GAROWE, Somalia -- Puntland Government in northern Somalia is seeking to step up new measures in the wake of polio outbreak that claimed at killed one person in Mudug region of central Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
At least they're willing to acknowledge the problem and do something about it. The folks in Pakistain could learn from this.
The Ministry of Health said the cases were reported from Jariban and Towfiq districts and health workers led by Minister of Health Sadik Enow went out on trip to Mudug.
Meanwhile, speaking to reporters during a press conference in the state capital of Garowe on Saturday, Justice Minister Ismael Mohamed Warsame noted that a person believed to be aged 29 has succumbed to paralysis. Continuing, he stated: "It is actually health emergency, government alongside people is making effort to prevent wild polio virus from spread. In order to contain it, alertness initiatives will be launched in Eyl and Burtinle towns".
Ministry of Health says, immunization campaign which would target aging people will take effect after Ramadan.
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[Libya Herald] Libya is looking into the possibility of allowing the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) to prosecute those responsible for the recent violence in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and elsewhere, notably the attacks on Tripoli International Airport.
The Minister of Justice, Salah Marghani, discussed the idea with the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, in The Hague yesterday, according to the Prime Minister's office.
The move represents an abrupt about turn. Previously the Libya authorities had rejected the ICC's demands to hand over Saif Al-Islam Qadaffy and Abdullah Senoussi, both of whom have been indicted by the ICC, saying they were capable of trying them in Libya.
The ICC cannot initiate prosecutions by itself. But it can take them on if they have been referred to it by the UN Security Coucil (as was the case with Saif Al-Islam and Senoussi) or if the government of a country where the incidents took place asks it to do so because it is incapable of doing so itself.
The Ministry of Justice had warned earlier this week that it was in consultation with international and national legal bodies about prosecuting those military groups which had refused its order to immediate stop the fighting and the launching of missile attacks.
"The situation is serious and all parties must realise that no one is above the law. If not today, they will be prosecuted in future," Cabinet Secretary Ahmed Lamin told the Libya Herald. "They are damaging facilities owned by all Libyans" he said.
The decision to possibly transfer authority for prosecution to the ICC appears to be directed at both Misratan and Zintani forces, their commanders and those behind them.
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A ceasefire agreed to by armed groups battling to control Tripoli airport has held so far, despite occasional clashes, as mediators continue to exert pressure on the combatants.
So the airport is "mostly peaceful"...
The agreement, announced two days ago, and brokered by Tripoli Local Council has brought to an end fighting at the airport between Zintani and Misratan-led armed brigades. The clashes have caused millions of dinars worth of damage and killed dozens.
The former head of Tripoli Local Council, Sadat Elbadri, who helped broker the ceasefire told the Libya Herald that over the course of negotiations it had become clear neither side wished to continue the conflict. "The ceasefire is still in effect. It is holding and the people do not want to fight," he said.
Elbadri said his greatest concern was the safety of residents in Qasr Ben Ghashir. Houses in the area, not far from the northern boundary of the airport, had been subjected to nightly shelling over the five days of fighting as Zintani brigades returned fire at Misratan-led forces stationed there. "They were being bombed. The people wanted the fighting to stop and the forces to leave the area," he said.
Despite causing considerable material damage, the rockets which fell on Qasr Ben Ghashir did not result in any civilian casualties.
Elbadri said while the main combatants had not resumed hostilities there were other challenges facing negotiators. He said the Zintani brigades had only at the last minute agreed to withdraw from the airport having asserted up to that point they were an official force and under no obligation to go. One representative from the Misratan-led forces had said the ceasefire only applied to the airport itself and did not mean offensives could not be launched elsewhere. "We are trying to put pressure of the parties and hopefully they will leave; there is still a lot of work going on to secure the area," Elbadri said.
He named the media in particular for difficulties in ending the clashes. "They were 100 percent to blame for the escalation," he said. He added that Tripoli Council had been forced to act because of the failure of the government to bring about an end to the crisis. "The government has not helped and the police and army are still not present," he said.
But it's the media's fault...
Although the worst of the fighting has ended, the brigades remain. Elbadri said it was crucial that the combatants adhere to the General National Congress' decision last year that all armed militias leave the capital. The order was stipulated once again in the ceasefire .
A neutral force from the Amazigh town of Jadu is set to arrive at the airport to secure it and all armed groups are ordered to return to their respective towns and cities as part of the ceasefire. The brigades have just under two weeks to leave.
