Thursday 28 May 2015

World news headlines - 05/27/2015



The US Navy is planning to conduct wargame exercises in Alaska for the next five years which will involve “heavy bombing”, causing huge disruption to wildlife.

Residents fears that the land will become polluted with 350,000 pounds of spent munitions and fish will die off due to contamination of the sea.

None, that is, except their own


US won't accept idea of global ‘spheres of influence’ – Biden

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.(Reuters / Yuri Gripas)

The US rejects the idea of any nation claiming a sphere of influence, Vice President Joe Biden told a Washington think tank, arguing that the crisis in Ukraine was about the principles and values of the West and international order.


"We will not recognize any nation having a sphere of influence,” the vice president said during a speech at the Brookings Institution on Wednesday. It remained unclear whether the remark applied to US influence around the globe, or referred only to Russia, China and other countries.

Raise would bring annual military funding to $4.5 billion; US, Israeli officials in talks for 10-year deal



President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged the Senate to renew National Security Agency surveillance powers before they expire at midnight Sunday, as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul vowed to keep working to block the Patriot Act and the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records.

This needs to get done,” Obama told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

Ancient ruins are not statues and so will be spared, Isis commander reportedly tells radio station amid new humanitarian crisis in the area


Following the official opening of parliament by Queen Elizabeth, thousands of protesters are gathering in Westminster to oppose further austerity and plans to repeal the Human Rights Act. There may be strong language in this video



As Julian Assange Faces Swedish Legal Setback, New Details Come to Light on U.S. Case Against Him





WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spent nearly three years inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has political asylum. Assange faces investigations in both Sweden and the United States. A secret grand jury in Virginia is investigating WikiLeaks for its role in publishing a trove of leaked documents about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as State Department cables. In Sweden, he’s wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual misconduct, though no charges have been filed. Earlier this month, Sweden’s Supreme Court rejected his appeal to lift his arrest warrant. Swedish prosecutors are reportedly preparing to travel to London to interview Assange, after refusing to do so for years.



Calling it a global existential threat, Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has urged supporters to join the fight against the Islamic State, confirming that his Shiite militant group has been fighting the Sunni extremists all across Syria.


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