Monthly Archives: October 2015
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Latest incident of Saudi Arabia friendly fire leaves 30 dead in Yemen
Saudi-led coalition jets have killed 30 fighters and injured 40 more in a mistaken attack on a military camp in Yemen. It is the latest in a series of friendly fire incidents.
Sand sculpture
allybeag posted a photo:
Came across this guy in the main street in Kendal, making marvellous sculptures out of sand. Most impressed, I was.
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Pope sends letter of support to ‘Tarzan’ and squatters of Rome
Pope Francis responded with a pledge of ‘warm encouragement’ for occupation of buildings next to papal summer residence
At one end of the correspondence: His Holiness, Pontiff Francis I, Vicar of Christ, Pope of Rome. At the other: Andrea Alzetta, an insurgent agitator from a movement that squats in empty properties – known as “Tarzan” in Italian revolutionary circles.
In an exchange of letters that could only belong to the transformed papacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Alzetta addresses the pontiff as “my dearest Pope Francis”. His holiness replies with a pledge of “warm encouragement” for the latter’s occupation of scenic buildings and grounds right next door to his papal summer residence
German mayoral candidate stabbed in attack linked to migrants policy
Chancellor Merkel condemns attack on Henriette Reker, said to be in stable condition with neck wounds, on eve of Cologne election
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has expressed shock over the stabbing of a political ally, in an attack police said was linked to the migrant crisis.
Henriette Reker, an independent close to Merkel’s ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), suffered serious wounds to the neck in the attack in the western city of Cologne, which is to elect its mayor on Sunday, on Saturday morning.
Bishops in stinging rebuke to David Cameron over refugee crisis | World news | The Guardian
Paul Butler, the bishop of Durham, issues a statement making clear their patience is exhausted.He describes the government’s policy response as “increasingly inadequate” and complains that the prime minister has failed, over more than five weeks, to respond to their suggestions with more than a cursory acknowledgment.“It is disheartening that we have not received any substantive reply despite an assurance from the prime minister that one would be received,” Butler says. “There is an urgent and compelling moral duty to act, which we as bishops are offering to facilitate alongside others from across civil society.”He adds: “There is a real urgency to this issue with those increasingly being forced from their land as their homes are literally bombed into the ground. As the fighting intensifies, as the sheer scale of human misery becomes greater, the government’s response seems increasingly inadequate to meet the scale and severity of the problem.”
Source: Bishops in stinging rebuke to David Cameron over refugee crisis | World news | The Guardian
Turkey’s divisions are so deep they threaten its future | Soner Cagaptay | Comment is free | The Guardian
{Too easy and since when do we take American and Turkish intelligence views as anything but spin to support status quo in Turkey. Everything is ISIS is is too easy.}
Isis intentionally targets opposition rallies in Turkey to give the impression that the government will not protect those Turks who are against Erdogan, serving its goal of destabilising the country. With the Ankara bombing, Isis seems intent on triggering conflict between the pro- and anti-Erdogan camps that are already distrustful of each other.

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