“Troubles” resurface in Northern Ireland
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by raldrich@wng.org
3y ago
Police in Northern Ireland’s capital city of Belfast detained three 14-year-olds last Friday. The region has seen more than a week of disorder, with protesters hurling Molotov cocktails at police. Security officers fired water cannons at protesters last week for the first time in six years. At least 88 police officers sustained injuries in the riots. Demonstrators as young as 12 set a hijacked bus on fire and threw firebombs over the decades-old “peace wall” in west Belfast that has separated the predominantly Protestant loyalist communities from mostly Catholic nationalist communities. Law e ..read more
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Afghanistan withdrawal puts Christians at risk
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by llangdon
3y ago
NEAR EAST Afghanistan: A senior administration official said President Joe Biden has decided to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11—ending a 20-year war on the anniversary of the terror attacks that launched it. The move comes as the Taliban has rejected the terms of a State Department peace plan. It likely will lead to the reestablishment of an Islamic emirate in Afghanistan, along the lines of Taliban rule prior to the 2001 U.S. invasion. For fledgling movements of Christian believers in Afghanistan, a U.S.-NATO pullout will be “disastrous,” say sources familiar with the situa ..read more
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Afghanistan troop withdrawal delayed
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by raldrich@wng.org
3y ago
President Joe Biden has decided to leave U.S. troops in Afghanistan beyond the May 1 deadline, the timeline that the Trump administration negotiated with the Taliban. Biden’s new goal is to pull soldiers out before the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks later this year. What does that mean for Afghanistan? According to multiple reports citing administrative officials, the withdrawal will not be based on conditions. U.S. troops will depart regardless of the situation on the ground. Those reports drew sharp criticism from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who said such a move ..read more
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With talks looming, Iran’s nuclear program is booming
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by raldrich@wng.org
3y ago
Iran will increase its uranium enrichment levels to 60 percent, just shy of weapons-grade level, nuclear negotiator Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Tuesday. The 2015 nuclear deal only allowed 3.67 percent enrichment, but Iran boosted its levels to 20 percent after the assassination of its lead scientist in January. Araghchi said formal talks in Vienna to restore the nuclear deal would begin Thursday. What prompted the latest hike? Iran blamed Israel for a Sunday attack on its heavily secured Natanz nuclear plant that destroyed some of its centrifuges. “If they think our hand in the negotiations has ..read more
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Russia masses troops along Ukraine border
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by raldrich@wng.org
3y ago
The Ukrainian government says President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to open a dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But so far, there’s been no response. Tensions are on the rise as Russia has reportedly put more than 40,000 troops at its border with eastern Ukraine and 42,000 more in Crimea. What’s going on? Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces have been locked in a conflict in the region since Moscow annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. More than 14,000 people have died in fighting in eastern Ukraine and efforts to broker a political settlement have stalled. Western offi ..read more
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China admits vaccines have low efficacy
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by ALU@WNG.ORG
3y ago
The director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gao Fu, on Saturday said the current vaccines don’t have very high protection rates against coronavirus. Health authorities are now considering mixing different vaccines, he noted during a conference on China’s vaccine and immunization strategies. After international media picked up his comments, Gao told the Associated Press he was speaking about the effectiveness of “vaccines in the world, not particularly for China.” How is China operating its vaccination campaign? The country has developed five domestic vaccines that o ..read more
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Blackout hits Iran nuclear site
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by ALU@WNG.ORG
3y ago
Iran reported its underground Natanz atomic facility lost power just hours after starting up new advanced centrifuges. The Iranian government claimed it was the victim of “nuclear terrorism” without directly blaming anyone. This comes as the Biden administration renews its efforts to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Who is believed to be responsible? Multiple Israeli media outlets reported an Israeli cyberattack caused the blackout, although offered no sourcing for their information. Meanwhile, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin traveled to Tel Aviv Sunday where he met with his Israel ..read more
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Unrest simmers in Northern Ireland
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by raldrich@wng.org
3y ago
Police used water cannons on protesters for the first time in six years on Thursday in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The demonstrators threw stones, fireworks, and gasoline-filled bottles. Thursday’s gathering was smaller than others, but police said 19 more officers sustained injuries. Some 74 have been injured since the unrest began last week. What’s going on? COVID-19 lockdowns and new trade rules following Brexit have fueled longstanding tension between the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Despite occasional outbursts of violence, the region has been largely peaceful since the ..read more
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Chinese Christians describe torture at camps
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by raldrich@wng.org
3y ago
In 2018, Li Yuese spent 10 months locked inside a windowless room in a facility run by the Communist Party’s United Front Work Department. Officials at the “transformation” center beat and tortured him, Li told Radio Free Asia. “I could not sleep,” he said. “After you’ve been in there a week, death starts to look better than staying there.” Authorities detained him during a crackdown on a house church in the southwestern Sichuan province. Li, who goes by a pseudonym, is one of several Christians reportedly held in brainwashing camps because of their faith. Some have compared their detent ..read more
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Prince Philip, husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, dies
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by llangdon
3y ago
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, died Friday. He was 99. An announcement from Buckingham Palace said he “passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.” Born into an era of dying European monarchies, Philippos Andreou of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderberg-Glücksburg, prince of Greece and Denmark, was born in 1921, sixth in line to the Greek throne. Amid revolution and death threats, Philip’s father, Prince Andrea of Greece, fled into exile with his wife, Princess Alice of Battenberg, four daughters, and 18-month-old Philip. By the time Philip was 10 and ..read more
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