Defrocked Bishop Artemije and about 80 of his followers are staying at a hotel in the central Serbian town of Kraljevo. Charges against them have been filed.
One of the former bishop’s supporters Monk Damjan says that police have been following their group ever since they crossed the administrative line with Kosovo yesterday.
The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) decided Friday to defrock retired Bishop Artemije. Earlier in the day, the bishop, who was forced into retirement earlier this year because of a financial scandal involving his associates, was declared by the Synod to be in open schism with the Church.
BEAT THE DEVIL’S TATTOO
 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club |
Black Rebel Motorcycle
Club have hopped continents since the March release of their fifth studio album, Beat The Devil’s
Tattoo (Abstract Dragon/Vagrant Records). This fall, following another international jaunt, the trio will
join Stone Temple Pilots on
their national tour, starting September 16 in San Diego, with their own headline dates interspersed.
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB WITH STONE TEMPLE PILOTS:
September 15 – Pomona, Calif. @ Glasshouse*
September 16 – San Diego, Calif. @ Viejas Arena
September 17 – Tucson, Ariz. @ Plush*
September 19 – The Woodlands, Texas @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
September 21- El Paso, Texas @ El Paso County Coliseum
September 22 – Lubbock, Texas @ The Pavilion @ Lonestar Event Center
September 23 – San Antonio, Texas @ White Rabbit*
September 25 – Austin, Texas @ The Backyard
September 27 – Corpus Christi, Texas @ Concrete Street Amphitheatre
September 29 – Tulsa, Okla. @ Brady Theater
September 30 – Saint Charles, Mo. @ Family Arena
October 2 – Simpsonville, S.C. @ Charter Amphitheatre
October 3 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Exit/In*
October 4 – Atlanta, Ga. @ Masquerade*
October 5 – Raleigh, N.C. @ Raleigh Amphitheater
October 6 – Charlotte, N.C. @ Road Runner Amphitheatre
October 8 – Tampa, Fla. @ St. Pete Times Forum
October 9 – Orlando, Fla. @ UCF Arena
October 12 – Hollywood, Fla. @ Hard Rock Live
October 13 – Estero, Fla. @ Germain Arena
October 16 – Pensacola Beach, Fla. @ Santa Rosa Beach (De Luna Fest)
* Headline show without Stone Temple Pilots
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BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB TAKES FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM INTO OWN HANDS
Beat The Devil’s Tattoo Due March 9, 2010 via Own Abstract Dragon/Vagrant Records
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club |
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is revving up to unleash their fifth studio album, Beat The Devil’s Tattoo, on March 9, 2010, signifying the band’s first full-length on their own Abstract Dragon, in partnership with Vagrant Records. This album welcomes exciting beginnings, including new drummer Leah Shapiro, as well as their new label, though the trio returned to the familiar setting of Philadelphia, PA to pen this record. They wrote and recorded it in the very studio that produced their widely acclaimed third LP, Howl, before returning to hometown L.A. to add the finishing touches.
The band’s accustomed globetrotting will recommence with an initial headline tour, kicking off February 26 in Sacramento and culminating at New York City’s Webster Hall on April 8. Pre-sale for all shows will start Wednesday, December 2, available here.
Known for their impassioned live performances, the band recently offered a two DVD, one CD set aptly titled, Live (Abstract Dragon/Vagrant), earlier this month. The DVDs feature more than two hours of concert footage captured from three sold out shows in Berlin, Dublin, and Glasgow, and chronicles the end of the band’s 2007 tour in support of Baby 81. Additionally, it includes intimate, behind-the-scenes footage, glimpses into the making of 2005′s Howl, and is rounded out with a bonus live album featuring 14 songs.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Tour Dates
02/26/10 Fri Harlow’s Sacramento, CA
02/27/10 Sat Knitting Factory Reno, NV
02/28/10 Sun Wasted Space @ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV
03/02/10 Tue Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
03/04/10 Thu Knitting Factory Concert House Boise, ID
03/05/10 Fri Showbox at the Market Seattle, WA
03/06/10 Sat Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC
03/07/10 Sun Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR
03/09/10 Tue Slim’s San Francisco, CA
03/13/10 Sat House of Blues San Diego, CA
03/14/10 Sun Echoplex Los Angeles, CA
03/18/10 Thu House Of Blues Dallas, TX
03/20/10 Sat House of Blues Houston, TX
03/21/10 Sun Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa, OK
03/23/10 Tue The Pageant St. Louis, MO
03/24/10 Wed High Noon Saloon Madison, WI
03/25/10 Thu Metro Chicago, IL
03/26/10 Fri Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, WI
03/27/10 Sat First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
03/30/10 Tue Newport Music Hall Columbus, OH
03/31/10 Wed House Of Blues Cleveland, OH
04/01/10 Thu Phoenix Concert Theatre Toronto, ON
04/02/10 Fri La Tulipe Montreal, QC
04/03/10 Sat House of Blues Boston, MA
04/05/10 Mon 9:30 Club Washington, DC
04/07/10 Wed Theatre of Living Arts (TLA) Philadelphia, PA
04/08/10 Thu Webster Hall New York, NY
Two Peruvian soldiers and four rebels have been killed in the latest clash in the country’s main drug growing region, the government says. The Defense Ministry described the rebels as “narco-terrorists,” belonging to remnants of the Maoist Shining Path movement who joined drug traffickers.
