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Turkey security sources said war planes have carriedout a second wave of airstrikes against Kurdishseparatist camps over the border in Northern Iraq,four F16 fighter jets were deployed from DiyarbakirAirbase to hit PKK bases in the same area where the regional strikes took place on Friday. TheEuropean Union and NATO have urged Turkey not to give up on the stalled peace process withthe Kurdish minority. Mark Lowen reports from Istanbul.
"The fear is growing here that the battle days of Turkey's Kurdish conflicts might return. Thelatest incident was near Kurdish majority Diyarbakir, where a Turkish military convoy wasbombed. It comes after Turkey struck PKK positions in Iraq in response to attacks by thegroup on Turkish policemen. Amid concerns that the ceasefire with the PPK may now haveended, Turkey has convened a meeting with Nato ambassadors in Brussels on Tuesday."
A Turkey’s policeman has been killed in a third-day clashes with demonstrators in main cityIstanbul. Muhammad Fatih Sivri was the shot in the chest as he tried to make an arrest. Theprotest followed the death of a female activist during raids by the security forces on Friday.
There've beem reports of shelling in Southern Yemen just after a humanitarian ceasefire wasdue to come into force. A five-day truce was called by the government in exile and a Saudi-ledcoalition, but the Houthis who control much of the north of country said they haven’t beingformally notified. A M reports.
"Airstrikes on Houthi rebel positions in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition came to halt atmidnight local time. The capital Sanaa and central areas of Yemen were said to be quiet, butfighting appears to have broken out almost immediately near the city of Taizz, where there'vebeen fierce clashes in recent days. Witnesses say the Houthi rebels shelled residential areas andthe ground fight broke out soon after, there've also been reports of sporadic gunfire on thenorthern outskirts of Aden, two previous ceasefire attempts have failed." A M reporting.
The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he's acknowledged that his military forces have lostground in the civil war because of the lack of manpower. In his first televised address in a year,President Assad said more than four years of conflict have forced his troop to give up someterritory in order to hold on to areas of more strategic importance. The BBC’s R al-M says thesize of Syrian’s conscript army has been dramatically reduced.
"The army, the Syrian army is not controlling the whole of the territory, and this is why he saidthey need to prioritize certain areas over others, and they are suffering a severe shortage ofsoldiers. It’s a very hard a system of conscription even before the war, and people are trying tododge the way out of the Syrian army was known for decades. But now there is a very seriousshortage, and there’s also the phenomenon of desertion."
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Police in Nigeria say a young girl about ten years old carried out a suicide bombing that killed atleast 16 people at a crowed market. The early morning attack took place in the northeastern cityof Damaturu, 50 people were wounded.
President Obama is in Ethiopia on the second leg of his Africa tour, it’s the first visit to thecountry by a serving US president, and he’ll also be the first to address the 54-member AfricanUnion at its headquarters in Addis Ababa.
Discussions on ways to end the civil war in South Sudan are also scheduled. Mr Obama flew toAddis from Nairobi, where he told Kenyans there was no limit to what they could achieve, buthe added warnings about the dangers of corruption and tribalism. These Kenyans wereimpressed.
"We have what it takes to be what we want to be, and we love him so much." "African peoplemay not see the importance of this now, but they can see it in the future." “So all the Kenyansand all the Africans it is time to get together, all our problems that are seen and we'll solvethem all from one point."
In the United States, the Democratic National Committee has demanded an apology from theRepublican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee of the comment he's made about the recentnuclear deal with Iran. Mr. Huckabee, a former Arkansas state governor, said President Obamawas marching Israelis to the door of the oven, a reference to the Nazi death camps.
A court in Egypt has halved a year-long jail term given to a female dancer convicted of incitingdebauchery, after appearing in a controversial online video. Reda el-Fouly was arrested inMay after the clip went viral. The video apparently thought to mock Arab pop videos in whichfemale singers are featured in revealing costumes went viral. In it, she dances in a tight shortdress and mimes to a song called Spaghetti or Let Go of My Hand.
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