WASHINGTON, March 13, (APP/AFP) – Al-Qaeda’s North African affiliate claimed a deadly attack by heavily-armed gunmen on an Ivory Coast resort on Sunday that killed at least 16 people, US-based monitors said. In a message posted on its Telegram channels, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said three of its “heroes” had stormed the Grand-Bassam […]
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Al-Qaeda affiliate claims I. Coast attack: US-based monitors
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Two Chadian peacekeepers killed by colleague in northern Mali: UN
BAMAKO, March 13, (APP/AFP) – Two Chadian peacekeepers were shot dead and a third lightly wounded by a colleague in northern Mali, the UN mission said on Sunday, less than three weeks after a similar shooting. The suspect had been arrested and an investigation launched into the “tragic incident” at the camp at Tessalit in […]
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Syria peace talks set to resume amid ceasefire warnings
GENEVA, March 13, (APP/AFP) – Syria’s warring sides gathered in Geneva Sunday for UN-brokered indirect peace talks as the United States and France warned the Damascus regime against trying to disrupt the fragile ceasefire. As the fifth anniversary of the violence looms, the main players in the conflict were on Monday to resume negotiations in […]
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Crowd of 1.4 million attended Sao Paulo protest: police
SAO PAULO, March 14 (APP/AFP) – Some 1.4 million people attended an anti-government protest in Brazil’s biggest city Sao Paulo on Sunday, according to law enforcement authorities. The state security office for Sao Paulo said the figure represented the peak of the protest on a central avenue in the city. Smaller, but still signficant demonstrations […]
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bama due in Britain in April to make pro-EU case: report
LONDON, March 14 (APP/AFP): US President Barack Obama will head to Britain next month and make the case for the UK to stay in the European Union, a British newspaper reported. The visit will take place towards the end of April, around two months before the June 23 referendum in which Britain will decide whether […]
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Obama promises human rights talk with Castro
HAVANA, March 14, (APP/AFP) – US President Barack Obama, who visits Cuba in a week, promised dissidents he would directly discuss human rights issues with their president, Raul Castro, in a letter published Sunday. Obama told the Ladies in White, a group of wives and children of political prisoners, that he understood their struggle, in […]