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Turkish ground operation in Syria ‘begun’

Image copyright AFP Image caption Turkish war planes hit Kurdish positions on the Syrian side of the border on Saturday Turkey’s military says its war planes have launched air strikes on Kurdish positions in northern Syria, in a move likely to cause tensions with the US. It is seeking to oust Kurdish fighters from Afrin…

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Bangkok’s Somali refugees persecuted and dwelling in misfortune

Bangkok, Thailand – « I’ve never experienced cold like this, » says RK, a 19-year-old Somali refugee, as he sits in a downtown Bangkok alley one December morning. It is 20 degrees, and opposite is the Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Center, an office building concealing thousands of undocumented migrants. It is a stone’s throw from Bangkok’s gregarious…

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Erdogan: Operation in Syria’s Afrin has begun

A Turkish ground push to oust Kurdish fighters from the Syrian border town of Afrin has « actively » begun, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Erdogan was quoted by Anadolu news agency as saying on Saturday that the operation in Afrin would be a followed by a push in the northern Syrian town of Manbij.…

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Zainab’s rape, execute sparks child sexual abuse debate

A minor girl’s rape and murder earlier this month has sent a shock wave across Pakistan. The incident has drawn a wide public outcry, with many celebrities openly talking against child sexual abuse in the South Asian nation. Zainab Fatima Ameen, a seven-year-old girl from the city of Kasur in central Punjab, was found dead…

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leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

I was looking for a tutorial/book that would teach me how to start to use FFmpeg as a library (a.k.a. libav) and then I found the « How to write a video player in less than 1k lines » tutorial.Unfortunately it was deprecated, so I decided to write this one. Most of the code in here will…

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Turkey deploys thousands of FSA rebels at Syria border

Turkey has mobilised thousands of Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels to a border province with Syria, as part of a planned offensive against Kurdish fighters, according to Turkish media. Anadolu news agency reported that the Ankara-backed FSA rebels were taken « under extensive security » in a convoy of at least 20 buses, from the province of…

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Trump’s The US: A war on police, or their detractors?

Donald Trump promised to restore law and order while on the campaign trail that took him to the office of the presidency on January 20, 2017. « We need vigilance, » Trump said in 2015. « We need security, » he added.  « Some horrible mistakes are made. At the same time, we have to give power back to the…