Clashes erupt outside Brazil football venue

Clashes erupt outside Brazil football venue - Americas - Al Jazeera English

German court dismisses bid to release full Eichmann files

 
German court dismisses bid to release full Eichmann files - Jewish World News - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

The highway, the village and the road not taken

 A major new highway that is meant to link Jewish settlements on the outskirts of Jerusalem is bisecting Palestinian village of Beit Safafa, cutting families from each other and making their lives a nightmare. On a larger scale, it blocks the possibility of a viable Palestinian state.
By David Grossman The highway, the village and the road not taken - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

President's promises fail to calm Brazil

 About 100,000 people were expected to march in the city of Belo Horizonte on Wednesday before Brazil played Uruguay in the semifinals of the Confederations Cup.
City officials have declared a holiday in Belo Horizonte, and authorities said they were expecting confrontations with demonstrators.
President's promises fail to calm Brazil - Americas - Al Jazeera English

September 10, 1952: Israel splits over Reparations Agreement with West Germany - Israel in Camera

 A mere seven years after the end of the Holocaust, a country representing its victims, and another representing its perpetrators, normalized relations in a controversial treaty whose repercussions are felt to this day.

By Ofer Aderet | Jun.16, 2013 | 3:13 PM 

 

September 10, 1952: Israel splits over Reparations Agreement with West Germany - Israel in Camera - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Ecuador takes center stage, again, in U.S. secrecy saga

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/23/us-usa-security-ecuador-politics-idUSBRE95M0FV20130623

Malgré la main tendue de Dilma Rousseff, les Brésiliens continuent de protester

http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2013/06/23/malgre-la-main-tendue-de-dilma-rousseff-les-bresiliens-continuent-de-protester_3435021_3222.html

Social media spreads and splinters Brazil protests

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/21/us-brazil-protests-socialmedia-idUSBRE95K18O20130621

Brazil's president pledges to hold dialogue with protesters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/22/us-brazil-protests-idUSBRE95K0JU20130622

Backlash grows against Brazilian protests after riots

 TV images showed masked youths looting stores, setting fires and defacing buildings including the foreign ministry in Brasilia, which had its windows smashed. The violence was widespread, occurring in at least a dozen cities, and appeared to be fueled by fringe movements and common criminals taking advantage of the disorder.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/21/us-brazil-protests-idUSBRE95K0JU20130621

Brésil : des centaines de milliers de manifestants, un mort

 
http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2013/06/20/bresil-des-dizaines-de-milliers-de-manifestants-dans-les-rues_3433966_3222.html

Brazil: Protests of discontent - Inside Story Americas - Al Jazeera English

 
Brazil: Protests of discontent - Inside Story Americas - Al Jazeera English

Rising social unrest has seen hundreds of thousands hit the streets over discontent with government policies.

 
Breaking down Brazil's burgeoning protests - Features - Al Jazeera English

Hundreds of thousands join Brazil protests

 
Hundreds of thousands join Brazil protests - Americas - Al Jazeera English

Manifestações levam 1 milhão de pessoas às ruas em todo país

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2013/06/1298755-manifestacoes-levam-1-milhao-de-pessoas-as-ruas-em-todo-pais.shtml

'Free Fare' group sparked Brazil protests, unsure what's next

 Where is Brazil's nationwide protest movement headed?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/21/us-brazil-protest-freefare-idUSBRE95K01H20130621

Hundreds of thousands of protesters march in Brazil

 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/21/us-brazil-protests-idUSBRE95J15020130621

IACHR Expresses Concern over Arrests and Attacks on Demonstrators and Journalists during Protests in Brazil

 Washington, D.C. – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and its Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression express their concern over the acts of violence that reportedly took place against demonstrators and journalists in Brazil during the social protests held in June in several cities across the country. The Commission urges the authorities to investigate the potential excessive use of force and, where applicable, to prosecute and punish those responsible. In addition, the Commission calls upon the State of Brazil to guarantee the physical welfare and safety of the demonstrators and journalists during the protests.
http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/media_center/PReleases/2013/044.asp

