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A bunch of new attacks were launched in and around Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Khojaly district is located in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
Stepanakert is the capital of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Source: reuters.com
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The situation in the capital Bishkek seemed calm after Jeenbekov declared a state of emergency, which imposed traffic restrictions and banned public gatherings.
Source: wikimapia.com
Bishkek is a city of wide boulevards and marble-faced public buildings combined with numerous Soviet-style apartment blocks surrounding interior courtyards and, especially outside the city center, thousands of smaller, often privately built houses. It is laid out on a grid pattern, with most streets flanked on both sides by narrow irrigation channels that water the innumerable trees which provide shade in the hot summers.
Source: reuters.com
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The company Amal Express runs the semi-formal transfer service known as Hawala in most of the East African countries. They invited the Central Bank of Somalia to audit their internal systems.
This is a reaction to a report being published by the Geneva-based Global Initiative Against Organised Crime. The report claim that a number of Hawala service providers had been used for illegal payments to arm dealers in Yemen. The seaport of Bosaso seems to be the origin for most of these illegal payments.
Source: reuters.com
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There is no patience for climate-change deniers. The last wildfires were the largest California has ever seen. There was a meeting between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Donal Trump which took place at McClelland park near Sacramento.
Source: yahoo.com
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A commander of the 110th Infantry Brigade was killed as a result of the fighting in The Khab and Al-Shaaf district northeast of the Al-Jouf province.
The militants of the Group al-Houthi launched a major offensive to retake positions taken by government forces on Friday east of the city of Al-Hazm, the center of Al-Jouf province, and units of the (110-infantry brigade) were able to thwart the attack. Heavy fighting are taking place in several areas northeast and east of the city of Al-Hazm, while the fighters of the Saudi-led Arab coalition with intensive air strikes targeted mobile and fixed targets of the Houthis.
Yemeni government forces launched a military operation in Al-Jouf, recapturing the strategic Camp Al-Khanjar and important sites, including the Nadoud Mountain Range, and reached near Al-Marazeq, the eastern gate of the provincial capital. The Houthis have controlled the city of Al-Hazm and large areas of the strategic province, large parts of which are located on the border with Saudi Arabia.
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Time is ticking, the official deadline for the Brexit deal is October the 15th. It seems to be a kind of „Australia-style“ arrangement, which is an euphemism for failure to reach a free trade agreement with the EU. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron have held last-minute Brexit talks over phone.
There are only four located news regarding „Brexit talks“ which were updated in the last 24h.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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The Japanese prime minister had chosen to visit vietnam. There are some rumors that tesla car makers would invest in electric car manufacturing facilities in Indonesia and India, as well as moving Panasonic’s manufacturing base to Vietnam, signaling economic danger to Thailand. Maybe there is a risk that Thailand is going to lose its first-highest export-value car production base.
The wuhan pneumonia epidemic has hit the global economy hard, with the restaurant industry lying first. Although in many places in Taiwan practitioners have called on everyone to understand the truth about the cruel persecution and abuse of the Chinese Communist Party. But hearing the facts of persecution is too hard to accept, too far away from their lives, beyond the thinking of normal people. Because of the struggle of the people of Hong Kong more sympathy and understanding of practitioners.
Source: wikimapia.com
There is also a plan for relocate the U.S. military base in Okinawa. Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki presented a written request regarding the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. Established in 1945 and the current home to the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and the III Marine Expeditionary Force, MCAS Funtenma is a US Military and United Nations air facility tasked with operating a variety of fixed and rotary-wing aircraft in support of US, UN and Japanese Military operations. Home to approximately 4,000 Marines at any one time, the airbase’s central location on the Island of Okinawa became a contentious issue in the latter half of the 20th Century and in December of 2013 an agreement was reached with the government of both Okinawa and Japan to completely relocate the entire air station to a new site near Nago on the Northern end of Okinawa.
Source: reuters.com
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Maria Kolesnikova is a member of the opposition coordination council. She tries to challenge Alexander Lukashenko and has played an important role during the mass demonstrations and strikes by protesters in the last few weeks.
Someone had seen how Kolesnikova was pushed into a dark van by some masked men in central Minsk.
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