A Russian rebel website has posted a statement signed by Chechen fighters declaring “economic war” on Russia. It also claimed responsibility for a recent dam disaster and a bomb in Ingushetia.
Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army makes deadly forays into the CAR and south Sudan, aid agences say.
Colombian forces have bombed a rebel camp in the jungle, killing at least 16 suspected guerrillas, officials say.
The aerial bombing, south of the capital Bogota, was part of a hunt for the military chief of the Farc rebels, Jorge Briceno – known as "Mono Jojoy".
He leads the most powerful division of the left-wing group, and is believed to have some 4,000 men under his command.
Colombian rebels have been under pressure following a military campaign launched by President Alvaro Uribe.
He remain popular after seven years in office, and is seeking a constitutional amendment that would allow him to run for a third consecutive term.
Saturday’s bombing occurred in Meta province.
The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) have been fighting the Colombian authorities since the mid-1960s. </p
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Hundreds of thousands of people in the Congo region have been forced to flee from their homes – some many times – because men with guns have given them no choice. Others have been massacred, raped or tortured.
Western mineral firms are fuelling violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo by failing to check where their raw materials come from, activists say.
Global Witness says companies sourcing minerals used in electronic gadgets are buying them from traders who finance rebel and government troops.
It calls for the UK-based Amalgamated Metal Corporation (AMC) and others to have assets frozen over the issue.
AMC, whose subsidiary Thaisarco sources tin from DR Congo, denies the claims.
The Global Witness report focuses on the troubled region of eastern DR Congo, where various rebel groups and government troops control large parts of the trade in minerals including coltan, cassiterite and gold.
They use the industry to fund conflicts which have seen some 100,000 people displaced from their homes in recent months, in addition to mass killings and rapes, mostly in North and South Kivu provinces.
Millions ‘need mining’
The report accuses Thaisarco and other companies of failing to check the source of the metals that go to its smelters before they end up in electronic goods.
From rebel-held Congo to beer can
"Global Witness is calling on the UK government to request that the UN Sanctions Committee add the UK-based entities of AMC and their directors to the list of companies and individuals against whom sanctions should be imposed," the group said.
It quoted a UN resolution as saying that anyone supporting illegal Congolese armed groups through illicit trade of natural resources should be subjected to sanctions including travel restrictions and an assets freeze.
The report acknowledges that the companies are acting legally, but says some of their suppliers are laundering minerals which come from the military or rebel groups.
AMC has strongly denied the claims, saying it is taking part in an industry-wide initiative started on 1 July this year to trace the source of metals.
The firm said in a statement that it takes its lead from the United Nations.
"If the UN were to decide that a withdrawal from the trade is the most appropriate way forward, then Thaisarco would comply absolutely with their requirements," the statement said.
"However, it is believed that such an approach would be to the detriment of large numbers of artisanal miners and their dependents in the DRC."
The firm quoted World Bank data suggesting up to 10 million people rely on mining in DR Congo.</p
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Colombia has extradited to the US a rebel leader who held political hostages, among them Franco-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt.
Gerardo Aguilar Ramirez, alias Cesar, a former top Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) commander, faces charges of trafficking drugs to the US.
Cesar was duped in July 2008 into handing over his hostages to undercover soldiers and getting captured himself.
He is accused of guarding 15 of the Farc’s highest-profile hostages.
Cesar is now the unwilling guest of the US justice system, the BBC’s Jeremy McDermott reports from Colombia.
He has lost everything and is likely to spend the next 20 years in an American cell.
Farc’s greatest humiliation
Handcuffed and wearing a military-style combat helmet and bullet-proof vest, Cesar boarded a US government plane late on Thursday morning, leaving Bogota for Washington.
About 50 police officers escorted him to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) plane, Colombian radio station RCN reports.
The former Farc jailer faces charges of drugs-trafficking as his guerrilla unit, the 1st Front, is a major drugs-trafficking organisation in its own right.
But Colombia’s supreme court denied a US request to charge him with kidnapping because his alleged crimes did not take place on US soil.
Cesar has been forsaken by his former Farc comrades who condemned him as a traitor after he was hoodwinked by an army intelligence operation masquerading as a humanitarian mission.
Undercover soldiers persuaded him to hand over 15 hostages in his care, among them Ingrid Betancourt and three US defence contractors.
Not only did he surrender his hostages but he was persuaded to accompany the mission, climbing aboard a helicopter where he was quickly overpowered and placed under arrest.
Without the support of his fellow rebels he will be utterly alone in the US, where he does not speak the language.
