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Ace Worldwide News Group 14:00 on 13/06/2021
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(ISRAEL) AP Building Bombing Report: Israeli ambassador meets with Associated Press top dog, tells him Hamas had Iron Dome jammer in the building #AceNewsDesk report

#AceNewsReport – June.13: AP is either abjectly incompetent or complicit with Hamas’ genocidal jihad against Israel. Gilad Erdan would have been closer to the truth if he had told Pruitt and Phillips that he knew AP was not a news source, but a propaganda arm for the hard-Left and the global jihad, and would treat it accordingly. Instead, he kept up the pretense that he was dealing with a news organization.

Ambassador Erdan said: “AP is one of the most important news agencies in the world and Israel doesn’t think that AP employees were aware it was being cynically used in this way by Hamas for a secret unit.” They weren’t aware? They’re supposed to be reporters. And they didn’t even know that jihad terrorist activity was going on in their own building?

“Ambassador Erdan meets AP president, says Hamas had Iron Dome jammer in AP building,” Arutz Sheva, June 8, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Israel’s Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations Gilad Erdan visited the Associated Press headquarters in New York where he met with President and CEO Gary Pruitt and Vice President of International News Ian Phillips. During his visit, Ambassador Erdan reaffirmed that Israel upholds the importance of press freedom and ensures the safety of journalists wherever they are reporting.

Ambassador Erdan reiterated that the multistory building housing the AP in Gaza, which was destroyed last month in an airstrike, also housed the facilities of Hamas’ military intelligence, its R&D department and a tech unit.

“The unit was developing an electronic jamming system to be used against the Iron Dome defense system,” said Ambassador Erdan, officially informing for the first time why Hamas’ operation in that building posed such an imminent threat to Israeli civilians and was prioritized by the IDF.

Ambassador Erdan added that “AP is one of the most important news agencies in the world and Israel doesn’t think that AP employees were aware it was being cynically used in this way by Hamas for a secret unit.”

The ambassador went on to assure the news agency that “Israel did everything it could to make sure that no employees or civilians were hurt during this important operation.”…

‘The leaders of Hamas will get together to divide among themselves the money that will be poured into Gaza’

“Vienna-Based Syrian Journalist Thaer Al-Nashef: Hamas Uses Civilians As Human Shields; Hamas Leaders Split Gaza Rehabilitation Aid Among Themselves,” MEMRI, May 25, 2021:

Syrian journalist Thaer Al-Nashef, who is currently living in exile in Vienna, said that the Hamas “media machine” and Iran have exploited events in Jerusalem and Gaza in order to garner Arab sympathy over other Palestinian factions and to further Iranian interests in the Vienna nuclear negotiations. He made these remarks in a show that aired on Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) on May 25, 2021….

Thaer Al-Nashef: “Hamas has declared victory over Israel, just like Gamal Abd Al-Naser declared victory over Israel, even though he lost the Sinai Peninsula in its entirety, the Egyptian army was completely destroyed, and thousand of Egyptian soldiers were killed. At the same time, Hamas ignores the civilians it used as human shields in the Gaza strip by shooting useless missiles, a third of which fell on the people in the Gaza strip, instead of Israeli cities. Hamas claims that it has hit Israeli military targets, but that is a complete lie because the entire world saw in the media that Hamas’s missiles targeted Israeli civilians.

[…]

“Did Muslims in Sarajevo, Tirana, Bosnia, and Africa rally to support Hamas, and those behind it, like the regime of the Mullahs in Iran? Those who rallied were Arab crowds frustrated with the autocracy of the Arab regimes, [crowds] whose sentiments were riled up by Hamas, exploiting the events of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, that were instigated by Hamas and those who stand with it by provoking the Israeli police.

[…]

“Thus, the Arab public was mobilized by the media machine of Hamas and those behind it – the Iranian regime. All this was done in order to raise the popularity of Hamas among the Palestinian public, at the expense of other factions like Fatah, and other factions, and in order to revitalize Iran and polish its image in the region, after it was tarnished by its crimes in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Iran is exploiting what happened in the Gaza Strip in a big way for the sake of its interests in the nuclear negotiations that are conducted here in Vienna.

