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(Reuters) – Militants fighting the Syrian army have detained 43 U.N. peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and trapped another 81 in the region, and the world body is working to secure their release, the United Nations said on Thursday. The affected peacekeepers are from the Philippines and Fiji, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters. “During a period of increased fighting beginning yesterday between armed elements and Syrian Arab Armed Forces within the area of […]
(Reuters) – Pro-Moscow rebels fighting in Ukraine said on Friday they would comply with a request from the Kremlin and open up a ‘humanitarian corridor’ to allow the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops they have encircled. It was not clear how the government in Kiev would react to the offer, suggested first by Russian President Vladimir Putin, but the first word from the Ukrainian military was negative. It said in a statement that Putin’s call showed […]
(Reuters) – The West African state of Senegal became the fifth country to be touched by the world’s worst Ebola outbreak on Friday, while riots broke out in neighboring Guinea where infection rates are rising fast. The deadly virus has defied efforts by governments to control it, prompting the leading charity fighting the outbreak Medicines Sans Frontiers to call for the U.N. Security Council to take charge of efforts to stop the epidemic. At least […]
(Reuters) – Three million Syrian refugees will have registered in neighboring countries as of Friday, an exodus that began in March 2011 and shows no sign of abating, the United Nationssaid. The record figure is one million refugees more than a year ago, while a further 6.5 million are displaced within Syria, meaning that “almost half of all Syrians have now been forced to abandon their homes and flee for their lives”, it said. “The Syrian crisis […]
(Reuters) – County law enforcement officials in Arizona said on Thursday no criminal charges are pending after a probe into a gun range incident in which a 9-year-old girl fatally shot her instructor with an Uzi, adding it was “being viewed as an industrial accident.” But state occupational health and safety officials were conducting their own probe of the Monday morning incident that was captured on video at a gun range that caters in part […]
White House said that the Ukrainian president will meet with President Obama on September 18.
The United States has openly accused Russia of openly sending combat troops in Ukraine, thereby tightening economic sanctions against the country.
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he has not yet developed a broad strategy for confronting Islamic State in an acknowledgement that he has not decided whether to launch air strikes against the militant group in Syria. “We don’t have a strategy yet,” Obama told a White House news conference ahead of meeting top national security advisers in the Situation Room about how to proceed against Islamic State. Obama’s decision to begin U.S. surveillance flights […]
(Reuters) – Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in as Turkey’s president on Thursday, cementing his position as its most powerful leader of recent times in a step opponents fear heralds more authoritarian rule and widening religious influence in public life. Reading the oath of office in a ceremony in parliament, Erdogan vowed to protect Turkey’s independence and integrity, to abide by the constitution and by the principles of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern secular […]
(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday that Russian forces had entered his country and the military conflict was worsening after Russian-backed separatists swept into a key town in the east. Poroshenko said he was cancelling a visit to Turkey and conferring with defense chiefs because of the “rapidly deteriorating situation” in the eastern Donetsk region, “as Russian troops have actually been brought into Ukraine“. A NATO military officer said: “We assess well over 1,000 Russian […]
African Development Bank (AFDB) confirms that Ebola outbreak is hurting the economy of West Africa. According AFDB chief Donald Kaberuka, gross domestic product can be lessen by 4% because of the outbreak.
(Reuters) — Concern was mounting in the United States and Europe on Wednesday (August 27) over the flow of foreign fighters to Syria and Iraq after news that an American man supected of fighting alongside Islamic State (IS) militants had been killed in Syria. U.S. officials confirmed Douglas McAuthur McCain’s presence and death in Syria, amid reports of dozens of Americans joining the ranks of foreign fighters in the war-torn country. U.S. intelligence agencies estimate roughly 7,000 foreign fighters in total are operating in Syria, out of roughly […]