Alone to reflect on how he was part of the greatest humiliation ever inflicted on the Farc in 45 years of fighting, our correspondent says. </p
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The main rebel group in Nigeria’s Niger Delta is to observe a 60-day ceasefire in its attacks on the oil industry.
Mend – the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta – said the move was in response to the freeing of rebel leader, Henry Okah, on Monday.
Mr Okah was released from jail as part of a government amnesty; he’d been held for more than a year on charges including treason.
In a BBC interview he said he was proud of those who fought for his freedom.
The Mend ceasefire is set to come into effect from Wednesday, a statement said.
On Sunday, just hours before Henry Okah was freed, militants in speedboats attacked the main oil depot serving Lagos – well away from the usual area of operations in the Niger Delta.
Mr Okah said he regarded that attack as a gesture, welcoming him to freedom.
‘Real issues’
But he said the Niger Delta needed a "kind of peace process".
People there, he said, were fighting so that the government would recognise the poverty and injustice that exists.
On the arms held by the militants, Mr Okah said that if the government was willing to address the "real issues" they "would get" weapons.
Asked if he would favour a partial decommissioning of weapons, he said:
"Yes, yes, I would. But the government must start attending to our problems."
Numerous attacks by Mend on installations in the Niger Delta in recent years have seriously disrupted the Nigerian oil and gas industry.
Mend says it is fighting for a fairer distribution of the wealth from Nigeria’s natural resources, but in the past the government has dismissed the militants as criminals.
In a bid to end the attacks, the government offered militants an amnesty three weeks ago.
Officials said any rebel willing to give up weapons by October would benefit from a rehabilitation programme, including education and training opportunities.
The government’s critics say the amnesty is unlikely to work because the unrest is not a straightforward political struggle.</p
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Katy Perry has said that she inked her worldwide hit track “I Kissed A Girl†to rebel against her strict religious parents.
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One of Nigeria’s main rebel leaders, Henry Okah, has been freed from jail as part of a government amnesty.
Mr Okah had been held for more than a year on charges of treason.
He was said to be one of the heads of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), but on leaving jail denied he was the leader.
Mend claims to be fighting for a fairer distribution of Nigeria’s oil wealth. The release came hours after it launched a deadly attack in Lagos.
Mr Okah was arrested in Angola in 2007 and charged with treason and gun-running charges.
"You have become a free man at this moment"
Judge Mohammed Liman
Oil attack ‘kills five’His release has been a key demand of his group.
At a hearing in the central city of Jos, Judge Mohammed Liman told Mr Okah he was discharged.
"Having reviewed what the attorney general said, you have become a free man at this moment," said the judge.
On his release, Mr Okah said he would hold consultations with the rest of the group.
In a bid to end years of rebel attacks on the oil industry, the government offered militants an amnesty three weeks ago.
Officials said any rebel willing to give up their weapons by October would benefit from a rehabilitation programme, including education and training opportunities.
But Mend leaders said they would reject the amnesty – and have since claimed responsibility for several attacks including one earlier in Lagos, away from its usual area of operation in the Nigeria Delta.
The government’s critics say the amnesty is unlikely to work because the unrest is not a straightforward political struggle but involves economic and land rights.</p
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An Australian woman, Angelita Pires, is among 27 people being brought to trial in East Timor, for the attempted murder of President Jose Ramos-Horta.
The confused incident, on 11 February 2008, saw guards and rebel soldiers shooting around Mr Ramos-Horta’s home.
Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado and one other rebel were killed in the attack, which Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao described as a coup attempt.
Ms Pires was then the lover of Mr Reinado and insists she is innocent.
Holding both East Timorese and Australian nationality, Ms Pires, 43, has told reporters she feels she has not been given a chance to prepare for the case.
"I have been struggling to get access to the case, to know really what I have been charged with," she said.
Prosecutors are expected to allege that Ms Pires urged Mr Reinado to kill the small state’s president and prime minister.
Ms Pires’ Australian lawyer, Jon Tippett, QC, says the case against his client remains "hopelessly inadequate and unfounded".
Pires’ legal team will seek to have much of the state’s evidence deemed inadmissible, he said.
Antonio Pires, Angelita’s brother, said the family had no confidence in East Timor’s legal system.
Instability
Surrender ends rebellion
The shooting of Mr Ramos-Horta provoked a declaration of a state of emergency in East Timor, and heightened fears for the state’s stability.
However, Gastao Salsinha, who took over the rebel leadership on Mr Reinado’s death, surrendered to the government in April last year.
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao had escaped unhurt from an attack on the same day the president was shot and seriously injured.
The rebels – former soldiers – had been on the run since violent protests in 2006 that left more than 30 people dead.
The protests were triggered by then Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri’s decision to sack 600 striking members of the army. </p
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Nigeria’s main rebel group, which has targeted oil facilities in the south, claimed responsibility for an audacious late Sunday strike on an oil jetty in Lagos in its first attack in the country’s economic heart. “Heavily armed Mend fighters today, Sunday, July 12, 2009, at about 2230 hours
