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Friday 6 August 2010
11:11	Israel's Foreign Ministry says 50 Israelis stranded in India flooding but are not in danger Israel's Foreign Ministry said Friday they are aware of fifty Israelis who are stranded in flooded areas in India. The ministry said they are not in danger
11:07	IDF commander warns of plans by Hamas to abduct Israelis in Judea and Samaria he Israel Defense Forces West Bank division commander, Brig. Gen. Nitzan Alon, has warned Israeli settlers to be on alert for possible abduction attempts in Judea and Samaria..
10:07	Syria accuses Israel of fabricating "spy" charges Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Thursday sent United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon a letter defending three Israelis charged one day earlier with spying for Syria, the country's Sana news agency reported.
09:02	Shalit campaigners plan protest flotilla next month Relatives of captive soldier Gilad Shalit will board a ship on September 7 that will sail from Ashdod to a point opposite the Gaza coast, according to activists working for Shalit's release.
08:30	U.S. issues travel warning to Israel due to recent rocket attacks The United States issued a travel warning to Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Thursday, citing additional precautions as a result of a recent rocket attack on Eilat and the Jordanian port city of Aqaba.
08:13	Hiroshima marks 65th anniversary The U.S., Britain and France participated for the first time Friday in the annual commemoration of the A-bomb attack on Hiroshima, in an 65th anniversary event that organizers hope will bolster global efforts toward nuclear disarmament. Hiroshima's mayor strongly welcomed the Washington's decision to send U.S. Ambassador John Roos, saying he hoped this year's event — which began Friday morning with an offering of water to the 140,000 who died — would boost denuclearization around the world.
07:59	Yoko Ono opposes parole for husband Lennon's killer Three decades after John Lennon's death, Yoko Ono said she opposes his killer's parole because he remains a potential threat. Lennon's widow said she was trying to be "practical" in asking that Mark David Chapman remain behind bars for fatally shooting the pop legend on Dec. 8, 1980, outside Lennon's Manhattan apartment building. Chapman, who has been repeatedly denied parole, is up for review again this month in New York State.
07:00	Seven members of one family killed when minibus and train collided The names of the casualties of Thursday night's train accident were released on Friday morning. Aryeh Berstein, 43, his wife Rivka Bernstein, 41, and their children Mordechai, age 9, Chaya, 14 and Yochanan, 16, all from Beitar Illit, were killed, when the minibus they rode in crashed into a train. Their daughter Malki Gotstein, 21, also died, together with her one-and-a-half-year-old son, Mordechai. Her husband, Dudi Gotstein, is the only family member to survive the crash, and is in moderate condition. The seven will be buried Friday. Eight other people have been hospitalized with injuries.
Thursday 5 August 2010
23:00	U.S. issues travel advisory, warning for its citizens in Saudi Arabia The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia has warned American citizens that extremists may be planning to attack Westerners in the country. The warning issued Wednesday said the timing and method of the potential attacks were not known. "... We have received credible information that an unidentified extremist(s) in Saudi Arabia may be planning to attack Westerners working and living in Al-Qasim, Saudi Arabia," the US warning said. Al-Qasim is an ultraconservative province northwest of the capital Riyadh
22:30	Pregnant woman, children armong those killed in train crash A pregnant woman and two children ages four and six were among seven killed when the train crashed into their minibus that broke through the barrier and on to the tracks. A ZAKA rescue service volunteer was also among the dead. The driver of the minibus was evacuated to hospital in moderate condition, and the vehicle's seven passengers, who were all killed, were all members of the same family. Two people were moderately wounded and six people sustained light wounds. The injured were evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba and Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. Other passengers who were lightly injured were treated at the scene.
22:00	Egyptian security searching for trucks used to fire rockets at Eilat, Aqaba Egyptian officials are searching the Sinai peninsula for two trucks that Egypt suspects were used in a rocket attack that hit Israel and Jordan, security sources in Sinai said on Thursday
21:19	U.S. court mulls custody to parents who gave their kids Nazi inspired names A New Jersey couple who gave their children Nazi-inspired names should not regain custody of them, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, citing the parents' own disabilities and the risk of serious injury to their children. The state removed Heath and Deborah Campbell's three small children from their home in January 2009. A month earlier, the family drew attention when a supermarket refused to decorate a birthday cake for their son, Adolf Hitler Campbell. He and siblings JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell have been in foster care.
21:14	Nasrallah meets with Iranian spiritual leader's advisor Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah met with an advisor to Iran's supreme spiritual leader. Lebanese media reported that the meeting also included Iran's ambassador to Lebanon and other senior Iranian officials.
21:00	Pentagon demands leaked documents The Pentagon is demanding that online whistle-blower WikiLeaks turn over its trove of tens of thousands of leaked U.S. government documents and delete them from its website and records. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell did not say what efforts the Defense Department might be able to take to compel Wikileaks to comply. He told a Pentagon news press conference that, at this point, the Pentagon is asking Wikileaks "to do the right thing."
20:41	Russia moves rockets due to wildfires Russian military garrison near Moscow moved all its artillery rockets to a safer location as wildfires advanced in the region, the government said Thursday. Col. Alexei Kuznetsov, a Defense Ministry spokesman, told The Associated Press that the garrison near Naro-Fominsk, 70 kilometers (45 miles) southwest of Moscow, was not in immediate danger. But the decision to move the explosive materiel underlined the challenges posed by the hundreds of fires raging in Russia after weeks of intense heat and drought.
