International Major News Roundup 7 25 2013 | Includes At Least 2 Protests Across from White House at Same Time Scheduled for this Saturday July 27
USA
DC
Whether concurrent to, more of a concern, or a less of a concern than protests about Guantanamo, it seems the White House and Lafayette Park across from the White House have become inordinately predated upon for locations to hold a protesting scene or culminate protests. This upcoming Saturday July 27, 2013 alone, there looks to be at least 2 protests of different causes scheduled to take place, according to the Washington Peace Center website; this before not leaving out other sources. For the literal geographic amount of space, the climatic conditions which might be searing heat in a place known for extreme high humidity this time of year, in combination with tourists and traffic conditions, the stage is set for near to chaotic conditions between the hours of 11am and 1pm in the afternoon on Saturday.
"White House skips Senate’s first Gitmo hearing in 5 years
Edited time: July 25, 2013 12:21
topmost picture caption notes: ""Close Guantanamo Protest" outside the US Senate Hart Building where hearings were held by the US Senate Judiciary Committee, The Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights Subcommittee hearing on "Closing Guantanamo: The National Security, Fiscal, and Human Rights Implications.", July 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo / Paul J. Richards"
source: http://rt.com/usa/white-house-gitmo-hearing-559/
"Senate debates Guantánamo in first hearing on closing prison since 2009
Dick Durbin and Ted Cruz face off over what to do with detainees housed at US military site where 69 are on hunger strike
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Associated Press in Washington
- guardian.co.uk,
Restrictions enacted by Congress on the transfer of terror suspects at Guantánamo – including a ban on moving detainees to the US – have undercut...
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/24/senate-debates-closing-guantanamo-bay
"Guantánamo detainee relatives address US senators
We, the family members of your prisoners in Guantánamo, wonder how the US can tolerate this dark stain on its reputation "
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/24/guantanamo-detainee-relatives-senators?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487excerpts of letters written on webpage viz source of story
"...Protesters Demand Closure of Guantanamo Prison, One Jumps Fence [of White House on June 26, 2013]", article found at:
http://www.popularresistance.org/photo-essay-protesters-demand-closure-of-guantanamo-priso/In other protests in Washington DC which are scheduled to climax tomorrow July 26, 2013:
"Seven Day Walk from Camp David to DC against Climate Change
Other protests planned in July 2013, according to the Washington Peace Center, content cut-copied-pasted from their website:
"White House Vigil to Support the Guantanamo Hunger Strikers
Event Details: Raise your voice! Please join this important vigil to help save the lives of the prisoners.
Sponsored
by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker and Witness Against Torture. For
more info about the campaign to Close Guantanamo and End Torture and
Indefinite Detention see: www.witnesstorture.org.)
Contact: h.schietinger@verizon.net
"Marching Forward By Looking Back" Conference on Civil Rights
Location: Howard Univeristy [University]
Event Details: With panel discussions, featured speakers, and open discussion groups this is as unique and ambitious a conference on civil rights that you have ever attended. On August 27, 2013, attendees to the “Marching Forward By Looking Back” Conference on Civil Rights will leave with a more comprehensive understanding of the problems and solutions that will allow us to make the progress that Doctor King dreamed of 50 years ago.
Contact: For more information please look at this website.
"March for Our Grandchildren: Summer Heat Rally
Location: March starts at Malcolm X Park on 16th St...
"Rally for Peace in Korea
Event Details: Americans and Korean Americans from NY and DC will be gathering to call on the U.S. to work for peace in Korea. July 27th will be the 60th Anniversary of the signing of the Korean War Armistice - and yet there is still no Peace Treaty to truly end that war, and we remain on the verge of renewed conflict on the peninsula.
Contact: endthekoreanwar.org@gmail.com
Mid-Atlantic
USA generally
The City of Detroit confronts financial challenges has made many financial news stories. Once again, casinos, if that is the sole solution considered, it might be the subject of some wisdom that gambling as the sole solution might not be a viable long run solution, the lesson applies to other cities as well, the referent, what the Arab tongue calls, 'Rijs', transliterated. 'Rijs' is essentially equivocated to 'the workings of Satan', according to Arab text. Gambling and casinos the panacea for the financial problems of a city respectively needs scrutiny.
