Last Generation Network News
November 30, 2013 –SATURDAY- Kislev 27, 5774
Vol I. No.2
WORLD EDITION
"News is the propaganda of the truth" -MJS
HEADLINERS SECTION
Iran will not dismantle nuclear sites
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Photo: AFP / Getty Images
In an interview with the Financial Times on Friday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani clarified that his country has no intention of disarming its nuclear facilities.
"One hundred percent (no)," he said when asked whether he would concede to the demands of Israel and US hawks. The Iranian president stressed throughout the entire interview that Iran maintains the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. He also tried to minimize the effect that the sanctions are having on Iran.
Rouhani also noted that the interim nuclear deal that was struck and the future negotiations with the world powers is "the best test" of whether trust could be restored between the US and Iran. "Iran-US problems are very complicated and cannot be resolved over a short period of time. Despite the complications, there has been an opening over the past 100 days, which can widen later," he said.
Netanyahu vows to banish ‘darkness’ of Iran nuclear program
Melding the Hanukkah holiday and foreign affairs, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu solemnly vowed to serve as a “light unto the nations” and act against Iran’s nuclear program should diplomacy fail Thursday night.
Speaking at the Western Wall for a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony, Netanyahu compared Iran’s nuclear program to a darkness that would be forced out by Israel, referencing a popular children’s song for the holiday.
“We came to drive out the darkness, and the largest darkness that threatens the world today is a nuclear Iran,” he said. “We are bound to do all we can to prevent this darkness. If possible we will do this diplomatically, if not we will act as ‘a light unto the nations’.”
UN's Ban Ki-moon to Israel:
Stop building settlements in West Bank, east Jerusalem
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
File Photo: Reuters, Ki Price
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in a message on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People called on Israel to stop building in the settlements saying that the surge in Israeli building was a "cause of grave concern."
"Announcements of thousands of new housing units cannot be reconciled with the goal of a two-state solution and risk the collapse of negotiations," AFP quoted him as saying.
Ban called for an end to all new settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem but he also condemned rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel and the building of tunnels from the coastal strip into Israel by militants, according to the report.
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| Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 12:45:22 AM CST ‘US freed top Iranian scientist as part of secret talks ahead of Geneva deal’ | Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 12:44:36 AM CST 'Washington Post': White House omitting facts about Iran nuclear deal | Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 12:27:45 AM CST Israeli officials denounce Obama for giving Iran right to enrich, destroying sanctions |
| Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:31:51 PM CST UN's Ban to Israel: Stop building settlements in W. Bank, e. Jerusalem | Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:23:39 PM CST US: Tough sanctions on Iran remain despite deal | Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:22:50 PM CST China scrambles jets after U.S., Japanese planes fly through disputed zone |
| Friday, Nov 29, 2013 12:58:15 AM CST Iran deal a failure, says Israeli ex-national security chief | Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 10:59:26 AM CST Hanukkah 2013: Thanksgiving, Hanukkah fall on rare same day | Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 12:48:28 AM CST UN rings in 'The Year Of Palestine' by passing six resolutions condemning Israel |
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Rescue crews and police are working to free people trapped inside a Glasgow pub that partially collapsed Friday night after a Scottish police helicopter crashed into the building's roof, killing at least 1 and injuring more than two dozen. |
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - About 10,000 anti-government demonstrators angry about Ukraine's refusal to sign a pro-European Union agreement converged Saturday on a square outside a monastery where protesters driven away in a pre-dawn clash with police ... |
SEOUL (Reuters) - As autumn descended on a Korean countryside devastated by three years of intense war, a group of anti-communist guerrillas presented U.S. |
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has promised to help facilitate peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Mr Sharif was speaking after meeting Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul. |
Police tightened security in Thailand's capital on Saturday as thousands of protesters rallied outside a state telecommunications group and vowed to occupy Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's office to paralyse her administration. |
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A Mozambique Airlines plane carrying 33 people crashed in a remote border area, killing all on board, Namibian media reported Saturday. |
The body charged with overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons has confirmed some will be "neutralised" aboard a US Navy ship. |
SYDNEY - A shark killed a teenager off Australia's east coast Saturday in the nation's second deadly attack this month, police said. |
More than three weeks after Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines, rubble still blankets much of the hard-hit city of Tacloban and decomposing bodies remain trapped underneath the debris. |
CAIRO (AP) - A top Egyptian government official strongly denounced a new protest law Saturday as police fired tear gas and used batons to beat back stone-throwing demonstrators in Cairo. |
ZAHLEH, Lebanon (AP) - Every morning in northeastern Lebanon, hundreds of Syrian children are picked up from refugee settlements, loaded onto trucks and taken to the fields or shops for a day's work that earns $4 or less. |
Prostitutes and sex workers in masks protested outside the French parliament on Friday, while legislators debated a bill against prostitution and sex trafficking inside. |
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of South Africans on Saturday called online for the impeachment of President Jacob Zuma, after a newspaper revealed a government document detailing the use of public funds for lavish upgrades to his private home. |
Sniper fire claimed the lives of Abdel-Rahman Merhe, 16, Al-Taqwa Mosque guard Omar Hasnawi and Ramziyeh al-Zohbi, the wife of a Tripoli mukhtar, a security source said, adding that 30 people including two soldiers were also wounded in the clashes ... |
NEW DELHI/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China on Saturday urged India not to aggravate problems on the border shared by the two nations, a day after the Indian president toured a disputed region and called it an integral part of the country. |
Over three hours have passed but the order on Tarun Tejpal's anticipatory bail plea is still awaited even as the judge was to come out with her verdict at 4.30 pm today. |
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