Protests hit Brazil's biggest cities, adding to unrest

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-brazil-protests-idUSBRE95D0J420130614

Brazil's protests: Not quite a 'Tropical Spring'

 Brazil's blossoming protest movement is a coming-of-age for what had been one of Latin America's most politically disengaged youth populations, but does not appear to constitute a major threat to governability or established political parties.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/19/us-brazil-protests-impact-analysis-idUSBRE95I1LQ20130619

Protests in Brazil The streets erupt

 
http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2013/06/protests-brazil

Au Brésil, des manifestants "à l'aise, bien instruits, mais qui se sentent exclus de la croissance"

http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2013/06/19/au-bresil-des-manifestants-a-l-aise-bien-instruits-mais-appauvris_3432824_3222.html

Au Brésil, un mouvement social né en marge des partis politiques

"l'effet papillon"

http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2013/06/19/au-bresil-un-mouvement-social-ne-en-marge-des-partis-politiques_3432600_3210.html

Iranian Foreign Policy After the Election

Iranian Foreign Policy After the Election: As Iranians head to the polls, much of the world is focused on the country’s domestic politics not on how how the vote will change its foreign policy. Even so, the election has exposed the range of choices that is available to decision-makers and the political limits that are placed on those choices.

The rights and wrongs of Belo Monte

 Having spent heavily to make the world’s third-biggest hydroelectric project greener, Brazil risks getting a poor return on its $14 billion investment
 
http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21577073-having-spent-heavily-make-worlds-third-biggest-hydroelectric-project-greener-brazil

Latin American geoeconomics A continental divide

 The region is falling in behind two alternative blocks: the market-led Pacific Alliance and the more statist Mercosur
 
http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21578056-region-falling-behind-two-alternative-blocks-market-led-pacific-alliance-and

Colombia and the FARC Digging in for peace

 
http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21578684-deal-land-marks-welcome-breakthrough-peace-talks-there-still-much-do-and

Demography in Latin America - Traditional demographic patterns are changing astonishingly fast

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21578710-traditional-demographic-patterns-are-changing-astonishingly-fast-autumn-patriarchs

U.S. officials reveal diary of Hitler confidant, rediscovered after decades

 
U.S. officials reveal diary of Hitler confidant, rediscovered after decades - Jewish World News - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

How To Win Over the Arab Street

How To Win Over the Arab Street: Citizens across the Middle East recognize that there is much to gain from closer ties with the United States. A carefully designed U.S. foreign policy should incorporate, rather than alienate, them.

Taxa de suicídio entre jovens cresce 30% em 25 anos no Brasil

 
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/equilibrioesaude/2013/06/1292216-para-cineasta-que-fez-filme-sobre-suicidio-da-irma-desinformacao-leva-a-tragedia.shtml

Jordan hosts U.S. jets and missiles in drills in Syria's shadow

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/09/us-jordan-usa-exercises-idUSBRE9580FT20130609

Israel celebrates gay pride, but struggle for equal rights persists

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-celebrates-gay-pride-but-struggle-for-equal-rights-persists.premium-1.528334#

Americas: Decriminalize Personal Use of Drugs

 (Antigua) – National drug control policies that impose criminal penalties for personal drug use undermine basic human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. To deter harmful drug use, governments should rely instead on non-penal regulatory and public health policies. The 43^rd General Assembly of the Organization of American States, taking place in Antigua, Guatemala from June 4 to 6, 2013, will focus on drug control policy in the Americas.