[…]

“It is certain that Hamas will not conduct a discussion about what happened in the Gaza Strip and they will not hold each other responsible. The leaders of Hamas will get together to divide among themselves the money that will be poured into [Gaza] now just like they did after the wars of 2009 and 2014. Hamas’s wealth grows with every war. Billions [of dollars] are deposited in the bank accounts of the leaders of Hamas.”

#AceNewsDesk report ……Published: Jun.13: 2021:

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Ace Worldwide News Group 08:00 on 16/05/2021
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(GAZA STRIP) An Israeli airstrike has destroyed a high-rise building that housed the offices of The Associated Press (AP) and Al-Jazeera #AceNewsDesk report

#AceNewsReport – May.16: Al-Jazeera broadcast footage showing the building collapsing to the ground after the Israeli airstrike, sending up a huge mushroom cloud of dust and debris:

GAZA STRIP UPDATE: Israel destroys building housing AP, Al-Jazeera offices: ‘The airstrike Saturday came roughly an hour after the Israeli military ordered people to evacuate the building: AP said its staffers and residents of the building fled in a panic after being told of the warning Ace News Services said a 13–storey building was hit causing a plume of smoke to rise from the building

by Agencies

A ball of fire erupts from the Jala Tower as it is destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Palestine, May 15, 2021. (AFP Photo)

Israel destroys media building according to Arab News report

Jawad Mehdi, the owner of the Jala Tower, said an Israeli intelligence officer warned him he had just one hour to ensure the evacuation of the building.

In a phone call with the officer, he was heard begging for an extra 10 minutes to allow journalists to retrieve their equipment before leaving.

“Give us 10 extra minutes,” he urged, but the officer on the other end of the line refused.

AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt said he was “shocked and horrified” by an “incredibly disturbing” Israeli attack on the building.

Wael al-Dahdouh, Al-Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza told Agence France-Presse (AFP), “It’s terrible, very sad, to target the Al-Jazeera and other press bureaux.”

The White House said Saturday it has cautioned Israel about the importance of protecting independent media after the airstrike.

“We have communicated directly to the Israelis that ensuring the safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted.

Israel alleged its “fighter jets attacked a high-rise building which hosted military assets belonging to the military intelligence” of Hamas.

Israeli air and artillery strikes on Gaza since Monday have killed more than 140 people, including over 40 children, and wounded 1,000 more, health officials in the coastal Palestinian enclave say.

Last Update: May 15, 2021 6:28 pm

#AceNewsDesk report ………Published: May.16: 2021:

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Ace Worldwide News Group 09:40 on 29/03/2014
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` Militants have attacked the ` Election Offices ' in Kabul – Reports '

#AceBreakingNews – AFGHANISTAN – March 29 – Sources have said that Militants are firing on the main election commission office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, from a neighbouring building they have taken over, local police say.

Afghan police officer Jan Agha says the assailants did not enter the International Election Commission’s compound, but are operating from a distance of 500 meters from the building while hiding out in a three-story house, AP reports.

The attack started with an explosion, followed by gunfire, police and commission officials at the scene reported.

“I am here… the attack is going on around the IEC compound,” Reuters cited Noor Mohammed, a commission official, as saying by phone from a safe room inside the building.

Presidential elections are coming up in a week in Afghanistan, as the US prepares to pull its troops out and a power handover is due to take place. Frequent attacks have been taking place as the Taliban carries out its threat of violence ahead of the vote.

More soon ……………………………………………………………..

Latest – KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission’s headquarters Saturday in Kabul, opening fire on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, according to police. It’s the latest in a series of high-profile attacks that come as the Islamic militant movement steps up a campaign of violence to disrupt presidential elections, which are due to be held in a week.

Reuters – AP – RT

#ANS2014

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Ace Worldwide News Group 12:52 on 28/03/2014
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` Triple Bombing in `Baghdad ' kills four people according to ` Iraq ' Authorities '

#AceWorldNews – IRAQ – March 28 – A triple bombing has struck a busy market area in northern Baghdad, killing four people, Iraqi authorities said.

