Airstrike on residential neigborhood near girls' school in Sanaa
The incident occurred in the city's eastern Sawan neighborhood on Sunday afternoon.
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Airstrike on residential neigborhood near girls' school in Sanaa
The incident occurred in the city's eastern Sawan neighborhood on Sunday afternoon.
Pakistan has said it will release the fishermen in stages.
Pakistan is holding some 360 Indian fisherman captive and will release the others later this month, Pakistani media reported.
The second group of 100 will be released on April 15, another 100 on April 22, and the fourth release one week later will be for the remaining 60 fishermen, the Foreign Ministry said.
The fishermen were all detained for trespassing into Pakistan's territorial waters and violating international maritime borders.
Comment: Defusing tensions? See: Pakistan says intelligence suggests India plans to attack this month
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President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump
"I have not read the Mueller Report yet, even though I have every right to do so. Only know the conclusions, and on the big one, No Collusion. Likewise, recommendations made to our great A.G. who found No Obstruction," Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday morning.
"13 Angry Trump hating Dems (later brought to 18) given two years and $30 million, and they found No Collusion, No Obstruction. But the Democrats, no matter what we give them, will NEVER be satisfied," he continued.
Trump's comments come as Democrats on Capitol Hill seek to see Mueller's report made public.
Comment: See also:
- False allegations: Trump lashes out at 'obstruction of justice' claims
- Finally The Wicked Witch-hunt is Dead! But Can Washington Survive The Russiagate Fallout?
- Here's why the dust won't settle after Mueller's report
- Democrats will attack Trump no matter what Mueller report says
- The wisdom of Trump's lawyers, and the accountability that Mueller's report must produce
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Oyub Titiyev
Oyub Titiyev
Roth, in a social media post, would claim:
"The Russian government's "case" against the leading human rights defender in Chechnya, Oyub Titiyev, is farcical - as many holes as Swiss cheese - but authorities have still locked him up for 14 months and are threatening a four-year sentence."The article Roth's post would include, leads to an opinion piece in The Moscow Times (written by fellow HRW regional director, Rachel Denber) who insists Titiyev is innocent of drug charges based entirely on Titiyev and his lawyer's own claims.
Whether Titiyev is guilty or not is for Russia's courts to decide. However, the entire process of mobilizing supposed human rights advocacy organizations like HRW to rush to Titiyev's aid illustrates how "rights advocacy" is transparently used to advance politically-motivated agendas, not to actually advance human rights.
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US Ambassador to Kazakhstan, William Moser
US Ambassador to Kazakhstan, William Moser
Now, Washington is concentrating its attention on the Central Asian republics of the former USSR. In recent years, it has been particularly active in Uzbekistan, which is becoming increasingly pro-Western. However, in a bid to promote its agenda across Central Asia, the United States has also spent a lot of time and resources on Kazakhstan, which is not just the largest of the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, but has a self-sufficient economic and military force with significant potential.
To successfully fulfill the plan of drawing Kazakhstan away from Russia, Washington has been consistently building up its bilateral trade volume with Nur-Sultan, which resulted in the Kazakh government announcing that the United States has recently become the second largest foreign trade partner of Kazakhstan, pulling far ahead of both China and Russia. The first on this list is the Netherlands, which looks particular since this Central Asian country has a long stretch of common border with Russia and traditions that bind it together with its largest neighbor. At the same time, some 8,600 companies from Russia and 1,200 companies from China are operating on a regular basis in Kazakhstan, which overshadows 497 American companies working there.
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As the US-led military alliance marked its 70th anniversary on Thursday, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg stated that the bloc remains essential for global security. "We stand together, fight together, and, sometimes, die together," he said in a speech in Washington.
Stoltenberg, however, is not striking a chord with the people NATO claims to be protecting, Wimmer believes. The veteran German politician explained to RT Deutsch that "it is not the message that Germans, the Europeans and even the Americans want to hear."
