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The EU’s relationship with Turkey cannot be limited to just migration, the EU’s foreign policy chief said on Friday. The questions of migration and financial aid are an important part of ties between Turkey and the EU, but there are many other aspects to be improved, Josep Borrell told a press conference after a videoconference of EU foreign ministers. Turkey has been one of the main country […]
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The coronavirus crisis may highlight the overlap between the surveillance state and the cryptocurrency industry. The Israeli tech company NSO Group, best known for selling spyware to Saudi Arabia and other governments, is reportedly working on a new product to monitor the spread of coronavirus. Nearly a dozen countries are testing the software, Bloomberg reported. NSO Group’s surveillance technology has attracted widespread criticism from privacy-minded technologists […]
Relations between Israel and the Gulf states shed light on the price to be paid in order to achieve regional peace, especially since such relations require Arab regimes to trample on human rights, an Israeli researcher has said. In a research paper published by the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv, Kathy Faxburg added that Israel is showing a clear degree of acceleration in […]
Authored by Wyatt Eichholz via CampusReform.org, An associate professor and researcher at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has been arrested for allegedly concealing ties to a Chinese university while receiving federal funding, according to a recent Justice Department press release. Amning Hu was charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements following a grand jury indictment for “concealing his affiliation with […]
Speaker of Pakistan’s National Assembly, Asad Qaiser, said yesterday that his country would never have relations with Israel before the creation of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, Quds Net reported. During a visit by the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to Islamabad, Ahmed Rabei, Qaiser said that Pakistan believes that all conflicts must be resolved through negotiations. Pakistan, he continued, would continue to offer […]
Ties between Turkey and Russia have reached the highest level in defense and trade areas, and it is necessary to go further in this direction, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Moscow on Thursday. He made the statement at the start of the talks on Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. Putin said that a face-to-face meeting was necessary amid the escalation in […]
Authored by Whitney Webb via MintPressNews.com, After his late jump into the Democratic primary and, as critics argue, purchasing his way into the primary debates, former Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg has received mixed coverage from corporate media, with many negative critiques of the current presidential contender’s history, conduct and connections. Yet, despite efforts by other campaigns and more progressive-leaning media outlets to dampen […]
British foreign minister Dominic Raab will on Monday begin his first official visit to the Gulf for talks with leaders in Saudi Arabia and Oman, expected to cover trade, human rights issues and climate change, Reuters reports. Raab, appointed foreign minister in July last year by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, will also meet with Yemeni leaders in an attempt to re-energise efforts to find a political solution […]
Middle East 18:50 GMT 01.03.2020(updated 18:52 GMT 01.03.2020) Get short URL Syrian-Libyan ties were frozen in late 2011, soon after the victory of anti-Gaddafi forces in Libya which recognized a loose coalition of armed anti-Assad militants as the Syria’s “sole legitimate government.” Tobruk-based government Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdul-Hadi Al-Hawaij and Deputy Prime Minister Abdul-Rahman al-Ahiresh arrived in Damascus on Sunday for talks with their Syrian […]
After his late jump into the Democratic primary and, as critics argue, purchasing his way into the primary debates, former Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg has received mixed coverage from corporate media, with many negative critiques of the current presidential contender’s history, conduct and connections. Yet, despite efforts by other campaigns and more progressive-leaning media outlets to dampen Bloomberg’s chances at the nomination, one […]
Ankara does not believe its decision to allow some of the millions of migrants it hosts to cross into Europe will have an impact on its ties with the West, Turkey’s communications director said on Friday. In response to the escalating conflict and the killing of 33 of its troops on Thursday in Syria’s Idlib region, Ankara threw open its western land and sea borders to […]
When Leigh Whannell explained his idea for The Invisible Man to Jason Blum, the horror maestro was rapt. Whannell’s version of the story is basically unrecognizable from the H.G. Wells novel that inspired it—and the 1933 adaptation that precedes it. In this version, Elisabeth Moss plays a domestic violence survivor named Cecilia who flees her wealthy husband, Adrian—who also happens to be a lead optics researcher. […]
