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Israel hits Palestinian targets in response to Gaza rocket fire
Israeli aircraft have launched a strike on a Palestinian radical group in Gaza in response to insurgents’ rocket fire, the Israeli military say.
There were no casualties from the strike, according to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The group said the jets hit one of their training bases in the southern Gaza Strip.
Conflicting reports suggested that there were at least three...
Ageing China migrants a 'major concern' in New Zealand
Nearly 40 per cent of immigrants from China gaining New Zealand permanent residence last year were aged 50 or over.
The number of elderly Chinese migrants arriving in the country is nearly four times the 10.7 per cent average of permanent residents in the age group from all other countries.
At the same time, those leaving the country are much younger.
Sociologist Paul Spoonley said a main purpose...
EU is trying to humiliate Britain over immigration
The EU is forcing states to give up their national sovereignty
The European Commission’s latest proposals have heightened skepticism about the effectiveness of government measures to curb “welfare tourism” by migrants from other EU countries. The proposed regulations aim to facilitate easier movement for EU citizens across member states, challenging national governments to establish...
British cabinet minister brands UKIP supporters as racists
British Tory cabinet minister Ken Clarke
British Conservative cabinet minister Ken Clarke has described some people intending to vote the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the upcoming local elections as racists.
Speaking to Sky News Murnaghan programme on Sunday, the minister without portfolio accused the party of having no positive policies and being merely “against” immigrants and foreigners.
Clarke...
Anti-drone protest in UK over domestic opening of Reaper control center
Anti-war groups have held a protest at a UK airbase from which the country has begun controlling its fleet of assassination drones in Afghanistan. Previously, the remote pilots were deployed only in the US.
Four anti-war groups – including CND, the Drone Campaign Network, Stop the War and War on Want – are staging a nonviolent protest on Saturday over drone use by the Waddington base in Lincolnshire.
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French troops to stay in Mali even after UN forces arrive
French soldiers take up position on a street in Gao, Mali on April 13, 2013.
France’s defense minister has reaffirmed that the country will keep 1,000 troops in Mali to fight armed groups even after the arrival of more than 12,000 UN peacekeepers later this year.
A day after the UN Security Council authorized the deployment of the peacekeeping force, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian...
U.S. Companies Purchased 900 Million Rounds of Ammo from Russia
The outlandish purchase of billions of rounds of ammunition by the federal government has created a serious shortage in the United States. In response, according to a Russian website (Lenta.ru), suppliers in the United States are turning to Russia to fill the gap.
From Lenta.ru (translated by Google) on Friday:
U.S. private companies purchased from Russian producers 900 million rounds of ammunition...
NYC Mayor: Tsarnaevs planned to set off bombs in Times Square
Authorities in the United States believe that the two brothers suspected of detonating bombs at the Boston Marathon last week hoped to wreak similar havoc in New York City’s Times Square.
On Thursday afternoon, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a press conference that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were planning to set off explosives in Midtown Manhattan.
“The surviving attacker revealed...
US, allies setting stage for Iraq-like invasion of Syria
The United States and its allies are stepping up pressure on Syria by accusing Damascus of using chemical weapons against foreign-backed militants, Press TV reports.
Analysts believe that the war rhetoric against Syria is very similar to the media propaganda launched by the US and its allies ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
On Friday, the US President Barack Obama claimed the world cannot stand...
White House says the US may attack Syria soon
The White House says President Barack Obama may approve using military force against the Syrian government.
On Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the administration has a number of options with regards to handling reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons, and those include using military force among other possibilities.
Fielding a question from the media...
Over 3.2 million jobless in France: Labor Ministry
An office of the French state-run employment agency, Pole Emploi, in the northern Paris suburb of Pantin.
The French Labor Ministry says the number of unemployed people in France increased by 36,900 in March, reaching 3.224 million for the first time since 1997.
The French ministry said on Thursday that the number of registered jobseekers in the eurozone’s second-largest economy surged by 1.2...
FBI Conducting Gun Sweeps in Oakland
Less than a week after SWAT police went house to house ripping families out of their homes during broad daylight in the manhunt that ensued following the Boston bombings, other police departments have seemingly taken a police state cue and followed suit.
Yesterday it was reported that FBI agents and local police SWAT along with the California Highway Patrol conducted a “massive sweep” of Oakland...
Dozens die in hospital blaze in Russia
Nearly 20 cases of deadly blazes at medical facilities have been registered in Russia over the past seven years.
At least 38 people, including two medical workers, have been killed in a fire that broke out at a psychiatric hospital in Russia, authorities say.
The deadly blaze erupted around 2:30 a.m. local time (2230 GMT) on Friday in Psychiatric Hospital 14 in Ramensky on the outskirts of the Russian...
CISPA stopped by the US Senate
Privacy advocates can breathe a sigh of relief as the controversial US Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) appears to be all but dead in the water, with all signs pointing to it being shelved by the Senate.
The bill, which was purportedly designed to allow the federal government to share private user information with corporations in situations of a suspected cyber threat, was the...
Public confidence in EU at record low levels
The harsh spending cuts by the EU governments have triggered massive protests in many European countries. The file photo shows anti-austerity protesters marching towards the Greek parliament in Athens.
New data show that public confidence in the European Union has dropped to record low levels in six biggest EU countries amid high unemployment rates and a deepening recession in Europe.
According to...