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Iraq: Murders At TV Station Reviled

  • July 27th, 2010
  • Posted by EUEditor

al-arabiya-resize.jpgThe International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad on the Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya in which four employees and two members of the public were killed. … Read More »

SWIFT Move Against Terrorist Finances

  • July 11th, 2010
  • Posted by Lee Duffield

espionage-wikipedia.jpgnine-eleven1.jpegThe European Parliament has approved new rules (8.7.10)  to allow counter-terrorism authorities in America to monitor trans-Atlantic financial transfers using the SWIFT banking system. … Read More »

Settlement Near On SWIFT Banking And Terror Checks …

  • July 6th, 2010
  • Posted by EUEditor

espionage-wikipedia.jpgThe European Parliament moved close this week (5.7.10) to finalising a long-running problem with the transfer of banking information to the United States, under scrutiny of US anti-terrorism agencies. … Read More »

Kyrgystan Crisis

  • June 22nd, 2010
  • Posted by EUEditor

kyrgyz-revolt.jpgInter-ethnic conflict and widespread break-down of law and order in the Central Asian state of Kyrgystan have so far caused several deaths with as many as 250000 people sheltering in refugee camps or leaving the country.

A report from the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (16.6.10) said further violence could not be discounted and urgent intervention by the international community was needed. … Read More »

Bloody Sunday Findings: “Unjustified and Unjustifiable”…

  • June 16th, 2010
  • Posted by EUEditor

bloody-sunday-march.jpgThe exhaustive Saville Inquiry into the 1972 “Bloody Sunday” killings in Derry /Londonderry has declared all of those shot by British Paratropers were innocent protestors – not IRA terrorists.

bloody-sunday-troops.jpgThe British Prime Minister said in  Parliamnet (15.6.10) the shootings had been “wrong”; grieving relatives and friends expressed relief; security forces waited in Northern Ireland for possible trouble; lawyers for men who’d been in uniform that day, began arguments against their liability. … Read More »

Many Journalists In Gaza Evacuation

  • June 3rd, 2010
  • Posted by EUEditor

geraghty-reduced.jpgAs over six hundred people from the Gaza flotilla were being evacuated from Israel to Turkey (2.6.10), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said it had been pushing for safe conduct of several media workers in that  group.

Among them, photographer Kate Geraghty of the Sydney Morning Herald (picture), says she was hit by a Taser stunning device. … Read More »

Gaza Flotilla: EU Joins World Criticism Of Israel …

  • June 1st, 2010
  • Posted by EUEditor

gaza-flotilla.jpegThe European Union has demanded that Israel open border crossings to allow humanitarian aid through to the Palestinian Gaza territory, following its seizure of the Gaza flotilla on Monday. … Read More »

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