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Dicembre 2016 - page 4

Air strike in Jufra region staged by forces loyal to Libya’s eastern government

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Forces loyal to Libya’s eastern government said they staged an air strike against opponents in the central Jufra region, according to a spokesman for the eastern-based Libyan National Army. Led by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar the LNA over the last few months has made substantial military gains in Benghazi and Libya’s Oil Crescent region, provoking several attempted counter-attacks by rivals. The Libyan Nationl Army carried out air strikes this month to repel what it said was an attempt to recapture Oil Crescent ports it took control of in September. Shortly afterwards, it launched strikes against opponents at a military base in Jufra. The strikes have raised fears of a new escalation in Libya’s conflict. A U.N.-backed government in Tripoli has so far failed to reconcile Libya’s warring factions.

Tamarod movement can’t be banned by Cairo’s court

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Cairo’s court for urgent matters ruled on Monday that decisions on banning and freezing the assets of the Tamarod movement do not fall within the court’s jurisdiction. The Tamarod movement was founded in April 2013 by a group of pro-revolutionary youths, mostly from the Nasserist Popular current, aiming to oust Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. Tamarod called for early presidential elections, collecting signatures from the public for that purpose. While the movement no longer operates, several of its key figures support current President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.

Leaders of Iran and Kyrgyzstan on ways to get a stronger relationship

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Rouhani and his Kyrgyz counterpart, Almazbek Atambayev, held talks on ways to get stronger Tehran-Bishkek ties in all spheres. The two sides also hailed the outcome of efforts to promote cooperation in diverse fields during 24 years of their diplomatic ties as “positive” and stressed the need for boosting the relations more than ever. For this reason, the Rouhani’s trip to Kyrgyzstan is a manifestation of the two countries’ joint efforts to further deepen relationship. The documents include a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation between Iran’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the Central Asian country’s State Committee of Information Technologies and Communications.

Fake funeral organized by group militants to carry out bombs in eastern Mosul

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Deadly bombings in eastern Mosul on Kokjali area, which was declared IS-free two months ago, were reportedly carried out with three booby-trapped vehicles driven by ISIS’s members. The bombs were carried out using a security loophole as army forces failed to scrutinize a fake funeral organized by group militants. They left at least 30 dead, including army soldiers, and 60 wounded, according to security sources quoted by the media but how the suiciders managed to enter in the area was not clear until the rights commission gave its account. “The group used army forces’ failure to search a fake funeral they set on from the neighboring IS-held al-Quds district,”   said the commission.

Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights wants the liberation of the Eastern Mosul district of Muthanna

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The Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights pleaded the government on Friday to liberate the Eastern Mosul district of Muthanna from ISIS where the residents suffer from militants abuses and livelihood constraints. It’s necessary a strategy to secure a safe exit for families there,  according to the commission. IS obliged the residents of 200 homes to evacuate them after plundering their possessions. The commission added that indiscriminate shooting continues on the district for a second week, reaching almost every single house. “Muthanna is an afflicted neighborhood, with no water, no electricity, no fuel, no food and no shops opening.” The situation which, it warned, could degenerate with those families used as human shields.

Resolution demanding end to Israeli settlements approved by the UN Security Council

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The United States abstained from the vote, allowing the measure to pass by a vote of 14 in favor in the 15-member council. The resolution had been put forward for a vote on Friday by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal – one day after Egypt withdrew it under pressure from Israel and US President-elect Donald Trump. Amid widespread international support to work towards bringing an end to the controversial policy of building settlements, the resolution is reportedly near-impossible for the Trump administration to reverse. While the resolution does not call for imposing sanctions on Israel if it fails to comply, it could significantly weaken Israel’s lobbying and negotiating power in future peace talks.

Lack of food products in supermarkets: protests on the Panamerican highway

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In the Federated State of Mirandain the north of Venezuela, several protesters have occupied the Panamerican highway to protest against the lack of food products in supermarkets, previously on Thursday the demonstrators had put in place a similar protest, fortunately the two events are peaceful, there were neither deads and neither injureds. It is not the first time that Venezuela must face a shortage of alimentary genders, in February some supermarkets have been looted in Maracy, in the Federated State of Aragua

Meeting between the Peruvian President Kuczynski and the APP party leader

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The Peruvian President Pablo Kuczynski met this morning with the party leader of the Alliance for Progress (APP) in his private residence. This afternoon will meet for the last the representatives of his party, the PPK. Between Monday and today Kuczynski has met all the leaders of parties in Parliament, particularly relevant the Monday’s meeting with the leader of Fuerza Popular, the majority party in Parliament, Keiko Fujimori.

President Putin hopes to meet President-elect Trump soon in Washington

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Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the press in the usual year-end speech, he responded to questions on various topics, spoke highly of the U.S.-Russia relationship, not good during the eight years of the Obama presidency. Putin praised the decisions of President-elect Donald Trump, with which it hopes to meet soon in Washington, has harshly criticized both President Obama and Hillary Clinton, in particular has once again rejected accusations of interference in the elections of November, accusing the leaders of the Democratic Party of lying to voters.

Devaluation of the Libyan dinar and replacement of fuel subsidies

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A devaluation of the Libyan dinar and the replacement of fuel subsidies by cash payments to ordinary people were the two main proposals coming out of a seminar on the economy in Tripoli yesterday organised by the Presidency Council’s Government of National Accord. Those attending argued that the moves would go some way to help Libya through its present economic crisis. “Everyone is trying to solve the problem, including the Presidency Council,” Mohamed Raied, the current head of the Union of Chambers of Commerce who is also member of the House of Representatives, told the Libya Herald. The point of having the seminar was to try and find the best Libyan solution to the crisis, he said.

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