Topic: POLITIK - on March 9, 2011 at 1:14:00 PM CET
One is suggested to be Vienna, the other is supposed to be Athens in Greece, and the other is Cairo, Egypt - Gaddafi jets take off from Tripoli
Al Jazeera is getting reports that three of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's private planes have taken off from a military airstrip near Tripoli.
Karl Stango-Navarra, a journalist based in Valletta, Malta, told Al Jazeera that the three jets are flying in three different directions.
"One is suggested to be Vienna, the other is supposed to be Athens in Greece, and the other is Cairo, Egypt," Stango-Navarra said.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 5, 2011 at 10:53:00 AM CET
China: Volkskongress als Club der Milliardäre - 70 Abgeordnete besitzen 75 Mrd. Dollar
Vor dem Hintergrund von Aufrufen zu neuen Protesten in China hat Regierungschef Wen einen verstärkten Kampf gegen soziale Ungerechtigkeit versprochen. Bei der diesjährigen Tagung des Nationalen Volkskongresses, die am Samstag in Peking begonnen hat, will die zweitgrößte Volkswirtschaft der Welt eine neue Wirtschaftspolitik beschließen. Doch während das Volk die starken Preissteigerungen bei Nahrungsmitteln und überteuerte Wohnungen in Umfragen als Hauptsorgen nennt, zeigt sich der Volkskongress als wahrer Club der Milliardäre: Alleine die 70 reichsten Abgeordneten verfügen über 75 Milliarden US-Dollar.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 8:34:00 PM CET
Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S. [UPDATED]
Al Jazeera English has launched a campaign to persuade cable providers to carry the network by bombarding the companies with requests from AJE converts and longtime fans.
WASHINGTON - Canadian television viewers looking for the most thorough and in-depth coverage of the uprising in Egypt have the option of tuning into Al Jazeera English, whose on-the-ground coverage of the turmoil is unmatched by any other outlet. American viewers, meanwhile, have little choice but to wait until one of the U.S. cable-company-approved networks broadcasts footage from AJE, which the company makes publicly available. What they can't do is watch the network directly.
Other than in a handful of pockets across the U.S. - including Ohio, Vermont and Washington, D.C. - cable carriers do not give viewers the choice of watching Al Jazeera. That corporate censorship comes as American diplomats harshly criticize the Egyptian government for blocking Internet communication inside the country and as Egypt attempts to block Al Jazeera from broadcasting.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 6:30:00 PM CET
"Interpol issued "RED notice" for (Julian) Assange...but issues lower "ORANGE notice" for Ghadafhi"
Interpol has issued an alert, called an "orange notice," for Gadhafi as well as 15 other Libyans, including some family members and other associates.
So what does this mean?
Interpol issues seven different kinds of notices: red, black, yellow, blue, green and orange, plus a "United Nations special notice." Each notice has a different objective. The orange notice, which is relevant to Gadhafi, is intended "[t]o warn police, public entities and other international organizations about potential threats from disguised weapons, parcel bombs and other dangerous materials."
washingtonpost.com aolnews.com interpol.int/Public/ICPO/FactSheets [pdf] truth-out.org [08 March 2011]
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 6:08:00 PM CET
Oil Price : Brent Crude $114.79/Barrel - WTI Crude: $103.68/Barrel
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 3:01:00 PM CET
UPDATE 3-Austria orders freeze on Libya money manager assets
* Wealth fund deputy head Zarti added to blacklist
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Friend of Gaddafi's son, holds Austrian passport
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Authorities to question Zarti on Friday
(Adds interior ministry comments, Zarti on radio)
VIENNA, March 4 (Reuters) - Austria widened an asset freeze list on Friday to include a top official at the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) and said it would question him about possible links to Muammar Gaddafi's inner circle.
The move against LIA deputy chief Mustafa Zarti, who has an Austrian passport, follows international sanctions on Gaddafi's family and associates.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 10:59:00 AM CET
Oil prices rise again on further Libyan fighting
Oil prices rose more than a dollar this morning as fighting in Libya intensified.
Brent crude climbed as high as $116.20 a barrel, up over 1%, amid fears that the crisis could spread from North Africa to oil-rich countries in the Gulf. A Libyan warplane dropped bombs just beyond the walls of a military base held by rebels in the eastern town of Ajdabiyah but did not hit it, Reuters reported.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 9:30:00 AM CET
Elfenbeinküste: Sorge vor neuem Bürgerkrieg
Der UNO-Sicherheitsrat hat seine Besorgnis über ein „Wiederaufflammen des Bürgerkriegs“ in der Elfenbeinküste geäußert. Das Gremium verurteilte gestern „Drohungen, Zerstörungen und sinnlose Gewalt“ und rief alle Parteien zur Zurückhaltung auf.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 9:26:00 AM CET
Ivory Coast president cuts off power and water to north
Millions of people in rebel-controlled region left without vital supplies as country moves towards civil war
The Ivory Coast president, Laurent Gbagbo, has cut off electricity and water supplies to millions of people in the north of the country "for political reasons", the UN has said.
The national power company reported that armed men entered its buildings on Monday night and ordered the shutdown, the latest step in an increasingly violent move towards civil war.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 3, 2011 at 3:24:00 PM CET
Hillary Clinton declares international information war
The US is losing the global information war, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared while appearing before a congressional committee to ask for extra funds to spread US propaganda through new media.
Clinton said existing private channels are not good enough to handle the job, naming as rivals Al Jazeera, China's CCTV and RT – which she watches, she added.
Clinton was defending her department’s budget in front of the House’s Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.
Clinton said the US should step up its propaganda effort and get back “in the game” of doing “what we do best.”
“During the Cold War we did a great job in getting America’s message out. After the Berlin Wall fell we said, ‘Okay, fine, enough of that, we are done,’ and unfortunately we are paying a big price for it,” she said. “Our private media cannot fill that gap.”
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 3, 2011 at 8:12:00 AM CET
RT - US will try to assasinate Gaddafi
To discuss the possible military intervention in Libya RT talks to Dr. Franklin Lamb who's the director of Americans for Middle East Peace.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 3, 2011 at 8:05:00 AM CET
Chavez, Gadhafi discuss mediation team for Libya
Venezuela's president has spoken with embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi about a proposal to bring an international mediation team to Libya, Venezuela's information minister confirmed Wednesday.
The two leaders conversed Tuesday, Minister Andrez Izarra said in a post on his Twitter account.
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