Israel weighs UN rights council boycott

Israel should boycott the United Nations Human Rights Council after it voted to authorise a probe of Israeli settlements, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told public radio on Sunday. “This hypocritical organisation has nothing to do with human rights. Its bias and lack of objectivity are obvious and we have no reason to cooperate with it,” he told the radio station from Singapore, where he is currently on a trip.

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Assad’s wife faces EU travel ban

President Bashar al-Assad’s wife Asma, a Western-educated former banker and style icon, faces an EU travel ban and asset freeze along with other members of Assad’s family, diplomats said Thursday. Asma al-Assad is on a list of 12 Syrians, including a handful of the president’s relatives, to be put to European Union foreign ministers Friday for a decision to bar them from travel and freeze their accounts across the 27-nation bloc.

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US seeks using India to isolate Iran, build China cold war -Arundhati Roy

War and arms deals are US techniques to bail itself out of tight economic situation:

Washington seeks to isolate Iran and build a cold war with China through its ‘theatrical drama’ ties with New Delhi, a top Indian author says. The main concern of the US is to isolate and attack Iran for its nuclear energy program, The Hindu quoted Arundhati Roy as saying on Friday.

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