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Separatists shoot down military aircraft in Ukraine

Ukraine military plane shot down

A Ukrainian military transport plane  An-26, that participated in the operation against the separatists in the east of the country, was shot down Monday in the Lugansk region, in the border with Russia, as confirmed by the rival parties, which differ on details, number of crew and apparatus circumstances of the incident. Another Ukrainian military […]

Israel resumes Gaza offensive after several hours of break

israel shelling on gaza

Israel resumed Tuesday the air offensive against the Gaza Strip  six hours after accepting unilaterally the ceasefire proposal presented Monday night by Egypt. The Israeli security cabinet, which met earlier in the day, had voted in favor of accepting the draft that proposes a reduction process of hostilities starting at 9am, which would lead to […]

Libyan factions are fighting for control of Tripoli airport

libya airport closed after clashes

An alliance of Islamist militias tried Sunday to take Tripoli airport form Zintan militia who control facilities. The attack has left groups of passengers trapped in the terminal of the airport at the Libyan capital early in the morning. After several flights suspended, the International Airport has decided to close the facility over the next […]

Corruption destroys Sarkozy’s political comeback dream

Sarkozy

The Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), the main opposition party in France, is going through an unprecedented crisis that threatens its very survival twelve years after it foundation.  Outrageous new data on the alleged involvement of  Nicolas Sarkozy in corruption has made it worse for UMP survival.  Phone recordings of the former leader of […]

Militias impose terror in Iraq

iraq-violence

Abubaker Asij, a 42 year old lawyer, a graduate of the University of Baghdad, was arrested by the intelligence services of Saddam Hussein in 1997. Suffered torture and spent a long sentence in a slum of more than two meters long and one meter wide. They wanted to execute him, but the amnesty of 2002 […]

70,000 civilians leave Donetsk in a weekend

civilians flee donetsk

The fear of a coming Ukrainian Army offensive is causing a real exodus in Donetsk, a stronghold of the pro-Russian rebels, whose inhabitants leave the city by thousands. This flight coincides with the worst fighting that has caused 30 deaths among the Ukrainian rows in the past 48 hours, 19 in a mortar attack made […]

Kerry brokers a recount in Afghan presidential election

kerry in afghanistan

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, has announced that two Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, have agreed to a recount under UN supervision of the vote in the second round of the presidential elections held on 14 June. Both have pledged to respect the final results. The count will begin within 24 […]

EU finds stopping immigration hurts the economy

European Unity

The immigration debate in Europe has been popular myths. The aliens steal jobs from natives, collapse of social services, drain resources from public coffers… The European Commission disputes eight clichés like these in a work on the impact that immigrants have on the continent. The study, presented today in Brussels, provides numbers to counter the […]

Malala meets parents of Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram

malala bring back our girls

Malala Yousafzai is in Nigerian capital Abuja to express her support for the campaingn to bring back over 200 Nigerian girls home who were kidnapped by the militant group Boko Haram in last April. Mala had meeting with the parents of the kidnapped girls on Sunday July 13, 2014. She will also meet with the […]

Kurdish soldiers take control of two oil fields in northern Iraq

kurdistan take control of oil production facilities

The peshmerga, the security forces of Iraqi Kurdistan, have taken on Friday the control of production facilities at two oil fields in Kirkuk and Bai Hassan in the north of the country. As reported by the oil minister quoted by Reuters, Kurdish soldiers have thrown the entire Arab staff of both plants and have been […]

Kiev says rebels have killed 23 Ukrainian soldiers

ukraine soldiers killed

At least 23 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed Friday in the Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine, in an attack by separatist rebels reported Shiriak Zorian, director of the Ukrainian Interior Minister. “So far, the information we can give is that there are up to 23 people, although it may be more,” said Shiriak in an […]

100 dead in four days of Israeli attacks on Gaza

israel shelling on gaza

Gaza health officials confirmed Friday that the dead are already hundred, 23 of them children, by more than 1,110 Israeli military attacks against Gaza, as part of the operation margin Protector. The last 11 deaths have occurred since last midnight. Among them are four members of the same family of Rafah (border town between Gaza […]

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