Governments should also take steps to reduce the human rights costs of current drug production and distribution policies, Human Rights Watch said.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/06/04/americas-decriminalize-personal-use-drugs

British drive to blacklist Hezbollah hits EU opposition

 A British request to blacklist the armed wing of Hezbollah ran into opposition in the European Union on Tuesday, with several governments expressing concern that such a move would increase instability in the Middle East.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/04/us-eu-hezbollah-idUSBRE95313B20130604

Brazil calls in army to defuse conflicts over Indian lands

 Tensions escalated in a disputed property in Mato Grosso do Sul that was invaded last week for a second time by Terena Indians angered by the fatal shooting of one of their tribe's members. Local media said the man's cousin was shot and injured on a nearby ranch on Tuesday.
"We must avoid radicalizing a situation that goes back a long way in Brazilian history," Justice Minister Jose Cardozo told reporters after meeting lawmakers from Mato Grosso do Sul in Brasilia.
"We're not going to put out the flames by throwing alcohol on the bonfire," he said.
However, protests have now erupted across the country.
In Rio Grande do Sul state, about 2,000 Kaingang and Guarani Indians were blocking roads to protest the government's decision to put on hold the granting of ancestral lands to indigenous communities, a concession to Brazil's powerful farm lobby.
"The government has abandoned us. Dilma isn't supporting indigenous peoples," Indian chief Deoclides de Paula said by telephone from a blocked highway.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/05/us-brazil-indians-idUSBRE95310C20130605

West Africa states to adopt anti-piracy code, maybe this month: IMO

Piracy is on the increase in the Gulf of Guinea region, which includes Africa's No. 1 oil producer Nigeria and is a significant source of commodities including cocoa for world markets.
In that region, commercial ships do not enjoy the protection of naval security that has dramatically reduced Somali piracy on the other side of Africa.
"Quite soon, probably before the end of this month, heads of states of West African nations will be meeting in Cameroon ... to try to adopt a new code of conduct for anti-piracy activities," Koji Sekimizu, secretary-general of the United Nations International Maritime Organisation (IMO), said on Tuesday.
The code of conduct, modeled on one adopted by East African and Arab Peninsula nations in 2009 to fight piracy in the Indian Ocean, would ask governments to arrest and prosecute suspected pirates, seize any vessels believed to have been used in acts of piracy and increase regional cooperation.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/04/us-piracy-westafrica-un-idUSBRE9530NA20130604

Putin denies S-300 missile system has already been sent to Syria - Middle East - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

 
Putin denies S-300 missile system has already been sent to Syria - Middle East - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Globalizing the Security Council by Antonio de Aguiar Patriota - Project Syndicate

 BRASILIA – The 1945 United Nations Charter represented a historic breakthrough in the pursuit of peace on a multilateral basis. At the end of a global war that claimed more than 50 million lives, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the world’s two major powers. The UN Charter, initially negotiated by the US, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom during World War II, established a Security Council containing five permanent members, including France and the Republic of China. At its inception, the UN brought together 51 countries; it now has 193 member states. But, although the Security Council was enlarged in 1965 by increasing the number of non-permanent seats from six to ten, its permanent members have not changed since 1945.
Globalizing the Security Council by Antonio de Aguiar Patriota - Project Syndicate

Many German tax inspectors oblivious to Holocaust, book finds

 "Bureaucracy and Crime" lays bare how the finance ministry systematically plundered assets from Jews but also how they were discriminated against with tax policies as well after the Nazis took power in 1933.
"Jews faced systematic discrimination and were even hit with a special tax," she said. "Their assets were also expropriated."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/03/us-germany-nazi-ministry-idUSBRE9520XQ20130603

Latvia to get green light for euro zone membership on Wednesday

 The European Commission will give Latvia on Wednesday the go-ahead to become the 18th member of the euro zone from the start of next year, European Union officials said on Monday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/03/us-eurozone-latvia-idUSBRE95216B20130603

Ecuador says to talk with Britain on Assange on June 17

 Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Monday he would meet Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague this month to discuss a possible solution to the year-long diplomatic standoff over WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/04/us-britain-ecuador-assange-idUSBRE95302320130604

