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March 22nd, 2016 
Awake Goy Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations says talks about the future of President Bashar al-Assad do not deserve to be responded to.
Bashar Ja’afari, who also heads the government’s delegation to negotiations that are aimed at finding a solution to the ongoing Syria crisis, was talking to reporters in the Swiss city of Geneva at the start of a second week of talks with UN mediator, Staffan de Mistura, on Monday.
“President Assad has nothing to do with the Syria-Syria talks,” he said, adding that the “talks do not give any indication whatsoever with regard to the issue” of President Assad.
“This is something already excluded,” said Ja’afari, noting that little progress has been in the latest round of the talks.
Criticizing the slow pace of the negotiations, the top Syrian negotiator stressed that the armed groups operating in Syria, “remain terrorists,” regardless of their names.
Ja’afari emphasized that so far, the other party to the Syria talks has not shown any serious resolve to help with the progress of the negotiations.
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Published time: 21 Mar, 2016 14:04
A pilot of the Russian Airspace Forces gets aboard a Su-24 strike bomber at the Hmeimim airbase in the Latakia Governorate of Syria. © Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik
President Vladimir Putin ordered the withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria, but the Khmeimim and Tartus bases are to stay, properly protected, the president’s spokesman said commenting on Startfor’s analysis of the Russian task force remaining in Syria.
“I just want to remind that the president has taken the decision to pull our contingent out, but to keep the temporary bases in Khmeimim and Tartus and maintain their security,” Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said, stressing that questions about it should be addressed to the Ministry of Defense.
Speaking to veterans of the Syrian campaign, who came to the Kremlin to be decorated with orders and medals for their service, President Putin said personnel still stationed at Khmeimim and Tartus bases will continue serving “effectively secured from the sea, land and air.”
“All components of the air defense, including short range Pantzir-F systems and long range S-400 Triumph systems will be on permanent alert,” the president said.
“All of our partners have been warned and informed: our air defenses will engage any targets we consider endangering Russian servicemen. I want to stress that – any targets,” Putin said.
Last Friday, global intelligence think tank Stratfor published analysis based on commercial satellite imagery provided by the Digital Globe (DG) taken on March 17, which exposed the presence of a considerable number of warplanes and attack helicopters remaining at Khmeimim airbase in Latakia province.
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Published time: 21 Mar, 2016 12:57
U.S. Marines, Iraq © Gunnery Sgt. Mark Oliva / Reuters
Iran-backed Shiite militia forces in Iraq have strongly opposed new US troops deployed in the country. The militias warned that if Washington does not withdraw its forces “immediately,” they will deal with them “as forces of occupation.”
The US military are “making a new suspicious attempt to restore their presence in the country under the pretext of fighting their own creation, Daesh [acronym for Islamic State, IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL],” the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia said on its TV channel, al-Ahd on Monday, as quoted by Reuters.
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15 months after agreeing to end five decades of Cold War-era animosity and work to normalize relations, the American president visits Palace of the Revolution in Havana, which would’ve been unthinkable before Obama and Castro’s rapprochement in December 2014. HAVANA – US President Barack Obama was received by Cuban President Raul Castro in Havana on Monday at the start of historic talks where the US leader will press his counterpart for economic and democratic reforms while hearing complaints about US sanctions.
Obama arrived in Cuba on Sunday on a trip that comes 15 months after he and Castro agreed to end five decades of Cold War-era animosity and work to normalize relations. On the first full day of his visit, he went to the heart of Cuba’s Communist system, laying a wreath in Revolution Square at the memorial to independence hero Jose Marti. He moved on to the the nearby Palace of the Revolution, where Castro and his predecessor, older brother Fidel Castro, have led Cuba’s resistance to US pressure going back decades.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — An extraordinary series of developments are bringing new hope — and new heartbreak — to the family and colleagues of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine federal prosecutor who was found dead last year just days after accusing then-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of this city’s AMIA Jewish center.
Fourteen months after Nisman was found dead in his apartment with a single bullet in the head, no autopsy results have been released and no official cause of death has been determined.
But on Feb. 29, Antonio “Jaime” Stiuso, Argentina’s former head of intelligence operations, who has been living in exile in the United States for the past year, delivered bombshell testimony here, accusing Kirchner of ordering a hit on Nisman and seeking to portray his death as a suicide.
“They killed Nisman because of the work he was doing,” Stiuso said in testimony lasting 17 uninterrupted hours, according to numerous media reports.
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(JTA) — The Israeli government is partnering with a group that brings Jewish women on trips to Israel, dubbed “Birthright for Jewish Moms,” to bring more women from Jewish communities facing increased threats of anti-Semitism and economic hardship.
The Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project, or JWRP, and Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs announced the $12.5 million expansion of the program on Sunday at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington. The Israeli government will provide $5.1 million and the JWRP will fundraise the rest.
