Friday, December 14, 2012
Air strikes across Syria, rebels attempt to shoot down helicopters
Medical supplies are running short and only a small team of exhausted Syrian medics are left inside the embattled eastern city, MSF coordinator Patrick Wieland said.
Wieland, who visited the area, said there was now only one makeshift hospital with four doctors in city, which sits near the Iraqi border and was once home to around 600,000 people.
An MSF team unofficially visited Deir al-Zor province but said conditions were too dangerous for them to enter the main city with the same name. The team visited public and private hospitals around the city and said the premises were inundated with wounded, some of them with hundreds of patients.
'Despite support from a Syrian doctors' organization, medical supplies are almost impossible to get hold of, and aerial bombardments and sniper fire make evacuating patients by stretcher extremely difficult,' the MSF report said.
'The health system is being targeted, and medical supplies, including drugs and blood products, are running out, while the number of wounded continues to increase.'
The startling reports of the state of medical care comes as The Times newspaper reports Syrian survivors in Aleppo are being starved as part of Assad's desperate bid to weaken the rebels and cling to power.
The city has no electricity since the lines were cut 25 days ago, leaving civilians with hardly any fuel, running water and no working phone lines.
The lack of power means flower mills can no longer provide the city with enough flour and the daily production of bread has fallen by 70 per cent in the majority of the large bakeries.
This has caused food prices in Aleppo to rocket by 75 per cent in just over a month with a loaf of bread increasing in price by an astonishing 1300 per cent. Wages have also plummeted and many are out of work.
Graphic footage shows Syrian rebel shot during military airbase raid - T...
(Please note this report contains disturbing images). A Free Syria Army fighter filming a raid on a military airbase close to Deir Ezzor is shot in the chest. This footage is graphic and appears to show the moment he was hit by a bullet. The thumbnail is a library picture.
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Russia says Syrian rebels may be victorious
For the first time since the war in Syria began, Bashar Al Assad's strongest ally is suggesting that rebel fighters may prevail.
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister has said the Syrian government is losing control of more territory. And he added that preparations are underway to evacuate Russian citizens IF it becomes necessary.
His comments were immediately welcomed by the US State Department.
The comments come as at least 16 people are killed in a car bomb blast southwest of the capital, Damascus. Robin Forrestier-Walker has more from Moscow.
UFO Sightings in Sri Lanka Have Military on Alert - December 2012
Source: http://www.newsfirst.lk/news1st/node/18988
Orb UFOs and other strange lights have appeared so often in Sri Lanka in November and December 2012 that the Sri Lanka Air Force is now in a state of 24-hour alert.
Burning UFO Slams Into Black Sea 2012 HD
An incredible burning object which slammed into the Black Sea, Ordu, Turkey, could possibly have been a meteorite, officials claim. Others claim it was a UFO, as sightings of unknown objects have been reported around that area for several weeks. A security camera recorded the impact and loud boom. Meteorite or UFO, as always you decide.
NKorean TV shows rocket launch, people celebrating
China resists US-led pressure to bring North Korea to heel after its rogue ally launched a long-range rocket, arguing that any response from the United Nations should be "prudent" and measured
'US arming al-Qaeda with missiles'
An analyst criticizes 'US hypocrisy' in its decade-long denouncement of the extremist al-Qaeda organization as the country's arch enemy and now providing the very same organization in Syria with sophisticated weapons.
Interview with director of Center for Middle East Studies, Hisham Jaber
Apocalypse Balls: Chinese invention to defend against doomsday
As people across the globe tremble in anticipation of next week's supposed Mayan-predicted apocalypse, one Chinese villager says he may have just what humanity needs: tsunami-proof survival pods. Camouflage-clad former farmer and furniture maker Liu Qiyuan, 45, inspected his latest creation, a sphere several metres tall he calls "Noah's Ark", designed to withstand towering tsunamis and devastating earthquakes.
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'Iranians know US, Israel not as powerful as they claim'
UN atomic experts are back in Iran - to try and make headway over tensions surrounding its controversial nuclear programme.
It's the first visit since talks hit a deadlock in August, and the IAEA team is hoping to get access to some sites suspected of carrying out nuclear activities.
They're unlikely to get inside the Parchin military facility, which Tehran insists is a non-nuclear site, saying that inspectors have no right to access it.
Tehran University Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi told RT that the assassinations of nuclear scientists is partly to blame for Iran's reluctance to give inspectors access to the Parchin site.
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US: Syria is using missiles, barrel bombs to forestall
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday that the Syrian regime has been using Scud missiles and barrel bombs against rebel forces to forestall its inevitable fall
Syria News 13.12.2012, Children and Women Martyred in a Car Bomb, Al-Qae...
* Foreign and Expatriates Ministry Completely Denies Rumors about Syrian Arab Army Using Scud Missiles against Armed Terrorist Groups
* Syria Concerned Over US Postponement of Nuclear-free Middle East Conference
* A Number of Citizens, including Children and Women, Martyred, in Car Bomb Explosions in Qatana and Jdeidet al-Fadl
* Al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra Claims Responsibility for Wednesday Terrorist Attacks on Interior Ministry Building
* Chinese, Iranian and Russian officials stressed the necessity of solving the crisis in Syria by peaceful means and without foreign interference in the Syrian affairs
* Armed Forces Target Terrorists Gatherings, Kill Scores of Them in Aleppo Countryside
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