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Palestinian killed at Checkpoint in Jerusalem

30 Monday Jul 2012

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Israeli police said the dead man was travelling in a car that burst through the al-Zaim checkpoint at high-speed on Monday and tried to run over officers.

The officers issued repeated warnings to the driver, a spokesman said.

Palestinian police said the car had entered the wrong lane and was reversing to go down the correct one when the Israelis opened fire.

Palestinian medical workers said the three men in the car had been travelling to pray at dawn in Jerusalem. One man was injured. The driver reportedly fled the scene

So, are the Olympics are a good deal for Great Britain?

25 Wednesday Jul 2012

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ANALYSIS

David Cameron says the Olympics will net Great Britain £13 billion.

The history of the games suggests otherwise.

And with the gloomy news that the UK recession is deeper following a worse than expected drop in economic growth, the games which start on Friday are already beginning to look like an expensive white elephant.

Already, the government’s budget has rocketed from to £2.4 billion to £9.3 bn and still counting.

And problems with the private security firm G4S that won a £284 million contract to protect the game will of course result in even more cost to the public purse as 1,200 extra troops are drafted in to do the job.

Generally though, the people who do best from the games are those who win the contracts, the Olympic bureaucracy which gets billions from broadcasters and of course the sponsors.

As for the rest, well the trickle down effect has meant the construction of the Olympic Park, the Velodrome – grand projects which will struggle to be useful once the roar of the Olympic crowd is long past.

Of course, east London needed regenerating, but tax payers money could have been much better spent than on a short-term resurrection of an ancient Roman custom.

When one thinks of the Olympics, one is of course reminded of Greece, a country that could not afford to host games but because of its own pretensions to the past went ahead with the project anyway.

At the time, no one of course really knew the depth of Greece’s economic problems.

And listening to George Osborne today, when he spoke of deep-rooted problems in the British economy, one fears that history may be about to repeat itself.

UK Recession has deepened following larger than expected drop in economy

25 Wednesday Jul 2012

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 ‘OVERALL PICTURE IS FRAGILE’

 

Between April and June, the output of the economy had fallen by 0.7%

This gloomy news follows a 0.3% drop in the first three months of the year.

The Office for National Statistics blamed the larger than expected fall in a sharp slowdown in the construction sector.

It said it was not yet sure of the size of the effect of the poor weather and the extra June bank holiday.

“The bottom line from all this is that the underlying performance of the economy was probably somewhat better than the headline figure of -0.7% would suggest, having regard to the extra bank holiday and to the poor weather,” said Joe Grice from the ONS.

“How much that effect might be is something we won’t be able to say or to quantify until we have further experience against which to judge.

“Nevertheless, the overall picture is of an economy that remains fragile.”

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson to be charged over phone hacking

24 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and six others will face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking. The former-News of the World editors will  be charged in connection with the accessing of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone messages. Others facing charges are former NoW managing editor Stuart Kuttner, former news editor Greg Miskiw, former assistant editor Ian Edmondson, former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, former assistant editor James Weatherup and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

All of the suspects apart from Mr Mulcaire will be charged with conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority between October 3, 2000, and August 9, 2006.

The charge carries a sentence of up to two years in prison or a fine.

Mr Mulcaire faces four charges relating to Milly, Mr Gilchrist, Delia Smith, and Charles Clarke.

Alison Levitt QC, (pictured above) made the announcement on behalf of the Crown Prosecution Service.

The eight, who will be charged when they answer police bail later, are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 16 August

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Ist Test at Oval: England slide to innings defeat

23 Monday Jul 2012

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MATCH REPORT

The First Test at the Oval was billed as the contest between the best two teams in the world. Pakistan, who whitewashed England during the winter, may have had something to say about that. But they are not the team facing England this summer, South Africa are and they comprehensively beat their opponents here.

England posted a competitive score in their first innings of 385, which was perhaps a hundred or so below par on what appeared to be a friendly enough pitch.

