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The Iraqi security forces are fighting against militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (EIIL) in Baiji, north of the country, to wrest control of the largest oil refinery in Iraq, located about 200 kilometers north of Baghdad. Lt. Gen. Qassem Atta has said in televised comments reported by France Presse that […]
Just an idea sketched in the last hours by European socialists have already found an enemy that will be hard to beat: Chancellor Angela Merkel. The center-left leaders of the three big eurozone agreed along this week to offer comfort to those countries that were striving to reform their economy. The French Socialists, Italian, and- […]
The former prime minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland became on Wednesday the first person to receive the Tang award, which has been touted as the Asian version of the Nobel created by one of the richest men in Taiwan Samuel Yin. Brundtland, 75, has won the award in the category of sustainable development ” […]
Minimize the progress of the jihadists in Iraq as it will encourage further terrorist attacks, has warned British Prime Minister David Cameron, after chairing a meeting of the Homeland Security Committee devoted to the crisis in Iraq. Cameron, facing a reluctant public to any military intervention from the second Gulf War, ruled out involvement of […]
The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, on Wednesday assured that the Palestinian security forces looking for three young Israelis kidnapped last Thursday night, when hitchhiking near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. “They want to destroy us,” said the Palestinian president, probably referring to the Palestinian unity government formed this month. Abbas […]
The general and Turkish president Kenan Evren was sentenced yesterday to life imprisonment as leader of the military coup of 1980. Evren, 96, was head of the military rule after the uprising and, after a controversial referendum which approved a new constitution, president of Turkey from November 1982 until 1989. The coup of 1980, the […]
Several people have died from an explosion that occurred in the city of Damaturu, in the northern state of Yobe, in a room where several fans were concentrated to see the World Cup match on Tuesday. There are at least 13 dead and 20 wounded, according to a Reuters correspondent who is in the Hospital […]
Baghdad is on high alert. Checkpoints have extreme vigilance and people are back in their homes long before ten at night when the curfew comes into force. Fighting between the rebels and the army have come to Baquba, just 60 kilometers from the capital, but said yesterday the government forces have regained control. However, the […]
At least 20 people have died, mostly women and children, in a barrage of Syrian army helicopters against a refugee camp close to the border with Jordan, as reported by residents and opposition activists cited by Reuters. According to these sources, the helicopters have launched several bomb barrels against field in the town of Shajra, […]
Palestinians in Hebron on Tuesday observed no noteworthy developments as many units of the Israeli Army paratroopers patrol the West Bank. It was the fourth day of the search for three young Jews kidnapped on Thursday night in the West Bank while returning from religious schools in an Israeli colony. Israel has blocked access to […]
The Pentagon on Tuesday confirmed capturing of Ahmed Abu Khattala in Libya, suspected ringleader of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in September 2012, where four Americans were killed, including the ambassador, Chris Stevens. Khattala was arrested on Sunday during a secret U.S. special forces operation yesterday and was in “a safe place” […]
The UK has announced plans to reopen its embassy in Tehran, which remains closed since 2011 after assault by hundreds of angry students, as “an important step” to thaw relations between the two countries. The move comes in the context of rapprochement between the Western Allies and the Iranian regime, which is committed to assist […]
