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Month: July 2017

26 July 2017 by AFP
UN chief warns C. Africa could plunge back into full-blown conflict A new bout of violence in the Central African Republic that has killed nine peacekeepers this year risks derailing years of efforts to restore a fragile stability, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday. Guterres c [...]
26 July 2017 by AFP
Trump won't let Assad get away with 'horrible' crimes US President Donald Trump accused Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday of committing "horrible" crimes against humanity and vowed to prevent his regime from carrying out any more chemical attacks. Speaking at a White House pr [...]
26 July 2017 by AFP
'My husband blamed me': Myanmar's Rohingya abandoned after rapes Rohingya Muslim Ayamar Bagon has lived on handouts since her husband left her after she told him she was gang-raped by Myanmar soldiers in the final month of her pregnancy. She is among scores of women who accuse security forces o [...]
26 July 2017 by AFP
Cardinal Pell denies abuse charges in Australian court Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell, a top advisor to Pope Francis, denied all charges of historical sexual abuse Wednesday at his first appearance in an Australian court over the allegations. The 76-year-old, the number-th [...]
26 July 2017 by AFP
Cardinal Pell arrives for Australian sex abuse court hearing Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell arrived for his first appearance in an Australian court on historical sex abuse charges Wednesday, facing a huge media scrum ahead of the largely administrative hearing. The 76-year-old, [...]
26 July 2017 by AFP
Two Moroccan UN peacekeepers killed in C. Africa attack: UN Two Moroccan UN peacekeepers were killed Tuesday in an attack in the Central African Republic's southeast, two days after the death of another soldier from the same contingent, the force said, blaming pro-Christian militias for th [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Trump won't let Assad get away with 'horrible' crimes US President Donald Trump accused Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday of committing "horrible" crimes against humanity and vowed to prevent his regime from carrying out any more chemical attacks. Speaking at a White House pr [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Trump says won't let Assad get away with 'horrible' crimes US President Donald Trump accused Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday of committing "horrible" crimes against humanity, and vowed to prevent his regime from carrying out any more chemical attacks. Speaking at a White House p [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Journalists, NGO slam Saudi 'threats' to close Jazeera Journalists and human rights activists on Tuesday denounced "threats" by Saudi Arabia and its allies against Qatari media organisations, including satellite news broadcaster Al-Jazeera. Regional kingpin Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Top Kosovo court cuts war crimes sentence for ex-commander Kosovo's Supreme Court said Tuesday it had cut the war crimes jail sentence handed to a former top guerrilla commander from 10 to eight years and had acquitted another. A statement from the court said Sylejman Selimi was acquitted [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Tanzanian MP charged for calling president a 'dictator' A top opposition lawmaker in Tanzania has been charged with "hate speech" after calling President John Magufuli a dictator, according to court documents seen by AFP on Tuesday. Tundu Lissu, chief whip of the opposition in parliame [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Moroccan journalist jailed over Rif protests A Moroccan court on Tuesday sentenced to three months in jail a journalist accused of having "invited" people to take part in banned protests in the restive north, his website said. Hamid El Mahdaoui was arrested on Thursday at th [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Dutch dust off 'painful' Nazi bunkers for tourism and healing Just behind The Hague's sandy beaches under the dunes lie dozens of Nazi bunkers built during World War II which the Dutch are now dusting off to attract tourists and to help heal lingering scars. Once buried under heaps of sand a [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Dutch dust off 'painful' Nazi bunkers for tourism and healing Just behind The Hague's sandy beaches under the dunes lie dozens of Nazi bunkers built during World War II which the Dutch are now dusting off to attract tourists and to help heal lingering scars. Once buried under heaps of sand a [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Ukraine leader slams Russia over arms given to rebels Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday demanded Russia's Vladimir Putin halt arms supplies to rebels as the leaders of France and Germany tried to revive a peace plan. After a spike in violence, the four leaders discussed [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Israel removes metal detectors from sensitive holy site Israel removed metal detectors from a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday and said they would no longer be used after the new security measures set off deadly violence. The move came after intensi [...]
25 July 2017 by AFP
Saudi, allies blacklist 'terrorist' Yemeni, Qatari groups Saudi Arabia and its allies on Tuesday announced they had blacklisted charity groups and individuals with ties to Yemen, Qatar and Libya, labelling them "terrorist" over suspected ties to Islamist extremism.  Saudi Arabia, the Uni [...]
24 July 2017 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal’s Transitional Justice mechanism "a road to nowhere" The existing transitional justice (TJ) system in Nepal fails to open avenues for social justice as it is envisioned and demanded at the local level. Rather, the current system promotes a gap between the mainstream (i.e. the State) [...]
24 July 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Palestinian civil society urges the ICC to act Lawyers representing 448 named victims and 42 Palestinian civil society organizations have presented to International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda a thick file of complaints against Israeli settlement, its blockade of [...]