The three bombs went off almost simultaneously at the entrance of the market in the city’s Sulaikh district, AP reported.

The explosions also wounded 16 people. Friday’s attacks came a day after a series of attacks targeting commercial areas killed 26 people http://wp.me/p165ui-4zd

#ANS2014

#ap, #baghdad, #iraqi

Ace Worldwide News Group 11:17 on 28/03/2014
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TEPCO : ` Nuclear Power Plant worker buried under ` Mudslide ‘ is found `Unconscious ‘ at Fukushima ‘

#AceWorldNews – TOKYO – March 28 – A worker was unconscious after being buried in a mudslide at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, officials said.

The man, in his 50s, was rushed to the hospital and his heart stopped beating, AP quoted

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) spokesman Shogo Fukuda as saying.

The worker was digging near storage containers when he was buried Friday.

Thousands of workers have been cleaning up the plant after the disaster three years ago.

#ANS2014

#ap, #fukushima, #japan, #rt-news, #tepco, #tokyo, #tokyo-electric-power-company

Ace Worldwide News Group 21:59 on 27/03/2014
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` Chaos comes to the `Commercial Neighbourhoods’ of ` Iraq ‘ killing at least 26 after `Multiple Explosions ‘

#AceWorldNews – IRAQ – March 27 – A spree of bombing attacks in commercial neighbourhoods of Iraq has killed at least 26 people, officials announced. A car bomb exploded in the Sunni-dominated northern neighbourhood of Azamiyah, killing 12 people and wounding 28.

Minutes later, a bomb exploded near a market in the same neighbourhood, killing seven and injuring another 27.

Another blast in the same area killed 3 and wounded 15 others. In south-western Baghdad, an explosion killed four people and wounded 14. Medics confirmed the casualties for all attacks, AP reports.

No one has claimed responsibility but authorities suspect the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant(ISIL), and the an Al-Qaeida-affiliated group to be behind the bombings.

#ANS2014

#al-qaeda, #ap, #baghdad, #bombings, #car-bombs, #iraq, #islamic-state-of-iraq-and-the-levantisil, #sunni

Ace Worldwide News Group 13:55 on 27/03/2014
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` Japan’s Longest-Serving ` Death Row ‘ Inmate is Freed by ` Japanese Court ‘ having found Investigators had likely Fabricated Evidence ‘

#AceWorldNews – JAPAN – March 27 – The world’s longest-serving death row inmate was freed Thursday by a Japanese court, AP reported.

The Shizuoka District Court found investigators had likely fabricated evidence in the murder case that put the former pro boxer behind bars for nearly half a century.

The court suspended the death sentence and ordered a retrial for 78-year-old Iwao Hakamada, who had been convicted in the 1966 murder of a family and was sentenced to death in 1968.

More than 45 of his 48 years in prison have been on death row.

#ANS2014

#ap, #death, #japan, #japanese, #murder

Ace Worldwide News Group 13:18 on 27/03/2014
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` Philippines Government Signs a ` Peace Accord ‘ with Muslim Rebel Group Moro Islamic Liberation Front ‘

#AceWorldNews – PHILIPPINES – March 27 – Philippines government signed a peace accord with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, on Thursday, AP reported.

The move is the culmination of years of negotiations and a significant political achievement for President Benigno Aquino III.

The deal grants largely Muslim areas of the southern Mindanao region greater political autonomy in exchange for an end to armed rebellion.

However, it will not end all violence in a part of the country long-plagued by lawlessness and Islamist insurgency.

ANS2014

#ans2014, #ap, #islamist, #moro-islamic-liberation-front, #muslim, #philippines

Ace Worldwide News Group 09:52 on 26/03/2014
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` Government Team is En-Route to a `Secret Location ‘ in Country’s North-West for Talks with Taliban ‘

#AceWorldNews – AFGHANISTAN – March 25 – A government team is en route to a secret location in the country’s north-west for the first-ever direct talks with the militants, AP reported, citing a cleric representing the Pakistani Taliban.

