The Sri Lankan government says a local Islamist group is behind a series of bomb attacks. The blasts on Sunday across the country killed hundreds and injured many more.
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The Sri Lankan government says a local Islamist group is behind a series of bomb attacks. The blasts on Sunday across the country killed hundreds and injured many more.![President Donald Trump holds up an executive proclamation recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory at the White House in Washington DC, Monday, 25 March, 2019 [Getty]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ap.trump_.netanyahu.jpg?w=616&h=411&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
The tweet posted by US President Donald Trump about the Golan Heights was unlike the others he posts for fun every morning. He said what he was going to do, but the Arabs were asleep. They did not know or care about his intentions, which were transformed in less than a week into a presidential decree recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Syrian territory and regarding it as part of Israel.GENEVA (1 April 2019) – UN human rights experts* have called on States, international organisations and private actors to show solidarity with Southern Africa countries after Cyclone Idai left hundreds of people dead, hundreds of thousands displaced and caused billions of dollars in damage.
ABUJA - Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has reacted to Thursday’s ruling of the trial court which ordered for his arrest and the revocation of his bail, describing it as “a travesty of justice and a gang-up against him.”
Kanu who spoke on an emergency broadcast Thursday evening stated that the ruling “is a slap on the face of those that believes in fairness, equity and justice,” vowing to employ every available procedure, including contracting international lawyers to take up the case.
Kanu who spoke on an emergency broadcast Thursday evening stated that the ruling “is a slap on the face of those that believes in fairness, equity and justice,” vowing to employ every available procedure, including contracting international lawyers to take up the case.
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A lawsuit against Boeing Co was filed in U.S. federal court on Thursday in what appeared to be the first suit over a March 10 Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash that killed 157 people.
GENEVA (Sputnik) - North Korea will not see any significant sanctions relief until it completely and veritably gets rid of its nuclear arsenal, US Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Christopher Ford has stated."We are serious when we say, that the final and fully verified denuclearization of North Korea, as promised by Trump and Kim in Singapore, is our objective. And we have every intention of getting to that objective. And until we get to that point they should not expect to see a kind of dramatic sanctions relief that they have asked for", Ford said at a press conference, stressing that this decision would not be subject to further negotiation.
Ford added that by continuing the campaign of pressure, Washington remained open to further engagement.
Immediately after the summit, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said that Pyongyang would have dismantled all nuclear material if the United States had only removed restrictions partially.
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands before their one-on-one chat during the second U.S.-North Korea summit at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam February 27, 2019
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US Issues New Sanctions on N Korea Shortly After Unsuccessful Trump-Kim Talks
The Russian Foreign Ministry, in turn, has repeatedly called for the easing of sanctions pressure on Pyongyang as a means to help accelerate the denuclearisation process. Moscow also believes that the United States should not expect North Korea to first completely denuclearize and only then consider whether to lift sanctions.
In late February, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held their second summit in the Vietnamese capital in an attempt to give the denuclearisation process on the Korean Peninsula more momentum. The negotiations fell apart, however, after Pyongyang said it wanted Washington to lift all sanctions on the country before it started denuclearizing, to which the United States could not agree.
CP Balarabe, who gave the assurance when he paid the governor a courtesy visit at the Government House, Enugu, said that one of the reasons for the visit was to condole with him on the incidents, saying: “My command deeply and sadly condole His Excellency on these unfortunate deaths”.
This came as the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, in a statement made available to the press, disclosed that the perpetrators of the heinous acts were yet-to-be identified contrary to reports in some sections of the media.
The police spokesperson stated that “the investigation is still ongoing to unmask those behind the dastardly acts as well as their motives”, adding that “the command views the report as improper, malicious and inciting as the ongoing police investigation has not revealed those responsible for the unfortunate incidents including their background”.
According to him, “the Enugu State Command of the Nigeria Police Force, working in partnership with sister security agencies and relevant stakeholders is committed towards sustaining peace and security in the state”
On his part, the police chief told Gov. Ugwuanyi that the visit was also to formally introduce himself as “the new Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command” and to congratulate him on his reelection.
Responding, Gov. Ugwuanyi, who welcomed and congratulated the new CP on his “posting to this very important and strategic office”, stated that “following our meeting with security agencies in the state, we are also confident that the command will as usual, do everything necessary to apprehend the hoodlums”, praying that similar incidents do not recur.
Gov. Ugwuanyi noted that his administration in its resolve to ensure security of lives and property of the people as well as the maintenance of peace in every corner of Enugu State, has “always maintained an excellent partnership with the Enugu State Police Command and other security agencies in the state”.
The governor added that “this relationship has largely been responsible for the current status of the state as one of the safest, most peaceful and most secure states in the country”.
While expressing gratitude to the command “for its vital contributions towards the peaceful conduct of the 2019 general election in Enugu State”, Gov. Ugwuanyi reassured the new CP of “the continued support and cooperation of the state government to ensure an even more laudable performance of the command under your watch”.
The death toll of last weekend’s massacre of Nigerian Christians by militant Muslim Fulani herdsmen has risen to at least 200, according to a report released Friday by Open Doors, an organization that monitors Christian persecution.
