International Glance
A new surveillance scandal is threatening to unsettle US-German relations after it emerged that an employee of the Germany's intelligence agency has been arrested under suspicion of acting as a double agent for the USA.
According to several reports in the German media, a 31-year-old member of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) administration department in Pullach was on Wednesday arrested by the country's federal prosecutor, originally under suspicion of passing on information to Russian intelligence services.
Germany arrests BND member on suspicion of spying for US
Gangs of Israeli Vigilantes Roam Streets Attacking Palestinians
Mousa Abu Ayadeh says that he expects anti-Arab discrimination in Israel. But he never imagined he would be the victim of a violent vigilante attack, as he was on June 30.
Abu Ayadeh told AlterNet he “was beaten and stabbed by ten Israeli men.” He suspects the crime was in retaliation for the killing of three Israeli youth who had been kidnapped on June 12 and were found dead just a few hours before he was attacked.
U.S. 'concerned' about being barred from GSK-linked China trial
The United States is worried that its officials have been barred from attending the Aug. 7 trial in China of British investigator Peter Humphrey and his American wife Yu Yingzeng after the couple were arrested last year following work they did for British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
The concerns, voiced by the U.S. embassy in Beijing, adds a political dimension to the trial, which could become another thorny issue between the two economic powers, already tussling over areas ranging from cyber security and human rights to Chinese policy in the South China Sea.
Murdered Palestinian teenager's family says new footage shows his abduction
New video footage has emerged which the family of a Palestinian teenager abducted and murdered earlier this week says shows the moment of his kidnapping.
Mohamed Abu Khdeir, 17, was snatched by three men in car while he was waiting to pray outside a mosque next to his home in east Jerusalem. His badly burned body was discovered in a forest on the western side of the city.
Overpass collapses in World Cup host city; at least one dead
An overpass collapsed in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing at least one person and injuring 10 more, an emergency official said.
Television images showed part of a passenger bus crushed under the overpass and news website G1 said another two trucks and a vehicle were also smashed.
The accident site is around 3 km (2 miles) from the Mineirao stadium, where a World Cup semi-final match will be held next Tuesday. The stadium has already hosted five games.
Last of Syrian chemical weapons to be destroyed aboard U.S. ship
A week after the Syrian government completed its goal of removing chemical weapons material from the embattled country, the last of the material was being transported Wednesday to a U.S. vessel for at-sea destruction.
Italy's Ministry of Interior noted that the transfer of the chemicals from a Danish ship to the U.S. government container ship, the Cape Ray, was underway at the Italian port of Gioia Tauro.
Palestinian teen killed in suspected revenge attack by Israeli settlers
A 16-year-old Palestinian boy from East Jerusalem was abducted and killed early Wednesday by Israeli settlers, Israeli police said — a suspected act of revenge for the killing of three Israeli youths that comes amid heightened tensions.
The murder highlights a growing fear that there will be more cases of violence not between the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups, but by vigilante groups on both sides taking matters into their own hands.
The body of Mohammad Abu Khdeir, from the Shufat neighborhood, was found reportedly burned and with signs of torture by police in a forest outside Jerusalem.
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