20:35	Jordanian group winds up law enforcement visit in New York A law enforcement delegation from Jordan has completed a fact-finding mission on domestic violence in New York City. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly honored the 16 visitors on Thursday. They completed a two-week visit hosted by the State Department, the New York Police Department and other agencies. The Jordanian group included national police investigators, a social worker and a prosecutor who specialize in fighting domestic violence in the Arab nation.
20:10	Seven people killed and 15 injured when a minubus collided with a train in southern Israel According to police the minubus ploughed through a barrier when it was hit by an oncoming train that was unable to stop in time. Seven people including two children were killed.
19:34	Space walk delayed due to technical difficulties NASA has delayed two spacewalks to fix a broken pump at the International Space Station. Two astronauts are now scheduled to make the repairs on Saturday and Wednesday.
19:30	Casualties in train crash near Kibbutz Gaty not far from Kiryat Malachi A minibus and train collided near Kibbutz Gat, rescue and emergency teams at the site treating scores of wounded, Initial reports say there are also fatalities
18:00	Number of Israeli tourists to Turkey plummets Turkey says the number of Israeli visitors dropped by 90 per cent in June compared to the same period last year. According to the figures posted on Turkey's Tourism and Culture Ministry website Thursday, only 2,600 Israelis visited Turkey in June, compared to just over 27,000 in June 2009
16:37	Ahmadinejad says enemies exaggerated reports of attempted assassination Iran's president says his enemies exaggerated a firecracker incident near his motorcade to overshadow an important speech he was delivering in the western town of Hamedan.
15:06	Iran pushes forward manned space mission Iran plans to launch a manned spacecraft in seven years' time, two years earlier than its previous target, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday. "In the near future we will be sending a communications probe into space whose lifespan will be one year," the semi-official Mehr news agency quoted him as saying i
14:34	Russia halts grain exports until the end of the year Russia banned grain exports for the rest of the year on Thursday after a severe drought destroyed 20 percent of its wheat crop. The move caused the price of wheat, which has jumped 70 percent this summer, to rally further. Russia, which is among the largest exporters of grain and grain products, said the ban will run from Aug. 15 through Dec. 31.
14:09	Polish court rules to extradite alleged Mossad agent to Germany The Polish Supreme Court upheld a decision to extradite alleged Mossad agent "Uri Brodsky" to Germany where he is being accused of forging a German passport in the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud Mabhouh
13:30	Turkish tugboats take flotilla boats back home The three Turkish ships that took part in the Gaza-bound mission about two months ago were granted permission to leave Israel and head back to Turkey. Turkish tugboats arrived at the Haifa port Thursday morning in order to transport the Mavi Marmara – where an IDF raid left nine people dead.
12:38	European stocks on the rise Europan stock markets rose Thursday as investors found cheer in a positive assessment of Greece's austerity program while they waited for comments from European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 16.45 points, or 0.3 percent, at 5,402.61 while Germany's DAX rose 20.42 points, or 0.3 percent, to 6,351.75. The CAC-40 in France was 26.13 points, or 0.7 percent, higher at 3,786.85.
12:00	Two Druze, Israeli Arab indicted on charges of spying for Syrian intelligence Two Druse residents, members of the same family from the Golan Heights village Majdal Shams and an Israeli Arab, were indicted Thursday on charges of espionage, contact with a foreign agent and transferring information to the enemy. Residents of the village Majed Sha'ar, 58, his wife Mona, 48 and their son Fada, 27, and Mahmoud Masarwa, 62, an Israeli Arab from Bakka al-Gharbiya, are suspected of spying on Israel for the Syrian intelligence, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said in a statement.
11:15	Brit clad in bikini detained in Dubai An Emirati police official says a British woman was briefly detained after stripping down to a bikini and walking in her beach wear through a five-star mall in Dubai. The official says the British woman was shopping in the mall Wednesday, when a conservatively dressed Emirati woman came up to her and criticized her low-cut top.
10:49	South Korea launches military drill South Korean troops fired artillery and dropped sonar buoys into the Yellow Sea as naval drills kicked off Thursday near the spot where a warship sank four months ago. Some 4,500 South Korean troops aboard more than 20 ships and submarines as well as about 50 aircraft were to take part in the five days of naval exercises off the west coast, including spots near the two Koreas' maritime border, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
10:01	Suspicious package checked at Israel's Embassy in Washington Authorities say they are investigating an envelope with a white powdery substance found at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said a special unit was dispatched to the site to investigate the package, and added no evacuation of the building was necessary.
09:47	U.N. chief calls to abolish nuclear weapons U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the abolishment of nuclear weapons Thursday during a visit to Nagasaki, one of two Japanese cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs in the closing days of World War II. Ban toured the Atomic Bomb Museum and met with six survivors during his visit, the first by a U.N. chief to Nagasaki. More than 70,000 people were killed when the U.S. bombed the southern Japanese city on Aug. 9, 1945.
09:00	Hundreds flee Pakistan floods Hundreds of people loaded down with possessions were fleeing floods in Pakistan's most populous province Thursday as the worst monsoon rains in a generation triggered fresh chaos. Floods have already killed more than 1,500 people in Pakistan over the last week and affected some 3 million others. They followed the crash of a passenger jet last week close to the capital and have coincided with deadly riots in the country's largest city, Karachi. On Wednesday, a suicide bomber killed a paramilitary police commander in the northwest, a reminder of the country's ever-present terror threat
08:25	Clashes between polcie and residents at an outpost near Kiryat Arba after structures demolished The Civil Administration reportedly razed several structures in an Israeli outpost near Kiryat Arba leading to clashes between police and Jewish residents.Six residents were arrested.According to Israel Radio, six illegal structures were demolished, including a synagogue. Four families were living in the structures.
