Wednesday, June 18, 2014
American fighters begin reconnaissance flights over Iraq
American F-18 fighter from the aircraft carrier "George Herbert Walker Bush" in the Persian Gulf began to fly reconnaissance missions over Iraq. This was reported on Wednesday TV "Fox News." According to its sources in the Pentagon, one of the goals of these flights is to demonstrate US commitment to decisive action on the situation in Iraq.
"It is not that important to see something, but to be seen," said the representative of the US military. He stressed that the F-18 are exactly fighter planes.
US arrests alleged 89-year-old Auschwitz guard
An 89-year-old man has been arrested and denied bail in the United States for alleged war crimes as a teenage Nazi guard at Auschwitz. Johann Breyer, a retired machinist born in Czechoslovakia to a US mother, admits joining the SS aged 17 but denies being a guard at the concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He emigrated to the United States after the Second World War got married and now has children and grandchildren.
Russian delegation not to attend PACE session - Russia's MP
Russia will not attend the upcoming session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in spite of the appeal of the PACE president to State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin.
"PACE President Anne Brasseur asked State Duma Speaker Naryshkin in a recent telephone conversation to send the Russian delegation, even with limited powers, [to the session] for continuing the dialogue with Russia. We do not think it will be expedient to continue the seeming dialogue under these circumstances because the dialogue is possible only between equal partners,"
Cuba hopes to cooperate with Rosneft
Cuba hopes to cooperate with the Russian oil corporation Rosneft when it develops its new oilfields, the Cuban Deputy Minister of Energy and Mines, Ruben Cid who is taking part in the World Oil Congress in Moscow said to Itar-Tass Wednesday. CUPET and Rosneft signed a memorandum recently in St Petersburg, under which the two companies will do the joint development of oilfields on the Cuban continental shelf.
Obama discusses situation in Iraq with Сongress leaders
US President Barack Obama discussed with Сongress leaders deteriorating situation in Iraq where extremists seized a number of major cities, stated the White House. House Speaker John Boehner, as well as heads of Republican and Democrat parties in Congress - Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi were invited to the meeting with the President.
Obama's Iraq policy fuels terrorism - Dick Cheney
Bush-era vice president Dick Cheney savaged President Barack Obama for his alleged Iraq policy failure Wednesday, warning that a shrinking US military posture could fuel terrorism.
In a blistering op-ed in that Wall Street Journal, Cheney accused Obama of pursuing "fantasy" policies that weaken the US armed forces, embolden terror networks like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and reduce Washington's ability to influence global events.
Donetsk miners threaten to take arms if Kiev continues military operation
“The people of the DPR will fight. First of all the foreign enemy, and then oligarchs’ turn will come,” TASS cites an official of the self-proclaimed republic as saying.
Miners from the Donetsk Region in eastern Ukraine will take arms if the Kiev authorities do not stop their military operation in the region within two days, a deputy coal industry minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Konstantin Kuznetsov, said Wednesday.
FG drops ₦ 100b stolen funds charges against Mohammed Abacha
The Federal Government today Wednesday June 18th withdrew the corruption charges filed against Mohammed Abacha, son of former military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Mohammed who played an important role during his late father's administration is believed to have helped the late dictator launder plenty of stolen funds. The FG had accused Mohammed Abacha of receiving stolen property worth N100.38 billion, lots of it kept in foreign countries.
The Federal government recently asked the US govt to return another $500 million recently frozen by the U.S. as part of funds stolen by the late dictator.
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Adamawa Assembly start impeachment proceedings against their state governor
‘Boko Haram plans to bomb Abuja with petrol tankers’ - SSS reveals
"The Nigerian Security services had received intelligence report to the effect that insurgents intends seizing petrol tankers and plant improvised devices in the tankers and drive them to crowded places in Abuja....
Lagos Man Allegedly Attacks Ghanaian With Machete For Mocking Super Eagles
However, one man Sunday Usman, was so upset, that he allegedly attacked some viewers, including a Ghanaian for mocking the Nigerian team for their inability to score a goal, Usman was reportedly drunk when he attacked the fans on Monday night at a football viewing center in the Ilasan area of Lekki, Lagos.
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Woman sets Ex-Boyfriend ablaze During Reconcilation.
Esohe was said to have poured petrol on her victim whose name was given as Peter Osayi, before setting him ablaze. The severe burns the victim suffered led to his death. It was reliably gathered from the Osayi family members that the deceased had a dispute with the suspect and she invited him for settlement. According to the family sources, it was during the settlement that the suspect allegedly poured petrol on her ex-lover and set him ablaze.
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Just in: Alhaji Arisekola Alao (The Strongman of Oyo State Politics) Is Dead!!!
Abdulazeez Arisekola Alao is a notable Nigerian businessman and contractor who was the publisher of the now defunct Monitor Newspaper. He is considered a wealthy businessman who is known for his causes in support of Islam in Ibadan and his close ties to many of the city’s traditional and religious elites and to various other Yoruba Muslim leaders. He bears the title of Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland.
Boko Haram militants attack football viewing center in Damaturu
Putin's aide proposes anti-dollar alliance to force US to end Ukraine's civil war
Sergey Glazyev, the economic aide of Vladimir Putin, published an article outlining a plan for "undermining the economic strength of the US" in order to force Washington to stop the civil war in Ukraine. Glazyev believes that the only way of making the US give up its plans on starting a new cold war is to crash the dollar system.
In his article, published by Argumenty Nedeli, Putin's economic aide and the mastermind behind the Eurasian Economic Union, argues that Washington is trying to provoke a Russian military intervention in Ukraine, using the junta in Kiev as bait. If fulfilled, the plan will give Washington a number of important benefits. Firstly, it will allow the US to introduce new sanctions against Russia, writing off Moscow's portfolio of US Treasury bills. More important is that a new wave of sanctions will create a situation in which Russian companies won't be able to service their debts to European banks.
Moscow expects full-scale ceasefire from Ukrainian authorities - FM Lavrov
Russia expects the Ukrainian authorities to provide a full-scale rather than temporary ceasefire in southeastern regions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. That was the Russian foreign minister's comment on the unilateral ceasefire initiative of Poroshenko. Martial law in eastern Ukraine will give a free hand to Ukrainian law enforcers rather than help de-escalate tensions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov opined.
Passenger boat capsizes in Lagos, one missing.
Despite all the passengers were wearing life jackets, someone drowned and his life jacket was spotted floating around. Other passengers were rescued. The human body of the missing person is yet to be recovered.
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