Ibrahim Khan said the face-to-face discussions are expected to take place later on Wednesday at an undisclosed place in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Islamabad team, headed by government official Habibullah Khan Khattak, is taking a helicopter flight to a “peace zone,” according to the cleric.

The two sides have so far held indirect talks through clerics sympathetic to the Taliban.

#ANS2014

#afghanistan, #ap, #pakistani, #taliban

Ace Worldwide News Group 09:46 on 26/03/2014
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` Washington Mudslide Victims Rise to 16 after a Further 8 Victims are Rescued ‘

#AceWorldNews – WASHINGTON – March 26 – Officials in Washington confirmed Tuesday evening that searchers had recovered an additional 8 bodies following a massive mudslide three days ago, reported the AP.

The total number of deaths so far currently stands at 16, as authorities continue to comb through the debris field of the 49 structures devastated by the landslide in a rural area 55 miles north of the city of Seattle.

So far search teams continue to operate off a list of 176 individuals who remained unaccounted for, though some of these may be duplicates.

Another 8 bodies were believed located at the scene, which would bring the death toll to 24 once confirmed.

Reports from the BBC News has stated “We haven’t lost hope that there’s a possibility that we could find somebody alive,” local fire chief Travis Hots told reporters on Tuesday night.

“We are coming to the realisation that that may not be a possibility – but we are going full steam ahead.

“We are going at this hard to get everybody that’s out there that’s missing”

The sudden, catastrophic mudslide on Saturday destroyed about 30 houses, temporarily damming a river and leaving a square-mile field of muck and debris in its wake.

Survivors were last pulled alive from the mud on Saturday.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26743714

Ace Related News – March 23 – 11.57 GMT – http://wp.me/p165ui-4uy

#ANS2014

#ap, #bbc, #washington

Ace Worldwide News Group 20:34 on 25/03/2014
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` France’s Consumer Rights Group `Files Lawsuit ‘ in ` Paris Court ‘ against Social Media for Violation of Privacy ‘

#AceSocialNews – FRANCE – March 25 – France’s top consumer rights group has filed a lawsuit in a Paris court against Google+, Facebook and Twitter, accusing the social networks of violating the country’s privacy laws.

UFC-Que Choisir – a group which advises consumers on products, services and their rights – said it was filing a suit in the High Court over “abusive” and “illegal” practices in the conditions of use on the three social networks, AFP reported Tuesday.

The consumers’ group said that last summer they warned the companies that they would bring legal action in case they did not address concerns over terms of use and data-collection practices.

However, “they are stubbornly maintaining clauses that the association considers abusive or illegal,” the group was reported as saying.

UFC-Que Choisir asked the court to order Google+, Facebook and Twitter to get rid of or change the fine print on their terms of use since, they believe, it is far too complicated.

According to the organization, the instructions were “inaccessible, unreadable and full of hypertext links” – some of which are available only in English.

The watchdog claimed that the social networks “persist in authorizing the widespread collection, modification, preservation and use of the data of users and even of those around them.”

Social and Media News – http://on.rt.com/jpt4bc

#ANS2014

#afp, #ap, #facebook, #france, #google, #twitter

Ace Worldwide News Group 10:05 on 25/03/2014
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` Double-decker Bus carrying Workers on Field-Trip Plunges off Steep Road Killing at least 30 People ‘

#AceWorldNews – THAILAND – March 25 – A double-decker bus carrying municipal workers on a field trip in western Thailand plunged off a steep road and into a ravine, killing at least 30 people, officials said Tuesday.

The accident Monday night also left 22 others injured, AP reported.

It was the latest fatal crash on a mountain road in Tak province known for its treacherous dips and turns where 300 accidents occurred last year.

#ANS2014

#ap, #thailand

Ace Worldwide News Group 17:15 on 24/03/2014
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` Boko Haram has Claimed Responsibility for an Attack on Key ` Military Barracks’ in Nigeria ‘

#AceWorldNews – NIGERIA – March 24 – Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for an attack on a key military barracks in Nigeria, AFP reported on Monday, citing a new video issued by the sect.

“We carried out the attacks in Maiduguri on March 14 ,” said a man claiming to be the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau.