In Maine:
"...camp caught fire on Shore Lane around 8pm. No one was at the camp, and no one was hurt. The Norway Fire Department says the camp is a total loss..."
source: http://www.wgme.com/news/top-stories/stories/wgme_vid_17982.shtml
"Fire destroys Norway lake camp
Three fire departments respond
Wildfire updates:
"New wildfire ... near Toppenish [and Goldendale, Washington State]
By
Associated Press
Published: Jul 25, 2013 at 8:26 AM PDT"About 1200 acres or 2 square miles of wildfire have caused severe driving conditions and halt.
source: search of web has many copies of the same story.
In Idaho, there is the Thunder City Fire
"July 25, 2013 - The Aspen Fire was discovered on Tuesday, July 23 burning on the Sierra National Forest- High Sierra Ranger District... has burned approximately 2,000 acres and remains active."
source: http://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/mariposa-daily-news-2013/155-july/9198-sierra-national-forest-aspen-wildfire-thursday-morning-july-25-2013-up-date
South/Central America
Brazil:
"Small bomb found at Brazil shrine Pope Francis was due to visit
A home-made bomb has been found at a Catholic shrine in Brazil which Pope Francis will visit this week.
12:00AM BST 23 Jul 2013The device was found in a lavatory at the sanctuary of Aparecida, between Rio de Janeiro, where Francis arrived on Monday, and Sao Paolo.
It was discovered on Sunday by personnel from the Brazilian air force as they carried out security checks of the area ahead of the Pope's visit on Wednesday.
The bomb was detonated safely by military police.
"It was a homemade device with little potential to cause fatalities," the military said in a statement."
"Mexico: Gunmen Attack Federal Police
Published: July 24, 2013
A wave of attacks on the federal police in Michoacán, one of Mexico’s most violent states, has left at least 24 dead in the past two days, including four officers and 20 gunmen, the authorities said..."source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/world/americas/mexico-gunmen-attack-federal-police.html?ref=americas
"15 Colombian soldiers killed in deadly ambush by Farc rebels
AFP
11:54PM BST 21 Jul 2013
"Our hearts are with the families of the fifteen heroes who sacrificed their lives in Arauca for the tranquillity and security of their fellow citizens," President Juan Manuel Santos said..."
Venezuela the country, more specifically, in the state of Bolivar:
"8 killed at graduation party
Venezuela has launched an investigation after eight people, including two minors, were shot dead at a graduation party in the southern Bolivar state.
Officials say gunmen stormed into the house party early on Saturday as people were celebrating college graduation and opened fire. The dead included a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old.
Venezuela has among the highest homicide rates in the world, though mass shootings are rare.
There were 3,400 homicides in the first quarter of this year alone, after 16,000 people were murdered in 2012, according to government figures..."
source: http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8693503/8-killed-at-graduation-partyHow bad is child exploitation and child trafficking going to get in Peru? ----------------------------------------------
"The main victims of human trafficking in Peru are women and minors of age who are forced to either... under threats of violence and death or to perform forced labor in factories, fields or mines. Amongst other forms of exploitation.they are also recruited to beg for money in the streets, to transport drugs or to sell their organs..."
source: http://www.chsalternativo.org/contenido.php?men=L&pad=32&hij=37&shi=42&pla=2&sal=2&id=I
"In 2006, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child reported that there are 500,000 child victims of ... and violence in the country. Because 60 percent of Peru’s youth live in poverty, children are especially vulnerable..."
source: http://www.ethicaltraveler.org/campaigns/campaign-against-human-trafficking-in-perus-sex-tourism-industry/
Canada
Although the initial tragedy occurred about 2 weeks ago--
a story-slideshow for reading or viewing:
"A Train Wreck’s Aftermath
More than two weeks have passed since a runaway train of oil tank cars, “the ghost train” as it is now known, derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, incinerating much of the community’s downtown and leaving at least 42 of its 6,000 residents dead. Here, wreckage inside the “red zone.”
source: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/07/24/world/americas/20130724QUEBEC.html?ref=americas&_r=0
"Railway Sued in Chicago Over Quebec Runaway Train Killing 47
July 24, 2013
Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd., its chairman and several fuel companies were sued in Chicago on behalf of a person killed when a runaway oil-tank train crashed and exploded in a town near Quebec this month.
