Monday, November 28, 2011

Israel exchanges rocketfire with south Lebanon

Israel says it has returned fire into Lebanon after several rockets fired from southern Lebanon landed in Israel overnight.
There were no casualties from the rockets which landed in Israel, Israel's army announced in a statement early Tuesday.

After the rockets landed in the western Galilee region, the Israeli army retaliated.

"The Israeli army considers that it is a serious incident and believes that it is the responsibility of the Lebanese government and the Lebanese army to avoid this kind of attacks," the statement added.

Four rockets landed in Israel, according to a report on Israeli public radio. One caused minor damage, while another landed in a populated area but failed to explode.

Local military commanders were assessing the situation but people in northern Israel, where the rockets landed, had not been told to go to air raid shelters, said an army spokesman.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Al Arabiya: Yemen Deputy Information Minister: Members of Saleh family will remain in their positions due to their experience

President Obama and his family handed out Thanksgiving fixings today at a Washington, D.C., food bank.

Aircraft Carrier CVN-77 Parks Next Door To Syria Just As US Urges Americans To Leave Country "Immediately

Yesterday we reported that the Arab League (with European and US support) are preparing to institute a no fly zone over Syria. Today, we get an escalation which confirms we may be on the edge. Just out from CBS: "The U.S. Embassy in Damascus urged its citizens in Syria to depart "immediately," and Turkey's foreign ministry urged Turkish pilgrims to opt for flights to return home from Saudi Arabia to avoid traveling through Syria." But probably the most damning evidence that the "western world" is about to do the unthinkable and invade Syria, and in the process force Iran to retaliate, is the weekly naval update from Stratfor, which always has some very interesting if always controversial view on geopolitics, where we find that for the first time in many months, CVN 77 George H.W. Bush has left its traditional theater of operations just off the Straits of Hormuz, a critical choke point, where it traditionally accompanies the Stennis, and has parked... right next to Syria.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL SECURITY DEBATE live

http://www.easylivesearch.com/CNN-livetv-1.html

U.N. envoy says Yemen power transfer deal in place

A U.N. envoy said on Tuesday that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is preparing to sign an agreement with his opponents to hand over his powers - although he has already backed out three times from such a deal at the last minute.

"We have an agreement. We're working out the signing," United Nations envoy Jamal Benomar, who has been shuttling between the two sides, told reporters in Sanaa.

Under a plan crafted by Yemen's six Gulf Arab neighbours, Saleh would transfer his powers to his deputy, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, ahead of an early election.

However, Saleh has repeatedly failed to sign the deal, which aims to end months of protests that have paralysed the country.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Heath officials raise today's toll to 10 killed, #egypt

Heath officials raise today's toll to 10 killed, #egypt

Crowds are expected to grow in Cairo as protesters call for the end of Egypt's military rule

Occupy Wall Street Continues in New York

Occupy Wall Street is headed to the upper east Side -- to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's house."I want to talk to Bloomberg. He came to us, now we are going to him," said Aaron Black, 38, Occupy Wall Street member. "He violated us."

"He's not listening, and he needs to hear us," he said. "[Bloomberg] sent people down here and they beat us up and stole our property and violated our rights

Interview with president Bashar Al-Assad - The Sunday Times