The man appeared younger and with different mannerisms than seen in older videos.

The US has declared Shekau a global terrorist, and has put a $7 million bounty on his head.

Ace Related News – March 24 – 12.52 GMT – Extract – #AceWorldNews – NIGERIA – 24 March – An explosion at a village market near hideouts of Islamic extremists in north-east Nigeria has killed 32 people, AP said, citing hospital and local government officials.

They said 29 people died at the scene at Ngurosoye village in the explosion on Thursday, reported only now because of poor communications. http://wp.me/p165ui-4vo

AFP – AP

#ANS2014

#afp, #ap, #boko-haram, #nigeria, #us

Ace Worldwide News Group 13:59 on 24/03/2014
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#AceWorldNews UNITED STATES 24 March Latest The US…

#AceWorldNews – UNITED STATES – 24 March – Latest – The US State Department concerns over the Georgian prosecutors’ decision to interrogate former President Mikhail Saakashvili is considered by Tbilisi merely as a partner’s advice, RIA Novosti quoted Georgia’s Deputy Foreign Minister David Dzhalagania as saying on Monday.

This would not affect the determination of Georgian authorities to complete investigations, the official said.

The former president, who is in the Netherlands, his wife’s native country, told Georgian Rustavi 2 television on Sunday that he would not obey the summons to appear on Thursday for questioning in the 2005 death of his prime minister and other cases, AP reported. Saakashvili left Georgia shortly after his second term ended in November.

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1. March 24 – 11.35 GMT – Extract – #AceWorldNews – TBILISI – March 24 – If former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili fails to turn up for questioning in the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office as a witness in several criminal cases, he will be put on wanted list, Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Garibashvili said on Monday.http://wp.me/p165ui-4vk

#ANS2014

#ap, #georgia, #georgian, #mikhail-saakashvili, #ria-novosti, #tbilisi, #united-states

Ace Worldwide News Group 12:52 on 24/03/2014
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` Explosion in local village near hideouts of `Islamic Extremists in ` North East Nigeria ‘ has killed 32 People ‘

#AceWorldNews – NIGERIA – 24 March – An explosion at a village market near hideouts of Islamic extremists in north-east Nigeria has killed 32 people, AP said, citing hospital and local government officials.

They said 29 people died at the scene at Ngurosoye village in the explosion on Thursday, reported only now because of poor communications.

The military has been carrying out aerial bombardments and ground assaults on camps of Islamic militants in Ngurosoye, near the Sambisa forest in Borno state bordering Cameroon.

#ANS2014

#ap, #cameroon, #islamic, #nigeria

Ace Worldwide News Group 16:38 on 23/03/2014
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` Iraq’s Al-Qaida Militants now want to control `Fallujah ‘ by trying to Implement `Shariah ‘ to win support of Sunni’s’

#AceWorldNews – BAGHDAD – 23 March – Iraq’s Al-Qaeda-inspired militants who took over the city of Fallujah are now trying to show they can run it, providing social services, policing the streets and implementing Sharia rulings in a bid to win the support of its Sunni Muslim population.

Gunmen in ski masks and Afghan-style tunics patrol the streets, but also perform a sort of community outreach.

On a recent day, they were seen repairing damaged electricity poles and operating bulldozers to remove concrete blast walls and clear garbage.

Others planted flowers in a highway median, and some fighters approached residents in the street and apologized for gaps in services, promising to address them. AP

ANS2014

#ans2014, #afghan, #al-qaeda, #ap, #baghdad, #fallujah, #iraqs, #muslim, #sharia, #sunni

Ace Worldwide News Group 13:04 on 23/03/2014
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` Spain's `March's for Dignity ' ends with 29 arrested and 101 Injured between Protesters and Police '

#AceWorldNews – MADRID – 23 March – Protesters clashed with police in Madrid as thousands of people trekked across Spain to protest austerity which they claim is destroying their country. Under the banner “no more cuts!” the protesters called for an end to the government’s “empty promises.”

Police arrested at least 29 protesters following the clashes which took place after the march. According to emergency service, 101 people were injured – 67 of them police, El Mundo newspaper reports.