The defendants, including Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Chairman Edward Burkhardt, failed to take measures that would have prevented the accident, according to the lawsuit... The complaint was filed in Cook County Circuit Court on July 22.
An unattended parked train with 72 tankers filled with crude oil rolled downhill into the town of Lac-Megantic after 1 a.m. on July 6. More than 20 tank cars derailed, crashed and exploded, killing 47 people. An estimated 1.5 million gallons of crude oil were spilled in the crash, according to the complaint.
Montreal, Maine & Atlantic “carelessly and negligently failed to train its employees to properly set brakes when trains are left unattended,” the complaint states...
The case is Roy v. Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway, 2013-LOO8272, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (Chicago)"
source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-07-23/railway-sued-in-chicago-over-quebec-oil-tank-crash-killing-47West Africa; Central Africa; other Africa if necessary
Sudan
Sudan Attacks after Machar’s Falied Diplomatic Mission
By Defense & Foreign Affairs | Mon, 08 July 2013 22:10
With input from Juba, Khartoum, and London resources. South Sudan Vice-President Riek Machar has begun escalating his attacks against Pres. Salva Kiir in order to divert attention from the total failure of his latest diplomatic mission to Khartoum to restore and sustain oil exports from South Sudan via the Sudanese pipeline to the Red Sea.
At the same time that Sudan not only rebuffed Machar’s conciliatory approach (in defiance of one of Sudan’s major backers, the People’s Republic of China), it reiterated its own assertiveness by attacking and bombing civilian-refugee targets inside South Sudan. Machar, attempting to deflect blame for his negotiating failure, began telling the international media that he could, and should, be a better President of South Sudan than the elected incumbent, Salva Kiir.
He also has stepped up use of his support base of Nuer tribesmen and other colleagues, particularly those in the diaspora around the world, to attack any reporting which gives a neutral or pro-Kiir portrayal of events in South Sudan.
source: http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Africa/Sudan-Attacks-after-Machars-Falied-Diplomatic-Mission.html
South Africa
5 armed robbers attack farmstall
July 24 2013 at 02:35pm
Cape Town - An ATM at a popular Cape Winelands farmstall outside Stellenbosch was blasted apart in an attack by armed robbers on Wednesday morning.
source: ATM BLOWN UP STELLENBOSCH RURAL <http://www.southafricannews.info/Article.php?ID=426872&>
Date Posted: Thursday 25-Jul-2013
Middle East /Arab Peninsula:
Turkey
warns against Kurdish entity in Syria
Deputy PM Arinc says country will not tolerate the creation of a "de facto" Syrian Kurdish entity on its borders.
story: July 22, 2013
AP reported Turkey DPM has said his country supports Syria's territorial integrity, will not tolerate the creation of a “de facto'' Syrian Kurdish entity on its borders.
Arinc is reported to have said it would act carefully, and in a cool-headed manner.
Muqdadiya north of Baghdad experiencing killings
over a dozen, 12, people reportedly killed within the past 24 hours
Africa region of Middle East:
"Violence feared as Egypt braces for rival protests
CAIRO (Reuters) - Supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi and the army that toppled him prepared for rival protests on Friday as the prime minister warned of violence, with the country more polarized than at any time since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in early 2011.
Army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called on Egyptians to take to the streets to show their support for action against "violence and terrorism". Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, organizing its own marches on Friday against Sisi, fears the army appeal is a harbinger of a wider crackdown.
Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawy, head of the interim cabinet, said there were escalating attacks on government institutions by increasingly well-armed protesters.
"The presence of weapons, intimidation, fear - this causes concern, especially when there are calls for many to come out tomorrow from different sides," he told a news conference..."
source: http://www.newsdaily.com/world/dceaee35ae3c5dde3e95ca0480a48cef/violence-feared-as-egypt-braces-for-rival-protests"Angry Tunisians take to the streets after murder of opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi
Killing could derail fragile democracy in birthplace of the Arab Spring
Mr Brahmi, the leader of the opposition Movement of the People party, was gunned down outside his home in front of his wife and youngest daughter. It was the second assassination of an opposition politician this year, coming just five months after the killing of Chokri Belaid, a prominent secular MP.
Mr Brahmi was a member of the National Constituent Assembly, which is finalising the drafting of the new constitution for Tunisia. His party is a member of the left-leaning Popular front coalition, to which Mr Belaid also belonged...
