Around The World [10.24.14]

UK

• GDP rises by 0.7% in third quarter (BBC) 
• The Queen sends first tweet to launch Science Museum gallery (BBC) 
• Special Report : The future - Great Britain or Little England? - Nov 9th 2013 (Economist) 

Syria and Iraq

• ISIS ‘School of Jihad’ trains small children how to behead, torture and use AK-47s (Times Of India)

"Forced viewings of beheadings and torture, training with weapons almost as big as they are and daily lessons in extremist theology: if you're a boy growing up in ISIS-controlled territory across Syria and Iraq, the word education means something very different to the rest of the world.

Official ISIS media outlets are circulating videos and images which they claim show life in the "School of Jihad", where children under the age of 10 are encouraged to fire AK-47 rifles and acclimatized to the horrors of war.

Yet what they actually portray has been described by a UN human rights council report as "a war crime" — the recruitment and military use of children under the age of 15."



This is heinous.




Iran Nuclear Deal


We are close to a Nuclear deal.

• Kerry Says US Hopes to Reach Iranian Nuclear Deal in ‘Next Weeks’: Agency (ria.eu)
• US, Russia optimistic about nuclear deal with Iran (PressTV) 
• Italy hopes for Iran nuclear deal within deadline (Payvand) 
• Iran nuclear deal 'close' (Jewish Chronicle) 
• Iran president Hassan Rouhani optimistic over nuclear deal before deadline (xinhuanet.com) 
• “Impressive Progress” Made in Nuclear Talks with Iran: Chief US Negotiator (tasnimnews.com) 
• Veteran American point man on Iran: Nuclear deal would be good for Israel (Jerusalem Post) 
• This is the roadmap for closing a nuclear deal with Iran (Quartz)   

 

 

Mexico

 

• A Mexican Governor Resigned Over the Fate of 43 Missing Students (WSJ)