Thursday, October 2, 2014

Turkey authorizes strikes on ISIS - (Source CNN news)

2/10/2014
The Turkish parliament voted to authorize military force against ISIS fighters in Syria.

Hong Kong - 'I will not resign' says Hong Kong's Chief Executive CY Leung - (Source - BBC News)

2/10/2014
Hong Kong's Chief Executive CY Leung insists he will not resign, but offers talks to pro-democracy protesters calling on him to step down.

UK - Police Investigate Madeleine McCann Family Online Abuse - (Source - Sky News)

2/10/2014
Sky News can reveal that the Metropolitan Police is investigating a catalogue of vile internet abuse targeting the family of Madeleine McCann, including death threats. Full story: http://news.sky.com/story/1345871/mcc...

Middle East's new era of militarisation - (Source Al Jazeera English)

2/10/2014
Across the region, the number of armed groups are on the rise. Sami Zeidan speaks to Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya; Pieter Wezeman, senior researcher of the SIPRI Arms and Military Expenditure Programme; Rami Khouri - director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.