Eurasia Press & News
New findings out Monday show an alarming spike in attacks against humanitarian workers last year, including in part of Africa’s Sahel region. That’s where some of the latest attacks took place last week against French and Nigerien nationals.
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August, 2020
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25 August
Bahrain to set up committee to counter money laundering and terrorism
Bahrain will form a committee to counter extremism, money laundering and terrorism, under a royal decree announced on Sunday.
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25 August
Six killed in Kashmir in one of deadliest days since autonomy revoked
Four Indian security forces and two militants were killed in related incidents in Kashmir on Monday, in one of the deadliest days in the disputed Muslim-majority region since its autonomy was ended last year.
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24 August
Hands off Lebanon: Macron’s Self-serving ‘New Pact’ Must Be Shunned
French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political and economic reforms. Just as thousands of Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut demanding “revenge” against the ruling classes, the French people have relentlessly been doing the same; both peoples have been …
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24 August
Donald Trump Is Losing His Tech War with Xi Jinping
For the Trump administration’s senior officials, it’s been open season on bashing China. If you need an example, think of the president’s blame game about “the invisible Chinese virus” as it spreads wildly across the U.S.
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24 August
The momentum of protest in Belarus getting lost
Momentum for factory strikes is winding down. Only a few days ago Belarus was boiling with opposition led protests and strike while the Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s claims the opposition’s program has failed. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned against foreign interference in Belarus while the …
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19 August
France asks Afghans not to free Taliban who killed its citizens
France objects to release of three men jailed for the murders of French nationals in Afghanistan.
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19 August
French PM likens killing of French aid workers in Niger to 2015 Paris attacks
French Prime Minister Jean Castex paid tribute on Friday to the six French aid workers who where killed by a group of gunmen on motorcycles in Niger, likening the attack to the 2015 militant attacks in Paris that shook the country.
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19 August
Beirut’s Shiites Like the Idea of Change, but Like Hezbollah More
In a Shiite stronghold, people agree that the political system is dysfunctional and needs replacing, but not if that means Hezbollah ceding its power.
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19 August
Hezbollah will respond if Beirut blast was sabotage, says Nasrallah
Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of a probe into the Beirut port blast, but that if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would “pay an equal price”.
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