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The kingdom has kept a close eye on mosque sermons for evidence of militancy since last decade, when Al Qaeda staged a series of attacks inside Saudi Arabia that killed hundreds.
Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Affairs Ministry is investigating 17 mosque imams in the capital Riyadh for not using their Friday sermons to denounce an Al Qaeda attack this month, the English daily Arab News reported on Saturday.
Wouldn't it just be easier to stage 17 auto accidents in the desert? Use GM cars and really heavy key fobs...
The kingdom has kept a close eye on mosque sermons for evidence of militancy since last decade, when Al Qaeda staged a series of attacks inside Saudi Arabia that killed hundreds. The authorities are worried that anger at the violence in Syria and Iraq, coupled with hardline teachings by some local religious leaders could inspire a new generation of militants to again attack domestic targets.
Arab News cited Tawfiq Al Sudairi, an undersecretary at the Islamic Affairs Ministry, as saying the imams were under investigation “for allegedly failing to highlight the incident in their sermons”.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula raided Sharurah, a small Saudi frontier town, from its base in Yemen early this month, killing four border guards and another Saudi citizen before all the attackers were killed or injured. The attack was the militant group’s first inside the kingdom since 2009 when it attempted to assassinate Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was then the kingdom’s security chief but is now interior minister.
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as I understand it, they've got a guy with a big sword. Use it. In public
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Isnt it normal to teach like AlQ in Saudi that Islam is the way forward for the World and the west is corrupt and immoral?
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Although I agree with the intent of the Saudis in this instance, our Lib morons should spend some time analyzing this genuine "Separation of Church and State" issue.
[Xinhua] The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will further build up its strength to protect itself if the UN Security Council fails to perform its duty in a fair and just manner, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
All military measures taken by the Korean People's Army, including firing tactical rockets, are the exercise of its right to protect the illusory sovereignty and security of the country against the U.S. nuclear threat, the ministry said in a statement, which slammed a note released to the press by the UN Security Council that called the DPRK's missiles launch "violation of its resolutions."
The Security Council, whose mission is to ensure global peace and security, should question the joint military drills by the United States and South Korea rather than overlook the "U.S. nuclear threat and war maneuvers," it said.
The United States staged Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises with South Korea, and conducted a joint landing exercise and a joint aerial maneuver, despite a series of peaceful proposals made by the DPRK side, according to the statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.
If the UN Security Council serves the purpose of the U.S. hostile moves against it, the DPRK is left with no option but to intensify its own efforts to protect itself, it noted.
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Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in French cities on Saturday to condemn violence in Gaza, defying a ban imposed after demonstrators marched on two synagogues in Paris last weekend and clashed with riot police.
I'm surprised Roooters didn't describe the demonstration as "mostly peaceful"...
A Reuters photographer said demonstrators in northern Paris launched projectiles at riot police, who responded by firing teargas canisters and stun grenades. Demonstrators also climbed on top of a building and burned an Israeli flag. At least one car was set on fire.
A police spokesman said that 38 demonstrators had been arrested by early evening and that the clashes were dying down.
French President Francois Hollande said he understood emotional responses to the killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in a flare-up of hostilities with Israel but would not allow violence to spill over into France.
Apparently he doesn't quite understand the murder of three Israeli teens by Hamas hard boyz...
"That's why I asked the interior minister, after an investigation, to ensure that such protests would not take place," he told journalists during a visit to Chad.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve justified bans in Paris, the Sarcelles suburb and the Mediterranean city of Nice by saying the security risk was too great, prompting predictable outrage from left-wing and pro-Palestinian groups. He had asked police in cities to examine security risks city by city and, where necessary, to issue ban orders.
The far-left New Anticapitalist Party, an organizer of last Sunday's rally and the banned one in Paris, urged protesters in Paris to defy the ban, prompting police to issue a warning.
"Those who do not respect the ban, in support of protests or against them, face the risk of being stopped, arrested and handed over to the courts," Paris police said in a statement.
However, large crowds defied the warning and gathered in the capital chanting "Israel, assassin" in front of police barricades. Rallies were also held in more than a dozen other cities, from Lille in the north to Marseille in the South.
"This ban on demonstrations, which was decided at the last minute, actually increases the risk of public disorder," the Greens Party said in a statement. "It's a first in Europe."
