IFJ: 121 journalists dead in 2012
By Elena Ralli | New Europe As Jim Boumelha, IFJ President, stated: “The death toll for 2012 is another indictment of governments which pay lip service to the protection of journalists but have consistently failed to stop their slaughter. It is no wonder that these sky-high numbers of killed journalists have become a constant feature in [...]
Read More →Another Woman Killed after Allegedly being Raped in India
Xinhua | CRI While the nation was mourning the death of a 23-year-old medical student who was gang raped two weeks ago in the Indian capital, a 42-year-old woman was murdered Saturday after being allegedly raped in the eastern state of West Bengal, reported local media Monday. The Indo-Asian News Service quoted police as saying [...]
Read More →Bahraini Policemen Charged for Torturing Detainee to Death
Al Manar A Bahrain court on Sunday jailed two policemen for seven years each after convicting them of torturing to death a detainee in the wake of last year’s brutal crackdown on protests, a local daily said. The Gulf kingdom’s high criminal court found the two national security members guilty of torturing Abdul Karim Fakhrawi [...]
Read More →Obama pledges to make gun control top priority for 2013
ANI President Barack Obama has pledged to make gun control a top priority in his second term and vowed to put his ‘full weight’ behind such legislation. In an interview with NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’, Obama said that he did like to get it done in the first year, adding that the issue was not [...]
Read More →Syrian troops arrest 4 Turkish fighter jet pilots in Aleppo
PressTV Syrian Army troops have reportedly arrested four Turkish fighter jet pilots near a military airport in Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo. The Turkish pilots were arrested by the Syrian troops at the Koerc military airport while trying to sneak into the airfield with the help of a militant group, Arabic-language newspaper Al-Watan reported on [...]
Read More →Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
By Naomi Wolf | The Guardian New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level [...]
Read More →Executives at collapsed Iceland bank jailed for fraud
Yahoo7news REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – Two former executives at an Icelandic bank which collapsed in the 2008 financial meltdown were sentenced to jail on Friday for fraud which led to a 53 million euro loss, in the first major trial of Icelandic bankers linked to the crisis. All three of the small North Atlantic island’s top [...]
Read More →Delisting MKO reeks of Washington’s redefinition of terrorism
PressTV US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton walks past the members of the terrorist MKO group (file photo). An Iranian academic says delisting the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from the list of US terror organizations by Washington is an egregious instance of redefining terrorism by Washington. “Truly known to be one of the most [...]
Read More →Saudi Religious Police Foil Attempt To Celebrate Christmas
RT Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) aka Saudi religious police force The religious police in Saudi Arabia have raided a house in the Al Jawf Province and arrested 41 people, who were “plotting to celebrate Christmas,” a police statement said. The police said that the detainees were Christian guests [...]
Read More →Council on Foreign Relations Reveals How World Government Can Be Achieved in 2013
By Andrew Puhanic | Globalist Report The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an organisation established in 1921 by the global elite, has publicized what it believes to be the challenges that need to be overcome to establish World Governmentin 2013. In summary, the Council on Foreign Relations has sought the opinion of four Globalists from [...]
Read More →H1N1 virus outbreak kills nine in West Bank
JN1 At least nine people have died in the West Bank in a new outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus, known as “swine flu”. A further 187 people were reported to have been infected with the virus. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad announced that a state of emergency has been called and that “all health [...]
Read More →Syrian Rebels ‘Beheaded Christian and Fed Him to Dogs’
By Matthew Campbell | The Australian He has just got married and his wife was about to give birth but this did not save Andrei Arbashe, a young Christian, from a horrific fate at the hands of rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime earlier this month. “They beheaded him, cut him into pieces and fed [...]
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