TUNIS, (APP/AFP) – Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi on Thursday said he would support a government of national unity, as long as it included Nobel Prize winning groups the UGTT union and UTICA. Any change of government would require the decommission of the current government, then negotiations between all the groups involved, including political parties, […]
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Tunisia’s president backs national unity government
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15 dead in clashes as sect evicted in India: police
NEW DELHI, (APP/AFP) – Fifteen people have been killed in clashes which erupted when Indian police moved to evict members of a sect from land they had been illegally occupying for the last two years, an officer said Friday. Two police officers were among those killed in the violence which erupted late Thursday during an […]
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Residents start return to Canada’s fire-stricken communities
FORT MCMURRAY, Canada, (APP/AFP): Tens of thousands of Fort McMurray residents were expected to begin trickling back into the Canadian oil city ravaged by wildfires Wednesday after the blaze was declared no longer a threat. “Getting life back to a degree of normalcy in the immediate (future) is the key, and obviously for those people […]
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Bahrain frees female activist and toddler son
DUBAI, (APP/AFP) – Bahraini authorities on Tuesday released on “humanitarian” grounds opposition activist Zainab al-Khawaja, who had been imprisoned with her toddler son since March, a public prosecution official said. The Bahraini Shiite mother, who also holds Danish nationality, had been convicted of insulting King Hamad by ripping up a picture of him, and had […]
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N. Korea kicks off 200-day ‘battle’ for new economic plan
SEOUL, (APP/AFP) – Fresh off a 70-day campaign to boost production, North Korea kicked off an even more ambitious 200-day “battle” on Wednesday, apparently aimed at jump-starting a new five-year economic plan. North Koreans are used to mandatory mass mobilisation campaigns, with participation rigorously monitored and used as a measurement of loyalty to the regime, […]
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Egypt journalist union leaders to face trial
CAIRO, (APP/AFP) – Three leading figures in Egypt’s journalists’ union will stand trial for allegedly harbouring fugitive colleagues, a lawyer and prosecution officials said, amid condemnation from rights groups. The case follows an unprecedented raid on the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate on May 1 by police who arrested two reporters from an opposition website holding a […]