Protesters were seen throwing stones and firecrackers at police. According to witnesses, officers used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.

Clashes broke out during a final speech at the demonstration when protesters tried to break through a police barrier. Riot police took charge by beating protesters with batons, AP reported.

“The mass rally was coming to an an end when reportedly a group of younger protesters, who had masks on their faces, started throwing rocks at the police. Police tried to push them away from the parameter that they organized around this area,” RT’s Egor Piskunov reported from the Spanish capital.http://on.rt.com/vzw2fe

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1. 22 March – 22.11 GMT – Extract – #AceBreakingNews – MADRID – 22 March – Protesters clashed with police in Madrid as thousands of people trekked across Spain to protest austerity which they claim is destroying their country. Under the banner “no more cuts!” the protesters called for an end to the government’s “empty promises.”http://wp.me/p165ui-4ue

AP – RT – AFP – El Mundo – Spanish Media Reports

#ANS2014

#ap, #austerity-cuts, #madrid, #rt-news, #spain

Ace Worldwide News Group 22:11 on 22/03/2014
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` Protesters clashed with Police in ` Madrid ‘ as Thousands protest against Austerity Cuts – Words NO MORE on Banners ‘

#AceBreakingNews – MADRID – 22 March – Protesters clashed with police in Madrid as thousands of people trekked across Spain to protest austerity which they claim is destroying their country. Under the banner “no more cuts!” the protesters called for an end to the government’s “empty promises.”

Police arrested 17 protesters and 27 were said to be injured during the clashes which took place after the march, El Mundo newspaper reported, posting graphic video footage of the arrests.

Twenty of the injured are said to be police officers. One of them is reported to be seriously injured.

Protesters were seen throwing stones and firecrackers at police. According to witnesses, officers used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.

Clashes broke out during a final speech at the demonstration when protesters tried to break through a police barrier.

Riot police took charge by beating protesters with batons, AP reported

“A group of the protesters have been facing scuffles with police, particularly young protesters with their faces covered apparently attacked one of these police barricades,” RT’s Egor Piskunov reported from Madrid. “Ambulances were seen at the spot.

Lots of police there as well.”

AP – RT – El Mundo – Spanish News and Media Sources

#ANS2014

#rt, #ap, #madrid, #spain

Ace Worldwide News Group 15:08 on 22/03/2014
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` Pope Francis Announces the First Eight Initial Members of a `Commission ‘to advise him on `Sex-Abuse ‘ Policy ‘

#AceWorldNews – VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis announced the initial members of a commission to advise him on sex abuse policy Saturday, tapping lay and religious experts – and an Irish woman assaulted as a child by a priest – to start plotting the commission’s tasks and priorities.

The eight members were announced after Francis came under criticism from victims’ groups for a perceived lack of attention to the abuse scandal, which has seriously damaged the church’s reputation around the world and cost dioceses billions of dollars in legal fees and settlements.

AP

#ANS2014

#ap, #pope-francis, #vatican

Ace Worldwide News Group 13:01 on 18/03/2014
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` Joe Biden visits ` Poland ‘ in a Bid to Reassure their Allies that the `US ‘ will stand-up to ` Russia’s ‘ Aggression in the `Ukraine ‘

#AceWorldNews – Warsaw – Stepping into a region on edge, Vice President Joe Biden came to Poland on Tuesday to reassure anxious allies that the U.S. will stand up to Russia’s aggression in neighbouring Ukraine, even as Moscow brushed aside stern warnings from the West and signed a treaty to annex Crimea.

Even as Biden arrived in Warsaw, Russian President Vladimir Putin was moving fast ahead with plans to absorb Crimea into its orbit, flouting fresh sanctions the U.S. and Europe imposed a day earlier.

In a fiery speech in Moscow, Putin lambasted the West for sowing unrest in Ukraine.

AP – Russian Media Sources

#ANS2014

#ap, #crimea, #europe, #moscow, #poland, #russias, #russian-president-vladimir-putin, #ukraine, #us, #vice-president-joe-biden, #warsaw