Palestinian Premier Says New Government Lacks Power in Gaza
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 12th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Palestinian Premier Says New Government Lacks Power in Gaza
Rami Hamdallah said that not much had changed since the new government took over and that reconciliation between the West Bank and Gaza Strip would take time.
The Iraqi Army Was Crumbling Long Before Its Collapse, U.S. Officials Say
American military and intelligence officials told a Senate hearing that the Iraqi military had been in decline since the last American advisers left the country in 2011.
Tanks, of Unknown Origin, Roll Into Ukraine
Ukraine’s interior minister claimed that an armored column from Russia had crossed the border into eastern Ukraine overnight.
U.S. Drone Hits Pakistan for 2nd Time in 12 Hours
The strikes were apparently aimed at the Haqqani network, a Taliban-allied faction that until last month held the American soldier Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl hostage.
Sinosphere Blog: Prison Sentence Feared for Detained Rights Lawyer
The prospect of the imminent release of Pu Zhiqiang, a human rights lawyer who was detained after a meeting in Beijing to mark the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, is growing dim.