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Kurdish forces claim control of oil city of Kirkuk

mosul under militants control

The jihadists are within 100 kilometers of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad by Thursday. They leave behind large cities conquered in the north – Baiji and Mosul, where, after launching an offensive earlier this week, took control of the province of Nineveh. Although the insurgents were several points of Tikrit, birthplace of Saddam Hussein, the Army […]

3 policemen raped a woman at a police station in northern India

woman raped by police in india

Three policemen have raped a woman in a police station in northern India, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, after she went there to inquire about her husband, who had been arrested for possessing a gun, as reported by local media. The violation occurred on early Wednesday, in the district of Hamirpur, when the woman […]

Clinton launches her campaign with memories of Obama

Hard Choices

Few will read from start to finish the 600 pages of ‘Hard Choices’, the new book by Hillary Clinton. The book, a memoir of her years as Secretary of State of her former rival, Barack Obama, offers little new. As with most books of politicians in the United States, she has not written it herself. […]

First fatality in Algeria due to coronavirus infection

MERS

Algerian Health Minister Abdelmalek Boudiaf, has confirmed the first death in the country of a man by corona virus infection, disease transmitting the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS -CoV), which causes coughing, fever, and in the worst, pneumonia ending in death of the infected. The virus has affected with particular virulence to Saudi Arabia, which […]

Fighting in Iraq has displaced half a million people

al-qaeda-militants-capture-mosul

The jihadi militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (EIIL) a group linked to al Qaeda, have taken positions on Wednesday inside the city of Baiji, 220 km north of Baghdad (Iraq). This is a town that hosts one of the largest oil refineries and in which, according to security sources cited […]

President of Portugal faints during a speech

Aníbal Cavaco Silva

The head of the Portuguese State, Aníbal Cavaco Silva  Tuesday fainted while delivering his speech to the troops – televised live across the country – on the Portugal Day. He had to be removed from the podium, however, he finally managed to return to finish his speech in Guarda. The fainting suffered by the Conservative […]

A right-wing Likud replaced Peres as president of Israel

Reuven Rivlin

The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, elected on Tuesday as conservative Reuven Rivlin tenth president of the State. The veteran politician belongs to the right wing of the Likud Party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Rivlin needed a second round of voting to beat Schitrit Meir, the centrist party Hatnúa of Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. Three […]

Harrowing rescue of immigrants on the Italian coast

immigrants italy

Three immigrants died on Monday night, and six are missing after falling into the sea during the rescue operations at sea military port of Pozzallo (Sicily), according to Italian media. Nearly 2,000 undocumented migrants attempting to access the channel Italy Sicily last weekend, were helped by the watchdog Mare Nostrum and moved to different ports […]

Activist icon of Egyptian revolution Sentenced to 15 years

Alaa Abdel Fatah

No dissident escapes the elongated arm of Egypt’s repressive justice. Alaa Abdel Fatah, one of the symbols of the revolution of 2011 who was still at large, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison with 24 other lfor organizing an illegal demonstration in November last year, according to a filtration official newspaper Al Ahram. […]

5 U.S. soldiers Die in Afghanistan by ‘friendly fire’

friendly fire kills us soldiers in afghanistan

Five U.S. soldiers  and an Afghan soldier were killed in Afghanistan on Monday in the south by a NATO bombing. The Pentagon spokesman Admiral John Kirby, explained that the deaths were result of “friendly fire” during a security operation. Ghulam Sakhi Roghlewanai, police chief of Zabul province, where the incident occurred, said that joint forces […]

Kiev opens humanitarian corridor to facilitate departure of civilians

Petro Poroshenko

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko has ordered Tuesday to open a humanitarian corridor to allow the civilian population of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk – east of the country to leave areas where military attacks between insurgents and pro-Russian forces Government happens almost daily. From the Russian annexation of the Crimea on […]

Merkel reaffirms support for Juncker as chairman European Commission

Jean-Claude-Juncker-and-merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday showed support for Jean-Claude Juncker as the ” leading candidate ” to head the European Commission, to be designated by the European People’s Party, the most voted in the last election. It has done after meeting in Harpsund (Sweden) with three other center-right European leaders critical of the former […]

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