Berlin not aware of U.S. drone strikes from German bases

Germany said on Friday it had no knowledge of U.S. drone strikes being directed from its territory after media reports alleged that the U.S. military was steering attacks on Islamist guerrillas in Africa from German bases.
The use of drones is highly controversial in Germany, where an aversion to military conflict has prevailed since World War Two, and the reports sparked a strong response from opposition parties hoping to score points against popular Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of a September election.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/31/us-germany-us-drones-idUSBRE94U0WV20130531

Russia to send nuclear submarines to southern seas

 Russia plans to resume nuclear submarine patrols in the southern seas after a hiatus of more than 20 years following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Saturday, in another example of efforts to revive Moscow's military.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/01/us-russia-submarines-patrol-idUSBRE95007V20130601

Leading Sunni Muslim cleric calls for "jihad" in Syria

Leading Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi called on Saturday for holy war against the Syrian government after fighters from Shi'ite Lebanese group Hezbollah intervened to help President Bashar al-Assad.
His website said Qaradawi had "called on all those able to undertake jihad and fighting to head to Syria to stand by the Syrian people who are being killed at the hands of the regime and are now being killed at the hands of what he called the party of Satan".


http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/01/us-syria-crisis-qaradawi-idUSBRE9500CQ20130601

Egypt parliament ruled illegal, but to stay on

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/02/us-egypt-parliament-idUSBRE95104J20130602

Russia blocks U.N. Security Council declaration on Syria's Qusair

 Russia on Saturday blocked a U.N. Security Council declaration of alarm over the bloody siege of the Syrian town of al-Qusair by Syrian troops and Hezbollah guerrillas, Security Council diplomats said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/02/us-syria-crisis-un-idUSBRE95100G20130602

Gulf Arab countries to consider action against Hezbollah

 Gulf Arab countries will consider taking action against Hezbollah if the Shi'ite Muslim Lebanese movement continues its involvement in Syria's civil war or interferes in Gulf Arab affairs, Bahrain's deputy foreign minister said on Sunday.
Ghanem al-Buainain said the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) regarded Hezbollah's involvement in Syria as "sectarian intervention", but had not discussed listing the group as a terrorist organization, a step taken by Bahrain last week.
The Arab League and the United States have urged Hezbollah to pull its fighters from Syria, where France last week said up to 4,000 guerrillas from the group were fighting alongside forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
"The ministerial council (of the GCC) condemned Hezbollah's brazen intervention in Syria ... and decided to consider taking action against any Hezbollah interests in GCC countries," he said, without specifying what those interests were.
Buainain was speaking at a news conference after a meeting of foreign ministers of the mostly Sunni GCC, which also includes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
Bahrain last Monday banned domestic political groups from making contact with Hezbollah, a movement it believes has been involved in unrest among its Shi'ite Muslim majority.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/02/us-gulf-hezbollah-idUSBRE9510CF20130602

This day in Jewish history / The beginning of the end of Iraq's Jewish community - This Day in Jewish History

June 2, 1941, was the second and final day of the anti-Jewish pogrom in Baghdad that became known as the Farhud. The Farhud (literally, “violent dispossession”) not only took the lives of hundreds of Jews, and wounded many more; it also spelled the beginning of the end of Iraq’s ancient Jewish community, nearly all of whose 135,000 members had left the country within a decade.
This day in Jewish history / The beginning of the end of Iraq's Jewish community - This Day in Jewish History - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Lebanon to take airspace violations to UN

 Lebanon's foreign minister is set to to file a complaint with the UN over Israeli violations of his country's airspace.
The Israeli air force has intensified low-flying sorties over Lebanese airspace including Beirut, Lebanese security officials said on Sunday.
Lebanon's National News Agency reported that warplanes flew over southern Lebanon, Beirut, the eastern Bekaa Valley and the city of Baalbek.
Last month the UN called on Israel to stop increased military air patrols over Lebanon after two Israeli air attacks on Syria.
Israeli warplanes regularly enter Lebanese airspace, but a Lebanese security official told the AP news agency that the Sunday overflights were among the most intense recently.
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
Lebanon to take airspace violations to UN - Middle East - Al Jazeera English