President Trump’s national security adviser has expressed bewilderment at the idea of Russia wanting to boost Trump in the 2020 election—apparently forgetting entirely about the Kremlin’s effort to sway the vote in 2016 and the president’s penchant for echoing Russian propaganda. Instead, he dredged up a decades-old trip that Bernie Sanders took to Moscow. “Well, there are these reports that they want Bernie Sanders to get […]
Ties at Nevada caucus sites are being determined by drawing from a deck of cards, and the bizarre videos are leaving folks scratching their heads in bewilderment. Videos are coming in from Nevada caucus sites as votes are counted to decide who will win the third big battle for delegates in the race to win the Democrat Party’s presidential nomination, and it’s made people aware of […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel has broad ties with Arab and Islamic states, Israeli radio in Arabic said. The station reported him saying that there are “covert and overt” ties with the Arab and Islamic states. He stressed that “what is hidden is more important.” In recent months, Israeli establishment figures have made a number of visits to Gulf states, including Oman and […]
An Israeli aircraft has flown through Sudanese airspace for the first time, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He described the development as another example of warming ties between the formally hostile states. Israel remains technically at war with Sudan, which supported hardline Islamists – including, for a period, Al Qaeda – during the rule of President Omar al-Bashir, AFP said. Bashir was ousted by the army last […]
Early last week, the city of New York launched — with little media scrutiny — one of two new massive cybersecurity centers that will be run by private Israeli firms with close ties to Israel’s government, the so-called “Mega Group” tied to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and prominent pro-Israel lobby organizations operating in the United States. The centers were first announced in 2018 as was the identity of the firms […]
UN Releases List Of Companies With Ties To Jewish Settlements By Staff , Telesurenglish.net February 13, 2020 UN Releases List Of Companies With Ties To Jewish Settlements2020-02-132020-02-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/a_worker_carries_boxes_containing_wine_bottles_for_export_at_shiloh_wineriesx_north_of_the_west_bank_city_of_ramallah_november_8x_2015_.jpg_1718483346.jpg200px200px Above Photo: A worker carries boxes containing wine bottles for export at Shiloh Wineries, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah Nov. 8, 2015. | Photo: Reuters Among the companies listed were Airbnb, eDreams, TripAdvisor, and Motorola. The […]
Israel has suspended its ties with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights over the publication of a list of 112 companies and entities that have business ties with the Israeli illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz said the decision was taken to protect companies operating in Israel. The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that major Israeli political forums had […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said the US government would not furnish any information for a database of companies operating in Israeli-controlled territories that the United Nations’ human rights office released, and said the compilation hurts peace efforts in the Middle East, according to a report by Reuters. “The United States has long opposed the creation or release of this database,” Pompeo said in a statement. […]
The EU and Britain have a shared interest in retaining close security ties after Brexit, Germany’s Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has said. Speaking ahead of the annual Munich Security Conference, the close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel and leader of their ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, said she wanted to keep Britain in the ‘E3’ group, which also includes Germany and France. “It is important […]
British financial regulators are investigating the relationship between Barclays CEO Jes Staley and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in a prison cell last year. In a statement released on Thursday, the bank announced that the widely reported ties between the financiers are the subject of an ongoing probe, launched by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). With the investigation focusing […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed a report issued by the United Nations human rights office on companies and commercial entities that have business ties with illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Netanyahu said that Tel Aviv will not stand idly by and will fight it with full force, adding that the UN rights council was a “biased and uninfluential body”. “Instead of dealing with […]
Sooner or later, every rich and powerful individual who has been publicly linked to deceased financier/blackmail artist/pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is going to face some repercussions, particularly if they stayed in contacted with him after his first conviction back in 2008. Now it looks like it’s Jes Staley’s turn. Barclays disclosed during Thursday’s earnings report that financial regulators in Britain, including the Financial Conduct Authority (the British […]