07:55	China defends business ties with Iran China is defending its business relationships with Iran after recent pressure from the United States to fully follow new sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program. "China's trade with Iran is normal business exchange, which will not harm the interests of other countries and the international community," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in comments published Thursday in the China Daily newspaper
07:44	Group tries to prevent Ground Zero mosque The debate over a planned Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero became a court fight Wednesday, as a conservative advocacy group sued to try to stop a project that has become a fulcrum for balancing religious freedom and the legacy of the Sept. 11 attacks.
07:23	U.S. State Dept., said Lebanese soldiers shooting at IDF was unjustified State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Wednesday that the firing by Lebanese armed forces on Israeli troops near the Israel-Lebanon border on Tuesday, which killed one Israeli officer and seriously wounded another, was "totally unjustified and unwarranted" while calling on both sides to show restraint.
Wednesday 4 August 2010
22:36	U.N. urges Iraq to agree on new government The U.N. Security Council is strongly urging Iraqi politicians to quickly agree on a new government, a call backed by the top United Nations envoy who warns that the country has reached "a critical juncture." The council issued a statement Wednesday after a briefing by U.N. envoy Ad Melkert who said the five-month delay in forming a government is creating uncertainy in the country and conditions that could be exploited by opponents of Iraq's transition to democracy.
22:05	U.S. nabs American would be suicide bomber Federal prosecutors say a 26-year-old Chicago man was plotting to go to Somalia to become a suicide bomber with al-Qaida. Shaker Masri (shah-KEER' MAHZ'-ree) was charged Wednesday with attempting to aid a terrorist organization and use a weapon of mass destruction outside the United States.
21:34	Sarkozy appoints envoy to monitor Israel Syria peace tract French President Nicolas Sarkozy appointed an envoy in charge of the peace process between Syria and Israel. A French Foreign Ministry spokesperson said President Sarkozy appointed former ambassador to Damascus, Jean-Claude Cousseran to oversee the progress of the Israeli-Syrian peace process.
20:22	Netanyahu: Hamas is responsible for the rockets fired at Eilat,Aqaba Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Israeli television Wednesday that Hamas was responsible for the deadly rocket fire on Israel's and Jordan's Red Sea ports on Monday, and that Israel would retaliate.
19:10	New Gaza flotilla of 12 ships planned towards year end Pro-Palestinian activists behind the Gaza aid convoy stopped by a deadly Israeli commando raid in May said Wednesday they are planning another, bigger flotilla before the end of the year. The network of organizations involved in the effort is growing and now has support groups around the world, including in the U.S., Venezuela, Chile, and Malaysia, said Dror Feiler, a spokesman for the Swedish group Ship to Gaza. He said European representatives of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an umbrella group, met in Stockholm on Wednesday to plan a new flotilla with up to 12 ships.
18:04	Tens of thousands protest south of India controlled Kashmir Tens of thousands of Kashmiri Muslims marched Wednesday to a town where seven people were killed over the weekend, defying a curfew in another day of massive protests against Indian rule in the Himalayan region. Long lines of people carrying green and black protest flags thronged a big prayer ground in Khrew, a town south of Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city Srinagar, even as India's Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram appealed for an end to the violence.
17:30	Turkel committee reviews IDF probe into the flotilla raid The Turkel committee members and foreign observers convened to discuss the military report on the flotilla raid conducted by the IDF. The committee discussed the testimonies that will be collected from the prime minister and defense minister in the near future. Two weeks ago, the committee coordinator handed the officials a list of topics to be discussed during the open door hearing
16:50	Defense Minister to check providing assistance for Romanian soldier killed in crash with IAF crew Defense Minister Ehud Barak said his ministry will investigate the possibility of providing assistance to the family of the Romanian soldier who died in the crash of the Yasour helicopter at the end of July. Capt. Stefan Dragnea was aboard the Israeli chopper serving as an observer during the ill-fated exercise.
16:15	Hundreds attend funeral of Lt.Col. Dov Harari killed by Lebanese sniper fire Hundreds attended the funeral of Lieutenant Colonel Dov Harari, 45, who was killed in the exchange of fire between IDF forces and Lebanon's army on the northern border on Tuesday. The funeral is held at the military cemetery in Netanya
15:50	Iraqi government releases Saddam loyalist The Iraqi government has released from prison a top Saddam Hussein loyalist after he was found innocent of helping the former regime punish opponents by draining the country's fabled marshlands, a judge said Wednesday. Khamis Sirhan al-Muhammad was No. 54 out of 55 on a former U.S. military list of most-wanted Saddam officials. Iraqi High Tribunal spokesman Judge Mohammed Abdul-Sahib Yaseen said al-Muhammad was recently released from a prison just outside Baghdad after being cleared of the charges in the marshlands draining case. The trial ended this week.
14:30	Security tight at Spanish hotel where Obama's wife and daughter are vacationing Security was tight at the posh Hotel Villa Padierna in southern Spain as Michelle Obama and her 9-year-old daughter Sasha arrived for a summer vacation in a motorcade. President Barack Obama and elder daughter Malia did not make the trip Wednesday to one of Spain's glitziest seaside resorts. The White House says Mrs. Obama was accompanied by longtime family friends but did not identify them.
