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Modi promises toilets for 600 million Indians

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Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced Friday in New Delhi that a package of measures put in place to ensure citizen access to a bank account. In his first speech on independence day of India, Modi, who took office in May, also promised that by 2018 all households dispondrían toilets. Currently about 600 million people […]

Boko Haram abducted 50 others in northern Nigeria

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At least 50 people have been kidnapped by suspected members of the radical Islamist militia Boko Haram in the city of Doron Baga, near Lake Chad, in Borno State, northern Nigeria, witnesses said Wednesday according to the BBC. The incident occurred on August 10, four months after the abduction of 200 girls in a school […]

Police version revives unrest in Ferguson

Michael Brown shot dead by police

The soothing effect that generated from the afternoon of Thursday the transfer of supervision of protests Ferguson local to the more conciliatory Missouri State Police Officer, evaporated Friday the streets of this humble town of San Luis. Emotions escalate again dramatically and the riots and looting were repeated from previous nights. The trigger for the […]

EU supports sending weapons to Kurds of Iraq

European Unity

The Veintiocho already have the other European Union member states to supply weapons to the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan. After a week of ups and downs, the position of France and Italy from -favorable initially sending weapons to fight the militants of the Islamic State (EI) – has been imposed on the initial reluctance of […]

Italy rescues a record number of immigrants in Mediterranean

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“How many today? “. The question bounces among 920 soldiers from the Italian Navy patrolling the Mediterranean barrier that separates Africa from Europe, sighted boats and barges loaded with immigrants and move in their frigates and corvettes ground. The computation grows every changing of the guard: from January until last Wednesday had arrived in Italy […]

Militants killed 80 Yazidis in Iraq for not converting to Islam

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The militans of the Islamic State (EI) have killed 80 Yezidi men near the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq, after they refused to convert to Islam, as reported Saturday Efe quoting several witnesses. The murderers drove the 80 Yezidi tribal home of Sheikh Ahmed Yasua in Kuyua village near Sinjar, 90 miles from Mosul, […]

Sri Lankan Court orders to suspend deportation of Pakistani refugees

Pakistani asylum seekers in Sri Lanka

A Sri Lankan court order the suspension of the deportation of the refugee claimants from Pakistan till the further hearing. Sri Lanakan government had stopped the visa on arrival facility for Pakistan nationals to curb the increasing influx of the asylum seekers from Pakistan. Pakistani asylum seekers had complained that Sri Lankan government was forcefully […]

French Mayor fined €3,000 for saying Hitler killed few Gypsies

Gilles Bourdouleix

French deputy and mayor of the town of Cholet, Gilles Bourdouleix, was sentenced Tuesday by a court to pay a fine of € 3,000 for remarks in which he claimed that Adolf Hitler perhaps did not “kill enough Gypsies”. Bourdouleix uttered the controversial phrase  in July 2013, during an altercation over agricultural land illegally occupied […]

Israel and Hamas in Cairo continue negotiation as truce expires

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When it’s midnight, will end the three-day truce that Israel and the Palestinian factions were taken to reach a political agreement to end Operation Margin Protector and restore calm to the two sides of the Gaza border. Time is running out and therefore contacts are accelerated in these final hours. At about eleven o’clock, the […]

European Union divided on shipment of arms to Kurds

European Unity

Divided without definite position on how Europe should act in Iraq. The permanent representatives of the 28 member states of the EU without agreement on Tuesday closed an extraordinary meeting to discuss the open conflict in the country, where the terrorist group Islamic State (EI) aims to establish an independent caliphate. The consensus among the […]

WHO authorizes use of experimental drugs for Ebola

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The Ethics Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) approved on Tuesday the use of experimental treatments on the victims of the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, although its effectiveness has not been proven. The recommendation has a clear cause: “The measures used in prevention of other outbreaks of infection, control and monitoring of […]

France announces delivery of arms to Kurds of Iraq

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Without waiting for a possible European consensus on the issue, France announced on Wednesday morning to deliver weapons “in the coming hours” to the forces fighting the jihadists of the Islamic State (EI) in Iraq. The day before, the Permanent Representatives of the 28 EU countries in Brussels had failed to agree on a common […]

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