The initiative is expected to bring an additional 5,600 women from 26 countries on the highly subsidized nine-day trips to Israel. Among the countries singled out for increased anti-Semitic threats and economic hardship are Argentina, Cuba, the former Soviet Union, France, the United States and Canada.
“This historic agreement allows us to continue to build a global movement united in the mission of empowering women to change the world through Jewish values,” Lori Palatnik, founding director of the JWRP, said in a statement.
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(JTA) — American Democrats living abroad — including in Israel — overwhelmingly preferred Sen. Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in a primary for expatriates.
Democrats Abroad, the official Democratic Party arm for American expats, announced Monday that Sanders, I-Vt., received 69 percent of the vote in its primary to 31 percent for Clinton, the former secretary of state and U.S. senator. As a result, Sanders picked up nine pledged delegates, while Clinton earned four delegates.
The 34,570 voters participating in the primary — conducted by fax, email and postal mail — live in more than 170 countries around the world.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greeting attendees prior to her address to the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., March 21, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference on Monday morning. Here are the most interesting nuggets from her speech.
On being America’s first female president: “Some of us remember a woman, Golda Meir, leading Israel’s government decades ago and wonder: What’s taking us so long here in America?”
On Yitzhak Rabin’s smoking habit: “Since my first visit to Israel 35 years ago, I have returned many times and made many friends. I have worked with and learned from some of Israel’s great leaders — although I don’t think Yitzhak Rabin ever forgave me for banishing him to the White House balcony when he wanted to smoke.”
Clinton will invite Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House: “We will never allow Israel’s adversaries to think a wedge can be driven between us. As we have differences, as any friends do, we will work to resolve them quickly and respectfully … One of the first things I’ll do in office is invite the Israeli prime minister to visit the White House.”
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Anti-Israel students at Columbia University erected a mock “apartheid wall” in front of the iconic Low Library steps during Israel Apartheid Week, March 3, 2016. (Uriel Heilman)
235 Columbia faculty members sign letter in support of ties with Israel
(JTA) — More than 200 Columbia University faculty members have signed a petition supporting the university’s ties with Israel and opposing divestment from companies that do business with the Jewish state.
The letter, which was posted online Sunday, is signed by some 235 professors and other faculty members. It comes in the wake of the establishment of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which is calling on the university to “divest from corporations that supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people,” according to the student newspaper, the Spectator.
Arab League blocks bid for Kurdish federal region in Syria
The Arab League has rejected the “separatist” Kurdish push for a federal government system in Syria, citing the risks it poses to the territorial integrity of the conflict-ridden country.
Ahmed Ben Helli, the deputy secretary of the pan-Arab bloc, said Monday that the Cairo-based organization does not recognize last week’s proclamation of a Kurdish region inside Syria.
On Thursday, Syrian Kurdish groups, along with their Arab and Assyrian Christian allies, declared a federal region in the country’s Kurdish-dominated north.
“The Arab League rejects such separatist calls that harm the unity of Syria,” Ben Helli told reporters, highlighting Syria’s unity as a “fundamental principle” of the Arab League.
The move was also denounced by the Damascus government, as well as the Saudi-backed Syrian opposition groups, aka the High Negotiations Committee, which took part in the latest round of UN-brokered peace negotiations in Geneva.
The US has also made it clear that it will not recognize any autonomous region set up by the Kurds and their allies under the federation, asserting that Syria’s future government will be negotiated in the UN talks.
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Published time: 21 Mar, 2016 12:18
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A suicide bomber has detonated a hand grenade inside a bakery in Belgrade, Serbia, the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has confirmed. Ambulance crews and police are at the scene.
“An unknown man was killed today at around 12:38 p.m. (11:38 GMT) on Ilije Garasanina Street after he activated an explosive device in a cake shop,” a police statement said.
“Interior ministry officials are probing all the facts and circumstances of the event,” the statement continued.
The man reportedly entered the pastry shop, chased everyone out, and then detonated the device, RTS reports.
The suicide bomber was killed and one other person was injured, according to Serbia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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Published time: 21 Mar, 2016 10:17
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Isa Mustafa © Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
Kosovo’s prime minister concedes his brother joined the wave of asylum seekers in the EU in 2015. Contrary to the expectations of 1.8 million Kosovars, the Serbian province remains one of the poorest entities in Europe.
PM Isa Mustafa said on Facebook that his brother Ragip and his children had tried to escape a doubtful future in Kosovo, which declared unilateral independence in 2008, and joined other Kosovars that infiltrated Europe through the so-called Balkan corridor. It was earlier reported by the Pristina-based Insajderi media outlet.
“I read that my brother was an asylum seeker to get medical help. This is true,” Mustafa’s Facebook page entry read.
According to Insajderi, Mustafa’s brother with the family managed to get into the EU via Serbia and Hungary before Budapest ordered the border with Serbia be sealed. Initially attempting to apply for asylum in France, Ragip Mustafa made another application in Germany in June 2015, Insajderi reported.
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