Over the years, NATO has increasingly evolved from a purely defensive bloc into a "threat to international peace." It now serves the interests of Washington, along with its allies in London and Paris, all while requiring that other nations sacrifice their resources and the lives of their soldiers to promote the goals of the few, the former deputy leader of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly said.
Comment: See also:
- Former German defense secretary Wimmer: If Trump continues pushing Europe, it will end NATO
- 'If you don't have a plan, get one': Pence tells NATO to spend more, or else
- NATO Plotted 'Skripal Case' to Justify Their Defense Spendings - Moscow
- Had enough! Thousands protest in Spain and Italy against NATO
- Russia denounces NATO's expansion and destabilization plans
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An illegal Israeli settlement built on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank.
An illegal Israeli settlement built on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank.
"Prime Minister Netanyahu's irresponsible statement to seek votes just before the Israeli general elections cannot and will not change this fact," Cavusoglu tweeted.
Netanyahu, asked why he had not declared Israeli sovereignty over large West Bank settlements as Israel has already done in the occupied Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, said he was already discussing the move. "I am going to extend (Israeli) sovereignty and I don't distinguish between settlement blocs and the isolated settlements," he told Israel's Channel 12 News on Saturday.
Palestinian leaders reacted angrily, blaming what they said was a failure by world powers to stand up for international law.
Comment: See also:
- Netanyahu announces a three-fold approval of settlement expansion in the WestBank
- Israel approves construction of 2,000 illegal homes in West Bank
- Criminal state: Israel approves 1285 new illegal homes for colonists in WestBank
- Netanyahu approves spending additional $18 million for West Bank settlements
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The Pentagon
The Pentagon
Camp opened the show by citing a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found the Pentagon received a whopping 95,613 whistleblower alerts between 2013 and 2018. "That averages out to a whistleblower every six minutes of every business day for five straight years - that waiting room must be insane!" he said.
As astonishing as that number might seem, the amount of people sounding the alarm within the system is not really surprising, Camp noted - considering the previous multiple reports of the military losing track of trillions of dollars.
In fact, last year's government audit revealed that the Pentagon "lost and found" 39 Black Hawk helicopters and over 470 buildings within the Air Force that weren't properly registered as its property, he said. "The Pentagon has a standard operating procedure of simply making up numbers to fill their books, which for normal human being is termed 'fraud.'"
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Claus Kleber, host of heute-journal, delivers his dire news.
Claus Kleber, host of heute-journal, delivers his dire news.
"Together with European and German allies, the US army is currently moving through land, air and sea to Estonia to expel Russian forces, which have once again invaded, as in Crimea before," announced a worried Claus Kleber, host of heute journal, on the national public broadcaster ZDF Thursday night.
Comment: Except the Russians never 'invaded' Crimea.
As millions of viewers tensed up, the veteran host announced that it was a "gotcha!"
"Do not worry. It is not true. This is just a fantasy scenario - but a realistic one," said Kleber.
Comment: Maybe Kleber is living in another reality, because there's nothing realistic about Russia invading Estonia.
One of the biggest names in German journalism, Kleber explained that the fake-out was designed to make it clear that a war may be imminent, that it is likely to be a surprise, and that Germany will have to defend even its smallest allies, including Estonia.
Comment: Here's this a$$hat's report:
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Shah Mahmood Qureshi's comments came after tensions over a February standoff between the arch enemies had appeared to ease.
He said on Sunday that an attack could take place between April 16 and 20, adding that Pakistan had told the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council of its concerns.
"India rejects the irresponsible and preposterous statement by the foreign minister of Pakistan with a clear objective of whipping up war hysteria in the region," a spokesman for India's foreign office said in a statement.
"This public gimmick appears to be a call to Pakistan-based terrorists to undertake a terror attack in India."
The foreign office said India reserved the right to respond firmly and decisively to any cross border militant attack, accusing Pakistan of being complicit in such attacks on India.
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