14:00	Meat from P.A. confiscated Inspectors of the Poultry Council confiscated a shipment of 600 kg of mutton smuggled from the Palestinian Authority into Israel. A 50-year-old Nazereth resident who transported the meat was detained for questioning.
13:20	Egypt says Hamas fired rockets from its territory Egyptian security sources confirmed that Hamas was involved in the rocket fire at the beginning of the week, according to Egyptian newspaper al-Youm al-Sabah. The sources said Hamas members infiltrated from the Gaza Strip via the smuggling tunnels on the Egyptian-Gaza border into the Sinai Peninsula to fire rockets onto Israel
12:30	Fire breaks out near British nuke facility Britain's nuclear weapons center says nearby homes were evacuated after a fire at the base, but insisted there was no danger to the public. Firefighters were called to the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, Berkshire, west of London, late on Tuesday to tackle a blaze. A spokesman for the facility, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with policy, said Wednesday a 600-meter (650-yard) cordon was set up around the building, but there were "no radiological implications." He says the fire had broken out in a non-nuclear explosives area of the 750-acre (300-hectare) site.
11:52	Grenade thrown at Ahamdinejad's convoy, leader unhurt A conservative website says a handmade grenade has exploded near President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's convoy in western Iran. The website, khabaronline.ir, says the blast took place Wednesday in Hamedan as Ahmadinejad was about to address a crowd. It says the president was unhurt. Ahmadinejad gave his speech as planned and it was broadcast live on state TV.
11:25	Iran says it has obtained S300 missiles Iran has obtained four S-300 surface-to-air missiles despite Russia's refusal to deliver them to Tehran under a valid contract, a semiofficial Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday. The Fars news agency, which has ties to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran's most powerful military force, said Iran received two missiles from Belarus and two others from another unspecified source. Fars didn't elaborate, and there was no immediate official confirmation of the report. Russia signed a contract in 2007 to sell S-300 missiles to Iran, a move that would have substantially boosted the country's defense capacities. Israel fears that supplying S-300s to Iran would change the military balance in the Middle East. The S-300 anti-aircraft missile defense system is capable of shooting down aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missile warheads at ranges of over 90 miles (144 kilometers) and at altitudes of about 90,000 feet (27,432 meters). Russia said in June that the new tough U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran prevent Russia from delivering the missiles to Iran but Iran has insisted that Moscow is under an obligation to carry out the contract to provide the S-300 missiles to Teheran.
09:30	Toll in Russia's wildfires rises and 403 new fires reported Officials say the death toll from weeks of wildfires that have wiped out forests and villages in western Russia has reached 48. The Emergency Ministry said in a statement Wednesday that 403 new fires were spotted in the last 24 hours, but 293 were extinguished.
09:00	Lebanese Army official admits its soldiers opened fire at Israeli soldiers first A Lebanon army's spokesman confirmed Israel's claims that Lebanese forces fired first during Tuesday's deadly border skirmish. In a statement issued in the Lebanese daily al-Nahar Wednesday, the spokesman said that "the Lebanese Army opened fire first at Israeli soldiers who entered Lebanese territory…this constituted defense of our sovereignty and is an absolute right."
08:46	Nasrallah said his troops will be involved in next clash with Israel Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah described Tuesday's border clash between the Lebanese army and Israeli troops as "heroic" and warned his fighters would retaliate if there were further incidents. At least three Lebanese soldiers, one reporter and an Israeli officer were killed in the exchange of fire. "The army fought heroic confrontation with the Israeli enemy in southern Lebanon," Nasrallah said in a speech marking the fourth anniversary of the 2006 war with Israel. He added that his movement's fighters were on standby to back the army. "This time we stood and watched ... but next we will not," he warned. "Israel's aggression on Lebanon has never stopped. We will not stand idle ... we will cut any hand that attack our army," Nasrallah said. He also accused Israel of the 2005 assassination of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri and said he would unveil proof to that effect at a news conference next week. "I accuse the Israeli enemy of the assassination of (former) Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and... I will prove this by unveiling sensitive information at a press conference on Monday," Nasrallah said.
08:44	Netanyahu to convene the security cabinet to discuss the situation on the northern border Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will convene the security cabinet to discuss the situation along the northern border.
08:20	IDF says it will resume maintenance work along the northern border Despite the serious escalation, the army said it would continue performing maintenance work along the northern border, including trimming shrubbery .
08:10	IDF officials say journalists were tipped off prior to the ambush on Israel Lebanese border IDF officials said it appears the journalists and photographers were infromed of the intended ambush and were deployed to the site even before the gunfire erupted and violence escalated. Officials said many of the journalists work for outlets that are affiliated with Hezbollah.
08:00	North Korea threatens to retaliate North Korea's military threatened "strong physical retaliation" against planned South Korean naval drills near their disputed sea border and warned civilian ships should stay away from the area. South Korea plans to hold five-day naval drills in the Yellow Sea, including exercises near the border, beginning Thursday in response to the deadly March sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on North Korea. Forty-six sailors were killed. Pyongyang vehemently denies downing the 1,200-ton Cheonan, and has asked to send its own investigators to examine the results of the probe into the sinking. Seoul has rejected the requests
07:48	A suspected Palestinian terrorist operative killed in IAF strike before dawn Palestinian media reports said a suspected terror operative was killed in an Israeli airstrike before dawn Wednesday. The army said a group of Palestinians were spotted approaching the border fence and a helicopter deployed to the site opened fire.
