Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Massacre of policemen in Jisr Ash Shugur opponents: they would not shoot into the crowd

 The Syrian state television reported that 80 policemen were killed in Jisr Ash Shugur, a city of 37 thousand inhabitants in the north-west of the country on the border with Turkey, where the evening of Friday the army is engaged in a massive enforcement action. According to the issuer, the agents were ambushed by "armed groups": "A real massacre.

They mutilated the corpses and threw them into the river Orontes, they also set fire to government buildings." The TV talking about "fierce fighting between security agents and armed militia who control some parts of the city." Militias to which it addresses directly the Syrian interior minister in a statement read on television, warning that "the State will not remain with folded arms in the face of attacks." Quite different from the version provided by two opponents of the regime of President Bashar Al Assad on the telephone by AFP from Nicosia.

Clinton says it's not good time for a peace conference

Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said today that now hold a peace conference between Israelis and Palestinians would not be "productive" and called for more efforts to return both sides to the negotiating table. Clinton was responding to the French proposal to host a conference to revive the peace process later this month or early July at a meeting with reporters during a visit to Washington by French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe.

Strauss-Kahn challenged by the innocent women out of court

"Not guilty." Thus the former director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan said he was in the courts of New York during the hearing process that sees him charged with seven crimes linked to the alleged rape of a chambermaid Times Square. "Shame on you, shame, shouted a group of domestic workers when he arrived in court accompanied by his wife.

"The bacteria is not in the bean sprouts" The EU has announced compensation for producers

The first laboratory tests, in fact, were "cleared" the bean sprouts from an organic farm in Lower Saxony and suspected of causing the epidemic caused by a bacteria killer. Even last night the German Health Minister, Daniel Bahr, warned against hasty conclusions. And the lab has now determined that in the first 23 of the 40 samples examined in the presence of the bacterium is not dangerous.

The Israeli army opened fire on demonstrators on the Golan Heights

At least twenty Palestinians were killed and over 300 others wounded Sunday, June 5, while a crowd tried to scale the barbed son to enter the Golan occupied by Israel according to the Syrian news agency Sana. Of Israeli army fire on Palestinian demonstrators who came from Syria to commemorate the "Naksa", the Arab defeat against Israel during the Six Day War, were confirmed by a correspondent of the agency.

In Croatia, the Pope encourages Christian families to go on the offensive

On the second day of his whirlwind trip in this small country predominantly Catholic, the pope had taken a particularly offensive to exalt the Christian family, "unique contribution to evangelization", to highlight its "missionary vocation" and encourage to be heard in society. While the Croatian Bishops' Meeting celebrated the first Catholic families, Benedict XVI expressed his concern over "secularization that leads to the marginalization of God in life and an increasing disintegration of the family."

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon general strike deaths of protesters

Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon were paralyzed by a general strike, dubbed "day of anger" for the death Monday of protesters in the Golan Heights, according to Lebanese media. Shops and schools closed in the area of Ain el Helu, the largest of Lebanon, located on the outskirts of the southern city of Sidon, while some youths burned tires on the approaches to it.

The protesters hoisted Palestinian flags and chanted anti-Israeli slogans and said they will not stop until they return to their homeland. Similar protests took place in other Palestinian camps in Lebanon. At least 23 people were killed and 325 wounded by Israeli fire against Palestinian demonstrators and tried to enter Syrian Golan Heights, which Israel captured in 1967 along with the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.