MEXICO CITY, Nov 2, (APP/AFP): A Mexican senator has a radical and controversial plan to combat rising violence in his country: Let citizens legally arm themselves in their cars and businesses. Senator Jorge Luis Preciado’s push for wider access to guns has faced resistance in a country where drug cartels have wreaked havoc with illegally-obtained […]
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Mexican senator’s solution to crime: arm citizens
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S.Africa court hears Zuma bid to block graft report
PRETORIA, Nov 1, (APP/AFP) – A South African court was Tuesday hearing a bid by President Jacob Zuma to block the publication of a potentially explosive report that probed his ties with a controversial and powerful Indian business family. Zuma is arguing that he was not give enough time to respond to questions posed to […]
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3,000 Italian farms ‘need quake help’
ROME, Nov 1 (APP/AFP): Some 3,000 farms in the earthquake-hit region of central Italy are in danger of being abandoned and need urgent help, the main Italian farming union said on Tuesday. Farming is the primary industry in the mountainous region where tens of thousands of livestock are affected, according to Coldiretti. It is crucial […]
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Iraq forces poised for first push into Mosul
ARBIL, Iraq, Nov 1 (APP/AFP): Elite Iraqi forces were poised Tuesday for a first push into Mosul, after the prime minister warned militants who hold the city have no choice but to surrender or die. Forces from Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) were fighting IS in Gogjali, a village on the eastern edge of Mosul that […]
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Morocco arrests 11 over fish seller’s death
RABAT, Nov 1, (APP/AFP) – Morocco has arrested 11 people over the death of a fish seller whose crushing in a rubbish truck sparked widespread demonstrations, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The suspects have been brought before an investigating magistrate in connection with allegations of involuntary manslaughter and forgery of public documents, a statement said. Mouhcine […]
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi arrives in Japan for talks
TOKYO, Nov 1, (APP/AFP) – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, her first visit since becoming her country’s de facto leader earlier this year. She and Abe are expected to discuss economic assistance and Myanmar’s peace-building process with its ethnic minorities, according to a […]