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“Let the Headlines Speak”
by From the internet
August 16th, 2014

Ukraine crisis: Rebel leader says Russian arms on way
A rebel leader in eastern Ukraine has said a convoy of military hardware is on its way to the region from Russia. Alexander Zakharchenko, self-proclaimed PM of the Donetsk rebel area, said 150 vehicles and 1,200 personnel were approaching their border. Russia has denied claims by Ukraine and Western reporters that military aid to the rebels is crossing over.

Ebola crisis to last 'at least six months' - MSF
The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa will take at least six months to bring under control, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says. Speaking in Geneva, MSF President Joanne Liu said the situation was "deteriorating faster, and moving faster, than we can respond to". Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the scale of the outbreak appeared to be "vastly underestimated".

Hamas threatens 'war of attrition'
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan stated that the terms proposed in negotiations in Egypt thus far have been inadequate, reported Israel Radio on Saturday, and that the Palestinian people are ready for a "long war of attrition." In Lebanon a Islamic Jihad official said that the Palestinians would rather return from Egypt without a truce than sign a "disgraceful" agreement.

Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei weighs in on Twitter about Michael Brown shooting
Talk about the pot calling the kettle racist. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is using the mayhem in Missouri, which erupted after an unarmed black teen was killed by a cop, as an excuse to slam the U.S. “Racial discrimination's still a dilemma in US,” he tweeted Friday. “Still ppl are unsecure for having dark skins. The way police treat them confirms it.”

Hezbollah leader Nasrallah sees Islamic State as growing 'monster'
The Hezbollah leader described the radical Islamist movement that has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria as a growing "monster" that could threaten Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf states, according to an interview printed on Friday.

Devil in the detail as Yazidis look to Kurds in withstanding Islamic radicals’ advance
Whether you approach it from the west, across the dry steppe of northern Iraq, or from the east, through the bare mountains of Kurdistan, Lalish shocks you with its sudden lush beauty.

Security Council resolution sanctions against Islamist groups in Iraq, Syria
The UN Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution on sanctions against extremist Islamist groups in Iraq and Syria, in an attempt to cut off funding to these groups.

Purported letter from inside Gaza tells of tunnel toil, Hamas cruelty
An emotional letter purportedly smuggled out of Gaza details one man’s harrowing participation in digging the tunnels that Israel blames for triggering the latest round of fighting and paints a bleak picture of life under Hamas control. The 30-year-old Palestinian to whom the letter is attributed describes accepting a cryptic job offer, then being taken in a windowless truck with five others to a building where they were forced to dig tunnels for long, gruelling shifts in stretches that lasted 10 days.

Iraq crisis: Yazidi villagers 'massacred' by IS
Militants in northern Iraq have massacred at least 80 men from the Yazidi faith in a village and abducted women and children, reports say. Islamic State (IS) fighters entered Kocho, 45km (30 miles) from Sinjar, on Friday afternoon, reportedly telling men to convert to Islam or die.

Europe is in an epic depression — and it's getting worse
Economic growth in Europe came in at zero in the second quarter of 2014. That's better than being in recession. But it's not the growth that Europe — with its huge unemployment rate of 12 percent, or roughly 19,130,000 people out of work — needs.

Tensions soar as Ukraine says destroys Russian armour
Ukraine said on Friday it had destroyed part of a Russian armoured column that entered onto its territory in an incursion that has sent cross-border tensions rocketing.

Hacking Team is spreading government malware through YouTube and Microsoft Live
You don't have to click on a sketchy link to end up downloading malware. A new report from Citizen Lab's Morgan Marquis-Boire shows how companies can spread targeted malware by intercepting web traffic en route, sending malicious traffic from an otherwise friendly link. A company called Hacking Team has been using the tactics on traffic from YouTube and Microsoft's login.live.com servers, seeding innocent videos with surveillance software designed to track the target's activities online.

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