BRICS Bank: Can India contain Chinese moves? - Features - Al Jazeera English

"In India we have always been afraid of the Chinese after India's defeat in the 1962 war. In 2000, when import quotas were abolished, there was a fear of invasion of Chinese goods. A 'war room' was set up in the federal trade ministry. The fears were unfounded. Now we fear China will dominate BRICS Bank."

An official with India's Finance Ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity because his views do not mesh with the government's official position, told Al Jazeera that the bank appears to be a better fit with China's foreign policy aims.

BRICS Bank: Can India contain Chinese moves? - Features - Al Jazeera English

Court: Poland culpable for CIA secret prisons - Features - Al Jazeera English

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Poland to pay reparations to two Saudis being held in Guantanamo Bay.

Court: Poland culpable for CIA secret prisons - Features - Al Jazeera English

Ukraine 'destroys' Russian military vehicles

 Ukrainian security forces have attacked and destroyed military vehicles
that were part of a column that crossed from Russia into eastern
Ukraine, the office of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said in a
statement.

Ukraine 'destroys' Russian military vehicles - Europe - Al Jazeera English

UN moves to rein in Islamic State group

The United Nations Security Council has taken a tough line against
the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, blacklisting six people
including the group's spokesman and threatening sanctions against
its financiers and weapons suppliers.


The 15-member council unanimously adopted on Friday a resolution that
aims to weaken the Islamic State - an al-Qaeda splinter group that has
seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate -
and al-Qaeda's Syrian wing al-Nusra Front.


The Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) has long been blacklisted by the Security Council,
while al-Nusra Front was added earlier this year.



UN moves to rein in Islamic State group - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Unlikely saviors: How Germany helped save Palestine’s Jews during WWI - Books Israel News | Haaretz

Unlikely saviors: How Germany helped save Palestine’s Jews during WWI - Books Israel News | Haaretz

With maritime traffic brought to a standstill, the transfer of charitable funds for distribution among members of the Yishuv was cut off. Cancellation of the protective status that had been granted to foreign subjects compromised the legal situation of some 40,000 Jews with Russian citizenship who were living in Palestine, as well as thousands of British- and French-born residents. Approximately half the Jews in Palestine were now considered to be citizens of enemy regimes.

The Ottoman regime suspected members of the Yishuv, and particularly the newly arrived Zionists, of disloyalty to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople. On December 17, 1914, Baha al-Din, the governor of Jaffa, issued a general decree of deportation of all foreign subjects who had not yet become Ottomanized. Panic spread throughout Jaffa over fears of an all-out massacre – until the intervention of the government of Germany.

US sends 130 more military advisers to Iraq

 Pentagon says 'this is not a combat boots on the ground' operation as personnel arrive in the Kurdish capital Erbil.

US sends 130 more military advisers to Iraq - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Australia may ease immigration rules as it eyes Chinese millionaires

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/07/us-australia-china-immigration-idUSKBN0G70M420140807