
That's not how it's looking so far. Still, given infinite time that prediction could come to pass, I s'pose.
He made the remarks on Monday,
...from deep within his bunker under Gaza City General Hospital...
adding that Paleostinians in Gazoo are facing an aggressive war by Israel.
The Tel Aviv regime has launched the ongoing war on Gazooks because it has failed to force them to abandon their struggle, he stated.
Haniyeh, however, stressed that "the resistance will continue."
With him bravely leading the way from within his bunker under the hospital...
The Hamas leader said the massacres committed by Israel show its" true nature and prove that Israel is grappling with problems of its own."
He said Tel Aviv is targeting civilians because it is not capable of breaking the equations established by the resistance fighters on the battlefield.
Haniyeh also criticized the international community's silence on the ongoing Israeli crimes against Paleostinians.
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Seems that Allah's terrorists are having problems with Israel's Deity:
The UAE said on Monday it will offer nearly $41 million in aid for the reconstruction of Gaza homes hit by Israel's military offensive against rocket-firing militants.
That'll buy a lot of cement to rebuild the tunnels...
Of that figure, 150 million dirhams ($40 million) was part of an agreement between Abu Dhabi and the Emirati Red Crescent and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, according to the Red Crescent.
The initiative was aimed at reconstructing "damaged homes and rehabilitating hospitals, education and services" hit by Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip, the organisation's president, Shaikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, was quoted as saying in a statement.
The UAE government already pledged $52 million in humanitarian aid for Palestinians in the coastal enclave in the early stages of the Israeli military offensive.
Where did that money come from? I'm pretty sure the House didn't vote on any such thing, nor the Senate either.
in humanitarian aid to the besieged Gazoo Strip to help tens of thousands of Paleostinians there who have been forced from their homes since war broke out two weeks ago.
A State Department breakdown of the aid said nearly a third of the money - $15 million - will go to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... ' refugee mission in Gazoo.
The UAE government already pledged $52 million in humanitarian aid for Paleostinians in the coastal enclave in the early stages of the Israeli military offensive.
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Ahah! Scrolling through The Times of Israel's liveblog, the answer the the question of American money provenance is revealed, along with the usual clumsily revealing quote from the second Smartest Man in the Room (time mark 00:59):
We are deeply concerned about the consequences of Israels appropriate and legitimate effort to defend itself, Kerry said in Cairo as he met UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The US will provide $15 million to UNRWA, the Palestinian refugee agency, to meet part of its $60 million appeal for assistance due to the budget crisis, while the remaining $32 million will come from USAID, the State Department says.
In other words, monies intended for various worthy causes will be diverted to fund the rebuilding of Hamas tunnels. Definitely the Smartest Men (and women) in the Room, by gum!
[Iran Press TV] Iran is fully prepared to tackle any potential security challenge as the country's defense capabilities have been designed to counter the most formidable military threat against the country, a senior Iranian commander says.
"The power and defense capability of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran have been designed and prepared for the great enemy and well beyond the level of regular countries," Deputy Chairman of the Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri said in a Monday statement.
Jazayeri pointed to the strategy of the global hegemonic powers, particularly the US, to prevent the formation of sovereign states and independent governments in Western Asia and noted that the ongoing crises in Pakistain, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, the Gazoo Strip and the West Bank are in line with that strategy.
The Iranian commander described the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... current, which is operating under the names of the ISIL, Taliban, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, etc., as the manifest example of the enemies' tools used to sow discord among the Islamic societies.
In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing essential military equipment and systems.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic has repeatedly said its military might is based on deterrence.
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Sounds like Tehran has unofficially recognized the new ISIS Caliphate as a rival like the KSA???
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Oh no, JosephM. Iran sees the IS Caliphate as a direct threat to client states Iraq and Syria, and has already sent in significant numbers of Revolutionary Guards to fight IS directly in Iraq, apparently not trusting the Iraqi army to accomplish the task. Hizb'allah, likewise, appears to be all in fighting alongside Assad's troops in Syria.
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Sounds like Tehran has borrowed a page from Baghdad Bob circa 2003. A pause for a moment from Baghdad Bob's history book:
"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never! Our initial assessment is that they will all die. God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. They're coming to surrender or be burned in their tanks. No I am not scared and neither should you be! We are not afraid of the Americans. Allah has condemned them. Let the American infidels bask in their illusion. I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad. We are in control. They are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards. We have placed them in a quagmire from which they can never emerge except dead. Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire." Blah, blah, blah.
Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said on Monday that Iran is ready to contribute to settlement of problems facing Muslims in Myanmar, IRNA reported.
Because it's not enough to have the Mad Mullahs" meddling in the Middle East...
While receiving a copy of credentials of new Myanmar non-resident ambassador to Tehran on Monday, Zarif emphasized upgrading Iran-Myanmar relations and said the Iranian government is concerned about conditions of Muslims in Myanmar and is prepared to solve their problems in cooperation with the Myanmarese government. The Iranian top diplomat underlined growing economic, cultural and social cooperation and promotion of regional cooperation, with the ASEAN member states particularly.
The Myanmarese diplomat, for his part, said his government welcomes investment by Iranian companies in Myanmar and expressed hope that Iranian traders and companies will have eye-catching presence in Myanmar. He said, ˈWe support Iranˈs membership in the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) and will consult with other member countries so that the treaty is signed as soon as possible.ˈ
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The European Union has agreed to suspend until November 24 a series of economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear energy program, the EU Council has announced, Press TV reported.
The question, and death is not an option: is the EU feckless or is the EU spineless?
In a statement on Monday, the EU said the decision would allow Iran to continue its exports of crude oil. The decision is due to be endorsed by foreign ministers of the 28-member bloc during their meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.
The measure comes after Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the US, France, Britain, Russia and China - plus Germany agreed on the extension of talks until November 24 with a view to achieving a permanent deal that would end the decade-old dispute over Iran's nuclear energy program.
The two sides sealed an interim deal in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 23, 2013, for a six-month period. The deal, which took effect on January 20, expired on Sunday.
Under the deal, dubbed the Geneva Joint Plan of Action, the six countries undertook to provide Iran with some sanctions relief in exchange for Iran agreeing to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities. On January 20, the European Union Council suspended part of the sanctions it imposed against Iran following the Geneva nuclear deal.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
[LATIMES] French politicians across the political divide on Monday denounced pro-Palestinian rioters who attacked a synagogue and Jewish-owned shops in a Paris suburb.
Turkey has declared three-day mourning for Palestinian victims killed in Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip as the death toll jumped to more than 500 on Monday, Today's Zaman reported.
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
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