FARC concentrating troops while Colombia military moving into rebel territory: UN
by Adriaan Alsema Colombia’s FARC guerrilla group is concentrating its approximately 6,600 fighters in coordination with the United Nations while waiting for a resumption of a stranded peace process, according to the UN More »
Philippines President declares “separation” from U.S.
Philippines‘ President Rodrigo Duterte declared his “separation” from longstanding ally the United States in Beijing on Thursday, October 20, as he rebalances his country’s diplomacy towards China, AFP reports. More »
More than 50 thousand Donbass residents visited the farewell ceremony of colonel Pavlov (Motorola)
More than 50, 000 people gathered in central Donetsk to pay last respect to the Donetsk Republic Hero, colonel Arsen Pavlov best known under his call sign Motorola, who was killed on More »
Military situation in Donetsk is drastically deteriorating as Kiev wages intence shelling
Ukrainian armed forces have broken the latest ceasefire-within-a-ceasefire in Donbass with shelling of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, reports the DPR envoy to the Minsk-2 ceasefire process, Denis Pushilin. “We More »
Andrei Sokolov: ‘They hid me from OSCE commission in a private apartment’
Andrei Sokolov, kidnapped six months ago while leaving a Ukrainian court, has returned to Russia By Julia Polukhina, Novaya Gazeta October 15: Russian citizen Andrei Sokolov came to the Dontesk People’s Republic More »
Nobel de littérature : Bob Dylan ne répond pas
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Près de vingt-quatre heures après avoir attribué le prix Nobel de littérature au chanteur et compositeur américain Bob Dylan, l’Académie suédoise n’avait « toujours pas » parlé vendredi avec la superstar, qui a pourtant donné un concert dans l’intervalle.
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| We finally know what Hillary Clinton knew all along – US allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar are funding Isis
It is fortunate for Saudi Arabia and Qatar that the furore over the sexual antics of Donald Trump is preventing much attention being given to the latest batch of leaked emails to and from Hillary Clinton. Most fascinating of these is what reads like a US State Department memo, dated 17 August 2014, on the appropriate US response to the rapid advance of Isis forces, which were then sweeping through northern Iraq and eastern Syria.
| Military situation in Donetsk is drastically deteriorating as Kiev wages intence shelling
Ukrainian armed forces have broken the latest ceasefire-within-a-ceasefire in Donbass with shelling of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, reports the DPR envoy to the Minsk-2 ceasefire process, Denis Pushilin.
“We are forced to report a drastic deterioration of the situation in the south of the DPR. Despite the agreements signed in Minsk and the recent decisions on disengagement of forces and weapons withdrawal, the Ukrainian side renewed today its provocations towards DPR,” he said.
| Andrei Sokolov: ‘They hid me from OSCE commission in a private apartment’
Andrei Sokolov, kidnapped six months ago while leaving a Ukrainian court, has returned to Russia
By Julia Polukhina, Novaya Gazeta
October 15: Russian citizen Andrei Sokolov came to the Dontesk People’s Republic (DPR) on December 4, 2014, where, in his own words, he had planned to engage in humanitarian aid. But on December 16, 2014, he mistakenly drove his car into a Ukrainian roadblock near Gorlovka, was formally arrested on December 29, and ended up in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) office in Mariupol. Sokolov was charged under Part. 1, Art. 258-3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (assistance to a terrorist organization). Solokov’s lawyer, Valery Avzhenko, argued that there was insufficient evidence to convict Sokolov, and the evidence that existed had been obtained in violation of the rules and requirements of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
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