07:30	UNIFIL confirms Israel coordinated the work with them UNIFIL official in southern Lebanon confirmed Wednesday that the IDF informed the organization of its intention to conduct routine maintenance work Tuesday in the area between Israel's border fence and the international border where Lebanese Army forces opened fire on IDF soldiers, killing Lt.-Col. (res) Dov Harari, Army Radio reported. "I can confirm that we received notification from the IDF about the work and we passed the information on to the Lebanese Army," said the Hungarian diplomat who is part of the UNIFIL force in southern Lebanon.
Tuesday 3 August 2010
23:00	White House rejects Ahmadinejad's offer for a public debate with Obama The White House rejected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's offer for a public debate with US President Barack Obama. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said that Tehran has not displayed seriousness on the nuclear issue.
22:30	EU calls for Israel, Lebanon to show restraint EU foreign policy chief Catherin Ashton expressed her deep concern over the exchange of fire between the IDF and the Lebanese military. She called upon both sides to show maximum restraint
22:06	Car bomb kills at least 15 southeast of Baghdad A car bomb ripped through an outdoor market Tuesday in a mainly Shiite city southeast of Baghdad in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 22 people nationwide, officials said. The blast in Kut, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, targeted a popular outdoor market that sells food and clothes at about 5.30 p.m., killing at least 15 people and wounding 60, according to police and health officials.
22:05	Lt. Col. Dov Hariri killed by Lebanese snipers will be buried Wednesday Hariri, a father of four will be buried at the Netanya militarty cemetery on Wednesday at 4pm
21:54	Nasrallah warns if Israel attacks Lebanese forces Hezbollah will respond Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah warns that if Israel targets the Lebanese military again, his guerrilla force will act, following a border clash Tuesday. In a speech, Nasrallah praises the Lebanese army for its "heroic confrontation" with Israeli forces on the border.
21:10	U.S. urges Israel, Lebanon to show constraint The U.S. State Department said the administration has been in contact with Israeli and Lebanese officials and urged both countries to show restraint
20:45	American employee kills nine people at workplace after being told he was fired A Connecticut official says nine people have been killed after an employee who was asked to resign went on a shooting rampage at a beer distributor outside Hartford.
20:38	Barak warns Lebanon Israel will not tolerate attacks on its soldiers or citizens Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel would not tolerate any attacks on soldiers or citizens "within its sovereign territory" and called on the international community to condemn the "criminal act carried out by the Lebanese army."
19:05	IAEA to inspect alleged Syrian nuclear sites The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency will likely consider a special inspection of Syria to answer nagging questions over its nuclear activities, the U.S. ambassador to the organization said Tuesday. Glyn Davies said a number of countries on the IAEA's board of governors support plans to invoke the rarely used sanction. Like Iran, Syria is suspected of hiding weapons-related nuclear activities and has blocked access to a suspected nuclear site destroyed by Israeli warplanes in September 2007. "We need to keep the focus very much on Iran — but stay tuned on Syria, because Syria I think would love to just stave off any serious action to get to the bottom of what they were doing," Davies told reporters in London.
18:08	Assad says Damascus will stand by Beirut Syrian President Bashar Assad said hours after the confrontation that Syria will stand by Lebanon "in the face of Israel's criminal aggression Assad was quoted by the official Syrian news agency SANA saying, the "Israeli aggression proves once again that Israel is making every effort to shake the stability in the region." "The United Nations and the international community must condemn and prevent the Israeli aggression," Assad was quoted as saying.
18:07	Eizencott said Lebanese snipers ambushed the Israeli troops An IDF officer was killed and another officer seriously wounded in clashes with Lebanese forces on the border, OC Northern Command Maj. Gen.Gadi Eizencott said in a press conference. Both officers were hit during an exchange of fire. Eizencott told reporters that Lebanese snipers ambushed the Israeli officers who were on operational duty inside Israeli territory when they were hit. Eizencott said at Lebanon's request Israel halted the gunfire to allow them to evacuate the bodies of the dead soldiers, but half an hour later the Lebanese troops resumed fire.
17:56	Israeli officer killed in gun battles between IDF and Lebanese soldiers Lt. Col. Dov Harari, 45, a battalion commander was killed in the gun battles that erupted between IDF soldiers and Lebanese soldiers on the northern border near Kibbutz Misgav Am. Another officer was seriously wounded
17:00	Two Israeli soldiers seriously wounded in clashes with Lebanese troops Two Israeli soldiers were seriously injured in clashes with Lebanese forces on the border, OC Northern Command Maj. Gen.Gadi Eizencott said in a press conference. Both officers were hit during an exchange of fire.
15:10	Officials say Russian wildfires out of control Some of the devastating wildfires sweeping western Russia are out of control, Russia's emergency chief said Tuesday, as fears grew there were not enough firefighters to battle them. Tens of thousands of troops and volunteers were helping some 10,000 firefighters battle blazes in more than a dozen western Russian provinces, seven of which were under a state of emergency. Their efforts had saved more than 300 towns and villages from destruction in the last day, Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu said, according to Russian media.
