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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Putin is holding meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry
SOCHI, May 12. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the Bocharov Ruchei residence.
This is Putin’s first meeting with a senior US official since the cooling of relations over the Ukrainian crisis.
Kerry arrived at Bocharov Ruchei after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Presidential press-secretary Dmitry Peskov earlier said the diplomats would brief Putin on the results of their contacts.
Peskov said the Kremlin had welcomed Kerry’s decision to visit Russia, because that would contribute to the dialogue and to progress towards the normalization of relations and tight coordination in international issues.
"It is very positive the US Secretary of State made a decision to hold contacts with his Russian counterpart," he said. "This is a positive development in itself, because we have stated more than once at various levels (the president said this, too) that Russia has never been the initiator of a cool-off in relations. We have always remained open to manifestations of political will to have a wider dialogue.".
Iran - Student activist released from prison after 5 years
Posted on: 11th May, 2015
HRANA News Agency – Majid Tavakoli, well-known student activist was released from Rajaei Shahr prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Majid Tavakoli, was released from Rajaei Shahr prison, after nearly 5 and half years, on May 10.
This student activist was given a three-day-furlough on April 20. Despite the reports which suggested that the furlough would be joint to ultimate freedom, he had to go back to the prison.
Majid Tavakoli is the former member of Central Council of Islamic Association of Amir Kabir University of Technology Students, who was arrested after being beaten, on December 9, 2009 after giving a speech among the students.
He was charged with collusion against the regime, propaganda against the regime, insulting the supreme leader and insulting the president on branch number 15 of the revolutionary court and sentenced to 8 years in prison, 5 years deprivation from political activities and five years deprivation from leaving the country.
He was sentenced to another 6 months in prison during his imprisonment by judge Moghiseh on charge of propaganda against the regime, for a letter that he had publicized from inside the prison for commemoration of students’ day.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Suspects in smuggling explosives to Saudi Arabia had Iranian connections
Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry announced on May 9 that a vehicle entering that country from Bahrain was smuggling in explosives that were promptly confiscated.
Al-Arabiya Al-Hadath website based in Dubai reported on May 11 that the vehicle was entering Saudi Arabia via the King Fahd Bridge that connects the two countries. Saudi customs detected the explosives and arrested the culprits. The vehicle was a Ford Fusion and it was carrying more than 30 kilograms of RDX, a highly explosive material, under its back seat. There were also 25 explosive capsules with 6 meter long wicks ready to use.
In a successful cooperation between the two countries, Bahrain arrested five suspects in this plot. Asharq al-Awsat reported on May 10 that Bahrain’s Interior Ministry arrested the suspects once they were identified.
Major General Tareq al-Hassan, Bahraini Chief of Public Security Department explained that in the search conducted on the houses of the arrestees, material suspicious of being explosive, mobile phones, laptops, digital equipment and cameras, contacts with Iran, as well as Saudi, Jordanian and Iranian currencies, were confiscated.
Saudi Arabia has been leading a coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen. Iranian mullahs have repeatedly threatened the Saudis for their initiative in Yemen. An Iranian official had threatened that if explosions take place in the capitals of countries supporting the Decisive Storm Operation, these countries would abandon their support for the war in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia has been leading a coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen. Iranian mullahs have repeatedly threatened the Saudis for their initiative in Yemen. An Iranian official had threatened that if explosions take place in the capitals of countries supporting the Decisive Storm Operation, these countries would abandon their support for the war in Yemen.
Iranian regime is the prime sponsor of global terrorism.
Two Babies Die, 37 Others Sickened by Vaccines in Southern Mexico
MEXICO CITY – Two babies from rural communities died and 37 others were hospitalized in the southern state of Chiapas after having an allergic reaction to vaccinations administered by Mexican Social Security Institute, or IMSS, personnel, state officials said.
“The Chiapas Health Secretariat is treating 37 children in the town of La Pimienta, outside the city of Simojovel, after they experienced allergic reactions to a vaccine supposedly administered by IMSS health personnel,” state health officials said.
A total of “14 children are in serious condition, 22 are stable and one is in critical condition,” the Chiapas Health Secretariat said in a statement.
“Two children age 1 died,” the secretariat said.
Of the 14 babies listed in serious condition, six were transported early Saturday to a medical center in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of Chiapas, the secretariat said.
The IMSS, for its part, said in a statement that 31 children had reactions “presumably association with the administration of these vaccines” on Friday.
Two children died and 29 others remain hospitalized, the IMSS said.
A total of 52 children received the BCG (tuberculosis), rotavirus and hepatitis B vaccines at the hospital in Simojovel as part of the National Vaccination Program, the IMSS said.
Both the Chiapas Health Secretariat and the IMSS are conducting investigations to identify the cause of the allergic reactions that the babies experienced.
The National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, also said in a statement released Saturday that it was opening an investigation to determine what caused the babies’ deaths.
“Until the investigations are completed, administration of these vaccines has been suspended at the national level as a preventative measure,” the IMSS said.
Two " medicine men killed " of the Colombian Amazon
BOGOTA – Two practitioners of traditional medicine in Embera-Chami, a community in the central Colombian province of Caldas, were murdered, the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon, or Opiac, said on Sunday.
Gustavo Bañol Rodriguez and his son, Edwin Bañol Alvarez, were gunned down on Saturday in a rural area outside Anserma, a city about 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Manizales, the capital of Caldas, the Opiac said in a statement.
Bañol Rodriguez, a practitioner of traditional medicine, and his son, who was learning to be a healer, were returning home after taking part in a ceremony with one of the families in their community.
The victims were the father and brother of Norman David Bañol Alvarez, the governor of San Lorenzo, an Indian reservation that is home to about 11,500 people.
The community has asked officials to step up security in the area and investigate the killings.
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Iran - Another mother " arrested for sympathy ", What the heck ?
Posted on: 9th May, 2015
HRANA News Agency – Neda Mostaghimi was arrested in order to serve her three-years-in prison sentence.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Neda Mostaghimi, a supporter of Madaran-e-Park-e-Laleh (Mothers of Laleh Park), was arrested in her workplace by security forces on Monday, May 4.
It is said that Ms. Mostaghimi’s arrest is because of her three years in prison sentence, which was issued in December 2010.
According to a close source, Ms. Mostaghimi was a supporter of Madaran-e-Park-e-Laleh, and her charges were related to acts in support and sympathy with the families of political prisoners and victims of green movement.
Ms. Mostaghimi has not had any contact to her family yet and her whereabouts is not known.
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