But South Africa’s batting response laid bare England’s bowling and in the process completely knocked the stuffing out of the batting line up for the second innings.

Hashim Amla is a wristy player who is pleasant to watch – the way he was playing England’s bowling he looked like super man.

In the end he finished with the highest score ever made by a South African, 311 not out.  He was ably supported by a Jacques Kallis’ 182 not out and a century from the likeable South African Captain Graeme Smith.

Then it was left to Dale Steyn – the great fast bowler – to take five wickets and Imran Tahir  to wrap the game up for the tourists.

England cracked when it became clear that they were not going to get past Amla and Kallis.

The game became a formality after.

World champions don’t fold like that.

This could be a long hot summer.

South Africa beat England by innings and 12 runs

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DENVER CINEMA SHOOTING Suspect, James Holmes, appears in Court

23 Monday Jul 2012

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Syria will ‘use chemical weapons against external aggression’

23 Monday Jul 2012

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Footage claiming to show rebels inside Aleppo

Syria says it will not use chemical weapons against its own people.

It would however, do so against, “external aggression.”

Syrian foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said the weapons, stored and secured by the armed forces, would never be used “inside Syria”.

“Any chemical or biological weapons will never be used, I repeat, will never be used in the Syrian crisis, no matter what the internal developments in this crisis are,” Mr Makdissi said, at a news conference broadcast on Syrian state TV.

“All varieties of these weapons are stored and secured by the Syrian armed forces and under its direct supervision, and will not be used unless Syria is subjected to external aggression.”

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22 Sunday Jul 2012

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12 Dead in Batman Film Shooting

20 Friday Jul 2012

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At least 12 people have been killed and 50 wounded, after a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire into a crowded auditorium that had come to see the new Batman film, near Denver in Colorado.

Another two victims are reported to be in a “critical condition.”

The gun man has been named as 24-year-old James Holmes, who also told police that he had booby-trapped in his flat in Aurora, Denver.

Suspect: James Holmes

Witnesses said a man wearing a gas mask opened fire after tossing a tear gas canister in the auditorium as movie-goers watched The Dark Knight Rises in the city of Aurora, at around midnight. He opened fire during an action scene in the summer blockbuster. There was chaos as movie-goers, some dressed in costume as heroes and villains, fled.

Ten people were killed at the cinema and two others died later in hospital of their wounds.

The gunman was arrested in a car park nearby in possession of a rifle, handgun and knife.

Another gun was recovered from the theatre.

Police revised down the death toll from 14 earlier. They said about 50 people had been shot, including the deceased.

Police have described the explosives in the suspect’s apartment as “very sophisticated.”

Police say the suspect had been a student at the University of Colorado School of  Medicine in Denver until he dropped out last month.

In a statement from the San Diego family home, the Holmes family, Robert and Arlene, said they were very shocked by what had happened and that their “hearts went out” to the victims.

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Was Deadly Damascus attack a turning point in the Syrian Conflict?

19 Thursday Jul 2012

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ANALYSIS

On the face of it yesterdays suicide bombing that struck at the heart of Syria’s government would suggest so.

Certainly the rebels are claiming so.

An attack targeting senior members of the defence establishment needed intelligence – very good intelligence, which suggests that the rebels have sympathisers inside Asad’s regime.

Because this was a suicide attack those who had planned this move would not have had to worry about accuracy – such attacks are simple and, when they are pulled off, precise with deadly effect.

So does this means that outside powers have got involved?

Well, that’s hard to say – a suicide blast can be carried out with little training, as long as the intelligence is good, it can go on to be a deadly spectacle, which is precisely the effect a terrorist organisation would be seeking to create.

Having said that, apart from Russia and China, there are also regional powers like Hezbollah and Iran, who would have a stake in any imminent collapse of the Syrian state.

Neither of those regional powers appear to be too concerned about the level of violence in Syria.

In fact, they give the impression that they believe that at this moment, the regime of Asad are coping with the crisis.

And given the increasingly desperate calls coming from the rebels, Paris, Washington and London, they may not be wrong.

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