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Israel admits 2007 Syrian 'nuclear reactor' strike for first time
AFP, Published on 21/03/2018
» JERUSALEM - Israel's military admitted for the first time Wednesday it was responsible for a 2007 air raid against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor, a strike it was long believed to have carried out.
Israel admits 2007 Syrian 'nuclear reactor' strike for first time
AFP, Published on 21/03/2018
» JERUSALEM - Israel admitted for the first time Wednesday it was responsible for a top-secret 2007 air raid against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor, a strike the intelligence minister says serves as a warning to Iran.
Israel will prevent enemies from obtaining nuclear weapons: Netanyahu
AFP, Published on 21/03/2018
» JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel will prevent enemies from obtaining nuclear weapons after its military admitted it carried out a 2007 air raid against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor.
Cambridge Analytica's business simply isn't data
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 23/03/2018
» As the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolds, the Western world is meeting a little-known part of its political industry, the one that has operated in developing nations since at least the 1990s. CA's methods as revealed by Britain's Channel 4 News, whose reporter posed as a potential Sri Lankan client, may be a bit extreme -- but for the most part, the consultancy has been one of many firms that have brought Western-style electioneering to lawless environments in which it has been blatantly abused.
US charges Iranians in massive hacking scheme
AFP, Published on 23/03/2018
» WASHINGTON - The United States unveiled charges on Friday against nine Iranians for their alleged involvement in a massive state-sponsored hacking scheme which targeted hundreds of universities in the US and abroad and stole "valuable intellectual property and data."
Two charged with anti-Semitic murder of elderly French Jewish woman
AFP, Published on 27/03/2018
» PARIS - Two people have been charged with the murder of an 85-year-old French Jewish woman, who was stabbed and whose body was then set alight in a crime being treated as anti-Semitic, a judicial source said Tuesday.
Israel warns it may use lethal fire on Gaza border protests
AFP, Published on 28/03/2018
» JERUSALEM - Israel has warned that its soldiers could use live fire if Gaza Palestinians try to breach the border with Israel during a mass rally planned for Friday.
Israel shelling kills Palestinian ahead of Gaza protests
AFP, Published on 30/03/2018
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israeli shelling killed a Palestinian farmer in Gaza early on Friday, the enclave's health ministry said, just hours before the launch of mass protests along the border.
Gazans ready for new protests after bloodiest day in years
AFP, Published on 31/03/2018
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Palestinians prepared for further protests near the Gaza border Saturday, a day after a major demonstration led to clashes that saw Israeli forces kill 16 people in the bloodiest day since a 2014 war.
Don't let history repeat itself
News, Postbag, Published on 01/04/2018
» Last December, whistleblower CSI LA alerted us that DPM and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon had worn 22 ultra-luxurious watches, allegedly worth up to 36 million baht -- or about a decade of the DPM's government salary.