Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to France 2 TV. [2015]

Following is the full text;

Question 1: Good evening, Mr. President, I’d like to start straight forward. For most French, you are in a very large part responsible for the chaos going on in Syria, because of the brutality of the repression during the last four years. According to you, what is your part of responsibility?

Ancient Javanese mythology, often inherited from India and adapted to fit local culture, is rich with striking characters in the wayang kulit shadow puppet theatre. The fat-gut wise clown Semar is charged with maintaining stability.

Duncan Graham

This mirrors Anthony Albanese’s zip-in-and-out visit to Jakarta. The prime minister came with the doctrine, made famous by Paul Keating in 1994, to tell President Prabowo Subianto that “there is no country more important to Australia than Indonesia".  

MOSCOW, May 16 (Sputnik) - Russian troops took control of the village of Volnoye Pole in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

"Units of the Vostok group of forces continued to advance into the depth of the enemy's defenses and took control of the village of Volnoe Pole in the Donetsk People's Republic," the statement said.

Russia's Tsentr group of forces has eliminated more than 3,040 Ukrainian soldiers over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

"The enemy's losses amounted to over 3,040 servicepeople, 26 armored combat vehicles, 66 vehicles and 14 field artillery guns," the ministry said in a statement.

MOSCOW, May 16 (Sputnik) - Russian troops took control of the village of Volnoye Pole in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

"Units of the Vostok group of forces continued to advance into the depth of the enemy's defenses and took control of the village of Volnoe Pole in the Donetsk People's Republic," the statement said.

Russia's Tsentr group of forces has eliminated more than 3,040 Ukrainian soldiers over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

"The enemy's losses amounted to over 3,040 servicepeople, 26 armored combat vehicles, 66 vehicles and 14 field artillery guns," the ministry said in a statement.

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This video is a fictionalized political drama inspired by real events and the revolutionary spirit of Africa. It imagines what a courageous African leader might say to one of the most powerful religious figures in the world.

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

During the 1988 campaign, George W. Bush came to the Courthouse in Maryville, TN to speak at a rally for his Dad. As we were leaving, I told my friend and later Chief of Staff, Bob Griffitts, “Bob, he is better than his Dad.”

When he ran for President in 2000, then Governor Bush went all over the Country saying we needed a more humble foreign policy, and according to Foreign Policy Magazine, he “famously campaigned against nation building.”

by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr.

At 4am on Wednesday, May 7, a delegation of Chinese embassy officials, roused from their sleep, arrived at the Pakistani foreign ministry headquarters in Islamabad for an upbeat military update, according to Pakistan’s top diplomat.

The public’s indifference to what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip is not just the result of a lack of care, but the result of the war Israel is waging against the possibility of knowing.

Israel is hiding images of the destruction, of wounded children, of dead women, the scale of the carnage, the hunger, disease, the state of the hospitals and the extent of the  humanitarian disaster in Gaza.

Haaretz Editorial

Citizens of Russia, friends,

I consider it necessary today to speak again about the tragic events in Donbass and the key aspects of ensuring the security of Russia.

I will begin with what I said in my address on February 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries, and about the fundamental threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from year to year. I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border.

Donald Trump is hitting the pharmaceutical sector hard! While markets are celebrating the trade truce with China, the American president announces a shock decree aimed at reducing drug prices in the United States by up to 59%. This measure, which would align American prices with the lowest in the world, is causing a stock market earthquake: Sanofi is down 2%, while some Asian laboratories are plummeting by 11%. Americans currently pay 2.5 times more for their treatments than the French. This revolution directly threatens the economic model of the global pharmaceutical industry.

A few weeks before his death in November 1947, German author and playwright Wolfgang Borchert wrote his now famous text “Then there is only one thing to do!”. In the form of a manifesto, he appealed to his fellow human beings all over the world (and especially in Germany) to refuse to participate in future wars (“Say NO!”). He sensed that politics and governments cannot be trusted and that citizens must be highly vigilant – and must not forget.

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John Kiriakou, Louis Wolf, Dan Kovalic, Chris Agee, and Jeremy Kuzmarov.

Larissa Waters is the new leader of the federal Greens, taking the helm after a somewhat disappointing May election result that reduced the minor party’s lower house share from four MPs to one, and saw former leader Adam Bandt unexpectedly lose his seat of Melbourne to Labor.

The Queensland senator was chosen for the job by consensus on Thursday against upper house colleagues, South Australia’s Sarah Hanson-Young and NSW’s Mehreen Faruqi.

Qatar signed a deal to purchase 160 airplanes from US company Boeing worth $200 billion (€178 billion).

US President Donald Trump has arrived in the Qatari capital, Doha, on his second stop during his Gulf tour.

He was met at the airport by Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who gave him a red-carpet welcome.

Trump's visit comes amid some controversy at home over Qatar's offer of a $400 million (€356 million) luxury Boeing jumbo jet to serve as a new Air Force One and then pass into his personal use.