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has contributed to growing tensions between France's Muslim and Jewish populations, both of which are the largest in Europe. In the first three months of 2014 more Jews left France for Israel than at any other time since the Jewish state was created in 1948, with many citing rising anti-Semitism as a factor.
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good time to build and execute a "GTFO deportation program"
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Zoot alors! Le wretched Juice are trying to kill the people who are trying to kill them. Le bastiges!
#3
They aren't even pretending to pretend anymore. Calls for Palestine from the river to the sea, physically attacking Jews as they find them... It's gotten ugly out there.
#4
I see the leftists and Paleos (otherwise known as useful idiots and fellow traveler subversives, terms often attributed to Lenin) are ramping up their propaganda. Both the leftists and the Paleos are adept at using taqiyya to further the cause.
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John, it's constant lying, not consistent lying.
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Some Jews in no need of a ferry
Were invited aboard a fool's wherry:
"Step aboard, then perchance
We shall wine, dine, and dance
To a tune from me old Ring of Kerry!"
[DAWN] In a bid to closely monitor terror activity in the capital, the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) and police have started a data survey for all residents on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
The surveys will be collected to create a comprehensive database — including the residents' family connections — which is expected to help security officials in countering terrorist and criminal activities.
In order to carry out the survey effectively, at least 40 Nadra-police coordinated teams are assigned for the job.
According to media reports, the survey will be completed in two months' time.
The survey will not only include urban areas but identification data on residents from Islamabad's remote areas will also be collected, so people can be traced if there is suspicion of involvement in terrorism.
In April this year, a report jointly prepared by the Rawalpindi and Islamabad police claimed that the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) was getting active support from hardliner religious seminaries to carry out terrorist attacks in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
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[Reuters] Islamist insurgents have issued an ultimatum to northern Iraq's dwindling Christian population to either convert to Islam, pay a religious levy or face death, according to a statement distributed in the militant-controlled city of Mosul.
The statement issued by the Islamic State, the al Qaeda offshoot which led last month's lightning assault to capture swathes of north Iraq, and seen by Reuters, said the ruling would come into effect on Saturday.
It said Christians who wanted to remain in the "caliphate" that the Islamic State declared this month in parts of Iraq and Syria must agree to abide by terms of a "dhimma" contract - a historic practice under which non-Muslims were protected in Muslim lands in return for a special levy known as "jizya".
"We offer them three choices: Islam; the dhimma contract - involving payment of jizya; if they refuse this they will have nothing but the sword," the announcement said.
A resident of Mosul said the statement, issued in the name of the Islamic State in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, had been distributed on Thursday and read out in mosques.
It said Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which the group has now named Caliph Ibrahim, had set a Saturday deadline for Christians who did not want to stay and live under those terms to "leave the borders of the Islamic Caliphate".
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sounds like an ACA edict from HHS
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But this is straight from the Koran, Frank. And so it is God's word.
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I wonder how long until this Islamic State collapse under it's own weight?
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The only thing they lack is Lois Lerner and a clandestine IRS enforcement arm.
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In the Obama regime, the hardliners are inclusive. Every military effort against hardliners, Hussein Obama has been squishy about green lighting. This is the weakest US president the world has ever seen.
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. Ronald Reagan
BALLOZA CHECKPOINT, Egypt: Egyptian soldiers in north Sinai prevented an aid convoy of activists from reaching the Rafah border crossing with the embattled Palestinian Gaza Strip on Saturday, an AFP correspondent said.
An army officer at the Balloza checkpoint, one of many along the desert highway to Rafah, told an AFP correspondent that the security situation in the restive peninsula was too unstable to allow the convoy of 11 buses and 500 activists to pass. There was a brief scuffle between some activists and soldiers but no arrests were made.
Egypt usually keeps the crossing closed, citing a counter-insurgency operation against militants in north Sinai, but has allowed entry to Palestinians wounded in the 12-day conflict between Hamas and Israel. The Egyptian military had earlier said it was sending 500 tons of food and medical aide to the besieged enclave.
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There was a brief scuffle between some activists and soldiers but no arrests were made.
"The security situation in the restive peninsula is too unstable to allow you to continue on. Now pick yer teeth up off the ground, get back on the damn bus and turn it around"
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it was sending 500 tons of food and medical aide to the besieged enclave.
"Well, these have past their expiration date."
"You mean you couldn't sell them on the black market before that? What shall we do with them now?"
"I have an idea."
