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New Zealand has been spying electronically on its Pacific Island neighbors and Indonesia and sharing the intelligence with its international allies, according to documents released on Thursday.
The documents, released by former U.S. National Security Authority contractor Edward Snowden and dating back to 2009, said New Zealand's electronic spy agency had intercepted emails, mobile and fixed line phone calls, social media messages and other communications in small Pacific states including Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and French Polynesia.
Snowden Documents: New Zealand Spying On Pacific Neighbors And Indonesia
US ambassador to South Korea attacked
US ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert has been injured by an attacker in Seoul, local media report. They say the attack happened as Mr Lippert, 42, was about to attend a meeting in the capital.
YTN news channel posted a photo, showing the envoy after the assault with his left hand smeared with blood.
Mr Lippert was reportedly taken to hospital. The attacker - whose identity was not immediately known - is believed to have been arrested.
Zionist Group's Vote Could Bare Israel's Secret Funding of Settlements
It’s an unwritten arrangement Diaspora Jewish leaders and Israel have kept for decades — though few Jews know about it: The government of Israel uses one of world Jewry’s main Zionist funding instruments to hide money that it channels secretly to exclusively Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The funding body is the World Zionist Organization, set up to represent all Jews who support the concept of a Jewish state. For more than a century, the WZO, founded by Theodor Herzl at the first Zionist Congress, has served to gather the Zionist movement’s members under one nonpartisan umbrella.
Slovenian lawmakers approve same-sex marriage, adoption
Slovenian lawmakers have approved same-sex marriage and child adoption by gay couples amid opposition from conservative groups and the Catholic Church.
Parliament voted 51:28 Tuesday to pass changes to the family law allowing homosexual couples to marry and adopt children. Slovenia in the past allowed same-sex partnership union, but without the right to child adoption.
Villarica volcano erupts in southern Chile, thousands flee
One of South America’s most active volcanos erupted early Tuesday in southern Chile, spewing heavy smoke into the air as lava surged down its slopes, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands of people.
The Villarica volcano erupted around 3 a.m. local time, according to the National Emergency Office, which issued a red alert and ordered evacuations. Local media showed images of the volcano bursting at the top, glowing in the dark amid heavy smoke and rivers of lava.
Palestinians confiscate Israeli goods in boycott campaign
Palestinians urging a boycott of Israeli products have begun confiscating goods in the West Bank, a movement leader said Tuesday, after activists dumped a truckload of Israeli milk and yogurt in a main square to the cheers of supporters.
Activists will visit shops and target products from six major Israeli food companies in the coming days, boycott leader Abdullah Kmail said.
"We entered the second phase of the campaign which is confiscating and damaging these goods," he said, adding that Monday's stunt was meant to show Palestinians that "the campaign is serious."
Iraq launches major offensive to recapture Tikrit from ISIL
Government forces backed by allied Shia and Sunni fighters have begun a large-scale military operation to recapture Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The offensive is part of the biggest military operation in the Sunni-majority province of Salahuddin since last June, when ISIL fighters, exploiting sectarian resentments of the Shia-led government, seized vast swaths of northern Iraq and advanced towards the capital, Baghdad.
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