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US: Katrina
The second guilty plea in the Danziger Bridge case today revealed additional details about the conduct of New Orleans police after Hurricane Katrina and suggested more prosecutions of higher-ranking officers are yet to come.
Former police detective Jeffrey Lehrmann pleaded guilty to failing to report a felony in connection to a [...]
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Middle East Quartet condemns Israeli settlement plan
AFP
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The Middle East diplomatic Quartet condemned Israel’s plans to build new settler homes and said unilateral actions would not be recognized by the international community.
The group — the European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations — “condemns Israel’s decision to advance planning for new housing units in East [...]
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Russia
Russia’s envoy to NATO has sharply criticized the alliance’s shift away from fighting drug trafficking in Afghanistan, saying the resulting surge in heroin smuggling is endangering Russia’s national security.
In an interview late Thursday, Dmitry Rogozin also highlighted the lack of cohesion within NATO, saying Moscow is worried about declining public support in Europe for the [...]
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Arab MK: U.S. beginning to question Israeli policy on Palestinians
Haaretz
Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi has lashed out over the treatment of American lawmakers brought to Israel by the J Street organization, warning that unconditional U.S. support for Israel is on the wane
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Israel and Palestine
Israeli army prosecutors on Thursday charged two soldiers for using a young Palestinian boy to check for booby-traps during last year’s fighting in Gaza, a military spokeswoman told AFP.
She said the two soldiers, both staff sergeants, were charged of acting “in breach of military norms” for forcing the boy to open bags they [...]
Harvard Professor’s Shocking Proposal: Starve the Palestinians in Gaza into Having Fewer Babies
Juan Cole, JuanCole.com
Martin Kramer revealed his true colors at the Herzliya Conference, wherein he blamed political violence in the Muslim world on population growth, called for that growth to be restrained, and praised the illegal and unconscionable Israeli blockade of civilian Gazans for its effect on reducing the number of Gazans.
Israel distributes new gas masks to civilians: army
Staff Writers, Jerusalem (AFP)/Spacewar
Israel on Sunday began distributing new gas masks for civilians to use in a possible chemical or biological attack, the army said.
“The civil defence has asked the Israeli postal service to begin distributing gas masks on an experimental basis to the residents of Or Yehuda,” a military spokesman told AFP, referring to [...]
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Falklands
Washington refused to endorse British claims to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands yesterday as the diplomatic row over oil drilling in the South Atlantic intensified in London, Buenos Aires and at the UN.
Despite Britain’s close alliance with the US, the Obama Administration is determined not to be drawn into the issue. It has also declined [...]
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Israel
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has charged Israel with launching hundreds of attacks against Palestinian medical teams in 2009.
The aid group, also known as PRCS, said that the Israeli troops fired 15 times at ambulances in the West Bank and Gaza last year, killing one medical worker and wounding 10 more.
The PRCS also said that [...]
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US presses Israel on settler row