UK Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann : Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza

Fierce Street Battles In Egypt As Families Demand Justice for Loved Ones Killed During the Uprising

In Egypt, nearly 600 people have been reported injured in Cairo’s Tahrir Square after security forces attacked a large group of protesters overnight with tear gas and rubber bullets. Tensions erupted over the lack of accountability and justice for the nearly 1,000 people people killed during the 18-day popular uprising that led to the fall of former president, Hosni Mubarak. Many of those attacked on in the ongoing clashes are family members of protesters killed during the uprising. We speak with Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous who reports from Cairo.

Bin Laden videos fail to prove US claims

Videos released by the Pentagon to allay uncertainty about circumstances of Osama bin Laden's death, fails to support US claim that the al-Qaeda leader was killed in Pakistan last week.

US President Barack Obama claimed that bin Laden was killed by US forces on May 1 in a hiding compound in Pakistan, resisting while unarmed.

Washington claims that during US raid last Monday, five videos were seized at the secret compound in Pakistan where bin Laden was hiding.

On Saturday the Pentagon released some of the videos in an attempt to quell doubts about bin Landen's death.

In the first home videos reportedly filmed in October or November 2010, bin Laden who is wearing a white skullcap and white robes, speaks to the camera in the style of his previous video messages.

There is no audio on the film, but Pentagon officials claim it was a message to the US.

In another video, bin Laden is seen watching a program about himself on Arabic language television.

There are no indications in the videos to prove that they were filmed in the secret compound where bin Laden was killed. The footages also fail to prove that the notorious al-Qaeda leader was alive until May 1.

Following Obama's announcement, a US official said that bin Laden's body was abruptly buried at sea, falsely boasting that his hasty burial was in accordance with the Islamic law, requiring burial within 24 hours of death.

However, burial at sea is not an Islamic practice and Islam does not specify a timeframe for burial.

US officials also claimed that their decision to give bin Laden a sea burial was made because no country would accept his remains, without elaborating on which countries were actually contacted on the matter.

Analysts, however, have raised serious questions as to why US officials did not allow for the application of a DNA test to officially confirm the identity of the corpse before the quick sea burial. Although officials claimed that DNA obtained from the body confirmed that he was actually Osama bin Laden.

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Inside Story - Who is winning the Libyan conflict?

In recent days, rebel groups have been hit hard by pro-Gaddafi forces. The situation on the ground remains uncertain, but latest reports suggest those loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, the Libya leader, have recaptured Azzawiya - 30 km to the west of Tripoli. The frontline is now moving towards the east. Just who is winning this conflict? And are hopes that the Libyan leader would be ousted proving premature?

Armed men shoot up Mexican party At least 50 people have been killed in Mexican drug violence this weekend alone

Suspected drug gang hitmen armed with machine guns stormed a private party in the northern Mexican city of Torreon, killing at least 17 people in one of the deadliest attacks in Mexico's drug war, police have said.

Five vehicles were driven up to the party in a walled patio and garden on the outskirts of the city in Coahuila state, before the armed men smashed down the door and opened fire on party-goers, the state prosecutors' office said.

A source with the state police department said witnesses reported hearing assailants shout "kill them all" before they opened fire on Sunday.

The prosecutors' office said 18 people were injured in the attack.

Authorities said they found more than 100 bullet casings fired from automatic weapons following the massacre.

'Shot everything that moved'

An official with the state prosecutor's office said the armed men "came in, opened fire and shot against everything that moved".
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They escaped and no arrests have been made, the prosecutors office said in a statement.

Sunday's attack brings the number of shooting victims in Mexico over the weekend to at least 50.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible for Sunday's attack, but the area is a key transit point for drugs heading into the US and the scene of a showdown between the Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin 'shorty' Guzman, Mexico's most wanted man, and the Zetas gang from the country's northeast.

On Saturday, suspected cartels detonated a car bomb that killed at least four people, the first attack of its kind in Mexico's drug war, in Ciudad Juarez, another northern border city.

El Diario, a newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, said that officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other US agencies are investigating the bombing. US and Mexican officials would not comment on the allegations.

More than 26,000 people have been killed in drug violence in Mexico, mostly in the north, since Felipe Calderon, the president, took office and initiated a crackdown on drug cartels in 2006. Source


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Israel: Aid ship shooting justified - Video

Israel: Aid ship shooting justified

The Israeli military has released its report into the deadly raid on the Gaza aid flotilla on May 31, which killed nine people. The 100-page document criticises the Israeli navy for "serious errors" in preparing and carrying out the assault at sea. But when it came to the conduct of Israeli soldiers during the raid, the report found no wrongdoing and instead, praised officers who took part in it.