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ITAR-TASS News Agency in an article titled, " Japan prepares to impose new sanctions on Russia ," stated: "Japanese government is preparing to impose new sanctions on Russia, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference on Wednesday. “We are preparing to take additional measures, including freezing of bank accounts. We intend to give a proper response with an emphasis on co-operation with G7 partners,†Suga said
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US Senator John McCain, who had been standing in Kiev on stage with Neo-Nazis of the Svoboda Party shortly before they overthrew the elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych, stated in an NBC interview : "To leap to conclusions could be very embarrassing and really inappropriate until we have more information," he told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. "But there have been, as you mentioned, previous incidents of shot down of Ukrainian aircraft.
The BBC reported in its article, " Ukraine conflict: Fighting flares near city of Luhansk ," that: Fighting has flared outside the rebel-held east Ukrainian city of Luhansk, with rebels saying government forces tried to storm the city with tanks.  Rebel military leader Igor Strelkov was quoted as saying his forces had beaten off columns of government armour attacking from the south and west. The same article would also report: A Ukrainian presidential source told Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper that an armoured unit was trying to relieve troops who had been blockaded for weeks at Luhansk airport
Links Toward a Europe Whole and Free (To Loot) July 10, 2014 ( Tony Cartalucci – NEO ) – When the special interests who created and direct the agenda of the European Union disagree with member states, the true nature of this supranational enterprise becomes painfully apparent – one of dictatorial special interests pursing regional policy that benefits none of its individual member states. No example of this can be clearer than the dispute that has emerged over the construction of Russia’s South Stream natural gas pipeline set to run through Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, and Italy
UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s #1 Priority: Maintenance of Government Spying UK’s prime minister, David Cameron, is so in love with state monitoring of internet and phone calls that he supports an emergency data law to underpin security surveillance David Cameron is to push though emergency laws to allow police and security agencies to maintain access to phone and email data, amid warnings that vital security operations were about to be compromised without it. Telecoms operators and the security services told the prime minister they were on the cusp of having to curb some of their most important electronic eavesdropping activities after a European Court of Justice ruling struck down the legal framework that allowed telecoms companies to retain data for a year, according to government and industry figures. Operators were also threatening to delete details of UK customers’ data for fear of being sued by them, unless the coalition set down a clearer legal framework around intercepting terrorist and criminal communications.