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Putin,
Merkel Discuss Ukrainian Ceasefire, Gas Deliveries to Europe
"Putin and Merkel exchanged opinions on the situation with deliveries of Russian natural gas to EU member-states and agreed that the consultations in a three party format should continue," a statement on the Kremlin website said.
http://en.ria.ru/politics/20140915/192974085/Putin-Merkel-Discuss-Ukrainian-Ceasefire-Gas-Deliveries-to.html
OSCE
monitors come under artillery fire at MH17 crash site in eastern
Ukraine
It said “the patrol vehicles were damaged by artillery or mortar fire … the team left the area in the remaining useable vehicle and returned to Donetsk city”.
“The SMM also carried out an on-site assessment in the area of the MH17 crash site, upon request of the Dutch, Australian and Malaysian authorities. The patrol vehicles were damaged by artillery or mortar fire at 18:37. The team left the area in the remaining useable vehicle and returned to Donetsk city at 00:32 hrs today,” the report said.
EU External Action Service: Russia’s second aid convoy violates Ukraine’s sovereignty
On September 13, a convoy of over 200 trucks crossed the border and headed to Luhansk to deliver more than 2,000 tonnes of relief supplies
Russia’s
second aid convoy for the residents of the self-proclaimed Luhansk
People’s Republic entered and left Ukraine in violation of its
sovereignty and territorial integrity, the EU External Action Service
said on Monday.
“Over
the weekend, a second Russian humanitarian consignment has entered
and left Ukrainian territory, without the consent of or inspection by
the Ukrainian authorities,” it said.
The
EU said “fundamental international humanitarian law principles have
not been observed
FBI's facial recognition program hits 'full operational capability'
The
Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Next Generation Identification
System, a biometric database reliant on tens of millions of
facial-recognition records, is now fully operational, the agency
announced Monday.
The
NGI system, after three years of development, is billed by the FBI as
a new breakthrough for criminal identification and data-sharing
between law enforcement agencies.
Supreme
Court justice warns of drones creating 'Orwellian' future
US
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has voiced concerns that,
without sufficient protections, the age of unmanned drones and
ubiquitous surveillance will usher in an “Orwellian world.”
Sotomayor
told faculty and students at Oklahoma City University last week that
technological capabilities allow devices to monitor"your
conversations from miles away and through your walls."
"We
are in that brave new world, and we are capable of being in that
Orwellian world, too,” she
added, in a nod to George Orwell’s seminal authoritarian-dystopia
novel ‘1984.’
Sotomayor
also discussed the rise of drone use in wider society.
“There
are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything
that’s happening on what we consider our private
property,” Sotomayor
said, according to
the Wall Street Journal.
“That
type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that
we cherish in privacy and how far we want to protect it and from
whom. Because people think that it should be protected just against
government intrusion, but I don’t like the fact that someone I
don’t know…can pick up, if they’re a private citizen, one of
these drones and fly it over my property.”
UK rules out trying to save Briton held by ISIS
Britain
has said it will not try and rescue one of its citizens who has been
threatened with execution by Islamic State. The country’s Foreign
Minister said nothing would be done because "we don't know where
he is, it's as simple as that."
World
leaders vow to do 'whatever necessary' to defeat Isis jihadis
Meeting
of 24 countries in Paris sees support for Iraq's new government and
urgent calls for action against 'global threat'
US-led
efforts to construct an international coalition to destroy Islamic
State (Isis) are to intensify after leaders from 24 countries pledged
at a crisis meeting in Paris on Monday to use "whatever means
necessary" to defeat what they called a "global threat".
The
talks were held as France began reconnaissance flights over Iraq
after announcing it was ready to join US air strikes there. Philip
Hammond, Britain's foreign secretary, said the UK would play a
leading role in the coalition, suggesting military efforts beyond its
current involvement in arming the Kurds and flying reconnaissance
missions. The US says nearly 40 countries have already offered to
help fight the transnational jihadi movement
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/15/world-leaders-pledge-defeat-isis-paris-summit
Iran refuses to help 'self-serving' US fight ISIS
Iran
has refused an offer from the United States to join a global alliance
preparing to combat Islamic State militants, according to Iran's
supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei
said Monday that the US offered to discuss a coordinated effort with
Iran against Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL), a common
foe in the region, in the midst of an escalating campaign of violence
that continues to claim lives across Iraq in Syria.
‘Stick your license fee up your a***!’ Pro-indy Scots denounce ‘liar’ BBC journo in protest
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