14:23	Spanish air traffic controllers on strike Spanish air traffic controllers are voting on whether to stage a strike in protest over what they call excessive working hours. The controllers' union said its 2,300 members are voting Tuesday but a date for a stoppage would be decided later. The strike could come in August, the busiest month for tourism in one of Europe's top vacation destinations
14:00	Egyptian security forces searching for rocket launchers in Sinai Media reports said Egyptian security forces are searching the Sinai Peninsula for sites used to fire the rockets at Israel and Jordan on Monday
13:20	UNIFIL urges Israel, Lebanon to restore calm U.N, peacekeepers in Lebanon called on the Lebanese and Israeli armies to exercise "maximum restraint" after a border incident in which they exchanged fire. "The main priority of the mission at the moment is to restore calm in the area and the Deputy Force Commander Santi Bonfanti is in contact with the LAF (Lebanese Armed Force) and IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) command urging for maximum restraint," UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti said
12:40	Exchange of gunfire between IDF and Lebanese army, rockets fired at northern Israel An exchange of gun fire between Lebanes and Israeli soldiers erupted along Israel's northern border and reports received of several rockets fired at northern Israel towards Galilee.
11:15	EU forces thwart pirate attack in Gulf od Aden The European Union Naval Force says pirates attacked a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden early Tuesday but that an EU helicopter sent to the scene stopped the attack. The EU force says the Norwegian chemical tanker MV Bow Saga sent a distress call that it was under attack by a pirate skiff with seven people on the board. The pirates shot at the tanker's bridge, damaging the windows
10:58	Washington Post says U.S. close to a deal with Turkey to deploy a missile shield against Iran Turkey is poised to become the first line of global defense against the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles, with the United States considering installing sophisticated radar systems in the country, according to a U.S. report. According to the Washington Post, the U.S. is close to activating a partial missile shield over southern Europe. As part of the deployment, Department of Defense officials are nearing a deal with either Turkey or Bulgaria to install high-powered X-band radar
10:35	Report claims two IAF helicopters sought permission to land in Romania due to technical problems Two Israeli helicopters sought an emergency landing due to technical problems in Romania Tuesday, according to the Romanian Ministry of Defense. There has been no official response from the IDF. The incident comes a week after six IAF crew and a Romanian pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed into a mountainous area during training. No casualties were reported in the incident. The police said they received an emergency call from residents of nearby villages, and sent rescue forces to the area.
10:09	China launches air defense exercise China's military launched major air defense exercises Tuesday, highlighting rising capabilities that are seen as tipping the balance of power in east Asia. The drills involve more than 10,000 service members, including those from naval and army aviation units and land-based air defense forces, according to the official China News Service.
09:30	Hamas denies involvement in rocket attacks at Eilat,Aqaba Hamas denied any involvement Tuesday with the rocket attacks that struck near Eilat, the Red Sea, and Jordan Monday, killing a Jordanian and wounding three more at the Intercontinental Hotel in Aqaba.
09:08	Malaysia tightens visa requirements Malaysia will tighten visa requirements for tourists from countries including China and India after many foreigners took advantage of easy entry procedures by overstaying, an official said Tuesday. Immigration Director General Abdul Rahman Othman said authorities will stop issuing visas on arrival to visitors from various countries starting Aug. 15. Currently, many tourists can obtain visas at Malaysia's entry points if they show they have tickets to leave the country within up to 14 days.
08:30	Gunmen kill 37 in Karachi after assassination of lawmaker Gunmen killed at least 37 people in Pakistan's largest city after the assassination of a lawmaker, officials said Tuesday. Dozens of vehicles and shops were set on fire as security forces struggled to gain control of Karachi. The southern city of more than 16 million has a history of political, ethnic and religious violence, and has long been a hide-out for al-Qaida and Taliban militants. Its stability is important for Pakistan because it is the country's main commercial hub.
08:10	Five Iraqi soldiers killed by suspected Al Qaida operatives Iraqi officials say suspected al-Qaida operatives killed 5 Iraqi soldiers at a western Baghdad checkpoint and planted the terror group's black banner before fleeing the scene. The police and hospital officials say the attackers used pistols fitted with silencers in the brazen dawn assault Tuesday in Baghdad's Mansour district. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they're not authorized to talk to the media.
07:29	North Korea threatens South Korea North Korea's military threatened Tuesday "strong physical retaliation" against South Korea's planned naval drills near their disputed sea border and warned civilian ships to stay away from the area. South Korea plans to hold five-day naval drills in the Yellow Sea, including near the border, beginning Thursday in response to the deadly March sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on North Korea.
07:02	Screenwriter of James Bond and Superman films, Tom Mankiewicz died in L.A. Tom Mankiewicz, the screenwriter of such James Bond films as "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Live and Let Die" and the first two "Superman" movies, has died in Los Angeles at 68. Mankiewicz died Saturday at his home after battling cancer
Monday 2 August 2010
23:10	Israel beats Italy 71:79 in basketball match Israel's national basketball team beat its Italian opponent 71:79 in the qualifying games of the FIBA European Basketball Championship.
22:27	Pakistani leader in Paris for talks Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, facing questions about his country's role in Afghanistan, turned to France for support in talks Monday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy that covered fighting terrorism and nuclear cooperation. Zardari arrived in France on Sunday night, as his government was coming under criticism for its handling of deadly flooding in the northwest of the country. The worst floods in the country's history have already killed up to 1,100 people and forced 2 million to flee their homes.
22:00	15 killed in plane crahs in Siberia Russia's Emergencies Ministry says a passenger plane has crashed near a city in northern Siberia, killing 15 people aboard. Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andryanova says the Antonov-24 twin turboprop plane went down Monday on approach to the airport in the town of Igarka.
