As the days have passed, it has become ever clearer that the deadly ambush laid by the Lebanese army for the IDF, in which Israeli Lt Col Dov Harari was killed (his funeral is pictured here) along with three Lebanese soldiers and one Lebanese journalist, was a Hezbollah operation. for more click here
Tommy Robinson – A Chat Before We Go To Bradford. video. for more click here
There was a press conference outside Washington today held by the International Committees against Stoning and Execution and Mission Free Iran on the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. She is the 43-year-old mother of two in Iran who has been sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery.
Documents said to be from her lawyer Houtan Kian were shown in which he accuses the Islamic Republic regime of delaying a decision on this case “indefinitely and peculiarity.” for more click here
HARARE — Human rights groups on Friday accused Zimbabwean police of setting fire to an informal settlement in Harare, forcing some 250 people from their homes.
Amnesty International said police, some armed and accompanied by dogs, raided the settlement in the Gunhill suburb shortly after midnight Wednesday, giving residents 10 minutes to leave their homes before setting the squatter camp alight. for more click here
TEHRAN — In a further clampdown on Iran’s cowed political opposition, the authorities have issued a ban on any news relating to the leaders of the protest movement that arose after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last year, opposition Web sites reported. for more click here
“Kenya will forever tarnish the celebration of its long-awaited constitution if it welcomes an international fugitive to the festivities,” Elise Keppler, senior counsel in the International Justice Program at the New York-based rights monitor, said in a statement.
Read more: http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/Kenyanews/Kenya-should-arrest-Bashir%3A-Human-Rights-Watch-9617.html#ixzz0xsuY7XEP
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In unusual public remarks about Iran’s disputed nuclear programme Olli Heinonen, the former chief of U.N. nuclear inspections worldwide, told Le Monde newspaper that Iran’s uranium reserve still represented a “threat.” for more click here
TOKYO — The Japanese government opened up its execution chambers to the public for the first time on Friday, taking journalists on a tour of Tokyo’s main gallows. The insides were stark: a trapdoor, a Buddha statue and a ring for the noose. for more click here
Dawn breaks over the outskirts of Paris, its arrival marked by the banging of fists on the locked door of a caravan.
The noise wakes 30-year-old Dana from her sleep, and when she pulls back the curtains to see what is causing the commotion, she finds a dozen uniformed riot police, batons in hand. for more click here
In a piece for USA Today on August 2, Stephen Prothero, a Boston University professor and CNN blogger, laments the burqa bans being debated in Europe and mocks those who harbor concerns — hilariously unfounded in his view — about the “possibility of cross-dressing criminals concealed behind burqas starting a spate of bank robberies from London to Rome.” “To paraphrase The Shadow,” he writes, “who knows what evil lurks behind the jihab?” for more click here