
Boko Haram on Monday has sent a video to the French Agence France Presse in which their leader Abubakar Shekau in Nigeria wants the release of members of the criminal gang in exchange for releasing the more than 200 young students kidnapped the April 14. In the video Shekau says that women have already been […]
May 13 2014 | Posted in
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The European Union has banned first two companies by the Ukrainian crisis and the decisive Russian intervention in its development. EU foreign ministers have raised this morning the pressure on Russia to include 13 people to its blacklist and, new, two companies expropriated by changing the Crimea region Ukrainian to Russian hands, according to diplomatic […]
May 13 2014 | Posted in
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande, offered Saturday in Stralsund, a medieval city on the Baltic sea, a powerful demonstration of unity and strength of the famous Franco-German axis. In a forceful joint declaration signed after a two-day informal meeting held in the constituency of Merkel, the German chancellor and the French […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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The Government of Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir and the followers of the former vice president Riek Machar rebels have accused each other of violating ceasefire signed on Friday and came into force on Saturday. The army spokesman Philip Aguer, explained in a statement to Reuters that government forces have been attacked in two positions […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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The president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, and the rebel leader, Riek Machar, signed Friday night in Addis Ababa agreement of ceasefire to stop the violence that has plagued the youngest country in the world for nearly five months. Kiir and Machar agreed to respect the ceasefire after coming face to face for the first […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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At noon on Sunday, four hours after the opening of polling stations, participation in the independence referendum in Lugansk and Donetsk (eastern Ukraine) far exceeded the forecasts of the leading “separatist ” who have called challenging authority Kiev. In Donetsk province had voted 50% of the census, while in Lugansk turnout rose to 80 %, […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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A black coffin draped with the flag of the United States arrived this morning at Ground Zero, guarded by members of the police and firefighters, with the unidentified remains of victims of the attacks on the Twin Towers cons. It is one of the events preceding the opening this week of the Memorial Museum, where […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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Neither good nor bad. Moral descriptions do little to understand what happens in Ukraine, where the clash between Russia and Europe and the United States has risen some language and practices of the Cold War. “Every country does what it needs to do,” says George Friedman, president of the prospective company Stratfor and one of […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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Europe is about to take a leap forward in the punishment inflicted on Russia by the intervention in the Ukrainian conflict. The representatives of the 28 Member States plan on Monday to include 14 companies blacklisted and sanctioned for the first time. While sanctions still fall within the moderate punishment phase, the decision represents a […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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The United States first lady Michelle Obama on Saturday criticized the kidnapping of more than two hundred students in Nigeria by a terrorist group. Obama described the abduction as “an unreasonable act” by “grown men who want to turn the aspirations of these young people.” “These girls Barack and I see our own children,” said […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, visited Crimea for the first time since last March Moscow to annex the territory of Ukraine populated by a Russian-speaking majority. In the city of Sevastopol, the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Russian president presided over the memorial unprecedented military displays, air and sea, the 69th […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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A military spokesman announced Friday the arrest of two French jihadis who were fighting in the ranks of Al Qaeda in southern Yemen, according to the state news agency Saba. In addition, the army claims to have killed two suspected members of the organization, an explosives expert of Dagestani nationality and a Saudi. Since late […]
May 12 2014 | Posted in
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