21:25	Seven killed in Kashmir protest Government troops fired live ammunition and tear gas into crowds of anti-India protesters Monday as tens of thousands of people demonstrated across Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said. Seven civilians were reported killed.
21:05	U.N. removes Al Qaida and Taliban operatives from blacklist The United Nations has completed a review of 488 al-Qaida and Taliban names on the sanctions blacklist and has removed 45 individuals and entities. Austria's U.N. Ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting, chairman of the Security Council committee monitoring sanctions, said Monday that 10 Taliban and 35 al-Qaida were removed. Eight of them were people who had died.
20:01	11 killed in spate of attacks in Iraq as Obama announces troop withdrawal Two bombings and a drive-by shooting killed 11 people Monday, a reminder of Iraq's ongoing instability as President Barack Obama cited progress amid the looming end of U.S. military operations in the country. The latest violence and government figures showing that July was the deadliest month for Iraqis in more than two years revived persistent questions about the readiness by Iraqi security forces to take over from the Americans as the U.S. military draws down its forces and ends all combat operations at the end of the month. They also confirm the widely spread belief that insurgents are taking advantage of a political impasse over forming a new government after a March 7 parliamentary election failed to produce a clear winner. "But make no mistake: Our commitment in Iraq is changing, from a military effort led by our troops to a civilian effort led by our diplomats," Obama said his Monday speech to disabled veterans in Atlanta. The U.S. has repeatedly insisted Iraq is stable enough to proceed with the troop drawdown on schedule and violence has dramatically declined in Iraq since 2008. But attacks remain a daily occurrence, especially in Baghdad. The U.S. plans to draw its forces in Iraq down to 50,000 by the end of this month and the last American soldier will leave by the end of next year. There are about 65,000 U.S. troops currently in Iraq
19:29	18 killed in fire that swept though old aged home in South Africa Eighteen elderly people died after a fire swept through their old age and frail care center outside of Johannesburg, South African emergency services said Monday, as investigators began digging through the rubble to determine the cause of the fire. Paramedics said another 84 people were rescued from the Pieter Wessels old age home about 40 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of Johannesburg
19:00	Holocaust museum asks Romania to withdraw coin Romania's central bank has issued a special coin commemorating a prime minister and religious leader who stripped Jews of their citizenship before World War II. The coin has prompted protest from a director at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Radu Ioanid, who runs the international archives at the museum, said he was "shocked" by the bank's decision to mint the coin depicting late Patriarch Miron Cristea, who led the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1925 to 1939 and was prime minister from 1938-1939.
18:40	Remnant of rocket from Monday's attack found in Eilat's salt water pools Security forces found the remains of a rocket from Monday;s attack near the city's salt-water pools.
18:03	IAEA head says talks on potential fuel swap with Iran to begin soon IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said during a lecture in Singapore he had received a "positive reaction" from countries in the "Vienna Group," comprising Russia, France, the United States and the IAEA, to hold a dialogue on a potential fuel swap soon.
17:30	Netanyahu speaks with Egyptian and Jordanian leaders of the rocket attack Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II on Monday following the firing of rockets towards the Eilat bay and Aqaba. "The heinous attack on innocent civilians in Israel and Jordan was perfomed by terrorists who wish to sabotage the peace proves. All of the region's countries that aspire to peace must fight these forces, shun terror and bring peace closer," Netanyahu told the leaders
17:10	Wife of missing IAF navigator Ron Arad viosits Shalit tent Tami Arad, the wife of missing IDF navigator Ron Arad, met with the parents of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit at their protest tent outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem. Upon leaving the tent, Arad said that "there appears to be an impassable barrier between those sitting in the tent and those strengthening them, and the person sitting behind in the prime minister's residence."
16:19	Israel agrees to participate in U.N. flotilla probe The security cabinet voted to participate in a U.N. probe to examine Israel's raid on a Gaza bound Turkish ship on May 31.
15:00	Jordan condemns rocket attack, it calls an act of terror Jordan condemned Monday the firing of a rocket on the Intercontinental Hotel in Aqaba in which a Jordanian man was killed and four others were injured. The rocket was one of six which struck the area, including a second rocket in Jordan, one near Eilat, two in the Red Sea and one in the Sinai Peninsula. In a statement released by the Jordanian Information Ministry the rocket attack was called a "terror attack." Jordan promised to continue in its war against terror.
14:30	Ahmadinejad invites Obama for a debate Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he's ready to meet "face-to-face" with President Obama in a public debate over their countries' disputes. The Iranian leader says he plans to visit New York for the next U.N. General assembly in September, as he has several times since coming to power in 2005. In a speech Monday, Ahmadinejad says that during his trip to the U.S. he's ready to meet Obama "face to face and before media to put the world's issues on the table."
14:19	Britain's recently appointed security adviser resigns Britain's government says the country's national security adviser has confirmed he's stepping down, less than three months after taking up the newly created role. Peter Ricketts, previously the country's top diplomat, was appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron's new government to lead the government's security work and set up a new national security council. Cameron clashed last week with key allies in Pakistan over terrorism, after he questioned Islamabad's commitment to tackling terror groups inside its borders.
13:00	Al Qaida target Baghdad policeman's home, kill him and his wife and daughter Suspected Al-Qaida operatives blew up the house of a policeman in a former stronghold of the Sunni insurgency west of Baghdad, killing him, his wife and 4-year-old daughter, hospital and police officials said. Separate attacks in Baghdad, including one targeting police, killed five people and wounded 15.