Europe west
"Spanish train crash: 78 killed and 130 injured in derailment
Train jumps tracks on 'difficult curve' on approach to north-western city of Santiago de Compostela
-
Stephen Burgen in Barcelona and agencies
- The Guardian,
...northern Spanish region of Galicia after 78 people died in a train crash on Wednesday.Four people died in hospital, the rest at the site of the accident...
....The crash occurred as the train approached the north-western Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela at 8.40pm. A further 131 people were reported injured in the accident...
There were some 247 people on board the train, which was travelling from Madrid to the Galician port of Ferrol. The train jumped the tracks on what officials described as "a difficult curve" on the outskirts of Santiago. At least six carriages were derailed.
"The train started flipping over, over and over, and carriages ended up on top of others," one passenger said.
Another said: "It was going so quickly. It seems that on a curve the train started to twist, and the wagons piled up one on top of the other."...
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/spain-train-crash-dead
HCN comments: based on the little of what has been seen so far, the wreckage was initially a wild-dry scene, defying engineering theories
Asia region including China
China
"Killing Highlights Concerns Over China’s One-Child Policy
Published: July 25, 2013
HONG KONG — A man with a knife killed two government officials at a family planning bureau and injured four other people, the Chinese state news media reported on Wednesday, in an episode that drew wide attention in China because of continuing controversy over the country’s one-child policy.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/world/asia/killing-highlights-concerns-over-chinas-one-child-policy.html?ref=asia
"Quake areas still short of supplies
Updated: 2013-07-26 00:13
By Mu Qian and Zhao Lei (China Daily)
People in some areas affected by the magnitude-6.6 quake that hit Gansu province on Monday are still facing a shortage of relief supplies, a charity coordinator said on Thursday...
By Thursday, 95 people had been confirmed killed by the quake, which jolted the border of Minxian and Zhangxian counties. More than 1,400 people were injured, and nearly 300,000 lost their homes.
In Dacaotan, a township in Zhangxian county, at least 4,000 residents, or a third of the township's population, are living in 630 tents..."
source: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-07/26/content_16832938.htm
There might have been more than one earthquake that hit the region earlier this week
Singapore
"Singapore to widen its RMB liquidity pool
Updated: 2013-07-19 01:09
Singapore's central bank governor says the island state plans to widen its liquidity pool of the Chinese currency as part of extended efforts to turn itself into a major offshore yuan market.
Ravi Menon said the country is also developing hedging instruments as part of these efforts.
"The critical factors that will determine how well Singapore develops as an RMB hub are liquidity and a range of hedging products," said Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the central bank and financial regulatory authority.
Singapore holds 100 billion yuan ($16.3 billion) in renminbi deposits and Menon expects the total to rise.
"The deposits will grow at a stronger pace over time, facilitated by the launch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's Singapore RMB clearing facilities in May.
"With more liquidity, financial institutions will offer a wider range of RMB products and services to better meet the financing, investment and risk management needs of the market," he told China Daily.
Hong Kong, the largest offshore RMB center, which accounts for 70 percent of overseas yuan deposits, had deposits of 698.5 billion yuan up to May, according to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority."
source: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2013-07/19/content_16796840.htm
Europe east, including Russia
Russian Railways injects $18.7 Billion in Far Eastern infrastructure
Posted by Jezreel Jann Villaruel Yañez on Wednesday, 24 July 2013 19:42 | Published in Road & Rail Transport
Russia's Far East Development Ministry and state-owned Russian Railways, one of the world's largest transport companies, signed a cooperation agreement last week.
The document encompasses the reconstruction of the railroad infrastructure in the district, particularly the construction of a bridge to Sakhalin island, the modernization of the Baikal-Amur Mainline, the reconstruction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the connection of the Trans-Korean Main Line to the network of Russian railroads.
source: http://www.bsr-russia.com/en/transport/item/4115-russian-railways-injects-$187-billion-in-far-eastern-infrastructure.html
Asia any other, such as India; Any other
India
Principal of Indian School That Served Tainted Lunch Is Arrested
Published: July 24, 2013
NEW DELHI — Nine days after she disappeared, the principal of a school in eastern India where 23 children died after eating a lunch tainted with pesticide was arrested Wednesday by the police.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/world/asia/principal-in-india-tainted-lunch-deaths-arrested.html?ref=asia&_r=0
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