Israeli President Faces Rape ChargeIsraeli police are recommending that the country's president, Moshe Katsav, should be charged with rape.
The recommendation came at a meeting between police investigators and Attorney General Meni Mazuz.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld confirmed that the meeting was taking place and that a formal announcement was expected.
Israel Radio and Channel 2 TV said the case against President Katsav is based on complaints by five women who allege he m... (more)
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Army throws weight behind chief who spoke for his men IS GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt naïve, noble or very calculating? When he put his head above the parapet in an interview with the Daily Mail to argue that the continued presence of British troops in Iraq was stoking bloodshed worldwide, did the new army chief anticipate the political firestorm he would ignite?
The Ministry of Defence was unaware of the incendiary device lobbed by the Chief of the General Staff until it went off.... (more)
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General: U.S. Has Troops to Fight N. Korea WASHINGTON — The U.S. military's top officer said Thursday that the Pentagon would have sufficient forces to win if called on to fight a war in North Korea, but the conflict would be more difficult without the intelligence and guidance systems devoted to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that about 200,000 U.S. troops were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving more t... (more)
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International Leaders Propose 'Asian Union' Asian political leaders on Sunday proposed creating a community called ``Asian Union’’ in a concluding statement at the fourth general assembly of the International Conference for Asian Political Parties (ICAPP).
Four hundred representatives from 90 political parties in 36 Asian countries adopted the Seoul Declaration from the three-day conference, which included not only the establishment of the Asian Union but also a ... (more)
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Blair 'agrees' with UK army chief Tony Blair has said he agrees with "every word" the new head of the British Army said on the Iraq war.
The Daily Mail quoted General Sir Richard Dannatt as saying he thought UK troops "exacerbated" security problems and should withdraw "sometime soon".
Mr Blair said transcripts of later radio interviews showed Sir Richard was saying "the same as we all are".
He said they wanted to exit Iraq "when the job ... (more)
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Pakistan foils coup plotKARACHI - A plot to stage a coup against Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf soon after his recent return from the US has been uncovered, resulting in the arrest of more than 40 people.
Most of those arrested are middle-ranking Pakistani Air Force officers, while civilian arrests include a son of a serving brigadier in the army. All of those arrested are Islamists, contacts in Rawalpindi, where the military is based, divulged to Asia Times Online.
The cons... (more)
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Foreign Ministry slams envoy's comments about 'yellow race'The Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned remarks by the Israeli ambassador to Australia in which he told Haaretz that the two countries are white sisters amid "the yellow race" of Asia.
"If the article is accurate, this is a grave and unacceptable remark," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said it will not return to business as usual if an internal examination confirms that the ambassador, Naftali Tamir, in fact made the comments attributed to him.
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Israel may prepare for large-scale operation into Gaza GAZA, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Senior Palestinian security officials on Friday expressed concerns that the current Israeli army escalation, which began on Thursday, could be a test operation apparently aimed at reoccupying the Gaza Strip. "We received information that Israel is studying the idea of storming the Gaza Strip, but so far we have not known when exactly the operation would start," a high-ranking security official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
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South Korea Reviews Nuclear War PlanThe military has stepped up preparations for a possible nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula since North Korea's proclaimed nuclear weapons test Monday.
According to sources at the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the military is reviewing plans to revise the current theater war plan, drawn up by the South Korean and U.S. militaries, in case of war on the peninsula to make it include detailed measures for a nuclear war.
T... (more)
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'North Korea Will Test H-Bomb' A Korean-Japanese scholar who is considered North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s unofficial spokesman said yesterday that Pyongyang has a hydrogen bomb it would test as part of a series of actions mentioned in its statement against the United States.
In an interview with MBC radio, Kim Myong-chol, director of the Center for Korean-American Peace, a Japan-based pro-North Korean research agency, said the Stalinist state is ready to test... (more)
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US fears 'hell' of a response: Pentagon predicts "52,000 US military casualties and one million civilian dead in the first 90 days of conflict if America attacked Pyongyang"PLANS previously drafted by the Pentagon predict 52,000 US military casualties and one million civilian dead in the first 90 days of conflict if America attacked Pyongyang.