12:14	Lebanon says it has arrested fourth Israeli spy Lebanese security forces last week arrested another senior official from the state's telecommunications network suspected of spying on behalf of Israel, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported on Sunday, Milad Eid, 66, is the fourth telecommunications official arrested this year in an alleged ring linked to Israel's intelligence service. Eid is a senior technician at Ogero, the state-owned company that runs the country's land-line telephone. He retired last year and was then brought back to serve in the administrative position.
11:37	President Peres visits families of six IAF crew killed in Romania President Shimon Peres visited the families of the six Israel Air Force soldiers killed in last week's helicopter crash in Romania during a joint exercise with the Romanian military.
10:01	U.S. envoy says sanctions against North Korea to force it to abandon its provocative actions New U.S. sanctions against North Korea are designed to push the regime to abandon its "provocative activities" and give up its nuclear weapons, a senior envoy on nonproliferation said Monday. Robert Einhorn, the State Department's special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control, met with South Korean officials to discuss the new financial sanctions that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced in Seoul two weeks ago.
09:50	Death toll from wildfires in Russia climbs to 34 Russia's Emergencies Ministry says 34 people are known to have died in the recent wave of wildfires, which have destroyed hundreds of homes but are thought to be slowly dying down. Vladimir Stepanov, who heads the Emergencies Ministry's crisis response center, said in televised comments that nationwide 500 new fires had been registered in the past 24 hours.
09:38	At least fifty killed in bridge collapse in China caused by flooding The death toll from a bridge collapse triggered by intense flooding in central China has risen to 51 people as China's worst flooding in decades wreaks havoc across the country. Rescuers continued to search for 15 people still missing in Henan province's Yi River after a bridge collapsed more than a week ago, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday. A witness said the bridge collapsed when pedestrians crowded on to watch the flooding after heavy rains overflowed the river
09:28	Five children killed in suicide bomb attack in southern Afghanistan A suicide car bomber blew himself up next to a police truck bringing a southern Afghan official to work early Monday, killing five children nearby, officials said. The blast struck about 9 a.m. local time near a market area, said Ahmadullah Nazak, the chief of Kandahar province's Dand district.
09:00	Netanyahu to convene a cabinet meeting to discuss regional security issues Prime MInister Binyamin Netanyahu is due to convene a security cabinet meeting Monday night to discuss regional issues including the situation in Lebanon ahead of the publishing of the names of suspects involved in the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister. Ministers will also discuss a decision by the U.N. to launch a probe into the raid on the flotilla in May
08:30	Two Grad missiles fired at Eilat, Aqaba Explosions were heard in the southern city of Eilat . One of the missiles fell in the sea near the city and another exploded near a hotel in Aqaba injuring four people.Eilat Police reported that the it still remains unclear from where the rockets were fired, but believe that they were most likely launched by the Global Jihad operating in Sinai.
08:05	Red Shirt protesters demonstrate in Bangkok Several hundred Red Shirt protesters defied a state of emergency in the Thai capital to stage a symbolic protest, with hundreds of people sprawling on the ground and chanting, "People died here!" The demonstration Sunday at the city's Democracy Monument was peaceful, but it was the latest sign of simmering discontent since the army cracked down May 19 to disperse a sprawling anti-government protest camp and end 10 weeks of demonstrations calling for early elections.
07:52	One fatality among twelve cases of West Nile fever in Israel Twelve cases of the disease, which generally surfaces in the summer, have been confirmed and another twelve patients are thought to be suffering from the illness. The diseases is spread to humans by mosquitoes who are infected with the virus by birds. Incidence of the fever has been centered in the Tel Aviv area.
07:25	U.S., South Korea discuss financial penalties against North Korea A senior U.S. envoy in charge of implementing sanctions met Monday with South Korean officials to discuss new financial penalties on North Korea. The trip by Robert Einhorn, the State Department's special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control, comes two weeks after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the U.S. would impose new financial sanctions on North Korea. Clinton said the new penalties would target the sale and purchase of arms and related goods used to fund the communist regime's nuclear activities, and the acquisition of luxury items to reward its elite. The details of how and when the sanctions would be carried out have not been released
07:01	Explosion in a Gaza home injures 24 A huge explosion destroyed the home of a senior Hamas commander and injured 24, Palestinians reported on Monday before dawn.Palestinians said the blast was caused by an Israeli airstrike, but this has been denied by the IDF.The explosion early Monday wrecked the house of Ala Adnaf, a commander of the Hamas military wing, Palestinian security officials said. Israeli officials did not rule out the possibility that abomb bein prepared may have exploded prematurely
Sunday 1 August 2010
22:04	Greenspan describes the situation as a quasi-recession Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says he thinks the economy is having a modest recovery, but right now there's a "pause" in that recovery, so it feels like a "quasi-recession." Greenspan says long-term unemployment is pulling the economy apart even though large banks are doing much better and large companies are in excellent shape. Greenspan predicts that unemployment will remain where it is, hovering around 9.5 percent, for the rest of the year.
21:30	Mubarak's spokesman said talks between Israel and Palestinians must have a time frame Suleiman Awwad, spokesman for Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, said direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians must be "serious, continuous with a fixed time limit," calling for an active and impartial U.S. role. He also said Israel should take further measures to ease conditions in the West Bank and lift its blockade of Gaza.