BBC News - Libya unrest: UK ambassador's convoy attacked in Benghazi

BBC News - Libya unrest: UK ambassador's convoy attacked in Benghazi: "wo British bodyguards have been injured in an attack on a convoy carrying the British ambassador to Libya, embassy officials have said.

Ambassador Dominic Asquith and all other staff were unhurt in the attack in Benghazi.

A rocket-propelled grenade hit the car carrying the consular team's security escort, a Libyan official said."

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Russian Arms for Syria No Threat to Protesters - Lavrov | World | RIA Novosti

Russian Arms for Syria No Threat to Protesters - Lavrov | World | RIA Novosti: "The top Russian diplomat said that in contrast to Moscow “our U.S. colleagues are supplying countries of the Persian Gulf region with the very type of arms that could be used against peaceful demonstrators.""

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BBC News - African migrants hurt in Jerusalem 'arson attack'

BBC News - African migrants hurt in Jerusalem 'arson attack': "One politician from the governing Likud Party recently compared asylum seekers to "a cancer.""

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Israel Has Deployed Nuclear Weapons On Its New German Built Submarines - Business Insider

Israel Has Deployed Nuclear Weapons On Its New German Built Submarines - Business Insider: "Germany is helping Israel to develop its military nuclear capabilities, SPIEGEL has learned. According to extensive research carried out by the magazine, Israel is equipping submarines that were built in the northern German city of Kiel and largely paid for by the German government with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The missiles can be launched using a previously secret hydraulic ejection system. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told SPIEGEL that Germans should be "proud" that they have secured the existence of the state of Israel "for many years."
In the past, the German government has always stuck to the position that it is unaware of nuclear weapons being deployed on the vessels. Now, however, former high-ranking officials from the German Defense Ministry, including former State Secretary Lothar Rühl and former chief of the planning staff Hans Rühle, have told SPIEGEL that they had always assumed that Israel would deploy nuclear weapons on the submarines. Rühl had even discussed the issue with the military in Tel Aviv."

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BBC News - Lagos air crash: All aboard feared dead, officials say

BBC News - Lagos air crash: All aboard feared dead, officials say:
every nigerian knows somebody who's died in an airplane crash. the most obscene disasters have become commonplace to us. the tragedies that should be be stuff of nightmares have become our waking dreams. and now, more innocent lives lost, due in no doubt to our wretched infrastructure. past the first dawn of the 21st century and we still struggle with the very basics of modernity, and we ignore the value of the lives that could've, would've transformed our nation, now dead, soon forgotten.
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