JERUSALEM: Israel’s Government Press Office on Saturday warned foreign journalists it was not responsible for their safety in the Gaza Strip, where the Jewish state has launched an offensive against Palestinian militants.
“Gaza and its vicinity are a battleground. Covering the hostilities exposes journalists to life-threatening danger,” an e-mailed Government Press Office (GPO) statement said. “Israel is not in any way responsible for injury or damage that may occur as a result of field reporting.”
The GPO, which accredits journalists based in Israel, many of whom also cover events in the Palestinian Territories, charged Islamist group Hamas was using journalists as human shields and advised reporters to take “every possible precaution.”
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[NY Times] Three years ago there was a hope that a growing movement for democracy might make Arab countries more supportive of the Paleostinians, as governments grew more responsive to the people and their demands. Hamas was a bit too blatant in starting the war, the Israelis are keeping the corpse count way down, and Hamas is too obviously inept at "fighting" the Zionists. Last I looked there was only one Israeli soldier killed, and they were saying that was a friendly fire incident. Y'gotta really be no talent not to be able to kill anybody in twelve days.
But during the latest bloodshed in Gazoo, the opposite has occurred, according to supporters of the Paleostinians, who found the official Arab reaction incoherent, at times providing cover for the Israeli military assault.
The governments were accused of dithering at critical moments during the recent Israeli military offensive, where in the past, Paleostinians counted on them to at least muster some diplomatic pressure to make it stop. Their feuds broke out in public, and Egypt even blamed Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Islamist movement in Gazoo, rather than Israel, for dozens of Paleostinian deaths.
Israeli troops fired toward the Gazoo Strip from their position near the border on Saturday. Israeli strikes killed 20 people in Gazoo, pushing the corpse count above 300.
"None of the Arab countries are being supportive. The entire burden is on the Paleostinians," said Mondher Maamar, a Tunisian protester who marched in support of Paleostinians in Gazoo in his country's capital on Friday.
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Senior Iranian nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi said that an additional $2.8 billion worth of Iranian frozen assets will be released during the next four months, the period of extended nuclear talks.
In return for what? Talking?
Araqchi who is deputy foreign minister for Legal and International Affairs said that the assets are scheduled to be released is 6 stages from August in 20-day periods, Iran's Mehr news agency reported on July 19. Iran's Central Bank will receive the assets in 4 stages of $500 million and two stages of $400 million during the period, Araqchi remarked.
It should be noted that the country has already gained access to $4.2 billion of its oil revenues frozen abroad by eight money transfers under a six-month interim nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1(the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) which took effect on Jan. 20.
In return for talking. They sure got a lot settled at those talks, didn't they...
Despite permitting Iran to receive new payments of its frozen assets the U.S. officials warned that most sanctions against the Islamic Republic would remain in place, Reuters reported on July 19.
"Iran will not get any more money during these four months than it did during the last six months, and the vast majority of its frozen oil revenues will remain inaccessible," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a statement released in Vienna on July 19. "We will continue to vigorously enforce the sanctions that remain in place."
By which Jahwn means that Champ will roll over quietly and give the Iranians what they want...
In exchange for the $2.8 billion, Kerry said, Iran has agreed to continue neutralizing its most sensitive uranium stocks- uranium that has been enriched to a level of 20 percent purity - by converting it to fuel for a research reactor in Tehran that is used to make medical isotopes.
Really? Who are the inspectors -- North Koreans?
Iranian media outlets quoted Abbas Araqchi as confirming the issue. Araqchi went on to say that 25 kilograms of uranium oxide will be converted to fuel in next four months.
The details and steps which will be carried out during the four-month period are included in a non-paper agreement between the two sides, he added.
So Jahwn got an oral commitment and nothing in writing. Brilliant, simply brilliant...
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And where's it coming from?
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Patience is an attribute of a good negotiator, and Iran continues to demonstrate their chops.
On the one hand, Iran continues to supply armaments to their brothers in arms (and legs, heads, etc.), and on the other coyly lead "The World" on about their peaceful atomic intentions.
Mr. Obama & Co. desperately want need a flow of "action" headlines, even if they are loaded with nothing more than "progress" palliatives. Nothing good can come of this.
Kerry is dancing to the fugue selected and played by Mr. Obama, and time has been demonstrated to be Iran's friend.
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Senior Iranian nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi said that an additional $2.8 billion worth of Iranian frozen assets will be released during the next four months, the period of extended nuclear talks.