The US leadership is looking at international economic and diplomatic sanctions against North Korea as its primary response to Monday's nuclear test.
But military contingencies are considered as a matter of course and analysts paint a horrific picture for even the most targeted of US strikes.
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US General: Strikes on Iran possible by 2007US Air Force General reveals details of possible US aerial offensive against Iran should diplomacy fail to solve dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambition; says 'doing it alone' is not an option for Israel
WASHINGTON - Is it possible to halt Iran's nuclear program by military means? For years, this question has been asked by Israeli and US military officials.
Israel prefers Washington to act on its behalf but academics, left-wing politicians and experts say a mi... (more)
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Israel warned: Lebanon war could start again· Hizbullah may fight over territory, says speaker
· Shia leader speaks of fear UN troops will not leave
Hizbullah will resume its military campaign unless Israel withdraws from the disputed Shebaa farms area and other pockets of territory occupied during this summer's 34-day war, Nabih Berri, the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, has warned. "If Israel does not pull out we will have to drive them out," Mr Berri, who acted as a link to the militant organisat... (more)
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We'll make sanctions hurt, vows USTHE US is pushing for UN sanctions so severe they will make dictator Kim Jong-il "rue the day" he ordered his country's first nuclear test explosion, the State Department's point man on North Korea said yesterday.
"We're talking about really making it hurt," US Assistant Secretary of State for Asian Affairs Christopher Hill said of the sanctions being sought by Washington at the UN.
The new US-proposed sanctions included a trade ban on military and luxury items, the... (more)
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N Korea: Sanctions 'an act of war'North Korea says it regards US pressure to curtail its nuclear weapons programme as a declaration of war.
North Korea is prepared for both dialogue and confrontation, its KCNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying on Wednesday.
"If the US continues to hassle us and add pressure, we will consider this as a declaration of war and subsequently take physical measures," the spokesman was quoted as saying.
North Korea's number two leader... (more)
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U.S. doubts Korean test was nuclear U.S. intelligence agencies say, based on preliminary indications, that North Korea did not produce its first nuclear blast yesterday.
U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that seismic readings show that the conventional high explosives used to create a chain reaction in a plutonium-based device went off, but that the blast's readings were shy of a typical nuclear detonation.
"We're still evaluati... (more)
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Despair at UN over selection of 'faceless' Ban Ki-moon as general secretary Senior officials at the United Nations expressed despair yesterday at the prospect of Kofi Annan being succeeded as secretary general by Ban Ki-moon, the South Korean foreign minister.
"The mood among staff is glum," one of the officials said. "We are not very excited about the outcome." With morale low at the UN after five years dominated by divisions, deadlock and corruption, they are sceptical about Mr Ban's ability to turn the organisation round or provide the strong, inspirat... (more)
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War Crimes Report Shows US Violations of International LawThe violence of the Iraq War, the chaos that has come to Iraq, can be traced directly to the illegality of the invasion and occupation of that country and the illegality of the tactics and weapons being used to maintain the occupation. U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability documents these violations and calls on us all to demand investigation and prosecution of violations of international law by military and civilian leaders.
10/10/06 "Information Clearing Hous... (more)
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US push for air strikesPENTAGON hawks will try to persuade US President George W. Bush he should order immediate military air strikes to obliterate North Korean nuclear sites.
Australian National University defence expert Ron Huisken said Mr Bush's chief advisers would be gunning for action without waiting for a lead from the United Nations.
"The President will receive some advice to the effect that it is better not to wait, that there will not be a clearer trigger point than what we have... (more)
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Mass Venezuela opposition rallyTens of thousands of people have marched through the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in support of the main opposition candidate, Manuel Rosales.
Mr Rosales will face President Hugo Chavez in December's presidential poll.
The march, which filled the main avenues of the city centre, was the biggest opposition rally Venezuela has seen since early 2004.
Then, protesters made an unsuccessful bid to oust Mr Chavez from power in a recall referendum.
... (more) This character christened the coup of Chavez in 2002.
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