Archive du mois : avril 2018

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Somalia seizes $9.6m from UAE plane in Mogadishu

Somalia’s government says it has seized several bags of money worth almost $10m from a plane that arrived at Mogadishu airport from the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi. The money was found in three unmarked bags on a Royal Jet plane, the Somali interior ministry said, and its seizure resulted in an hours-long standoff…

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Nasrallah: US provided money for ending resistance to Israel

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says the United States under President George W Bush offered his group reconciliation and money on the condition the Lebanese movement relinquish its resistance to Israel. In a televised speech on Sunday, Nasrallah said the offer, made by former Vice President Dick Cheney, also included removing the group from international terror watch lists…

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Syria battle: Strikes hit Syrian airbase in Homs province

Missiles have struck a Syrian airbase in Homs province early on Monday, state media reported, but it remained unclear who was behind the attack after the United States denied involvement. The attack at the airbase, located 40km west of Palmyra, killed and wounded several people, state news agency SANA reported, citing an unnamed military source.…

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Rohingya refugees searching for safe haven in Malaysia

Alor Setar, Malaysia – Shahjan Bibi, 45, came to Malaysia from Myanmar on a boat with her six children four years ago. Initially, she was reluctant to leave her home in Maungdaw, Rakhine state. « In my village, life was good, » Bibi recalled. « Then the Myanmar military started making life difficult for us. They beat us…

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Turkey demands return of plundered gentle artefacts

Ankara, Turkey – Serdal Kuyucuoglu sits behind his desk in the Turkish parliament, flicking through a book detailing some of the thousands of ancient artefacts he says have been plundered from Anatolia over the past 200 years. « There were so many things stolen from Turkey that are now held in museums in the US, England,…

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Timeless recap: ‘The Salem Witch Trials’

Timeless type TV Show genre Sci-fi run date 10/03/16 broadcaster NBC seasons 2 Current Status In Season We gave it a B After the glitz and glamor of 1940s Hollywood, this week’s Timeless finds the Lifeboat landing in a considerably less dazzling place: Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 — right at the height of the witch…