Guysen Israel News 03/09/2010


13:30  Turkish tugboats take flotilla boats back home (Guysen.International.News)
The three Turkish ships that took part in the Gaza-bound mission about two months ago were granted permission to leave Israel and head back to Turkey. Turkish tugboats arrived at the Haifa port Thursday morning in order to transport the Mavi Marmara – where an IDF raid left nine people dead.
12:38  European stocks on the rise (Guysen.International.News)
Europan stock markets rose Thursday as investors found cheer in a positive assessment of Greece's austerity program while they waited for comments from European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 16.45 points, or 0.3 percent, at 5,402.61 while Germany's DAX rose 20.42 points, or 0.3 percent, to 6,351.75. The CAC-40 in France was 26.13 points, or 0.7 percent, higher at 3,786.85.
12:00  Two Druze, Israeli Arab indicted on charges of spying for Syrian intelligence (Guysen.International.News)
Two Druse residents, members of the same family from the Golan Heights village Majdal Shams and an Israeli Arab, were indicted Thursday on charges of espionage, contact with a foreign agent and transferring information to the enemy. Residents of the village Majed Sha'ar, 58, his wife Mona, 48 and their son Fada, 27, and Mahmoud Masarwa, 62, an Israeli Arab from Bakka al-Gharbiya, are suspected of spying on Israel for the Syrian intelligence, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said in a statement.
11:15  Brit clad in bikini detained in Dubai (Guysen.International.News)
An Emirati police official says a British woman was briefly detained after stripping down to a bikini and walking in her beach wear through a five-star mall in Dubai. The official says the British woman was shopping in the mall Wednesday, when a conservatively dressed Emirati woman came up to her and criticized her low-cut top.
10:49  South Korea launches military drill (Guysen.International.News)
South Korean troops fired artillery and dropped sonar buoys into the Yellow Sea as naval drills kicked off Thursday near the spot where a warship sank four months ago. Some 4,500 South Korean troops aboard more than 20 ships and submarines as well as about 50 aircraft were to take part in the five days of naval exercises off the west coast, including spots near the two Koreas' maritime border, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
10:01  Suspicious package checked at Israel's Embassy in Washington (Guysen.International.News)
Authorities say they are investigating an envelope with a white powdery substance found at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said a special unit was dispatched to the site to investigate the package, and added no evacuation of the building was necessary.
09:47  U.N. chief calls to abolish nuclear weapons (Guysen.International.News)
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the abolishment of nuclear weapons Thursday during a visit to Nagasaki, one of two Japanese cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs in the closing days of World War II. Ban toured the Atomic Bomb Museum and met with six survivors during his visit, the first by a U.N. chief to Nagasaki. More than 70,000 people were killed when the U.S. bombed the southern Japanese city on Aug. 9, 1945.
09:00  Hundreds flee Pakistan floods (Guysen.International.News)
Hundreds of people loaded down with possessions were fleeing floods in Pakistan's most populous province Thursday as the worst monsoon rains in a generation triggered fresh chaos. Floods have already killed more than 1,500 people in Pakistan over the last week and affected some 3 million others. They followed the crash of a passenger jet last week close to the capital and have coincided with deadly riots in the country's largest city, Karachi. On Wednesday, a suicide bomber killed a paramilitary police commander in the northwest, a reminder of the country's ever-present terror threat
08:25  Clashes between polcie and residents at an outpost near Kiryat Arba after structures demolished (Guysen.International.News)
The Civil Administration reportedly razed several structures in an Israeli outpost near Kiryat Arba leading to clashes between police and Jewish residents.Six residents were arrested.According to Israel Radio, six illegal structures were demolished, including a synagogue. Four families were living in the structures.
07:55  China defends business ties with Iran (Guysen.International.News)
China is defending its business relationships with Iran after recent pressure from the United States to fully follow new sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program. "China's trade with Iran is normal business exchange, which will not harm the interests of other countries and the international community," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in comments published Thursday in the China Daily newspaper
07:44  Group tries to prevent Ground Zero mosque (Guysen.International.News)
The debate over a planned Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero became a court fight Wednesday, as a conservative advocacy group sued to try to stop a project that has become a fulcrum for balancing religious freedom and the legacy of the Sept. 11 attacks.
07:23  U.S. State Dept., said Lebanese soldiers shooting at IDF was unjustified (Guysen.International.News)
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Wednesday that the firing by Lebanese armed forces on Israeli troops near the Israel-Lebanon border on Tuesday, which killed one Israeli officer and seriously wounded another, was "totally unjustified and unwarranted" while calling on both sides to show restraint.