June 23, 2015 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, South East Asia
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon held “an important meeting” for the first time with all the 28 EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg Monday which also covered development sin Syria , Libya and Yemen. Speaking at a press conference after the meeting, EU High Representative Federica Mogherini noted that this is …
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June 23, 2015 Africa, Africa News, Eurasia, Eurasia News
Al-Shabaab militants launched a major suicide attack on Sunday against a military intelligence base in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, setting off a car bomb before storming inside, security officials said. The interior ministry said the three attackers, one of them a suicide bomber, were all killed in the raid, and that …
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June 23, 2015 Africa, Africa News, Eurasia, Eurasia News
Libya’s self-declared government in Tripoli carried out air strikes on Islamic State militant positions in the city of Sirte, hitting a building where fighters had gathered, officials and witnesses said. Officials could not give any immediate confirmation of casualties from the late Sunday night strikes. Witnesses reported they were accurate …
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June 23, 2015 Africa, Africa News, Eurasia, Eurasia News
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he was “confident” Egypt will receive Apache gunships soon, as he made a surprise visit to Cairo. Kerry became the highest-ranking American official to visit Egypt since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power after overwhelmingly winning an election in May.
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June 23, 2015 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Syrian Kurdish fighters and rebel allies overnight seized a key base held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) north of its Raqqa stronghold, in a new blow for the jihadists. The capture of the Brigade 93 base comes just a week after ISIL was expelled from …
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June 23, 2015 Africa, Africa News, Eurasia, Eurasia News
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visited Mali to show his support for a landmark peace deal agreed in the former colony to end years of unrest and ethnic divisions. Just two days after Mali’s Tuareg-led rebel alliance added its signature to the Algiers Accord — aimed at stabilising Mali’s …
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June 18, 2015 Eurasia, Eurasia News, India, Pakistan, South East Asia
“Enormously concerned” over recent increase in tensions between India and Pakistan, US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to work out how to tamp them down, acknowledging that the latter had just finished a conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The increase …
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June 18, 2015 Eurasia, Eurasia News, South East Asia
Over 31 people were killed on Wednesday and dozens wounded in five simultaneous bombings claimed by the Islamic State group at Shiite mosques and offices in the Yemeni capital, medics and witnesses said. IS, a Sunni Muslim radical group, said the attacks were in “revenge” against the Shiite Huthis, who …
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June 18, 2015 Eurasia, Eurasia News
The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia are set to hold talks next week in Paris over the crisis in eastern Ukraine, the French foreign ministry said Wednesday. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will “discuss the situation in the east of Ukraine with his counterparts from Ukraine, Russia …
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June 18, 2015 Eurasia, Eurasia News
EU member states have agreed to extend economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis to the end of January 2016, officials say, as NATO announced its largest defence reinforcement since the Cold War.
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