Archive du mois : avril 2018

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Most in model updates as Russia-US tensions escalate amid Syria battle fears

Theresa May is to hold an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss joining the United States and France in possible military action against Syria. The prime minister summoned her senior ministers to No 10 after saying “all the indications” were the regime of Bashar al-Assad was responsible a suspected chemical weapons attack on civilians last weekend. Donald…

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Kremlin to Trump: We don’t have interaction in Twitter diplomacy

A Kremlin spokesperson has said that Russia does not engage in Twitter diplomacy after US President Donald Trump used the social media platform to warn Moscow of imminent military action in Syria, the Interfax news agency reported. « We do not participate in Twitter diplomacy, » Dimitri Peskov was quoted as saying by Interfax. « We support serious…

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Somalia disbands UAE programme to pay and enlighten infantrymen

Somalia has disbanded a United Arab Emirates programme to train some of its troops in a new sign of rising tensions in bilateral relations. The Somali government announced on Wednesday that it will take over paying and training the soldiers in the programme, Defence Minister Mohamed Mursal Abdirahman told Somalia’s state news agency Sonna. « Somalia…

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Australian activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied ‘deported from US’

Updated April 12, 2018 16:19:01 Australian author Yassmin Abdel-Magied says she has been deported from the US. In a series of tweets, Ms Abdel-Magied said she was put back on a plane after arriving at Minneapolis airport ahead of an appearance at an April 18 event in New York called The M Word: No Country…

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Algeria announces three days of mourning over deadly airplane smash

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has decreed three days of national mourning after 257 people were killed in the country’s worst plane crash, the state press service, Algerie Presse Service, reported on Wednesday. « Following the crash of an air force Ilyushin today, killing 257 people, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared three days of national mourning starting today, »…

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Syrische Truppen übernehmen Kontrolle über Duma

Nach wochenlangen Kämpfen haben die syrischen Regierungstruppen russischen Angaben zufolge die Kontrolle über die Stadt Duma übernommen. Die Nationalflagge wehe über dem Rathaus von Duma – und damit auch über ganz Ost-Ghouta, sagte der russische Generalmajor Juri Jewtuschenko der Agentur Interfax zufolge. Er sprach von einem «symbolischen Ereignis» für das Bürgerkriegsland Syrien. Zudem habe die…

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‘Anti-Muslim bigotry has been normalised under Modi’

New Delhi, India – India is home to roughly 172 million Muslims – the third-largest Muslim population in the world. Since 2014, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, tensions between Muslims and Hindus have increased in large parts of the country. Muslims, who make up about 170 million of India’s 1.3 billion population, have faced attacks after being…