Justice remains elusive on 9/11 anniversary
Sixteen years after Sept 11 attacks and the US has not convicted anybody for the tower-felling spectacle of “terror”. People run from the collapse of World Trade Center on Tuesday September 11, 2001 in New York City [Suzanne Plunkett/AP] New York City – Time moves slowly for the five men accused of the 9/11 attacks. Sixteen years […]
Rohingya crisis: UN sees ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Myanmar(BBC)
11 September, 2017 Comments Off on Rohingya crisis: UN sees ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Myanmar(BBC)
Almost 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have poured out of Myanmar since 25 August The security operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar “seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, the UN human rights chief says. Zeid Raad Al Hussein urged Myanmar to end the “cruel military operation” in Rakhine state. More than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled […]
Continue reading …Armed group attack Bula Hawo on the Kenya-Somalia border claiming they killed dozens of soldiers.(Aljazeera)
11 September, 2017 Comments Off on Armed group attack Bula Hawo on the Kenya-Somalia border claiming they killed dozens of soldiers.(Aljazeera)
Al-Shabab said 24 Somali soldiers were killed in the raid, but a Somali military official put the figure at around 10 dead soldiers [File: Hamza Mohamed/Al Jazeera] Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in the Somali border town of Balad Hawo near Kenya after al-Shabab detonated a suicide car bomb and then stormed the military base […]
Continue reading …Iraq holding 1,400 foreign wives, children of suspected ISIS fighters
11 September, 2017 Comments Off on Iraq holding 1,400 foreign wives, children of suspected ISIS fighters
Most came from Turkey. Many others were from former Soviet states, such as Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Russia. (Twitter) Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected ISIS fighters after government forces expelled the militant group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq, security and aid officials said. Most came from […]
Continue reading …Bomb scare leads to partial evacuation of Frankfurt Airport
11 September, 2017 Comments Off on Bomb scare leads to partial evacuation of Frankfurt Airport
Terminal 1 being evacuated after a similar incident in 2016 Photo: DPA Terminal 1 of Germany’s largest airport was partially evacuated over the weekend, after an apparently psychologically disturbed man told police was carrying explosives in his luggage. A taxi driver first alerted police after the 37-year-old man had acted strangely during his cab ride […]
Continue reading …Russia offered to return to G8 if Zapad 2017 drills do not take place
11 September, 2017 Comments Off on Russia offered to return to G8 if Zapad 2017 drills do not take place
Source: Mil.ru If Russia refuses to conduct Zapad-2017 military exercises, the county will be allowed to return to the Group of Eight, chairman of the Free Democratic Party of Germany Christian Lindner said. In his opinion, Europe should make advances to the Russian Federation. “We must give Putin an opportunity to break the deadlock of escalation, […]
Continue reading …Paris Islamic State (IS) group terrorism France Suspect in Paris ‘explosives lab’ linked to Islamic State group
11 September, 2017 Comments Off on Paris Islamic State (IS) group terrorism France Suspect in Paris ‘explosives lab’ linked to Islamic State group
A French prosecutor said on Sunday that a man arrested last week after a police raid on a flat near Paris had a direct connection with the Islamic State group. Police discovered a stash of explosives in the raid last Wednesday in Villejuif, south of Paris, and found TATP, a product often used by suicide bombers. […]
Continue reading …Merkel warns of consequences for EU asylum laggards
11 September, 2017 Comments Off on Merkel warns of consequences for EU asylum laggards
Photo: TOBIAS SCHWARZ / AFP Countries that fail to take part in the quota scheme for assigning asylum seekers around the European Union could themselves be denied help in other areas, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday. “If there is no solidarity on migration, neither will there be in other areas — and that […]
Continue reading …Saudi King Salman receives Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
11 September, 2017 Comments Off on Saudi King Salman receives Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz has received Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in his office at Salam Palace in Jeddah. Lavrov conveyed greetings from Russian President Vladimir Putin to King Salman, as well discussed bilateral relations and means of boosting cooperation between the two countries. The meeting was attended by Minister of State Dr. […]
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