September 24, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Kenyan forces are defusing explosive devices set up by Islamist militants inside a still ongoing shopping mall siege, where extremists claim to be still holding hostages, police said Tuesday. “We are doing clean-up of explosives that had been set up by the terrorists,” Kenyan police said in a message on …
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September 24, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
A delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) arrived in Georgian on Monday. The delegation includes MPs Meriksel Mateu Pi, Andres Hergel, John Tomlinson, Christopher Chop, Vasily Likhachev and Boris Silevich.
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September 24, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Magreb, Magreb News
More than 3,000 Libyan men will soon head to Turkey, Italy, the UK and the US for training, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan announced on Sunday (September 22nd). From road blockages to robberies, kidnappings and assassinations, Libyans are confronted at all sides with problems they blame
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September 24, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
U.N. chemical weapons investigators are expected to return to Syria on Wednesday to continue investigating allegations of chemical weapons use there, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday.
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September 24, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Kenyan special forces are still battling “one or two” Islamist militants holed up inside Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, security sources involved in the operation told an AFP correspondent at the scene Tuesday.
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September 24, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Kenyan security forces were in the final stages of flushing out Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists from a besieged shopping center, the vice president said late Monday, two days after the upscale mall was seized by members of a Somali terrorist group that invaded with guns blazing. The country’s interior minister said it …
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September 24, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Magreb, Magreb News
In a move to promote tolerance and help rebuild Mali, Morocco will provide training to 500 imams from the war-torn country. Moroccan Islamic Affairs Minister Ahmed Toufik and Malian Territorial Administration Minister Moussa Sinko Coulibaly signed the agreement Friday (September 20th) in Bamako.
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September 24, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Egypt’s state prosecution ordered on Monday the arrest of 28 people, supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, in relation to clashes that erupted on Friday in different areas of Alexandria.
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September 24, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Magreb, Magreb News
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki traveled Sunday to the United States, where he will attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. Marzouki will be addressing the assembly, which traditionally meets in late September and brings together heads of state from around the world.
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September 24, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
A Cairo court ordered on Monday the banning of all activities by the Muslim Brotherhood, the group and the registered NGO, in Egypt.
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